The dress disaster

As most of you know, I'm making my own wedding dress - crazy but true. The BEST part is that I bought all my supplies for a tenth of the price it would cost to buy the actual dress! Problem was that I wanted a dress in a beige-ish-off-white-oyster-champagne colour, and not the radiant white that the lace I bought came in. So, solution was to dye it. Easy? Yeah right. I bought dye at the local Dischem, it was called "Café au Lait" and was similar to the colour of antique pearls.... or so I thought... (would love to post the inspiration dress on here but can't cos Mike reads this blog)

What I wanted (kind of)...


What I got.... *gasp*



So... back to the drawing board... yesterday I bought some colour stripper, which worked pretty well last night, after which I re-tea-dyed the lace again... it came out MUCH better... tomorrow night I am going to re-dye it with coffee... it supposedly works better than tea... wish me luck (she says hoping this will all be worth it in the end...)