the best thing i've ever made

i took the house frau side of dress one out on the town for the first time.  i think she enjoyed it.

well i finally finished  dress 2, the recycle dress and it's the awesome.  putting it out there, definitely the best thing i've made.  one side is made from 3 different pairs of jeans and the other side from an awesome skirt i found in an op shop.  it makes me very happy when i put it on as i always get comments on it and i love a little brag about how i made it.  i know, i know, i need to put up a photo.  i just need to take one...
starting this whole thing has really been way more liberating than i thought it would be.  i have a subscription to grazia magazine that i used to previously hang out to receive but now i just look at it's pages and can't help but think how wasteful and frivolous the whole thing is.  the way they present things in those magazines is awful.  so nonchalantly suggesting that it's acceptable to spend 800 bucks on a shirt to throw over a 1200 dollar dress that will 'work' for next season too.  what the what?  it really is ridiculous that us girls place so much importance in what we wear and in particular what other girls wear.  it's so true that we dress for other women.  i've never really been affected by brand envy before as i've always been a bit of an op shop girl but i definitely get jealous of the fitzroy girls with their awesome thrift dresses and cut off shorts and long flippy hair.  they put just as much effort in as the scanlon and theodore girls, the difference being that they pretend it's just 'this old thing?'  well now i can genuinely say 'this old thing?' and it makes me feel good.  i'm not stressing about what i wear and whether people think i'm cool or not.

it was my little bros' birthday so i made him a cake.  as you can see i've never decorated one before...