Project of the Day: Little Girl's Skirts with Tops

Recycling old clothes will not only lessen the crap in the house (environmentally-friendly, check!) but also is a great way of turning an otherwise forgotten-old-clothes into a new creation. This time, I made two girl's skirts with matching tops.

Materials:
Old shirts/Polo
Elastic
Thread

Project of the Day: Cardigan Transformation

I had to make fabric flowers of different shapes and sizes for this project. Since I intend to give this to one of my nieces, I re-sized an old cardigan of mine to suit the intended recipient. I, then sew the flowers one by one, until I began to have carpal tunnel syndrome, just kidding. Anyway, as modeled by Annabelle, the result is shown below.

Materials:
Old cardigan
Left-over fabrics
Buttons and bling blings.

Project of the Day: Skirt from Old Dress

Here is another creation from an old dress. I sew a skirt out of this blue polka dot dress. I also made use of the remainder of the fabric by making a Kanzashi flower and ruffles that I then put on an old tank top. So here you go, another transformation.

Materials:

Old dress

Old top

White/Blue Thread

Garter/Elastic

DIM- Do-It-Myself White Garden Fence

There are a lot of wood mills in our small town so scrap wood is basically just everywhere here. So what do we do with the scrap wood? Well, aside from it being the main source for firewood among locals here, it can also be used for other things like making a garden fence. So that is exactly what I did. It took me weeks to finish since I don't have an electric saw. Then I painted it.  I only spent $4 for the white paint. Below is the finished project.

Cross Stitch Galore

 Look what I unearthed today? A collection of my cross stitch works. I remember selling some of my stuff before at my sister's store but when it closed, I had to put all my works in a box and I totally forgot all about it until recently when I was cleaning the attic. Oh boy, I still have a handful of frames. All of these were made 6 years ago except for one, the first ever cross-stitch I made which is like 17 years old. Anyway, I am unsure of what to do with all these, maybe I'd add more and try selling again or..Well, it doesn't matter, I like keeping "them" for now, they make such pretty display anyway.;-)

Photos are below.

The one on the top is my first cross stitch.  Below is my sis Honey's work.

It depicts the crush I had on a PBA player, Victor Pablo. ;-)

                                  

Bedazzled Mirror






Project of the Day

Boy, was it hot today! Kept me indoors all afternoon. Since I couldn't play with my plants, I transformed a plain-jane mirror into a bedazzled one. Armed with a super glue, I laid out all the broken bits and pieces of old jewelries, jems and stones I found cluttering everywhere. I used basically anything colorful and shiny and flat on the back.Without a pattern on hand, I just jumbled all the colors, shapes and sizes to come up with an eclectic design.

Not too bad I think.

Here are some photos.

The Subject