A few weeks ago I received a nice note from Shannon Willits – a fellow survivor of divorce who had relocated to Tucson and had visited my blog. He said he liked what I was up to and suggested I use my ex-wife’s wedding dress as a patch for a damaged screen door . . . a fine idea. I thanked him for dropping a line and sending his suggestion and wished him all the best. He replied the next day with another idea for the dress – a bikini top for a jeep. I frickin loved it and planned to do it – after all my buddy Ellis owns a Jeep. I thanked Shannon again – told him his idea rocked and that he could expect to see it on my website. I also told him had he suggested it a month earlier I would have put it in my book. Then Shannon sends me a picture of his Scrambler and volunteers it for the cause.
I’ve mentioned before how cool it has been to hear from a lot of divorcees through this blog of mine. Over the weekend I got to meet a nice guy and cruise around in his Jeep with the wedding dress soft top. He was a big fan of the wedding dress top and pointed out its advantages. He liked that the dress allowed quite a bit of light through without the heat of direct sun. He was also pleased after we drove off that a hole in the dress allowed him to use the rear view mirror (that wasn’t planned). And because a wedding dress can be compressed fairly small (I haul mine around in a compression sack), he thinks it would be easy to carry on in the jeep at all times and strap it on when the sun becomes overbearing.
I also met Shannon’s fiance Tara who was very nice and helped with the pictures. They are leaving town soon and I wish them all the best and really appreciate their help with a great application for a wedding dress. If you own a jeep and have a wedding dress (or an ex-wife’s wedding dress) parked in your closet doing nothing you should strap it on top and go for a ride.
whiteazalea
LOL…..this seems a little strong…..I will leave the dress to my daughter.
Kevin
Hey LG O’Reilly – Thanks for the comments. You are very observant. The dress did get painted a little while back and the contemporary artwork application is going to be in my book. My book is going to have a bunch of dress applications that aren’t on my blog. The artwork one turned out great. I framed the whole thing and hung it on my wall.
LG O'Reilly
Hi. Where did all of the coloured paint come from? Did we miss one? Love to see it. Cheers, LG.
Sarah Rigos
Very quirky! I love it Kevin.
shannon
hey kevin!
awesome make shift sun roof!
genius
Lisa Yakaitis
ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!! Love it Kevin. You are truly one of my heroes when it comes to making a bad situation like divorce BEYOND hilarious!!! I am going through a divorce right now and your website keeps me at least from going insane with all of his ASSANINE filings!!! Who knew I’d have gone to High School with a SUPERSTAR!!!! Good Luck with everything.