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Last week I posted this ridiculously fabulous picture of myself:
I know you are jealous of my hotness.
So yesterday when I should have been cleaning (oh how many stories I tell that begin with that sentence….) I just finished responding to emails and Victorious was on Nick. This is a show that I don’t let my girls watch but since I am a mom and the remote was across the room and the girls were playing in the back yard….(Go with me here on this random tangent)
In the episode Tori had to perform “The Bird Scene” , a scene that everyone that goes to her school has to do correctly without any help from others. She performs the scene 3 times and after each one asks if she got it right, to which her teacher tells her no. After receiving the third no, Tori gets mad and tells him that she worked really hard on it and she didn’t care if he liked it or not, that she was proud of it. And that was the right answer. The teacher explained that artists need to create for themselves and not for everyone’s approval, or if they are doing things the “right” way.
I was like YES!
Part of embracing your inner DIYer is embracing ALL that comes along with it. Like the sweet get up!
This may sound strange but I bet a few of you will get it. When I am all paint covered and have to run to the store I DON’T CARE. You know how most guys have scars that are like their trophies? That is how I feel about paint. It is my trophy for the day, that I did something great. Unhygienic? Possibly. But its true!
So for todays challenge I want you to share your DIY get up and you thoughts on wearing it in public!
Love Your Guts, Mandi
So I don’t have a post to link, but now I’m thinking I need to write one! Typically my DIY outfit is a sundress. Before you accuse me of being all fancy-pants, as a small-chested gal a sundress means I don’t have to mess with a bra, and just have to find some kind of clean underwear, panty-lines be damned! Top it off with sandals or flip flops, my current rash-looking stain splotches and paint patches, and that’s me. Oh, with chapstick. Never makeup, because I am lazy 🙂
Hahaha! When I’m not at work, I’m usually rocking one of those sweet outfits/hairstyles myself. It doesn’t matter if I’m working on a DIY project or not. Which will probably explain why all of my casual clothes have paint on them (I can’t remember to change into “paint” clothes). You go Mandi!
My ridiculously fabulous DIY outfit is always full of paint. I swear I wear the same old blue sweat pants yes even in the summer time. I think I have every paint color there is on those pants and let’s not forget my hair I’m truly thinking of getting a hair-cover because my hair is always flaked with paint. Oh and about Victoria my daughter is not allowed to watch it either but on occasion I have to admit we watched a show in its entirety. There is one when Victoria had to show her toughness by going to the Gorillas cage and the guys lost a bet from one of the girls on the show while playing cards so they had to stop whatever they were doing whenever she sees them and do (hammer time) now if you don’t know what hammer time is it’s a dance that MC Hammer use to do when he was hammer time rich. Now if that’s not humiliating I’m not sure what is. Can you imagine wearing our ridiculously fabulous DIY Outfits out at the Home depot or Lowes and every time someone sees us they say (hammer time) and we have to stop in the middle of whatever were doing and do the hammer time dance? Now that would be a sight to see. But yes I’m always rocking my DIY outfit in public and there is no shame in my game. Well anyhow thanks for posting I wish I had a ridiculously fabulous DIY outfit pic to show you. I’ll make sure to next time.
Shinay
My DIY outfit is pretty much my every day regular clothes. Most of my jeans of have at least one splotch of paint on them to include my “good” jeans. And all of my T’s & shirts have been affected in one way or another… stain, spray paint, burn holes. Yep you name it I’ve got proof of it (plus I spend a lot of time in the kitchen and usually end up with stains from there as well!) NO I’ve never been known for being graceful so just eating a meal can sometimes have “hazardous” consequences! LOL 🙂
Peggy
There was a time in my life where nearly every clothing item I owned had paint splatters on them. Now I just have a few ratty t-shirts and shorts that are my painting clothes. However, I have had paint splatters on my feet for 5 days now and I can’t seem to get them off of my feet. Oh well!
Oh Mandi, I guess I’m going to have to make a blog post today…I just happen to have on the perfect DIY outfit… /sigh. I’m embarrassed and I haven’t even taken the picture yet!
I tried unsuccessfully to take a pic,even the camera is scared. I have been painting in the garage for a few hours after I cut grass for two hours. So I am not only grubby and have paint on me but I probably stink from sweat. I have black stretchy capris on and a tank top with my husbands black harley davidson muscle shirt over top. My hair is in a messy pony tail that keeps falling out and I have not bothered with makeup today.And I just realized I am out of bird seed and feed for the geese, and all of my feathered friends are waiting in the yard.(they are not mine they are all wild, but I feed them because they are so cute and so entertaining) So I am off to the feed store looking like this, because I have more painting to do when I get back. There used to be a day when I would not even put the garbage out without having makeup on. But that was 5 kids and 7 grandchildren ago, this is me baby take it or leave it. Besides its a feed store, I probably look better and smell better than some of those farmers do.
I have a pair of navy blue “sleepwear” pants from Old Navy that have bleach marks, paint marks and super glue on them. I just wore them on a 4-hour drive because my dogs were in the car and I didn’t want to get my other clothes covered in dog hair. Not only did I stop and get gas in them, but I also went to a mall to look for other lazy-day pants (with no luck). I just throw on my sunglasses and don’t give a hoot!
Ha! My kids call it my “weekend uniform”, which consists of the following:
Winter: black yoga pants, t-shirt, black cardigan
Summer: shorts, t-shirt
There are a limited number of t-shirts that are in the rotation. Four to be exact.
Oh I can’t wait to take pictures this weekend as I refinish a couple of pieces. You’re going to regret you started this challenge lol!
Mandi, I wanted to say THANK YOU for taking the time to go on my blog and respond to my post I added to your Link Party! You totally made my day! I’m new to blogging but I hope someday to have the kind of success you have.
I love your Guts back!
Christina Catterson @ KaleidoscopeLiving.blogspot.com