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| LisaTwo |
Posted - Jun 05 2011 : 3:59:20 PM
I have some pictures posted on my blog of my daughter in two 40's reproduction dresses that I made for her. I'm thinking of making this a weekly thing...I had so much fun doing this...
http://pinkporches.blogspot.com/2011/06/haley-emma-circa-1946.html
http://pinkporches.blogspot.com/
http://www.etsy.com/shop/PinkPorches
*And you know when the truth is told-- you can get what you want--or you can just get old.* (Billy Joel) |
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| cj6 |
Posted - Aug 14 2012 : 12:30:59 AM
The dress and the model are beautiful! My 13 yr loves this era of clothes...and I thank you for the idea you gave me for her birthday! Time to look for a pattern and get out the sewing machine. : ) |
| SpyChicken |
Posted - Apr 16 2012 : 07:07:38 AM
Beautiful!!! The 1940's is one of my very favorite eras!! |
| MissLiss |
Posted - Jan 16 2012 : 11:43:10 AM
So beautiful! I would love to have a pattern for that dress that fit me! I would make scads of dresses! Great job!
Melissa ~ Farmgirl #724
Mother Hen to The Knitty Gritty Farmgirls of the Inland Empire
http://fabulousfarmgirl.blogspot.com/ |
| knead2garden |
Posted - Dec 22 2011 : 08:49:23 AM
I love this! Your work is beautiful and so is your daughter!
~Ashley
#1677
"In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we have been taught." -Baba Dioum |
| YakLady |
Posted - Nov 04 2011 : 10:09:25 PM
Just saw this- LOVE those pictures! You have a gorgeous daughter and a great talent for making those dresses!
~Natalie~ Just a farmgirl in Western Montana. http://mtnme.blogspot.com
Starting a family and raising Tibetan Yaks, Nigerian Dwarf Goats, Laying hens, Muscovy ducks, and a few dogs. |
| lilwing |
Posted - Nov 04 2011 : 9:07:13 PM
Oh my gosh... I just love these photos.... I would buy those dresses too!!
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Proud Farmgirl #775
honeybrookefarm.blogspot.com
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| Breanna |
Posted - Sep 10 2011 : 4:05:51 PM
wow, those are absolutely beautiful! great job!
Farmgirl Bre
"...that my glory may sing praise to you and not be silent, O Lord my God, I will give thanks to You forever." Psalm 30:12 |
| JessieLovesToCraft |
Posted - Aug 26 2011 : 7:43:08 PM
what magnificent pictures and dresses, i am in love!
Farmgirl Sister #3404
Jessie
A wise girl knows her limits, but a real girl realizes she doesn't have any! |
| ellimae |
Posted - Aug 26 2011 : 11:49:39 AM
I wear forty and fifty dresses everyday just love them just so old fashioned i don't normaly tell anyone but i feel so great when i wear them i buy them on ebay because darn it i don't sew.
Do as the farmgals do! |
| luckilady |
Posted - Aug 24 2011 : 11:27:34 AM
So pretty! You are very talented and your girl is so beautiful. Do you sell the dresses? I just love the feminine look, I would wear them! I can sew a little, but I would never be able to make anything that gorgeous.
~Jennifer
Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. ~ John Maxwell
Farmgirl Sister #3375 |
| Lieberkim |
Posted - Aug 12 2011 : 8:29:02 PM
Pretty dresses, lovely girl and awesome photography! |
| nancypo |
Posted - Jul 18 2011 : 3:29:44 PM
Cute! Reminded me of this pattern I saw yesterday-
http://www.folkwear.com/240.html
Be the change...
http://littlehomesteadinboise.blogspot.com/ |
| Mea |
Posted - Jul 18 2011 : 09:21:10 AM
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE these dresses!!!!!! I just adore the 40's dress style but have been unable to find any patterns in Plus (I'm a curvy gal) or even close enough for me to alter. Patterns are my demise--I rarely even use them anymore.
Farmgirl #1732
Knitter, canner, charmingly acerbic mom to 3 XYs, and full-time English teacher--desperately wants 2 chickens |
| MEWolf |
Posted - Jun 28 2011 : 6:59:34 PM
I love the dresses and what a beautiful daughter! Your photos are lovely! What I love so much about 40's dresses are the shoulder pads!!! I used to have several that I wore in high school and college...along with my raccoon coat...I was a total retro girl in the 70's. Love to see this!
