AUNTIE NEE NEE'S WHIMSIES

For little girls living in poverty, they will never know the sensation of wearing taffeta, silk, velvet or satin for a special occasion. Having the opportunity to feel pretty in a special dress is a luxury if your parents are working poor. Auntie Nee Nee, (aka Emily Acosta Thompson) is a scavenger huntress who scours flea markets, thrift shops, antique stores, estate sales, tag sales and occasional sales, eBay, Swap Meets, and remnant end pieces at fabric stores & upholstery workshops for vintage, recycled "green fabrics" and upcycles them into one of a kind, unique dresses, complete with bloomers, pinafores, hats, and jackets made with "Old School 1950's Vintage Vogue design….using Old School Sewing techniques. Auntie Nee Nee transforms imperfect scraps of beauty, some costing 25 cents to 50 cents to a dollar, into haute couture. Benefactors buy a dress that is gifted to a socioeconomically disadvantaged child, and proceeds from the sale go to Scrappity Nee Nee's Art Foundation, which..