Outfit of the Day-September 1, 2012

So today was a pretty typical day. School starts back up soon, my last year of high school, so I've been mentally preparing myself for those early mornings again. Today was an overcast day which actually made for pretty good shots. Less glare and squinting.

These shots were taken by an old restaurant and a dam right next to a century old paper mill.

Green Blouse: Old Navy

Light Blue Stone Necklace: Borrowed from a friend

Patterned Skirt: Forever 21

Teal Flats: DSW

About Me

I started this blog because I have a passion for art, the beauty of nature, photography, and especially fashion. I hope you all enjoy a little taste of my life.

HEY THERE!

The name’s Hayley. I’ve traveled pretty much everywhere in my short teenage life, including Europe, but to me, no place is better than home. Bred in Texas I will always have a little bit of southern sass in me. Where I live now I consider my home sweet home. I am in my first year of college and after I graduatemy dreams are to become a designer of sorts. I have always enjoyed recreating things that have otherwise gone unloved. I have a great love for sewing and began working a machine early on in junior-high. It’s probably not surprising when I say that my favorite class is Home Ec.

I look forward to blogging with you!

Black Floral Dress

A friend of mine recently gave me a black floral dress from a thrift store. I really enjoyed the pattern so I decided to 'flip' it into something much cuter.

BEFORE

So, as you can see the before was atrocious. But I saw potential, as I do in most hideous thrift store dresses. The top portion of the dress seemed hopeless, the shoulder pads had to go. I cut off the entire upper portion and just left the bottom, skirt part together. The skirt has pockets which always gets me happy because pockets in a skirt are hard to come by, especially in a thrift store dress. The waist also already had elastic in it which gave me an idea.

Changes I made:

• No more Zipper
• On the back was a zipper. I folded excess fabric over it then sewed it over to cover it up.
• Hemmed
• I cut off all of the frays from what was once the waist band and hemmed it.

AFTER

Style One:

Thank you elastic! When I finished doing all of the alterations I pulled the skirt on over my head, got it over my body then thought to myself, "Hey, this looks pretty cute", but boxy. So I simply put a thin black belt around the waist to add shape.

Style Two:

The maxi skirt. It has returned. At first I was weary of what it might look like on me because I have a longer torso and shorter legs but, after a lot of asking around and trying on other maxis in the mall, I fell in love. I paired a bright pink tank with it to bring out the pink flowers in the skirt.

A Rainy Afternoon

Hey Everyone!

So, my lawn has been looking a little sad lately, practically dead, so I was happy today when a heavy rainstorm passed by us. I love summer storms so I sat outside on my porch to watch it and let one of my three cats sit out with me while I brushed him, or at least attempted to.

This is Sam, the silliest tabby on the planet. He's going on 5 years but you'd think that he's still a kitten. When you break out the pet brush he goes insane! Just looking at it get him all hot an bothered. It's just adorable to watch. While I was focusing on dematting the cat, my mom took my camera and took a couple cute shots of us.