For my US readers out there, happy 4th of July! I had a pretty relaxed day spent with the family, but I did get a chance to do some sewing in the morning. Anyways, I always try to dress both patriotic AND vintage on the 4th, and this year I wanted to wear pedal pushers. Even though I have the Colette Clover, I have so many historic sewing commissions I’m working on for other people that sewing time for me is a rare luxury. Since they really don’t sell pedal pushers these days (and vintage reproduction capris are *so* expensive), I decided to refashion a pair of cropped pants from Banana Republic that I thrifted last week for $4. It was so quick and easy to do, and an hour later, I had a cute new pair of pants!
Don’t worry, I’ll have a tutorial on how to do this up by Friday. 
Here are some more snapshots from the day:
My sister, the photographer:
My shoes are just too cute not to show.
I picked some strawberries from my mom’s garden . . .
. . . to eat with the strawberry shortcakes I made! Strawberry shortcake is one of my favorite desserts, and after trying numerous recipes, thisis definitely my favorite.
Hope everybody else had a lovely day!
You look adorable! Love those shoes too!
Aww, thanks so much!
Such a cute outfit! I love your new pants! And you’re making me hungry with all this talk of strawberry shortcake!!
He hee, thanks! I’ll probably make more today with all the strawberries we have. You can’t just eat those plain, ya know.
Love the outfit! The picture of you and the dog made me laugh out loud – he looks so ecstatic!
I was actually craving strawberry shortcake earlier; it’s the perfect summer food. . .
It is the perfect summer food!
And as for the puppy – as you know, the weather was finally good for the first time in a long time here, so we let him play outside and he just spent hours rolling around in the freshly-cut grass, getting in the garden (where he shouldn’t be) and getting dirty. So yes, he was very ecstatic and wearing his “proud and dirty” face!
Fab outfit! You can’t go wrong with red, blue and white. And stripes!
Thanks so much! And you can never go wrong with stripes.
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