Refashion of Large Shirt to Fitted Shirt

My cousin & his wife gave me a fabulous shirt which has the logo of my most favorite drink - WoodChuck Apple Cider! YUM! The shirt was a Large which is very suitable as a night shirt - BUT, I love this shirt and wanted to be able to show it off a bit. lol! Soooo it began with cutting and pinning and sewing.... TADA!! LOVE IT! As an added bonus so does my husband! :)

I followed a great picture tutorial here at Cotton & Curls...

Before & After: 70's Sewing Bench

I collected this old 70's sewing bench from my parents basement. Although it looked horrible it was still very sturdy. It just needed a makeover. I painted a prime coat along with 3 coats of semi-gloss. I replaced the padding and fabric to unveil my new favorite piece of furniture with great storage.... Tada!

BEFORE

AFTER

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Clothes Pin Dress - Easy DIY!

I recently made a very cute Clothes Pin Dress getting the inspiration from the one my mother had. After tracing, cutting, sewing etc..which is the long way in this circumstance. I figured a short way to do it especially if you don't have an inspiration to follow physically. First go to the thrift store and buy a baby girl dress for $.25 cents, turn it inside out, sew the bottom, turn it inside out again and tada you've got yourself a very Cute, Easy DIY Clothes Pin Storage Dress! :)

the inspiration...

long way...

the $.25 cent baby girl dress before

the dress after - the short way :)

They both turned out really cute! Fun, Fun!

Before & After Letter Box

I took this wonderful old letterbox and gave it new life with a couple coats of cream colored paint and Mod-Podged cute gift tags I purchased from PaperDozen on Etsy. Looks great against my newly painted yellow kitchen! :)

Entertainment Center into Sam's Play Kitchen!

Talk about a fun project! My husband and I put our heads together and with the inspiration of some we've seen on the net, we came up with this GREAT PLAY KITCHEN from an old entertainment center!! Our goal was to make this for Sam for Christmas and it turned out wonderful!

First it was to find an entertainment center!  After posting a request on facebook, a couple friends let us have the one that was chillen in their garage for a year. When we picked it up, I was happy to see it was black, that equalled, 'No Painting!' :) It needed some TLC, so after we did some re-enforcements on it, it was a good base to start with!

Second, we planned it all out - down to the food! 

And, this is what came of it....

The Stove Top swirls were done with permanent marker.

We spray painted the Stove, Oven & Fridge Door Silver.

We painted the Oven knobs black and Sink knobs red & blue.

The Faucet was made from wood, and the oven window was

the plastic cover from the pan that serves as the Sink!

Found food images online and printed them out,

modge-podged them onto cut out blocks of wood

on both sides.

Made Pizza Toppings from a wooden dowel

and cookies from wooden door knobs.

The final Cookies!

The Final Pizza! 

We replaced the real cutter blade with a wooden one.

Cut out cardboard pizza pan!

Eggs made out of felt and yellow marker.

At Easter I'll get some eggs and put the yolks in them.

Sandwiches! 

Bread, Cheese, Ham, Turkey & Tomatoes made from wood.

The FINAL Kitchen!! :D

Freezer & Fridge, which are now filled with

more baskets of great quality plastic food we purchased 

from Walmart for $5/each!

Storage view, Part 1!

Storage view, Part 2!

Our Little Chef!

Just like Dadda, Chef Coat & All!

Makin Pizza!

Tada! :D

We got a lot of the utensils and pots from my parents basement, thrift store & dollar stores. The whole thing cost us about $40-50 dollars! Well worth it! I hope this will be a family heirloom, something to pass down! :) I think the fabric I chose fits it well, adding fun color to the 'modern' black and stainless steel. There is a framed winter scene that can be switched out per season and a coat hanger for the pot rack! Here are some of our inspirations that we used and others I have come across since making the kitchen. Cupkateer Blog, Vintage Songbird Blog, Sutton Grace Blog, & Design Dazzle Blog!

ENJOY!

Refashioned Pink Sweater - New Etsy Listing

After seeing this cute soft pink acrylic sweater, I thought it would be great as a hat, neck warmer and fingerless gloves set! I added large 1 1/2 inch purple/pink fabric homemade buttons to both sides of the hat and used a contrasting purple/pink thread for sewing. The hat is 22" in circumference and fits a bit loose, not snug. The neck warmer is 18" long and 4" wide and has a pearl button snap closure. The fingerless gloves are 9" long and 5" wide at top that set from the bottom of the pinky to the middle of thumb. There is a 1/4 inch difference between the sewn edge of the gloves with the contrasting thread showing but does not effect the lengths. I think this 'one-of-a-kind' would make a cute fashionable set to someone who not only loves pink & purple but appreciates unique homemade items! :)

Hand Wash with luke warm water and detergent. Lay flat to dry.

Not quite the before photo, but you get the idea...

Etsy Listing here!

UPDATE: This was SOLD in my Etsy Shop Jan 2011! :)

Farm Raised Chickens & A Beautiful Sky

The cute baby chicks early this summer.

The grown chicks - we grew them up to 8 lbs each.

They had very sturdy feet and held up. (:

God's Art: A Beautiful Sky

Strawberries Summer 2010'

PERFECT

sleepy strawberry face

nothing like homemade jam

fresh whipped cream and strawberries makes for a most yummy cake!

Wedding Photo Retouches...

If you are in need of photo retouches for your wedding photos or other photos - give me a shout! :)

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AFTER

Before & After - Mudroom Entrance Floor

We have had this floor done for about a month now and are very happy with the change! Seriously, what a new floor will do! Oh and did I mention - Thank God for Marden's! ;)

Could've done without the rugs in the photo - but they were already placed and you know. 

The spring rug will be coming out of hiding to replace the winter ones once the snow decides to leave! :)

Before & After Bureau

ohhh this was exciting! I found this old bureau that was left in the garage by my brother who no longer needed it! Soooo I snatched it up and did this to it....

Isn't she a beauty!! She stores all my yarn & yarn supplies as well as my fabric & sewing supplies and is nestled in the corner of  my office!! I used scrap fabric and mod podge to do the knobs, and wallpaper and mod podge for the inside on the drawers! I store projects I'm working on on top and in that great hat box is stuff to be refashioned!

L.O.V.E.

:)