I am the crazy cat lady.

I went thrift store shopping (am I the only one who hates using "thrift" as a verb?) yesterday and brought home this treasure for $1.95:

PHOTO EXPLANATION: I feel like I should be more embarrassed to put this picture on the internet, but I'm hoping that it's a far enough cry from what I usually look like (key word: usually) that we'll all just get a good laugh . . . I started to crop my head out of it, but my husband glanced over and practically shouted, "DO NOT CROP THAT!" I took this picture right after I got up at 6 this morning, so those are my nerd specs, insane bedhead, and sleepy makeup-less face. But combine all that with the dress (lovely, is it not?) and the resemblance to this was just too good for me to keep to myself:

. . . I don't know why Jeff won't let me get a cat. What a jerk. 

Okay! Back to our regularly-scheduled programming.

The dress is clearly atrocious, but I loved the floral print and figured it was long enough that I'd have some extra fabric to play around with.

I hacked about 7" off the bottom, took the sides in by about 2", and used the extra length from the bottom to make short sleeves. Here's the finished product:

And I especially love it with a cardigan and belt for our still-chilly weather, and with the sash from my McIntosh dress:

Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself, but I think it looks quite a bit like these more ($56 more!) expensive vintage-inspired floral dresses from Modcloth:

 dress on the left and dress on the right


I'd say that's $1.95 well-spent! If I'd only had hot cinnamon rolls to eat while I worked on it, this really would have been the ideal Saturday morning. Oh, and minus the "got up at 6" part. Then it would have been the ideal Saturday morning.

Linking here and here!