repurpose.remake.reuse.reclaim

My middle child went through the Guardians of Ga'Hoole (Legends of the Guardians) phase.  She read the books ferociously, and even joined an OWL drawing contest with Aaron Brothers soliciting many to rate her illustration.  She didn't win but she had great fun. Thus inspiring me to make Barn OWL plushies myself.  I've never made a plushie before but I thought it would be easy since they're mainly basic shapes: rectangle (rounding off the edges) for the body, circles for the eyes, cone/circle for the beak, and heart for the face.  That's how my kids learned how to draw, with basic shapes which I just discovered can be applied to sewing, too! I used old sweaters/sweatshirts/scraps, nothing bought.  And I stuffed them with used fabric softener sheets. After every laundry (which I do a lot of), I saved those softener sheets--enough to stuff a small plushie. I also have this iron-on adhesive since forever.  I've made several projects with this one roll.  A...

Some of you probably know  Dr. Who  from way back when. I didn't. Did you know that it's the longest- running science fiction television series ever in the world? It's in the Guinness World of Records . Since 1963---the year I was born! Yes, I'm that old =.) We don't have TV but it's my girls favorite show...via online streaming. As barely as they watched it, they know so much about it.  From peers, where else! So, if you ever hear 9, 10, 11...those are the regenerated Doctors. At any rate, one of the recent characters is Amy Pond whom my middle child aspired to be for Halloween. There's no available photographs so she screenshot them from an episode she downloaded. It's very detailed as you can see. But it wasn't anything unusual. I practically have all the materials except for the big checkered scarf and stripes.   I kept my "bobby hat" from my 20s and thought if I ever had kids, they may like it.   Well, it's been used and abused, a...

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly. ~Epictetus I've found many uses for my old jeans collections.  One of them is an ascot.  So what is an ascot? Per Wiki, an ascot tie, or ascot, is a narrow neckband with wide pointed wings, traditionally made of pale grey patterned silk.  Ascot was  worn in the early decades of the twentieth century regarded as an elegant form of casual dress. Ascots of the casual day cravat variety were popular fashion in the UK for teenaged and young adult males from the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s, coinciding with the mod and psychedelic movements. It was a craze in the 60s along with tye-dye shirts, bell bottoms and peace necklaces.  In Toy Story 3, Ken was shown wearing an ascot when he met Barbie.  (Remember?) Now that we kn...