tissue posy tee and debut of the duckie shirt

the recent jcrew catalog had amazing embellished tees. this particular one looked so simple and so amazing and jcrew has the nerve to charge $39.50!!! we weren't afraid though, because it looked incredibly easy to make. so, clara and i had our challenge ahead of us. off we went to h&m, where clara scored a very similar white v-neck tee for $5.95! i was less lucky. nothing fit. but no worries because i have a closet full of clothes where i found a simple black tee (that was super cropped because of poor laundering, but we could work around that...). we bunched really broad grosgrain ribbon as the petals of the flowers and i used a big jewel button as the center while clara went more artsy and exactly replicated the jcrew one by sewing down squares of the narrower satin ribbon. then we made stems with the satin ribbon, making sure to bunch the ribbon every few steps so that it would have more texture. i made one of my stems go diagonally across the shirt because i preferred the pattern to take over more of the shirt than just one side. and then we twisted small strips of the satin ribbon to make the leaf and voila! so so so easy! how did i deal with the fact that my shirt was super short due to frequent use of the dryer? i paired the shirt with a high waist pencil skirt and my fantastic suede fuschia belt from portland! i actually wore this as an outfit today. hehe.here's the one clara made. hers looks just like the jcrew one! sorry for the blurriness. i had to use my blackberry's camera because i didn't have my regular one on hand.
and all day yesterday andrew sported the duckie shirt for the 2nd time! (1st time was for my bday dinner.) i got him the hat ages ago from one of my fav stores in dc: propper topper!