Last Minute New Year's Eve Special

Happy New Year!

I decided to post up my New Year's Eve outfit for tonight as I decided last minute (try yesterday) to semi dress up for tonight.  When I say semi dress up - I mean to dress normal compared to most girls.  I'm not exactly the high heel mini skirt type of gal (try sweatpants and tie dye shirt...wearing them as I type right now haha).  So yesterday when I was in Joann Fabric's picking out some ribbon for another project, I decided that I should make better use of my 40% off coupon.  Rather than using the coupon for my $3.79 ribbon, I figured why not splurg it on a sequin fabric of my choosing.  By the way, it took me a solid 2 hours Googling "glitter tops" to remember that it is not glitter, it is sequin.  Grrr.  I bought a yard and a half of the sequin fabric which came to $10.79 but after using my coupon the total was $6.47.  I went home knowing what type of top I wanted to make - but the problem was, I had no idea what the shirt name was called.  I went to pinterest.com and typed in glitter tops...ya, that didn't work.  I did the same on Google...failed.  So, after watching an entire People's Court episode while Googling random words I finally came across what I wanted to make.  I believe it is called a "blanket style cardigan."  I didn't want to have any sleeves because I thought that would require too much effort on my part.  I Youtubed around and found a great tutorial on how to make a "vest cardigan."  Ten minutes later - baboom!  I just made myself a nice lil' sequin vest cardigan (no sewing required!!!).  

My next step was to figure out what the heck I was going to wear with my fancy-dancy "vest cardigan."  What did I do?  Went to Goodwill!  I got completely side tracked there and bought a few other items (you will see them later - I did find a great deal on a pair of rocketdog shoes).  Anyway, I ended up buying a few different simple black or gray tops to try out with my sequin vest top once I got home.  All shirts are $4.50 so it gives me the freedom to buy a few and make decisions later!  

I woke up today with a plan...I needed to figure out what I was going to do for the bottom part of the outfit.  I was very tempted to wear short black shorts with rockin pink tights and my wanna-be Converse sneaks, but after some discussion with one of my "fashion consultants," Lindsey (she is actually a former field hockey player of mine and is a sophomore in college so of course, she knows her style), I decided that the pink may be too much for a small New Hampshire house party - so I opted out and decided to wear skinny jeans instead.  The next problem was that the only pair of skinny jeans I have were the light ones shown in my last blog and then dark blackish denim looking ones...neither would be a great match for my sequin top.  Alrighttyy then.  I asked myself if I should go to Goodwill but I decided that maybe I should try to be more creative, especially considering I have gone to Goodwill 3 days in a row now (what else should a teacher during her school vacation do haha?).   I remembered that I have seen some tutorials on Youtube before, and there really are tons of tutorials about anything - so I decided to see if there were any good tutorials on how to make skinny jeans out of old baggy jeans.  Pshh - yup!  Thanks to Youtube there were tons!  I found two videos in particular that I liked and went at it...within literally 5 minutes max, I turned an old pair of baggy jeans into skinny jeans!  I kinda sewed them a bit too tight for my liking but whatever - this is my first time so I figured I'd let it slide.

My final decision on the outfit for tonight is (please excuse the photos...not the best quality)...

Silver Style

Sparkle Sparkle!

Dolla Dollar Breakdown:

The silver flats are from Nine West and were given to me for free by my cousin Jenna.  Some of the jewels were broken off so I just used some Jewel-It! glue to smack those babies back on the flats.  Next stop, the jeans.  As mentioned, I made these skinny jeans from an old pair that I never really wore because there were too baggy.  They are Mudd jeans originally bought at Kohls for $11 bucks or so if my memory is right (I got so excited that they were only $11 bucks that I just bought them...not realizing that they didn't fit me that well).  Next stop my top - a bought a tag-less/nameless t-shirt at Goodwill for $4.50.  Simple and black did the trick for me.  For the sequin top, as previously mentioned, I bought a yard and a half for $6.47.  The earrings were bought from Kohls awhile back with a $10 gift card that Kohl's randomly gives me.  I have no idea how I got this hook up but every 3 months or so, they send me a $10 gift card on anything in the store.  I know that this is a marketing gimmick to get me to the store and buy more then $10 bucks worth of goods but heck no I'm not falling for that trick.  Instead, I will spend just about $10 so I get free stuff!  Lastly, the hair pieces - the pink flower was $4.99 (two flowers for that price) and was bought from Claire's Accessories, and the sequin band was made from leftover fabric.  And there we have it!

Grand total:  $26.96 for entire outfit or $10.97 for the sequin top fabric and t-shirt (purchased specifically for this outfit)                       

Once again - just some creativity and zero talent and you can have a cute outfit for New Year's Eve!  I'm a complete beginner on the sewing machine so if I can do it - so can you!  

Sincerely,

The Fashion Treasure Hunter

PS.  Here are the links to the tutorial videos I used:  

• Vest Cardigan Top
• Skinny Jeans Video 1: Skinny Jeans Video 1
• I mainly used this tutorial but it abruptly ends so I watched a 2nd video that walked me through the end piece
• Skinny Jeans Video 2: Skinny Jeans Video 2 
• I only started to pay attention to her at the 4:30 mark to see how she finished the jeans