A Creative Log & Other Notes on Life
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Paired with a gift card to the local bookstore, these patchwork bookmarks will make a great gift for my kid’s teachers. It was a wonderful project to get the kids involved with from choosing the fabrics from my huge bag of scrap fabric, to doing the actual sewing and ironing. I had to do most [...]
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Using four vintage hankies and a dyed, newborn wrap shirt, a variation on the Newborn Wrap Dress Tutorial was born.
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Way back when we lived in NYC, Maria was our adopted grandma. Since she didn’t have any family there and neither did we, we were happy to make her a part of ours. She was adorably funny and super talented but was taken too soon by a battle with cancer. Stupid cancer. After she passed, [...]
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I know you have a ton of big, yet sentimental, t-shirts sitting at the back of your drawer that are just begging for a transformation. They deserve to get worn! Head on over to the Words to Sweat By blog for my latest T-shirt refashion tutorial. And while you’re there, check out their “mantra” workout [...]
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The kids weren’t the only ones that got semi-homemade costumes this year. I decided to pair a bunch of fun, new superhero accessories I found at Savers thrift store with my red Team Sparkle skirt and my favorite yellow belt turned “supermom utility belt.” I cut out my “M” logo applique out of a couple [...]
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It’s funny to watch people react to a baby with a “black eye”. I know a few were thinking they might need to call CPS until we explained he was a “black-eyed pea” This has been our “go-to”, last-minute, easy Halloween costume for the past 6 years. A couple thrifted black t-shirts, some felt and [...]
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This year, I knew I needed to be realistic with the amount and intensity of homemade Halloween costuming I took on. Princess has had labor intensive costumes for the past few years so it was time for a “semi-homemade” costume this year. In one trip to our favorite thrift store, we found everything we needed [...]
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Did you catch a glimpse of the lavender dress I found in my Savers Halloween video? Well, that wasn’t the dress I ended up using for Pumpkin’s Rapunzel dress. Of course, after the cameras were turned off, I found an even more perfect dress to refashion. With it’s chiffon overlay, I knew this old, thrifted [...]
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When I found this 3 yard piece of super-soft jersey knit for $3 at a new-to-me hole in the wall fabric store in Westminster, CA, it cried out to be a bias-cut maxi skirt. I didn’t take the time to make a pattern so it could’ve turned out very badly. But the sewing gods were [...]
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I wore this thrifted 70′s blouse a few times “before” but I love it way more now as the “after”
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