Being able to draw again!

I never thought I would be able to pick up a pencil, let alone actually draw! I actually got inspired to draw again after I had tried going to a local fashion college and was turned away, I went to the admissions office and they doubted that I could do everything that was required in class even though I told them that I had been taking sewing classes for two years. They wrote down my name and said I should look into other avenues to pursue my career. I felt down on myself for a while and I started to doubt myself, it was incredibly frustrating that I wasn't even taken seriously and the school wasn't willing to work with me. I had always been drawing as a teenager and making my own creations, so I decided that I was going to draw again, I wanted to prove that even though I had no hands that I was capable of doing it but in my own way and the next time someone started to doubt me, I would have proof that I could do it! Of course I didn't end up going back to the school, if they weren't willing to look past my disability then they weren't worth my time. If anyone is doubting anything that you are pursuing in your life, then who cares! If they aren't supporting or encouraging you, then you definitely don't need them. You do what's best for you.

(The puppies name is Abby, I don't have her anymore unfortunately I had to give her away.)

All of the dresses I've made!!

Hey guys, I hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving!! I just wanted share with you all of the past dresses I've made!!

This was the very first dress I made. I actually saw this pink Skater ice cream sandwich dress on Etsy and it was almost 80 dollars and I didn't have 80 dollars to spend, but I wanted it so bad!!! So I decided that I was going to make my very own ice cream sandwich dress instead as my first project. I found this ice cream fabric online they had it in a mint color and pink and I decided to get the pink! I loved the way the fabric kind of reminded me of the really cute retro 50's pastel kitchen colors I've seen before. I just really love how unique and different this fabric was and when I saw it that I fell in love with it! 

I haven't mentioned yet that I love skull print! I found this online also along with ice cream fabric. I loved how the skull pattern looked really edgy to me even though it was in a pastel pink, I always see a white skull print with black fabric but I thought this looked so cool and it was something I had never really seen before so I thought it would make a really bad ass dress!!!   

The pancake dress! After making the ice cream sandwich dress I wanted to see if I could find more food related fabrics, I saw so many they had bacon, curly fries, baked potatoes, cookies and more you name it they had it all!! But as soon as saw the this pancake fabric I loved it!! I really love the 50's vintage halter dresses I had seen before so I decided to make it into a halter dress! I had this left over polka dot fabric I was going to make into a dress but I thought it would be really cute to line the bust with it and make a tie up belt in the back to give it more of a vintage 50's look!

I wanted to make this more of an evening dress, I wanted to make an off the shoulder dress with a sweetheart neckline kind of like a mini princess gown I've seen in many different fairy tales pictures and movies I watch as a kid.  I found the fabric, tulle and lining at a local store here called Golden D'or They have an amazing selection! The fabric is a sheer black fabric with silver floral prints, the lining is burgundy with plum color tulle underneath. I put all these colors together myself and I thought all these color together would be really pretty being made into dress. Looking more at the dress the colors of the it remind me of the holidays!

My pink cupcake dress!!! I always loved the big giant poofy 50's prom dresses, I always wanted one these dresses when I was younger so that I could wear these old black converse I had with a huge poofy dress like similar to Hilary Duff's dress in a Cinderella Story :

I don't know if anyone remembers this movie but I loved it when I was younger! But anyways, I really wanted to make my own version of this dress so I decided to make it pink! I added dark pink, light pink, light blue, peach and purple underneath the skirt so that it would have a rainbow effect! the whole dress is made out of tulle, I bought all the tulle and lining from the local fabric store here called Golden D'or!

The progress so far!

 


Hey Guys!! I wanted to show the progress of how my dress is looking so far!! I'm still not quite finished yet! I learned a little about the french seam which is what I'm doing for this dress, I don't want to give to much away about what this dress is going to look like!