Day 19: My kind of magic...

One of my all time favorite Cinderella movies is The Slipper and the Rose. If you haven't seen it (and if you are a romantic at heart) you really should. I think that this is where my love of costumes and period clothing stems from. I remember watching it over and over with my mother, from the time I was maybe 4 or 5 years old. One of my favorite scenes is when the wicked step-mother tells Cinderella that they have been invited to the royal ball and she must take some of their old dress and "make three splendid new dresses" out of them. Poor Cinderella has no dress making skills and is feeling despair over her task when her Fairy Godmother shows up; and with some magic, and a keen fashion sense, saves the day. I don't know why, but that scene has been playing over and over in my head for the last two days as I transformed this pile of scraps...


... into a dress fit for my princess.


The green satin is literally the scraps I had left over from sewing a vest for my cousin Tiffany's husband, for their wedding last year. And the floral patterned fabric I found in my quest to organize my stash, a 1/2 yard can go quite far. Simple and pretty, I can't wait for church this week.