WIMTWW: New Favorite Color Combo

A few months ago I started seeing things in yellow and gray and fell in love with the combo.  One night after looking online at a few of my favorite clothing sites I realized I had a dark gray t-shirt in my stash and lots of pretty yellow fabric.  A few hours later I had a new comfy spring/summer dress:

Confession:  I had a great dress in a few hours but it was waaaaaaayyyyy too short and I decided it needed a contrasting band.  Since I didn't have any gray fabric I picked up the black and white with yellow flower print the next day and added it.  I'm so glad I did, it so made the dress.  I'm still trying to use up my stash and only buy what is necessary so I still consider this a success for stashbusting!

Here are a few of the dresses that inspired me, I like them all but mine the best!
   
And there were actually a few others that really inspired me but of course I can't find them when I went to look but I saw a ton more I love that gave me way too many ideas!  Aaaaahhhhhh, what's a girl to do?!?!?

Peace be with you,

WIMTWW: Mens Shirt Refashion

Prior to actually having a blog I followed quite a few and many of them inspired my interest in blogging and upcycling clothes.  This is a shirt I made late last summer but actually only finished this week!  Since I did it pre-blogging I don't have a tutorial of it but I will give you the basics.  Don't mind the 7 year old's photography skills!

Starting with a too large men's shirt, I removed the arms and collar at the seams.  I just cut them off carefully.  Then I took the sides in to give it a more fitted shape.  Using the sleeves and extra fabric from the sides I made and attached a ruffle to either side of the center buttons.  I also made a waist tie.  To finish off the edges where the collar and sleeves were cut off, I simply zig zaged with coordinating thread right at the edge.

It is quite comfortable and a bit nicer than an old t-shirt.  I got the idea from an Anthropologie shirt that is no longer available.

I will be linking up to some of these parties this week, like http://todayscreativeblog.net/linky-party/!

Bit O'Green - Anthro Inspired Decor

The past few days we've been busy with family.  O-man is officially 3 and is making great potty training progress (extra people in the house have been helpful!).

Projects have been minimal but I did finish up a little something to add some green.  I saw this frame on Anthropologie.com a few days ago.  It is totally not my home decor style, but I still thought it was really cool ~ but not for $98!!!

I still think this would be really cool to make, especially if I have the right place for it, but with the $4 of dollar store supplies still on hand from my green trees and about 15 minutes of my time, I came up with this little cutie:

I think it's a cute little touch to my front door, I'm off to link this up to some parties after I serve up some Peanut Butter Chicken from my crock pot.... I hope it's a yummy as it smells!

Peace be with you,

PS - I'm linking this up to CSI's green week project:

Yoga Waist Sweater Skirt Tutorial

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Rock the Vote!

I'm so very excited (again)!  I submitted my Anthro inspired shirt to a little contest on http://www.thetraintocrazy.com/ last week.  She selected her favorite 10 and readers get to vote for the winner.  Guess what... I'm in the top 10!  So, please do me a fav and hop on over there and vote for your favorite.  Voting ends Wednesday, so hurry up already!

In case you need a reminder as to what your favorite is, it looks like this

Peace be with you,

My First Link Party Feature!

I'm so excited! I linked up at the Fridaze link party last week with my Anthro-inspired shirt and the Lovely Liz of Fastdaze featured me! Yeah!




Peace be with you,

Anthro-Inspired Shirt for $2!

A while back I saw this on http://www.anthropology.com/ and immediately hit the thrift store for a shirt to re-make:

Of course, I didn't get to it right away and the shirt sat until today.  After a few hours of a bit of trial and error here is my version, which I must say, I'm really pleased with!

The lighting was better in the bathroom than the closet, but I'm still stuck taking pictures of myself, I'm not quite ready to let O-man use my camera.

I wish I'd taken a before picture, it was a pretty non-descript shirt.  When I bought it, I thought it was a man's shirt.  However, upon closer inspection, I realized that there was a bit of tapering in at the waist and what you can't see is there are tiny stripes of pink, purple and teal right along the bigger neutral stripes/blocks.  Since it wasn't a man's shirt, there was less material to be taken out, not leaving me with much material to work with.  I cut the sleeves off at about 3/4 length and then used that material to make the ruffles.  I was looking for a material to layer with it and use as the tie belt because I knew there wasn't going to be enough.  I didn't have anything in my stash but found the ribbon and it picked up on the tiny pink stripes, so I went with it!  I did taper the waist in a bit more and curve the bottom hem up because it was just straight across, boxy looking.

I think I'll head back to their website and look for more ideas!