Happy Halloween!

Boo!!

This year I decided to make my costume for Halloween.  After racking my brain on what to be I finally decided to be a scrumptious cupcake.  I looked on the web for inspiration pics and Leti and I got to work.  Between the two of us we had almost everything we needed to make the costume (with the exception of the pom poms.) 

Batting, a plain white shirt, pom poms & silver tube top 

  

To construct the top of the cupcake we used batting (48"x 48") that Leti had leftover from an old project.  We cut the batting into 3 different sizes to create the layers of frosting.

12"x48", 16"x48" and 20"x48"

Because the batting was so flat we needed to hand sew the batting in a couple of places to give it a bunched look.  

Next, we safety pinned the strips of batting to the shirt & hot glued the pom poms for the sprinkles.

Can you see the cupcake yet?

The last thing left to do was to make the cherry.  Here's what I used:

    

We simply wrapped the stryofoam ball with the red yarn and hot glued it every so often to secure it.  To make the stem we poked a hole in the cherry and hot glued in the garden tie.  To attach the cherry to the headband we used two pieces of felt on either side of the headband and hot glued them together.  

We hot glued a small piece of felt onto the ball (under the yarn)

And put the other piece of felt under the headband.  

To make sure the cherry wasn't going anywhere we also used pins to secure the cherry.

Here it is all done. What do you guys think?

Have a safe Halloween,

-Johanna

DIY Necklace

Hi there,

So, I was cleaning out my closet and I found an old shirt from Forever 21 that I had not worn in years.  It had a really nice jewel detail around the collar and I thought it would make a great statement necklace, so I got to snipping.

I cut off the excess fabric and sewed two loops on either side of the necklace where the ribbon would go through.

   

Here is the finished necklace

         

I love the ribbon detail because I can make the necklace whatever length I want.  Now the only thing left to do is wear it out!

-Johanna

TGIF

Hi everyone,

Here are today's arrangements.  

We used blue hydrangeas, white and light purple lisianthus, white dahlias and dusty miller.  

Enjoy your weekend!

Johanna

The Bedazzler

Hi,

Years ago I used to do a lot of online shopping.  I mean who doesn't? It's so easy to point, click, put all the goodies in your cart and checkout.  On one of my various online shopping sprees I bought the bedazzler.  You know, the device that makes it easy to "add sparkle and excitement to any outfit!"  You have one too, don't you???  Well, it's been six years and I hadn't used it until tonight!  I'm not sure why tonight was the night, but I'm glad I did.

    

The kit comes with a bedazzler, instructions, rhinestones, studs & patterns 

I looked through my closet to find a shirt that I wanted to bedazzle and settled on this one.

I decided to bedazzle the back so I could cover it with my hair if it didn't turn out right.  I cut out the anchor pattern and ironed it on the back.  

Then I got to bedazzling and put studs where it was marked.  

Here is the final product

Not bad for my first time!  It was easy and the entire process took about 30 minutes.  I think I'll break out the bedazzler again on a rainy day.  Any ideas on what I should bedazzle next time?


Bye!

Johanna

Chair Revamp

Hi!

If you've been keeping up with our blog you'll know that Leti and I are slowly but surely re-doing our work space.  The latest project that we finished was recovering our dingy old desk chairs.  Leti got them from the street (once again).  They are mid century chairs with good bones, but were in desperate need of recovering.

Leti has recovered furniture in the past, but I was a newbie.  The first thing we had to do was to go shopping for fabric (my favorite part).  We went to discount fabrics on 11th & Howard where they have a ginormous selection of every fabric imaginable.  It was a bit overwhelming and it took some time to look through all the fabric.  We finally settled on a neutral beige fabric that was sturdy and had some texture.

I'm sorry I didn't take pics of the process, but I'll be sure to take pics next time!!!! The first thing we did was to unscrew the back of the chair and the seat.  Then we took the old fabric off and put some new batting in for more cushiness.  Next, we measured the fabric to cover the back and the seat and stapled.  It sounds simple, but it took a whole day!

Have a great weekend!

-Johanna