Today, I cheated…er upcycled…depending on how you look at it. 😉
I took Natalie’s chiffon holiday dress, replaced the black velvet ribbon with this gold satin ribbon from The Ribbon Retreat…
and…Bippity Boppity Boo…
Her new Easter dress!
It’s one of the pros of making a white Christmas dress I guess. 🙂
Plus, those tiny chiffon hems, and tiny satin and chiffon covered buttons were a labor of love that I couldn’t pack up just yet.
Unpicking the old ribbon and replacing it was easily done.
The lovely gold satin ribbon from The Ribbon Retreat (go here for a $50 giveaway also running this week!) is a little stiffer than I anticipated, but I think it should hold up well through hand washing. Or who knows? Maybe I’ll shake things up and keep replacing it with a new color until she grows out of the dress. I do have some blue satin ribbon in my stash…
It’s no secret that I love the basic Five & Ten Designs dress with sleeves. (Scroll to the bottom for the Five and Ten e-book giveaway!)
I’m not just saying that because I am one of the authors of the Five and Ten e-book. See my other versions as proof here, here, here, and here. It’s totally my favorite go to basic dress pattern.
The original book comes with sleeveless and cap sleeve options like these ones I made here and here, but I am a sucker for standard to mid length sleeves. Especially since, the unique method we use (see the free sleeve download on our site) gives you a completely lined sleeve with no raw edges or frustrating sleeve setting. It is a slimmer sleeve pattern than most, but I prefer it.
Natalie’s gold star hair clip is from this post here.
The gold shoes are from Old Navy from a year ago. I have been hoarding them for Nat, hoping she would have grown into them by now. They are size 5 and are still too large if you can believe it. She is just barely fitting into size fours!
I love how the gold in Natalie’s dress complements the boys’ Spring suits I shared yesterday. Gold is definitely shaping up to be our color of the year this year.
Oh goodness. These three. 🙂
I was totally lucky to get some good ones of all three of them together…even though they wouldn’t all look at me at the same time.Â
This picture more accurately sums up how the rest of the shoot went. hahahaaa.
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Some more lovely photos of your beautiful children (the second to the last one is my favorite and I also like the one where they are walking away from you – ok they are all favorites)! You are truly blessed 🙂
I am. Thank you Nancy! 🙂
The kids look smashing for Easter. That really is the perfect dress and the colors are so great!
Thanks Carin!
I love that you re-used her Christmas dress! I’d totally do that too! And we love gold here too…we have those same shoes! Plus another 5-6 pairs of other gold shoes…haha!
haha…I knew I liked your taste in shoes. 😉
I think it’s great you found a way to reuse that gorgeous dress. Kids grow so quickly it’s nice to reuse what you can. They all look so gorgeous together!
Totally. Thanks!
Oh that is some serious cuteness! All three of your children are beautiful.
And BTW- pure brilliance- switching the ribbon to make a whole new dress! You are my hero!
~Michelle
Michelle…you are the nicest ever. Thank you for that super sweet comment! 🙂
Um, hello! You made TWO suits. I think you can take a pass on a dress when you have such a perfect one already made! They are just gorgeous! And ho win the world did I miss those shoes at Old Navy? Love ’em!
I know! They have a new cute gold pair there now that I want, but I haven’t gotten them because Natalie hasn’t even really fully grown into these yet. But…let’s be honest. If there are any left at the end of the season I will probably snatch up a pair anyway. 😉
Loving the gold! Your tiny spitfire looks beautiful in her dress ^_^
haha…she is that for sure. Thank you Tara!
Wonderfully beautiful children and photography. And the clothes are just as good. Thanks for sharing and for the giveaway.
Thank you so much!
I really think you’ve got the most beautiful kids ever <3
aw. thanks!
Little girls are darling in white…and especially in a beautiful dress like this. I would just keep updating the ribbon too! =)
and I failed to mention how much I love the photos of the three together. Beautiful! =)
Thanks Charity!
Absolutely beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Donna. 🙂
How precious! you are so talented I wish I could sew like you.