Ingenuity

I got a white lace top at DI for $4, and I am playing with it to see how far I can make it go. Today I picked off the buttons to put in my stash (10 silver buttons alone would probably be worth the $4.) Then I made the pretty shrug shown (pictures and instructions at www.boleropattern.com, under "Make a Shrug from a tshirt"). Tomorrow I'm going to see if I can get a bolero out of the rest of it. $4 = 10 buttons, lace shrug, lace bolero = pretty good!

Thrift Store Bolero

Good luck at DI the other day - I found a great little black sequin bolero for only $4 that works beautifully with many of my newly-acquired rental formals:

For more on this bolero, see my ModestProm blog.

ModestProm Rental Dresses

Well, I continue to plug along on altering the dresses I purchased to start a modest formal rental business!

To help publicize this business, I am going to be having drawings for free jewelry and dress rentals. December's drawing will be for a beautiful 18" freshwater pearl necklace.

There are three ways you can be entered in the drawings:

1) Join my ModestProm.com Facebook fan page (just log in to Facebook, then search for ModestProm, bring up the page, and become a fan). This earns you a ticket for the monthly drawing.

2) Recommend the page to your friends (just click on the "Suggest to Friends" link under the profile picture. Email me to let me know you recommended the page to your friends, and this will also earn you a ticket for the monthly drawing.

3) Email me when your friends join. Just tell me their names (they must be NEW fans), and I will give you a ticket for each friend who joins.

If you are interested in following along as I alter the dresses - to get ideas, or just for information - you can follow my blog at http://www.modestprom.blogspot.com where I am gradually blogging the alterations as I go along.