This has been a busy two months. Almost on the brink of too busy, it’s starting to lighten up. One of the projects that has been falling to the wayside amid all the paying gigs, time sensitive matters, and day to day necessities is my couch.
Here it was before I started.
It was poorly manufactured and [...]
Satin stitch has to be my favorite embroidery technique. Of course, it takes up the most floss and the most time, but I think the returns warrant the extra effort and supplies.
As I promised here, I would show you a thrifty project soon. I’m using one of the $1 pillow cases and “coloring in” the [...]
I think that’s a much better adage than “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade” because when are lemons just given? The current price of one lemon at my local grocery store is $0.79! I would love to have life give me any kind of citrus.
What life occasionally does do is break things, like my cereal bowls. [...]
I got this hat as a free promotional gift from Lucky Brand Jeans. The only problem was, originally, it was just plain solid green with the word “ENVY” on the front. I don’t know what they were trying to convey: was the wearer supposed to make others envious of their Lucky jeans? Did they want [...]
I recently finished a project that I’ve been eyeing for a while, inspired by really neat items from Urban Outfitters: a jewelry stand.
Here are some from UO:
and here is mine:
Way back when, I showed you the layout of a tee shirt quilt. I have finally finished it! It took a lot longer than I had planned because of upholstery projects that popped up and other personal reasons. But now it’s quilted, bound, and dedicated.
I traced the dedication from a computer print-out. The picture below [...]
At this point, my boyfriend knows to run it buy me before he throws anything big out, because I will pull things out of the garbage to save them, and no one wants that. So when he wanted to throw away a slightly ripped up towel with a hole at one end, he was nice [...]
You guys might remember a project I had going here, when they were just stripped and sanded. Now they’ve been stained, varnished, and reupholstered!
The fabric is a cream colored micro-suede or crushed velvet. This was my first project with such a fabric and it was quite perplexing, since it didn’t act like other material in [...]
I never thought that these things would come together. I mean, recycling and upholstery go hand in hand (reupholstery) and gardening and recycling are common. But how does upholstery and gardening fit together?
Well, if you run out of containers to grow your seedlings/plants like I did, and you want to use a tin can (like [...]
I love bottled Starbucks bottled frappuccinos, regardless of their calories and pasteurized milk which I try to avoid. I also love their bottles, although I’m a bottle and jar horder. A few days ago, I realized they are a good size and shape for a bud vase.
If you remove the clear plastic label, the bottle is pretty [...]