Scrap fabric as a dress?

To be completely honest I have no idea what I am doing...sorta how the process for making this dress was.

I thought I had a plan to tackle this project but as I started, everything kept going wrong. As my cut up fabric sat in front of me on my laminate floor, I thought really hard of how I was going to make this work. When I saw the dress right in front of my eyes. The scraps from 4 or 5 different failed attempts were in the perfect shape for the top of the dress! and BOOM. light bulb, it hit me and this is what I came up with:

A stunning minimal satin dress that indeed came out shorter than I expected but I was running out of options. Don't come after me...

I learned not to rush any project and to enjoy each step in every process like I was learning how to sew all over again.

I wanted to share my thought process throughout this whole design because it look me 3 days to finally complete this look but it only took me 3 hours to get the final result in this picture.

I felt that I was stressing too much about what people would think if I didn't do the EXACT design that I originally came up with. I started to doubt myself thinking "maybe I'm not as good as I thought I was." but we can't let these thoughts take over our minds.

On day three I sat there looking for a solution and I took a deep breathe grabbed the scrap fabric off the floor and allowed myself to feel confident in what I was doing. And you can too! Whatever it is your working on right now in your life, whether it's a fashion project maybe your starting a business and it hasn't taken off like you thought it would or maybe your just working on your self esteem. WRITE IT DOWN, I mean your emotions, write down how you feel about what is happening, then read your thoughts as if they are not your own. THEN write down the advice you would give that "person" and watch yourself change your mind about how to go about your struggle and watch yourself fail and conquer. I mean if I can get Dom to do yoga with me every morning then you can do this simple step to help yourself, help yourself.

XoXo,

Nicole

If you haven't watched my youtube video on this dress you can find it on my home page or click the link here and enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd1DVAYNOPI