SIMPLIFY!!!
I've created a printable to share, in case you want to simplify too ;)
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Happy New Year!!!
Just a quick share :)
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It's party time at our house again, this time for our 5 year old who requested an UP themed party (as in the movie UP from Disney/Pixar). Here are the invites for the kid's party - after designing and printing them on cardstock I cut a slit at the top of the roof, slipped in the ribbon from a helium balloon, and tied it on the back. The back has the party info (I planned it around the knot). That way it looks like the balloon is pulling the house UP! hehe
I did a few fashions awhile back for Brylie's back to school wardrobe. This is the first one I've had a chance to photograph though :)
Simply a tee that looks like it shrunk weird (thrifted) so I took and added a touch of a ruffly skirt and since the v-neck was way to low for her, I added in a section with ruffles there too :)
Well, I didn't :) Back at the end of March I was given the opportunity to move into a new studio (I'm a photographer if you didn't know) - twice the space, and I had to jump on it! Course that meant new decor for the new space and a shoestring budget to do it on.
Good news is - I did it all for about $100 (except for prints)!!!! Bad news? It kept me SUPER busy, first redoing furniture, sewing, lots of cricut work, then the actual move, then the actual decorating, and now everyone wants to come see it! I didn't do a lot of "before" pictures but I'll dig up what I can ;)
Here are some pics to share:
Remember this?
Well here she is now! With pics of my OWN kids - I know right?! I painted it all black, and then couldn't find papers I wanted to put in the spaces, so I printed my own and worked a little modge podge magic before distressing and gluing on magnet clips!
In the picture above and also here:
you can see some of my junk stash.
A (already black!) screen door I picked up during the town trash pick-up, adorned with the sheet music wreath I stole from above my piano ;) In front of it is my $10 garage sale trunk (again, already black!) that holds a few of my huge fabric drops.
The chairs on either side, haha, the one on the right was a garage sale reject - it was sitting at the curb, free, after a multi-day sale. It's been sitting around waiting for a new life, and this was the perfect opportunity! A coat of black spray paint and a recovered cushion (from our old dining room valance, haha!) and it's fabulous! The other chair was an $8 thrift store find, that was a hideous putrid green vinyl. More black paint and more old curtains and it's MUCH nicer ;)
Curtains were meant to be only drop cloth curtains but they shrunk HORRIBLY, so I cut up an old skirt and extended them. Still now sure I love them, but they work!
Curtains were meant to be only drop cloth curtains but they shrunk HORRIBLY, so I cut up an old skirt and extended them. Still now sure I love them, but they work!
Now let me show you the first wall gallery:
This is actually the FIRST thing you see when you walk into the new studio and I LOVE it! Would you believe I had ALL of these already in my stash? Even the window! All got coats of black spray paint, and I used my cricut to put a beautiful saying about memories on the window (don't judge my application - still trying to figure that out!). Aren't my clients ADORABLE?!?!?!?
On the other side of the front room is my "office area" - consisting of a row of cabinets (this used to house a coffee bar type area! haha!) with lots of much needed storage, in addition to another wall gallery made of an 8-paned window and, you guessed it, more black spray paint!
There's my logo courtesy of Cricut and black vinyl! wahoo! Did you notice the lamp? It's made out of a light stand that I don't use and a lamp kit - wahlah!
The next room is the shooting room. Everything in here does double duty :) First, the obvious shooting area:
This has already changed - that wall (under the papers) is now adorned with 100+ year old tin ceiling tile (droooooooooool). It's FABULOUS!
Across the room is:
My ugly brown couch (but oh so comfy!) got a new (nearly no-sew) slipcover out of drop cloths (yay!) and combined with my fabulous old doors from a 1915 house, they make a great place to photograph families!
And then there's the console........this this is HEAVY........and was super ugly in it's 1970's (?) orangish veneer glory. Nothing a nice few coats of black spray paint can't handle, and some roughing up with the sander! Combined with MORE frames from my stash and I LOVE it - I had a newborn baby boy on there last week - yummy!
And last but not least, are my outside signs:
A couple of 1x12s and 1x4s fit perfectly to use the white glue crackle technique. I used my cricut to cut me a stencil of my logo and tadah!
And here is my front door signage:
I cut the white out of "permanent" outdoor vinyl and placed it on the outside, then took a sheet of regular black vinyl and put it on the inside of the door. I love it and it's worn GREAT!
Well, I think I've overwhelmed you enough with all this post after such a long break! hehe...........I do have more - but it'll have to wait!
You guys should see the stack of sweaters I've thrifted this winter to refashion! Eek! And when I went in yesterday and they were having a $1/sack full sale I couldn't help but pick up more!
I am so bad about taking before pictures, so you'll just have to imagine that I haven't cut off the sides or the ends of the sleeves yet, mmmkay?
