French Sugar Parisian Upcycled SHOES!!!!!



Brown canvas espadrille's with vintage lace



I've been accumalating these shoes for month's now. So when I found these lovely brown espadrille's, I knew it was time to get out the old "glue-gun" and start decorating!  So I grabbed my box of vintage lace, bought some new ribbon and had-at-it!  All is now posted on Etsy. Hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed creating them!

Jean fabric espadrilles with vintage lace

white espadrilles with white cotton embellishment

brown espadrilles with ribbon embellishments

So cool black canvas cork espadrilles with black organza roses

Leopard fabric espadrilles with lots of ribbon

Jute espadrilles with "funky" and adorable rose appliques.

French Sugar Parisian Upcycled Romantic Floral Print and Cotton Lace Dress - $110.00

I really enjoyed creating this garment. And it's the last of this lovely floral print. I just adore this print and wish I had yards and yards of it. But long skirts only have so much yardage and I wanted to make the most of it. Creating three garments was great but this garment really made my day!  I just posted it on Etsy! Enjoy!

French Sugar Parisian NEW Upcycled Tank-Tops - $48.00 each

Just finished posting these new tank-tops on Etsy!

I've been so busy just haven't had the time to post them here. Enjoy!

French Sugar Parisian Tattered-Chic Tank-Top - "Sunflower" - $48.00

Sunflower

Kind of "Country"



So cute!

This is another of my latest project!  I have them lined-up on an assembly line - NO really!  But I thought this one particularlly turned out so cute espectially with the vintage off-white eyelet lace. Just posted this on Etsy. Enjoy!

French Sugar Parisian Upcycled Tank-top "Art Nouveau Lady" - $48.00

Just love this print. Again, I used the stretchy black nylon lace and it really did work perfectly. I'm really enjoying working with these tops and changing them from t-shirts into something a little bit more dressy! Just posted this on Etsy. Enjoy!

French Sugar Parisian Upcycled Tattered Chic Tank-Top - "Vintage Rose" - $52.00

Vintage Rose

To me, this tank just kind of takes your breath away. The colors and the design are just stunning. So with this garment I used a different lace. This fabric is not t-shirt quality. It's a cool to the touch probably nylon or poly blend that has a stretch quality to it.
So I used a black nylon stretchy lace which really suits it. When you see the detail on the back of the garment, it's even more desirable. The back print is in tones of peach and green and are of flowers and musical instruments. Just gorgeous. I just posted this on Etsy. Enjoy!

French Sugar Parisian Upcycled Tank-top "Wildwest"- $48.00








Wildwest!

Beautiful Colors

Rustic Ruffles

I must confess, I'm not much on country items but I couldn't help falling "in-love" with this top and it's because of the beautiful colors. Since it is country, I didn't want to add lace but instead I found a mini-skirt with tons of ruffles in just the right color. When I took it apart I had just enough fabric to make the flounce for the bottom portion. I just love it and I've posted it on Etsy. Enjoy!

French Sugar Parisian Upcycled Long White Summer Dress

This is my current project I'm working. It's not quite finished but I'm really loving it so far. I'll post it after the final results and then it will be put on Etsy!

French Sugar Parisian Upcycled Tank-Top - $48.00

Primrose Top

I love the soft and lovely colors of this tank so it was so very easy to see how this would end up as this beutiful garment. Once a t-shirt - now a tank with soft taupe colored cotton lace at the bottom. I took the left-over fabric and cut one-inch strips, ruffled them and put them on the shoulder-straps. Lovely! You can find this adorable top at my Etsy shop. Enjoy!

French Sugar Parisian Upcycled Tattered Chic Tank - $74.00

Tattered Chic!

 I really adore how this top turned out!
The fabric was a skirt I found last Summer. When I find a print I love I'm very thoughtful about what I want to do with it. I want to make sure it's upcycled into a garment that will really stand-out. So when I came across this petal pink chiffon rose applique - I knew right away that these two pieces of rescued items would be perfect for each other.The garment has just been posted on Etsy. Enjoy!

Petal Pink!

