Dresses and Makeovers

Good afternoon everyone.

As you may or may not have noticed, I gave my old layout the old "heave-ho" and brought in a shiny new layout specially designed for my gothic lolita needs. That's right everyone, I mastered the basics of HTML just enough to make a few updates to my site. You'll notice that the banner has changed, and so has the background. Originally, I was going to go with a red theme, but the background was funky...In any event, you'll also notice there are new and improved buttons for your website! You can add them to your signature on a message board, you can add them to your blog, or wherever else takes HTML (or even BBCode, if you convert it first), so go forth and add!

Now, on to the reason why you're here: It's Monday which, according to my last post means it's time I tell you about some dresses, fabric, skirts, tutorials, or something of the sort. As you know, I'm working on a dress from an Alice in Wonderland pattern. So far, the sizing is perfect but that can be credited to me because I had to mush two sizes together. I've already altered the skirt so it's longer and more lolita appropriate (which didn't take too much effort at all), but in the future I think I would add width to the sleeves so that it had more gather as opposed to a sort of odd cap sleeve type thing. I think either way it will look good though. The dress itself is green and black (it sort of looks like the purple background on this very blog!), and lined with a thick silky black material. The cotton lace trim is black and eyelet lace. It's really cute, if I do say so myself. I keep saying that I'll post pictures (I know, I know) but this time I think I will.

The only thing is, this dress is taking forEVER to do! Unlike the last time I had a mass sewing spree, I'm actually taking my time and hemming properly...hence lots of frustration. I just have to keep thinking: two lolita dresses for under 50 dollars...two lolita dresses for under 50 dollars...!