With school starting right around the corner, and “pre school” and day care all year long, I found a perfect tutorial for making painting smocks. You might even be able to recycle an old vinyl table cloth (I have two of them here that desperately need recycling and 3 1/2 year old quadruplet grandbabies that […]
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Book Review: Junky Styling, Wardrobe Surgery
Deconstructing, re-styling, and completely transforming old clothes is all the rage right now and this 160-page book, Junky Styling: Wardrobe Surgery is a beautifully designed and illustrated softcover publication that will inspire all who read it to take a new look at their discarded fashions. The authors, Annika Sanders and Kerry Seager, launched a successful […]
Cut The Cost By Making Your Own “Frills”
I LOVE to run across ways to do fancy trims and decorations on garments — especially where the “purchased” ones of similar type cost a bundle of money.At the Enchantresses3 blogspot, there is a super tutorial on how to make a corsage decoration on a regular tee. They say the “real deal” costs $29.95 from J. Crew […]
8 Ways to Reuse Tissue Patterns
There’s a great post at Crafting A Green World that I wanted to share with a bunch of neat ideas on how to reuse your old tissue paper patterns. Their ideas include gorgeous paper roses with button accents, wrapping paper and matching gift tags, decoupage letters and sewing boxes, and my favorite drink coasters and […]
Recycle The Shoes Off Your Feet
I simply had to post about these shoes when I saw the tutorial – what a great idea! I have horrible, hard to fit feet and it never fails, as soon as I get a pair broken in to where they’re finally comfortable – I’ve got them all scuffed up and they no longer look […]
Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
Today is Earth Day, and what better way to celebrate than to figure out ways we can reduce, reuse and recycle — not just in our businesses, but in our homes as well.If we all determined to do a little more recycling of things we’d normally toss into the trash can, we could literally “save […]