So I bought a dress at a designer clearance sale a few weeks ago.

It had this gorgeous silver, vintage-looking sparkly beading at the shoulders and I totally fell in love with it. And it was only $20!

Unfortunately it was made for REALLY TALL PEOPLE ( which I am obviously not), so the skirt came down way past my knees and I looked like a nun. A sparkly nun, but a nun, nonetheless.

So I resolved to turn this nun’s habit into a mini-skirt dress. And while I can use a sewing machine, the garment was made from silk and well, I didn’t want to stuff it up.

Not to mention that I am so busy being mum, it would probably have hung in the “clothes to alter” section of my wardrobe, and I never would have gotten it done!

So I found myself a lovely home-alteration lady – who worked some magic. $12 of alteration later, I’m happy as can be.

I teamed it up with my fierce Betts shoes, which just completed the whole So-Not-A-Nun look, don’t you think?

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