French Sugar Parisian Upcycled and Embellished "Gypsy" Jacket - $135.00



Dirt Road Daughter's Magazine



Gypsy Jacket

Just found out that this lovely garment has been featured in a brand new magazine called: "Dirt Road Daughter's". I was so proud to be asked to feature one of my garments. They selected the "Gypsy" jacket,  which looks wonderful.
To find out more info on this new wonderful magazine, just go to: dirtroaddaughtersmagazine.com
You'll be happy you did!

Thank you for the the wonderful pictures!

French Sugar Parisian Upcycled White Cotton Pantaloons - $36.00

Time to bring out the Pantaloons! These gorgeous white cotton pants were shortened mid-calf and embellished with three beautiful whitelaces. So casual yet so appealing and can be worn to just about anywhere.  Just posted them to my Etsy shop. Enjoy!

French Sugar Parisian Upcycled Cream Jacket with Embellishments - $120.00

This little jacket is a perfect example of what can be done. I see this garment as a blank canvas - just waiting for the "goodies" to be added! It's a cream-colored corduroy with a contrasting taupe colored thread. So that's the color I went with for the embellishment. Originally the jacket had the normal collar but it had a detail of a scooped neck. So I just removed everything above the scooped neck. I was lucky to find a stretchy net top with two layers that had a black flower design on it in black thread. So I used that as the fabric for the jacket embellishment. Nice about stretchy netting - you don't have to hem it and it doesn't frey. The fabric on the two front pockets were actually the cap sleeves of the blouse I used. When things fall into place like that - I truly belive they were meant to be! The only part of the jacket that was sewn by machine was the neck area.  All else was done by hand - but nice, I got to watch a lot of TV! 

This garment is on it's way to "Altered Couture" magazine for the photoshoot for upcoming issues.  If you're interested, just let me know. However, it will take 2-3 weeks to have the garment returned and then shipped to you.  I'll be posting this on Etsy later this month.  Enjoy!

French Sugar Parisian Upcycled Crocheted Dress - $135.00

Upcycled Crochet Dress



Crochet Ribbon


The last time I crocheted anything was back in the 70's! But you know, it's like riding a bicycle - it all comes back to you!  LOL!  Evenutally!!!!

Layers of Crochet

This all started with this simple beautiful crocheted white top. I wanted to make it into an ensemble over a vintage slip AND to be able to wear it by itself. So I added crocheted strips of ribbon fringe on the bottom and then crocheted small little flower disks.
In regards to the vintage slip. I chose a pale peach color that looks wonderful under white - very flesh-tone so it gives an elusion. I crocheted a six inch portion to match the same pattern as the top and attached it by hand to the bottom of the slip. The middle portion was actually resqued from a linen skirt. I took that an attached it to the vintage slip. Then on the bottom of the slip I attached a vintage pleated nylon lace from another vintage slip.  I love the over-all look. Had some left-over fabric from the trim and made it into a small rose and put a pin-enclosure on the back.
In regards to the top being worn by itself, say over a pair of blue-jeans, I crocheed a large white flower, as shown in the last picture.  I really did have a lot of fun with this garment even though it was very time-consuming - got to watch a lot of TV!
Currently this garment is on it's way to "Altered Couture" Magazine for a photo-shoot for one of their up-coming issues. If interested in this garment, I can have it back here to ship-out in three weeks.

Just By Itself!

French Sugar Parisian Upcycled Tank-top "Paris" - $48.00 SOLD



"Paris"



Another one of my beautiful upcycled tank tops! This one is called "Paris"!  I really love the color combinations of the tank with the beautiful ecru cotton lace. Just stunning! I've just posted this garment at my Etsy shop. Enjoy!

French Sugar Parisian Upcycled Tank-top "Chardonnay" - $48.00

"Chardonnay"

I have so many of these adorable shirts that I believe are "works-of-art" in their own right. So I'm always looking to incorporate them into different garments. Recently, as posted, I've been using them for beret's. But I wanted to do something a little different so this garment is my most recent creation. They're lite and a breeze to wear but have a little "sass" to them. I adore the cotton net lace along the bottom and at the neck. Enjoy!  I've just posted "Chardonnay" at my Etsy shop. PLEASE NOTE: This top is currently on it's way to "Altered Couture" Magazine for a photo-shoot.