High school prom is a special occasion. Girls in their fancy gowns and boys in their rented tuxedos spend the evening laughing, dancing, and eating like royalty. When it’s over, the tuxedos return and the dresses are relegated to a plastic hanging bag in the closet. Fourteen years after buying a prom dress in Miami, Jillea Godin found it in a thrift store in her hometown. @whoisjillea Its not weird its at the thrift store it IS however weird I am the person that found it a week after moving back out east over a DECADE later ??! @ValueVillage WHAT SHOULD I DO!!! Team new life or team keepsake ?!?!!! ♬ Feather sped up – ???? ⸆⸉ To understand the significance of this, you need some backstory. Quispamsis, New Brunswick, Canada, is a tiny town with a population of around 15,000. That is where Jillea was raised. The dress was purchased in Miami, Florida, while Jillea’s family was vacationing there. She wanted a unique dress, so buying from a local boutique was not an option. After high school, Jillea moved to Toronto. About two years after graduating, she sold her dress on Facebook Marketplace. Recently, she returned to her hometown and was out shopping in a local thrift store when she found her prom dress! We can’t even calculate the odds of that happening, but they must be pretty slim. Images from TikTok. Now 30 years old, Jillea has repurchased her prom dress from the thrift store. As a designer, her next dilemma was what to do with the dress. In the past, Jillea has created amazingly complex cosplay outfits from thrift store dresses. Some of her creations include a Statue of Liberty and Captain Hook costumes. Images from TikTok here and here. Jillea polled her followers on whether to keep the dress in its original configuration or upcycle it. They voted for alterations, so Jillea set about looking for inspiration, and she found it. Upcycling The Thrift Store Prom Dress Once she made the decision to upcycle her prom dress, Jillea found inspiration in the vases around her home. The vintage Chinese white and blue vases contain dragon motifs. Jillea opted to begin her alterations by creating a painting for the front of the dress. Images from TikTok. Once she decided on the alterations, Jillea made the thrift store prom dress an entirely new creation. She painted a panel for the torso area and then created a bodice to frame the chest area. Her talent and creativity are incredible. @whoisjillea Replying to @Doll what do we think! #promdress #upcycle #upcyledfashion #thriftflip #costume #designer ♬ Guess featuring Billie Eilish – Charli xcx & Billie Eilish The top section is complete, and Jillea plans to move on to the skirt. Those updates haven’t been posted yet. You’ll have to subscribe to her TikTok channel, YouTube, or Instagram for the final results. We’re sure it is going to be an outstanding transformation. Please share if you know someone who would enjoy this thrift store prom dress metamorphosis. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Full Circle Moment: Woman Finds Her Prom Dress In Thrift Store 14 Years After She Bought It appeared first on InspireMore.

There are probably some cons to having a golden retriever at your wedding, but we can’t think of any right now. Especially not after watching this elopement photographer’s hilarious footage of one of these pooches hamming it up during a couple’s first dance! Megan shared the most adorable clip from a client’s reception on social media. Their dog, Oslo, totally stole the show, and nobody was mad about it! In the video, the couple was in the middle of a romantic slow dance when a four-legged guest took the floor and started enthusiastically chasing his tail. Once he caught it in his mouth, he continued to spin until he eventually plopped down on the ground. Rather than get upset that the golden retriever had upstaged this special moment at their wedding, the bride and groom seemed delighted with his antics! Watch this golden retriever’s unconventional dance moves. @meganschukei Oslo was a paid actor #elopement #coloradoweddingphotographer #coloradowedding ♬ there she goes – “When your dog also understands the assignment for the first dance,” the photographer wrote over the footage. In her caption, she jokingly added, “Oslo was a paid actor.” Commenters thought this golden retriever was the perfect wedding guest. They loved his epic dance moves, even though the bride and groom were supposed to be the only ones on the floor. “The only first dance interruption I tolerate,” one user wrote. A fellow pet owner added, “My dog will only chase his tail if people aren’t paying attention to him.” Perhaps poor Oslo was feeling a little left out during the first dance! Screengrab from TikTok This wouldn’t be the first time that a golden retriever totally took over the dance floor during their owner’s wedding. Another bride shared some adorable footage of her pooch inserting himself between her and her dad during the father-daughter dance! Dogs probably don’t understand our human rituals, but they still want to be included. We love to see couples who make their pets a part of their weddings, especially because of moments like these! You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Golden Retriever Truly “Understands The Assignment” During First Dance At Wedding appeared first on InspireMore.

Please, please, please let this be true! With a cherry on top

I was recently lucky enough to attend a choir performance inspired by The Kinks that was even attended by Ray Davies himself. It was a hoot, it was a treat, and it has haunted me every day since. I could not for love nor money get the chorus to The Village Green Preservation Society out of my head. Noon or night it was niggling away in the background, an earworm that had firmly set up camp in my brain.So, you can imagine my intrigue when I found the “Earworm Eraser,” a track released by Atlassian that brought together Durham University music psychologist Dr Kelly Jakubowski and audio engineers to create “a scientifically-engineered track designed to get rid of earworms for good”. Did it work? Actually, yes.I’m as pessimistic as can be when it comes to things like this. Derren Brown didn’t manage to keep me in my chair that time he supposedly made the world sit down. And yet, half an hour after listening to the Earworm Eraser I hadn’t thought of that damn village society once. It got me thinking: why do we get earworms? And how do you get a song out of your head?What Are Earworms?As Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, director of the Music Cognition Lab at the University of Arkansas, wrote in a video for TED-Ed, 90 percent of us fall folly to an earworm each week. For 25 percent of us, they can strike several times a day. In short, an earworm is a song or snippet of music that gets lodged in your head and keeps replaying over and over again. Understandably, it can get very annoying, even when you like the song.We still don't know the exact neurological mechanisms that make it so easy for an earworm to embed, but it's thought they're a form of auditory imagery. That is, the sounds we have stored in our heads that we can think of when imagining, say, a cat’s meow (n'awww, cats).One of the most remarkable and infuriating characteristics of earworms is the way they get stuck on a loop. They’re also more likely to get embedded if we listen to the source on repeat, which in a world where "Paging Doctor Beat" is the soundtrack to every reel and TikTok going, we’re likely to be exposed to often.How To Get A Song Out Of Your HeadSince we don’t yet know the exact scientific underpinnings of an earworm, it’s hard to know a direct cure. However, given repetition is the key to its success, it figures it could also be the key to its downfall.“The Earworm Eraser audio track works by incorporating scientific principles of music and the brain to disrupt the neural patterns that keep a catchy tune stuck in one's head,” explains Atlassian. “The track features a series of audio patterns and rhythmic structures that are carefully designed to break the loop of the song in the listener's mind.”Watching the earworm perish certainly sent The Village Green Preservation Society packing for this writer. So, did it work for you?

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