Friendship Bracelets

So I LOVE making friendship bracelets! I am currently wearing about 12 on my wrist! They are super easy to make and super cute to wear! Just follow the instructions on this website! http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Friendship-Bracelet

Paint Your Pottery/Tables

Hahaha! So Interesting post name I know. Its a mixture of a bunch of things I/ my mom painted. I just got home from a pottery painting place! I had a blast! I am gonna put a picture up of what I painted. What I did was called masking. I just used masking tape. I'll put a picture of the finished product up in about a week!









As for the table. My mom has recently begun the adventure of cleaning out our garage. While she was cleaning she found a white wooden lamp post and a yellow table that were in desperate need of a repainting. she decided that she was going to paint them to look like pieces of folk art to put in her classroom. I think that they turned out ADORABLE!!!!!

Tie Dye Designs

So I have been asked how to make a heart shaped design for tie dying.

I am going to research it and get back to you!

Show Your Shorts

So I had this GREAT pair of old jeans from American Eagle. They fit awesome in the waist but in the length area they fall short literally! I decided to take my scissors to them and create a wicked new pair of summer shorts.

Here is What to Do:
Materials:
• 1 Pair of old but usable jeans
• Some Scissors
• A sewing machine or supplies for sewing by hand
Procedure:
1. Put on your pants and measure how long you want your shorts.

2. Leaving yourself a few extra inches cut off the legs of the pants

3. Roll up the pants creating a one inch cuff at the end of each leg
4. Sew a seam around the leg.
5. Show off your legs in your new pair of shorts!

Green Groceries

I love going to the grocery store with my mom. Why? Because cooking is another form of art though that would be my sister's forte not mine. Did you know that in a landfill plastic bags take up to 100 years to degrade!! And even then they don't just go away they break down into tiny pieces of plastic that threaten our ecosystem. I am going to show you a substitution for plastic bags.
Here is what to do:

Materials:
• A few old shirts. I used tank tops so that I wouldn’t have to cut off the sleeves, but you can use t-shirts.
• Sewing machine or materials to sew by hand.

Procedure:
• If you are using a t-shirt cut off the sleeves.
• Flip the shirt inside out and stitch the bottom hems together closing off the shirt.
• Flip your shirt right side out and head to the store!

Flirty from the 40's

So I had some extra fabric in my fabric draw when I got the idea for a dress. What better way to reduce your carbon footprint than to use left over fabric to make my dress rather than drive my emissions producing vehicle to the store to spend money that I don't have? I mean look at that lace its BEAUTIFUL! For this dress I used simplicity pattern #2884.Though I did alter the pattern a bit because it was not intended to have a lace overlay. So I modified it and it turned out just fine. The only thing to be aware of is how it is a bit difficult to put in a zipper. This was my first time to put in a zipper and it went pretty smoothly thanks to the video on youtube though I will admit I did have to use a seem ripper a time or two. Hope your dress turns out as pretty as mine.

In this picture I paired my dress with some colorful Gerber Daisies and some sleek pointy triangle toed pumps!

Primp Your Party Dress

How many of you have those 80's dresses at the back of your closet? Don't deny it! Everybody has at least one. Or in my case my mom had one. Believe it or not with some modifications the 80's is slowly coming back in to style. I took one look at the dress I found and thought, "Now this is something I can work with." It wasn't bad before I got a hold of it. The bodice had a deep V at the front waist which I took out with some nipping and tucking. Next I moved the bow at the back higher up so that is covered the top of the zipper. Lastly I paired it with some lovely shoes, my Chuck Taylors, bringing my retro inspired punk fashion. Notice in the picture I put bows on my Chucks to match the dress!