Have a Skater?

Do you have a skater in your family?  Have you noticed how expensive those dresses are?  Well, fabrics cheaper and it makes for a lovely dress!  A homemade dress can be cheaper and it can be made exactly the way you want it.  I got the idea to make a dress, because, well, I'm a figure skater!  I had a Christmas recital coming up, and I didn't have a dress!  (By the way, I didn't do great at the recital.)  I didn't feel like going shopping.  I was thinking on how I was going to get a dress on time, when it hit me!  Why not make it yourself?  I went to Joanne's (Yeah, I know.  I went shopping, but it's a CRAFT store!) and started looking for fabric.  My music was Candy Cane Lane, so I wanted to make the dress like a candy cane.  It was around Halloween (Yeah, not that close to Christmas, but it was close enough.) and there was a whole lot of Halloween fabric.  I go over there and I find one with red and white stripes!  It was perfect.  I got some of that (I'm sorry, I'm not sure how much.  Just use an old dress and find out how much fabric was used for it and get extra.)  
Then I found a red leotard, snowflake buttons, a white scarf, and red and white socks.  My outfit was done before I knew it.

Materials:

Scissors
Fabric
An idea
A skating dress
Leotard
Sewing supplies
Iron (Optional)

Directions:

1. Get a leotard the color you want your dress to be.
2. Sketch out your design
3. Using an old skating dress with a nice skirt, trace the skirt on the fabric you want the skirt on.  (Make sure the fabric you use is stretchy.)
4.  Cut the hole in the middle where you will go in.
5. Sew a half inch of the bottom of the fabric you just cut out over.
6. Sew the skirt onto the dress.
7. Add any accessories you want on the dress.

When folding half an inch over and then sewing over it.  To keep it flat while sewing, you can iron over it first.

You may want the skirt on top of a skirt like I did and this is how you do it.

Materials:

Stretchy band
Tuil (It's a fabric, not sure if i spelled the name right.) x2.  Preferrably different colors.
Sewing supplies

2nd Skirt:

1. Get a stretchy band.
2. Cut the band to fit your waste a little tight, but not to tight.
3. Cut about 2 in. thick strands out of one color tuil and about elbow length.
4. Using the other color of tuil cut it shorter then the last and only an in. thick.
5. Tie the tuil on, alternating from one color to the next.
6. Sew the skirt onto your other skirt waste, but not totally sewed on.  Just sew it in places.  It will seem loose, but it will tighten when you get in the dress.

When doing the second skirt, you can also do the same size strands with different colors.

If you were confused with these instructions, please tell me where and why.  I will fix it as soon as possible.

Fabulous Trash Can!

I was cleaning my bathroom in my new house (Colorado, so fun!), dreaming of the ugly yellow paint painted over and the new fabulous decor.  I wanted to get started on the bathroom right away; it was sort of planned out in my head.  The colors are going to be peach, brown, and steel blue (Not sure on the blue.  Does it look good with the other colors?  What do you think, should I keep it or leave it?).  I didn't have the paint yet, so there goes painting.  I was looking around and my eyes landed  on the trash can.  It was hideous.  I had to give it some cute factor.  I clicked into Pinterest (my lovely Pinterest) and started looking around.  Nothing seemed perfect, but one was close.  I used a trash can with patterns all over as my inspiration.  I thought maybe instead of totally covering the trash can paint it a different color and put pictures on it!  I liked the idea, so I put it into action.  It's normal to put pictures on trash cans, there's no problem to it.

Supplies:

Colored Spray Paint

Modpodge

Ugly trash can

Large rock

Pictures

Directions:

1.  Get you ugly trash can and spray paint and bring it outside.

2.  Place the trash can on an overturned rock. (It needs to be overturned so the top of the rock can still be untouched and natural.)

3.  Spray paint your trash can until completely covered.  (You can spray paint the inside, but I didn't.)

4.  Wait until your trash can is dry. (Once the trash can is semi dry I'd recommend taking it into your mudroom or a place like that.  I suggest this, because a gust of wind may flip your trash can on its side getting it dirty and messing up the paint.)

5.  When dry, get some pictures off your computer that you like and print them the way they are originally, or use a photo editing site to tint it to the colors of your bathroom. (The pictures you print shouldn't be glossy.  They just need to be printed on regular white paper.) I chose to tint my pictures using Picmonkey.  Since I used Picmonkey that's the only editing website I can help you use.  To tint your picture on Picmonkey, a free photo editing site, upload it into the editing site.  Next, go to effects.  Once in effects scroll down until you see Tint, click on it and change it to the color you want.

6.  Now modpodge your pictures on your trash can in any way you like.

7.  Let modpodge dry.

8.  You have just awesomed up your trash can!


If you don't like the idea of putting pictures on a TRASH can, I totally understand; that's why you can also use patterned paper for a substitute like my inspiration trash can.

Confused?  Just post a comment!  I will answer right away!

Have a suggestion to make this fun project even better? Just tell me by posting a comment!

Homemade Yoga Strap

Do you have a yoga mat that just keeps rolling out of the tight cylinder you put it in?  You don't feel like buying one and you have extra ribbon around?  Why not use that ribbon and make a fabulous yoga strap with what you already own!  Just to make everything better it's easy!

Homemade Yoga Strap:

1. Grab your ribbon.  (I'd recommend two different flattering colors such as pink and blue.)

2. Cut one of the ribbons into two pieces, making sure that they're long enough to tie a bow around your yoga mat.

3. Tie one bow on each end of the yoga mat using the ribbon you cut into two pieces.

4. On the part of the bow encircling the yoga mat, tie your other ribbon on (make sure you can tie a little knot on both ends and put it around your body like a messenger bag.) both ends.

5. Tada! 

Instructions not good?  Post a comment below!  I'll fix it as soon as possible.

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