Day 89 - The 80's part 2 - Acid wash jeans and Choose Life

No trip back in time to the 80's would be complete without acid washed jeans. I attempted to recreate this look today, teaming it up with a 'Choose Life' tshirt, also very popular in the 80's.


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I googled how to make your jeans acid washed and discovered it involved soaking in a bucket of bleach for five minutes and scraping across the denim with stones.

OK - mine came out looking a bit different. More like stone washed jeans, also pretty cool in the 80's. But have a look at the brown that came out when I poured the bleach in. Yuck!

In fact my whole crafting day was a bit of a comedy of errors. Does anyone else have those days?

before

bleaching

after

Then came the tshirt. This required printing onto the transfer paper using the mirror image print setting. My printer appeared to get a little confused. :) Silly me had already ironed it on,

How to fix it??? OK, going to have to do some sewing. Enter the sew-in printer fabric.

And here is a little man completing the look with his acid washed jeans, choose life T and big hair. Oh and he's meant to be looking angry in this photo. Rock on!! Now where is that old ACDC cassette???? :)

Day 50 - Cubby reno from the craft cupboard

Today was a beautiful sunny autumn day here, the kind you know there won't be many more of with winter approaching at a rapid rate. It seemed essential on a day like this to be outdoors, so I opted for some cubby craft. I've been fixing up the neglected cubby that we got with our property with the help of my nearly 3 year old son.

I thought I'd share what we did today.

Firstly, the 'before' photos from this morning. This is the roof and floor.

Next - supplies.

I had used some of my fabric stash to drape from the roof and line the floor, and an old carpet remnant that was lying around in the garage.

Here are some 'after' photos of the roof and floor.

Then we did some decorating. Some pictures we made and some more paper flowers to hang from the ceiling. Starting to look pretty good. Anyone want to come over for a play?

Hung the flowers.

These guys are pretty happy! We've added a vintage fabric cushion and a vintage sesame street beanbag we found at the op shop for $2.



Day 49 - Cute girly skirt from Vintage quilt

Day 49 and I finished my dictionary challenge yesterday so am back on the sewing machine for a super quick project. I've made a couple of these little skirts before from a vintage quilt I bought at a market and I think they're really cute.

The quilt I'm using is quite well worn in a few places so I have to pick the right areas to cut, which makes it perfect for making little skirts where you only need a little bit of fabric at a time and can pick and choose.

I like using the fringe around the quilt as a feature, then I have just added some fabric scraps to make a flower, a cute little vintage button, and of course some ric rac. I love ric rac.

The skirt is the simplest design of cutting too sides with a little curve and adding an elastic band to the top.