Simply Sewing - Dress for a Wedding

I found a cute little dress for my youngest in a local consignment store - great price and perfect for an upcoming wedding we are attending. Unfortunately, they didn't have anything matching or even close for my 5yr old, so I thought I would just make something in a similar pink.

This is the dress I bought from the consignment store:

The only change I made was to add some little green flowers to either side of the pink flower.

Off to the fabric store I go (Joann's) and lo-and-behold I stumble (literally) over the same fabric. It was lying out in one of the aisles - F.A.T.E. I tell you! So now I get to make a similar style dress and they will match = one happy mama!

I'm using Simplicity New Look Pattern #6577, View D (which is the one on the bottom row, on the left):

I am making the skirt a little longer, which is really easy to do on this pattern as the skirt is basically just a rectangle. I added 3.5 inches to the bottom hemline.

Here is the dress I made:

Decisions, Decisions...

Why is that I can see something and just know straight away if I love it or not, but only if I'm not buying it for anything in particular. But as soon as I have something, an event, that I need to buy an outfit for, I totally freeze! Well, thankfully, social media to the rescue! 

Just posted a picture of the dress I took THREE months to find (totally picky) onto Facebook , and WELLA, got great advice on what shoes would match it. Also (to begin with) was able to take pics of said dress and email to darling husband to get his input, while I'm trying them on and he is at work (don't panic, it is his own business!).

Picked out a couple of shoes - connected them to Facebook, and BOOM - decision made! Awesome buddies - thank you so much :) Even got advice from my sister-in-law in Australia - how great is that! I love it :)

So looks like I'm set and it only took about 4 or 5 or 6 weeks to do it :)