Margaret
“Kind hearts are the gardens, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the flowers, kind deeds are the fruits. Take care of your garden and keep out the weeds, fill it with sunshine, kind words and kind deeds.” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1808-1882)
Farmgirl #3020
www.grey-wolf-farm.com |
| Tina Kay |
Posted - Jun 21 2011 : 11:23:00 AM
I love those dresses. I would totally wear them. She is a doll!
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Happy it is, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is covered with food of his own rearing, and who not only enjoys his meal, but remembers with delight the happy days and sunny mornings when he planted it, the soft evenings when he watered it, and the pleasure he experienced in watching it’s daily growth.
J.W. von Goethe (the Sorrows of Werther)
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| jpbluesky |
Posted - Jun 20 2011 : 11:58:34 PM
awesome! Just beautiful and the shoes go with the dresses perfectly!
Farmgirl Sister # 31
www.blueskyjeannie.blogspot.com
Psalm 51: 10-13 |
| herblady55 |
Posted - Jun 19 2011 : 7:10:32 PM
Amazing sewing job. Good for you. Isn't your daughter just a cutie. How did you get her hair to style like that?
Sister-chick# 905(Sept.14th 2009)
Judy
French-Hugs&Squeezles!
I am not contained between my hat and my boots! -Walt Whitman-
"Why couldn't I have been born Rich instead of So Good Looking?" |
| walkinwalkoutcattle |
Posted - Jun 16 2011 : 03:40:54 AM
Oh my gosh! Those dresses are so beautiful!! And so is your daughter! :)
Farmgirl #2879 :)
Starbucks and sushi to green fried tomatoes and corn pudding-I wouldn't change it for the world.
www.cattleandcupcakes.blogspot.com
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| ddmashayekhi |
Posted - Jun 14 2011 : 3:16:12 PM
Beautiful daughter, dresses and pictures. Thank you for sharing them!
Dawn in IL |
| n/a |
Posted - Jun 13 2011 : 5:39:24 PM
I have been watching re-runs of the Walton's---the later seasons---and the wardrobe is simply lovely. I wish I had a figure that could wear some of them! What would a larger woman DO in those days---besides the corset that is :0).
Well, your photos are beautiful---as well as the model and clothing :0)!
Married to my High School sweetie for 22+ years. Stay at home mom to the amazing 4--Megs (19), Ryan(17), Josh (14), Zack (13). A born and raised Brooklyn, NY chickie girl that has been trying to figure out this country thing in PA for the past dozen years!
"The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective." ~Robert Brault
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| CMac |
Posted - Jun 11 2011 : 7:41:31 PM
Oh my goodness she is beautiful! She almost upstaged the dresses! I love those by the way. I'm a size 2/4 if you ever have any that size you want to get rid of. I'm just saying.
Good work all the way around Lisa. Photos were awesome too.
Another talented farmgirl to cheer!
Connie
"I have three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for company."
Author: Henry David Thoreau |
| Tammyb |
Posted - Jun 11 2011 : 7:34:13 PM
LOVE IT !!
Tammyb
Live to leave a legacy
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| SunnyJam |
Posted - Jun 09 2011 : 1:24:45 PM
Great pictures, and I LOVE the dresses! I'd buy them both today from you if I could! :)
Farmgirl Sister #2504 |
| Dusky Beauty |
Posted - Jun 09 2011 : 1:15:33 PM
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Originally posted by MagnoliaWhisper
LOVE it! I wish I could have some dresses like that. They don't make patterns in my bust size though......grrr, and it's so difficult to redo a pattern for my bust...requires pretty much redrawing the pattern.
http://www.heathersprairie.blogspot.com
I'm with you there, when I was making clothes for reenacting I literally gave up patterns for everything except sleeve shapes. I drafted a blouse/bodice pattern that fit and cut it out with cardboard so it lasted and used the exact same bodice with different sleeves for every outfit I made. The only tweaks I made were in gathers vs. darts or pleats.
"After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.” ~Will Rogers |
| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Jun 09 2011 : 07:53:32 AM
Lisa, she is so cute and looks so much like her brothers. You did such a great job. I have got to learn to sew. Does she show any interest in sewing yet?
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
