Princess Dress Rainbow Rescue

My little princess wore a white ballgown to Disneyland the other day and came home looking like she'd been in a food fight.  Chocolate, spaghetti, and other snacks were all over it even after laundering!

The wonderfully creative Lindsey at Filth Wizardry recently posted pics of a hand-painted skirt her daughters made.  She used permanent markers and watered down acrylic paint to make a gorgeous wearable piece of art.  So, I thought we'd try and follow the directions in this post to rescue what was once a pretty white satin princess dress.

To start, I cut off the tulle overskirt, and some frayed fabric at the bodice.  Then I let her have at it with the permanent markers.   It was a little slippery working with the satin and since this dress was already sewn up Holly needed a little help to keep the fabric still while she painted it.

In the end, I had to finish for her by hanging the dress up on a plastic hanger and filling in any spots she missed, but she managed to do most of it herself.  This weekend she is going to a "Rainbow Disco Dance Party", so we painted a rainbow across the top.  Of course she couldn't wait to try it on and I'm sure she will be the only one at the party with a dress like this!

... a side note for those of you who are afraid of letting little ones loose with permanent markers, I recently discovered that a squirt of hand sanitizer gets Sharpie marks off skin with hardly any scrubbing!