It's Time Again!

Flowers for Joe's sister Sarah (her 14th birthday was Wednesday!)

Every so often a sewing board I'm on hosts something called a Week in Feminine Dress (known as WIFD, pronounced "wifdee" lol). I usually participate, but don't always share pictures. I'm going to try again this time though! So, here I am for day one... the top is a new one from Down Est Basics (love them!!), and the skirt is one I've had for 4 years. I need to try to make another before I wear this one out! It is reversable, so you'll probably see it's other side later in the week. As for the rest of the outfit, I got the earrings and the nursing necklace from Etsy, and my sunglasses are my current stand by hair style (head bands are to tight). This is my first try with the timer option on my camera...I think we shall be friends. It did sort of over do-it on the flash though...

This is a better view of the skirt colors...it's made up of three tiers on each side, if that makes sense. :)

The flowers were such a lovely orange! Which happens to be my very favorite color for roses.This was my effort to dress up a simple bunch of spray roses from Wal*Mart. I cut down the plastic sleeve you slide them in (to hold in the water drops), then wrapped them in a soft shade of gold tissue paper with a robbins egg blue bow.

The extra challenge this time, for us girls who already wear skirts everyday, is to make sure that we are also being feminine. It is so easy to just grab whatever skirt is near the top, with a big comfy t-shirt and slip and slide our way into frumpiness. Not good. So, I am trying to pay attention and to be just a bit more feminine...still practical of course, but if women used to do it in hoop skirts, then I can surely manage to put some earrings in. ;)

P.S.) For those wondering, these are in the little box! Perfect for "14", don't you think? The blue is about the size of a dime/penny and they're about 2" long. So Sarah. :)

WIFD Day 2 & 3 & 4-ish

Okay...playing catch up here... :-)

Jenny in her "LauranPa" dress :) (Monday)

Wait! That's no skirt! No... it's a disasembled half of my mother's kitchen... those used to be sideways and mounted on a wall :)

Right there! It was a grand total of *7* screws to take out all of those cabinets! And the best part?...We did it ALL (moving fridge etc.) in skirts! Mine is fleece, from Land's End several years ago, t-shirt from WalMart. Not the best pictures, buy hey, we were busy!That's my Mama :) Her outfit is Land's End from head to toe.And this is what I've been upto lately in the sewing department...this is the first of four nightgowns. I'm making two each for my Jenny and my (also 2yrso) sister Zelie. The others are pleated instead of gathered in the intrest of saving time. There's one more like this, and the other two are light green flannel for the sleeves and skirt, with the butterfly/flower flannel for the bodice. She loves it...I have to convince her take it off each morning!

A Week In Feminine Dress Day 1 (WIFD)

Every few months the ladies over on the Sense and Sensibility forum do something called a week in feminine dress. The idea is that we dress in a feminine way (usually this means skirts) for a week and post pictures of ourselves to encourage other ladies to try to do the same. It was started on the Ladies Against Feminism website as a way to prove that you can do all of your day to day things in skirts. I personally have yet to find something I can't do...you just have to use the right skirt for the job. ;-) So in addition to posting my pictures on the forum, I thought I'd post them here and invite you ladies to do the same. It's a fun reason to get a little bit dressed up! On a side note, Jenny just brought me that big green bulb syringe that the hospital gives you when you have a baby...it was being shoved up her nose while she squeezed it to both hands...all while dressed femininely of course! lol