I pretty much just followed this FAB tutorial from Flexible Dreams - using one of Brylie's dresses to help me determine size, shape, sleeves, etc. Mine even had a band of black at the end of the sleeves that I was able to use on the short sleeves for the dress! It's the little things that make me happy ;)
So after I did the basic reconstruction (side seams and sewed on the sleeves - so glad I have some basic sewing knowledge! ) I had to decide what I wanted to do about these buttons. Back in their day I'm sure they were great, but now, and for a 4 year old, yeah, not so much. Not to mention that one was missing. I just went with a basic button down the center. Instead of putting buttons on the bottom pockets, I just sewed on a grosgrain bow - she's not going to need them anyway :)
And there ya have it! And adorable (and light this one is) dress! I used a women's large sweater and turned out about a 5T. I fully expect that by fall it will be too short, but I think it will be great with a pair of black leggings under it too :)
Can't beat a new (custom) dress for 10 cents for the sweater, 88 cents for the buttons, and everything else I already had! I will probably take the big chunks I cut off and make her some fun hair accessories to match! Oh, and did I mention it only took me about 20 mins? Okay, a little more than that, but only because I had to make 2 trips to Walmart to get buttons (they must have slipped through the slots in my cart the first time? Seriously, took me longer to make those 2 trips than it did to put this thing together!). LOVE IT!
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A twirly skirt and how to {easily} customize a store bought shirt
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Gosh that ended up being a long title!
{remember, you can click on any of the pictures to make them bigger so that you can see details!}
Awhile back I purchased an ADORABLE pack of fat quarters (6 of them). I didn't know what I was going to make, but I figured I could make SOMETHING with 6 fat quarters, even if I had to do some piecing.
Then this last week I spotted this Twirly Skirt tutorial and I knew instantly that's what I wanted to do! Now since I had 6 fat quarters instead of a full yard I had to do some piecing but it all worked out :) The only thing I didn't do was to make a tie - that's the beauty of sewing, you can do it as you please!
Anyway, it turned out ADORABLE and I LOVE the skirt (and it was SO EASY!). Next was to find a shirt for my 4 year old to wear with it. I knew I wanted to customize it to coordinate with her new skirt, but I also wanted it to be wash friendly. In comes the white shirt - cheap, plain, and bleachable.........perfect! Ok, now to make it coordinate and keep it bleachable, which meant it needed to be removable.
Then I had a lightbulb moment!
I've really gotten in to bow making lately and have seen a lot of cotton baby hats with a little "tag" or "loop" if you will where the clip of the flower/bow slips in. Of course! I could sew a little tag onto the shirt so that I can not only remove the embellishment and wash the shirt, but I could also use it to customize with other outfits! AWESOME!
All I did was to take about 2-2.5" of white grosgrain ribbon. You can either heat seal the ends (with a candle or lighter - just enough to slightly melt the ends) or use fray-check. Then I folded the ribbon into 3rds and did a quick sew job onto the shirt!
For the flowers, I wanted to make a few to make them interchangeable and also have at least one for her hair. As of right now I just have 2, but I still have extra fabric so I'll be expanding on that ;)
The first one I made was a simple twisted rosette. You can find hundreds of tutorials on making these so I won't bore you with the details. {see the finishing steps for the flower below}
Then I decided to take a strip of the leftover pieced fabric to make a gathered, layered flower. This is so easy it's almost sad ;)
Simply take your strip of fabric, set the tension on your sewing machine to it's highest number, and sew close to the right edge - it will automatically ruffle itself!
Once you're done you'll have this pile of ruffly goodness.
It already tries to "flower" itself, it just needs a tiny bit of help!
You have two options here - I chose to hand tack the spirals (around and around and around) with a needle and thread, but it would be just as easy to use hot glue! I also decided to sew on a big ole button from my random stash.
To finish it off and make it wearable, you need 2 circles of felt (I think I used thin fleece - also non-ravelable), an alligator clip (I like 2 pronged ones) and some hot glue!
Your first circle will just be glued to the back of the flower.
On the second circle, lay your clip on it to see where the hinge of the clip hits and make a slit big enough to stick the TOP of the clip in.
It will look like this once you slip the top of the clip in.
Squeeze on some hot glut and slip that baby back in so that it's glued like this.
Then squeeze the hot glue all over that same side and glue it to your flower!
It's all ready to slip into the loop/tag that you sewed onto your shirt!
{do you know how hard it is to take pictures of your own hands doing things?}
Here's what mine looks like all together:
I'm hoping to snap some portraits of my dolly in it soon!
So she's got 2 flowers (right now) and can choose which one she wants on her shirt and which one she wants in her hair/crocheted headband/crocheted hat!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE things that coordinate like this! The only thing I didn't already have was the shirt - pretty cheap customization if ya ask me ;)
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