OoTD: Thanksgiving. white seater, vest and scarf

Hello everyone!

Remember the sweater I refashioned here?

Well, here's the outfit of that day!

I paired it with brown oxfords that you can see in the picture above

I'm enjoying the last couple of days until I'm forced to wear boots.

Don't get me wrong, I love boots, but I like to mix things up, too.

And just for the sake of keeping it real, here's some pictures with my eyes closed:

 Here's me attacking the photographer (Ace)

 

And here are some that just didn't turn our good

  

My creepy face

Love, Aranza

"Enter his gates with thanksgiving

    and his courts with praise;
    give thanks to him and praise his name.

For the Lord is good and his love endures forever;

    his faithfulness continues through all generations."

Psalm 100:4-5

Fall Outfit. OoTD. Pattern Pants

Hello lovelies!

I hope you are enjoying your fall.. Here, in the Chicagoland area, winter is making its way into fall.. The leaves are barely falling, yet I've had to defrost my car every morning for the past couple of weeks!

Any way, I love fall. It's one of my favorite seasons (along with spring, winter and summer...)

These pants are ankle length (for spring), but I decided to wear them with boots to keep me warm and to "autumize" them.

And, as usual, the random picture

(here's to having fun with my fiance!)

31 “‘My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. 32 But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”

Luke 15 (for the whole story, read verses 11-32)

Whether you are the older or younger brother, God loves you and desperately wants what's best for you

Yours, Aranza

White Sweater Refashion. Add length to a sweater or shirt

Hello everyone!

I hope you are having a wonderful day :)

Today, I wanted to share a little refashion tutorial that could come in handy when you have a shirt or sweater that you like, but happens to be too short.

See, I had this delicate white sweater perfect for winter (it has little snowflakes embroidered all over)

But it fit me kind of awkward and it was too short.

A couple of weeks ago I saw a friend wearing a baggy sweater with 3 layers of chiffon attached to the bottom; I thought it looked so delicate. It also made her look like she had tons of layers on, so I decided to take that idea and add some length to my awkward sweater..

For this refashion you will need about 1/4 of a yard of chiffon (you could also use lace for one of the layers to add even more texture!).

I started by cutting the chiffon in half the long way (I actually cut a small slip, and then tear the sides appart.. this helped give it a fraying look and kept the strips even)

I placed one of the strips on top of the other like so:

And then I folded them in half leaving about an each of space in between to get those layers.

Pin in place

All the way around the strip

I made sure that my end were even

And then I sewed about 1/8" from the folded edge (making sure I was sewing through all the layers) to keep them together

The last step I didn't get a picture of, but I basically just pinned the strip in place (at the bottom of the sweater) and sewed with a zig-zag stitch. I didn't know how much of the strip I would use because I knew the sweater would expand as I started sewing. So I decided to start sewing on one of the side seams, leving about 1/4" of the strip unattached, so that at the end, I could attach both edges and then cut the excess.

And this is what the finished product looks like!

 

I love it!!!

God bless, Aranza