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Today was a pretty darn successful stash-busting day.

This necklace was made from a recycled satin shirt, some silver chain and - get this - an empty shampoo bottle.

If anyone is interested, I can do a tutorial, just lemme know!

(shameless: you can also buy it here!)

I also made this skirt out of an old muumuu that my grandparents made for my mom (waaaay long ago).

And lastly, a super simple necklace from a teeshirt.

all in all, a very successful day :)

love and right triangles,

april

GA GA ooh la la

About this teeshirt:

I started with a plain big-on-me teeshirt.

After resizing and such, I cut out letters out of masking tape sheets that I made on overhead transparency paper. (I would have used contact paper but I don't know where mine disappeared to!)

Then I spray painted it with silver metallic spray paint from Lowe's.

After letting it dry, I peeled off the tape.

 It's sort of metallic-y.

I asked my friends for their favorite fun song lyric. And out came their New-Birth-Mas presents.

I used neon pink on the light blue and neon orange on the darker blue.

But the orange on blue FAILED.

So I re-did it on a lighter shirt.

He very much enjoyed his new shirt. And indeed he was 'stylin' and bein' fly.' :)

(I don't have any pictures of the other one finished, but it was definitely crazy and wild)

love and right triangles,

april

wardrobe refashion

I took the Wardrobe Refashion 4-month pledge.

The Pledge

I, April,  pledge that I shall abstain from the purchase of "new" manufactured items of clothing, for the period of 2 / 4 / 6 months. I pledge that I shall refashion, renovate, recycle preloved items for myself with my own hands in fabric, yarn or other medium for the term of my contract. I pledge that I will share the love and post a photo of my refashioned, renovoted, recycled, crafted or created item of clothing on the Wardrobe Refashion blog, so that others may share the joy that thy thriftiness brings! Signed April.

You can read my first post here!

And check out the Wardrobe Refashion blog.

This is perfect for me. Remember that list of goals?

By April 4th, 2010:
ONE save up for and purchase a Canon Rebel
TWO sell an item on Etsy
THREE turn all my fabric/stash into gold
FOUR get in shape and get healthy

pointFIVE experiment with fashion!

Well. Taking the Wardrobe Refashion pledge will help me with goal ONE (because I won't be able to shop as much), THREE (because I can turn all my stash into new things!), and pointFIVE (because I can make crazy new things to wear!) .

And onward.

My first outfit of 2010:

I made this dress yesterday for a NYE party.

It's made from a 2XL black teeshirt and a black velvet sequin-y teeshirt that used to be my mom's.

The crazy edits are there so you can see the dress better. Plus, it just looks rad.

And the shoes:

[dress: made by me] [shoes: Patricia Field for Payless]

love and right triangles,

april

#3: turn all my fabric/stash into gold

Over the years, I've accumulated A LOT of stuff.

And when I say A LOT, I mean A LOT:

See what I mean?

Well. Good thing I'm home for over a month before second semester starts.

I've barely put a dent into it so far; here's what I've done:

This scarf is literally a piece of jersey fabric, but I mean, they sell that kind of stuff in stores for at least fifteen bucks nowadays. (ridiculous!)

I don't know if I'd ever wear it, but this scarf is SO soft and plushy.

For now, I'm on the hunt for tutorials and projects and cool diy ideas to get RID of all this stuff. Got any suggestions?

love and right triangles,
april