For my US readers out there, happy 4th of July! I had a pretty relaxed day spent with the family, but I did get a chance to do some sewing in the morning. Anyways, I always try to dress both patriotic AND vintage on the 4th, and this year I wanted to wear pedal pushers. Even though I have the Colette Clover, I have so many historic sewing commissions I’m working on for other people that sewing time for me is a rare luxury. Since they really don’t sell pedal pushers these days (and vintage reproduction capris are *so* expensive), I decided to refashion a pair of cropped pants from Banana Republic that I thrifted last week for $4. It was so quick and easy to do, and an hour later, I had a cute new pair of pants!
Don’t worry, I’ll have a tutorial on how to do this up by Friday. 😉
Here are some more snapshots from the day:
My sister, the photographer:
My shoes are just too cute not to show. 😉
I picked some strawberries from my mom’s garden . . .
. . . to eat with the strawberry shortcakes I made! Strawberry shortcake is one of my favorite desserts, and after trying numerous recipes, thisis definitely my favorite.
Hope everybody else had a lovely day!
You look adorable! Love those shoes too!
Aww, thanks so much!
Such a cute outfit! I love your new pants! And you’re making me hungry with all this talk of strawberry shortcake!! 🙂
He hee, thanks! I’ll probably make more today with all the strawberries we have. You can’t just eat those plain, ya know. 😉
Love the outfit! The picture of you and the dog made me laugh out loud – he looks so ecstatic! 😛
I was actually craving strawberry shortcake earlier; it’s the perfect summer food. . .
It is the perfect summer food!
And as for the puppy – as you know, the weather was finally good for the first time in a long time here, so we let him play outside and he just spent hours rolling around in the freshly-cut grass, getting in the garden (where he shouldn’t be) and getting dirty. So yes, he was very ecstatic and wearing his “proud and dirty” face! 😉
Fab outfit! You can’t go wrong with red, blue and white. And stripes!
Thanks so much! And you can never go wrong with stripes. 😉