I was inspired by a dear friend to take a risk and do something different with my wardrobe. After 5 years of moving up and down the scale of sizes thanks to giving birth to my 3 lovely children, I am ready to find and settle back into a permanent size. So after shedding my closet of outgrown sizes, maternity sizes post partum, and "highschool skinny" I was left with the horrifying result that I had about 3 shirts to wear. The catalyst for this wardrobe reform was a play in which I'm currently having to play someone so unlike myself it's crazy. "Jess" is rich, fashionable, and bold. Whereas I am a girl that cannot for the life of me remember the last time I took a tweezer to my brow. My director decided that he wants to start "seeing" our characters at rehearsal. Meaning, start dressing like your character. Needless to say this left me quite anxious and frankly a bit terrified...no,no...very terrified. Did I mention I'm playing a teenager? However, after a few helpful conversations with some fashionable friends I was feeling a little more reassured.
random craft project
The following Monday, my friend,co-director and fellow thespian came over to pluck and primp me into business. So thankful for her! She showed me some dapper alternatives to my normal boho chic trends to move into the edgier lines required for my character. It was a success at rehearsal that night. Everyone agreed I looked better than normal. (Thanks, I think.) However, the real exciting part was I spent this morning re-igniting my wardrobe! I turned skirts into dresses and threw contrasting colors together in a flurry! After two hours of trying on my old clothes I felt like I had a brand new wardrobe! My sister always says "If you try it on and it makes you dance in the dressing room, buy it!" Well I was prancing and dancing all morning! It's amazing what a new outfit can do for a girl especially at no cost!
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I feel like God is doing something similar to me. Fixing me up, rearranging me, adding color to my dreary life-that never fit in the first place! I'm forgiven and I'm free and frankly that makes me want to dance in the dressing room, and wear it outside for the world to see. And it's no cost to me-since Jesus paid for it all!
