Christmas is over, and we are on the cusp of a new year. I have never been one for resolutions around the New Year. Maybe it is having a New Year\u2019s Day birthday. Or maybe it is my failed perfectionism, and how I would rather not do something I could potentially fail at or not complete. But I still love the freshness of a new year and all the hope and promise it holds.<\/p>\n
Often my mental state is impacted by my physical state, so I like to use the week between Christmas and New Year\u2019s to clean my closet of all the clothes that don\u2019t fit, I don\u2019t like or make me feel self-conscious. Sometimes there are pieces I still love, but they look worn or fit a little strange. Here is how I have made over some great clothing pieces without breaking the bank.<\/p>\n
Do you have a black dress or a navy sweater you absolutely love but has faded<\/a> with time? It is nothing a $3.00 bottle of dye won\u2019t return back to a rich color to keep enjoying that basic piece. I prefer to dye clothes in a washing machine as it allows me to start something and go onto other tasks. Just remember when you are finished to run an empty load with bleach.<\/p>\n Sometimes I just get tired of a piece, and a change of color makes it seem brand new. It is a fun and inexpensive way I can update<\/a> my wardrobe. Keep in mind, any stains will still show on a dyed article of clothing. For brighter colors, the liquid dye seems to have a deeper color. Sometimes I will use two bottles if I especially want a color to pop.<\/p>\n When my jeans get old and start to wear at the knees, I love to turn them into a pencil skirt<\/a>. It is a quick and easy change. You can alsodye<\/a> it to return some vibrancy to the color.<\/p>\n Have you ever found a piece you love, but it doesn\u2019t quite fit right? A too long pair of pants<\/a> or a too big dress<\/a> can make you feel frumpy when you wear it. If you love the piece, consider having it altered. I like to do a lot of alterations myself, but I also found a seamstress I loved for more complicated alterations. A few small changes can make you feel like a million bucks.<\/p>\n Christmas is over, and we are on the cusp of a new year. I have never been one for resolutions around the New Year. Maybe it is having a New Year\u2019s Day birthday. Or maybe it is my failed perfectionism, and how I would rather not do something I could potentially fail at or not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,42],"tags":[105,29,164,235,112],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fun","category-lifestyle","tag-get-organized","tag-mikkee","tag-self","tag-sew","tag-tips"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}2. Dye an outdated or thrift store piece a fun new color.<\/h3>\n
3. Turn your jeans with holes in the knees into a pencil skirt.<\/h3>\n
4. Be willing to do some alterations.<\/h3>\n