50 Cent Shirt Re-do
That's right. This shirt cost me a whoppin' 50 cents.
I bought it at one of my favorite stores, The Catholic Thrift Shoppe. On the last weekend of the month they put all their clothes on sale for 50 cents. Yes! It's Thrifty Heaven. And originally I bought this shirt for fabric. I thought I could make some fun hair flowers with it.
But after I pulled it from my Massive Mountain of Thrifty Finds (someone should really stick a flag in that thing and claim it for their country. Yeah, it's that big.) I got looking at it and decided I kind of liked it (I say kind of because usually I'm a boring solid colored shirt kind of girl).
Although it was much too big. But recently I'd read this chickadee's blog, Grosgrain Fabulous and she talked about her thrifty upcycled adventures. Wow. She does some amazing things.
So, I put the shirt on inside out and pinned it where I wanted it taken in on the side*.
Then I sewed up the sides and tried it on and then took the sides in some more and then repeated a few more times and...
Voila! A new shirt. For 50 cents.
I don't usually peruse the too-big-for-me aisles at the stores for good deals, but now I will. This opens up a whole new thrifty door for my wardrobe!
Hmmmm, it was fun trying to get a good picture of me in this shirt. I asked my sweet friend, Kathy, to snap some pics. And apparently I have a hard time appearing natural. And I don't know where to put my arms. And I kept talking or laughing as she snapped away. Oops.
Here we see my Wonder Woman pose...
And I think this is my "Hey. What's up, dude?" look....
And then lastly we have the "Woah there, buddy!" face which I'm directing at Kathy's cute boy as he rode a little car toward me. Maybe he'd decided he could improve the picture by simply running me over.
You know, he might have been right...
*Note to self: Use safety pins instead of regular pins next time. You will have a much easier time taking the shirt off. Yeah, nutso, maybe you should try to avoid making yourself bleed. Just a thought.
This post originally published at Shakespear's Stage...and I'm really bad at remember to cross post. So, if you want to waste some more time, you can head over there for more crazy fun....er...well, or for, at least some other posts.