Mrs. Carter [Reconstructed]

 This weekend I went to the Mrs. Carter World Tour Show in Atlantic City, NJ!

I was really excited and one of my first thoughts was:

"What am I going to wear?!"

 

I googled "What to wear to a beyonce concert" and I didn't really see anything I liked.

plus I REALLY didn't feel like spending any money.

 

As I was going through the google image search of outfits I came across this hi-low skirt and crop top and I thought:

That's it!

 

After rummaging through my closet and realizing that I don't HAVE a hi-low skirt, or a real crop top to accompany it, I went into TellTaleTasha mode.

"What do I have in my closet to form this outfit?"

Chicago Recap

I went to Chi- town for the first time this weekend!

And I took my new camera with me to document!

Still haven't gotten a chance to read the manual so I was definitely still working on the auto setting lol

I went to sing at a concert with the mass choir from my church.

But when we got there, we got sooo much more than we expected.

Transform | More Maxi and a Crop!

As promised, here are a couple more photos of the "Modest Maxi".

I haven't had much time to play with my camera yet, so I'm working off of auto settings... which aren't bad at all.

I can't wait to learn how to really use it!

Oh! And I show you how I made a basic crop top at the end of this post so keep reading! :-D

You can see the length is perfect for my height

Modest Maxi

I made something!!

Remember this dress from my previous post?

Well I made it into a maxi skirt!

I'll show you!

Tasha! How was your birthday?!

My birthday was GREAT!

This is the first year, in 5 years, that I didn't have a huge cookout/party.

A lot of people were disappointed but I felt like it was time to move on lol

THAT and those parties cost a LOT of money...

All of the texts and phone calls and social media shoutouts really made me feel loved :-D

This is what I did!

23 with 1 day experience

Yesterday I turned 23 years old!

*bows*

I was looking at facebook about a week or so ago and a friend of mine, Camesha, had a very interesting status.

She was talking about how someone had asked her what she wanted for her birthday (which is ACTUALLY the same day as mine! #twinsies!) and her reply was:

"To see it."

When I read that, it wrecked my perspective on life so hard.

Remember when I said that my church is on a campaign for Life, Love, and Liberty?

We still are.

And at 23 years of age, I am going to share with you what I've learned about 

LIFE.

Trial and Error... and Success

This past weekend, I vowed to start working with my sewing machine

so I did.

I decided that I would work with my Brother first just because I knew that all of it's parts were included. 

I'm also pretty tech savvy, so the fact that it's computerized played a role in my decision to work with this machine first.

My first step would be to thread some bobbins.

So as a young woman living in this generation,

instead of looking to the manual for instructions on how to thread bobbins,

I went to YouTube.

I found this sweet old lady by the name of Nadia who was using the same machine that I have and was showing her viewers how to thread bobbins as well as testing some of the stitching.

PERFECT.

I watched Sewing with Nadia one or two times and I decided I was ready.

*flips switch*

It was literally my first time actually turning the machine ON.

If you watch the video, the following pictures will make more sense but I will explain as I go along.