Crafty Ideas

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

A ruffled skirt and a tank top for my little daughter

I made this skirt and the top couple days ago, and it cost me probably $.50 for both. The labor is priceless! I love to see my kids wearing my creations.

My skirt to my little girl's dress

 

 

My skirt

 This was my skirt way back then. After couple pregnancy, I gained few pounds that more of my clothing weren't fit me anymore. Since I have a limited capacity in my closet, I had to do something useful to all my old clothes. One of them is this skirt. I turned this skirt into my little girl's dress. Here it is...

 

Friday, April 15, 2011

Little girl's skirt

Tonight, around nine o'clock I didn't hear any noises around the house. I locked-up my self in the study room and let my husband takes care my kids. Well, hubby had a good sense of taking care the kids :-) they put them in bed. Well, normally between 8 pm to 9pm my kids are saying " night night".

Anyway, since my are all in bed, I feel bored. So I decided to take all my scrap fabric and laces laid it on the floor and stared at it for 15 minutes think of what to do with it. Then I finally came up with making a new skirt for my little daughter. I read some blog that have tutorials for making skirts from this blog . It was very easy to follow. So, here is my finished product...

Friday, April 15, 2011

Girls dress

My first ever made child dress!

I finally did it! I've been wanting to make a dress for my daughter for a long, and I just finally done it! But first I have to check some websites with tutorials on how to make dresses. You wouldn't believe that there are more people who would spend their time to teach you how to sew. One of them, is the make it love it. I just her tutorials. She also made a blessing dress for her daughter ...love it love it! I hope I can make one similar to that someday!

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Little girl's headband

It has been a while since I updated all my blogs. I guess it is time now....

My little Girl's headband

light pink and  black just matches to her birthday dress

I made some headband for my little girl today . I am hoping that she can keep the headband on her head :) 

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Monday, November 29, 2010

Fancy Jewelry

I stopped making fancy jewelries since I gave birth to my younger child. She is now 20 months old, and I feel doing new stuff aside from studying :(. I am sick of studying now! Anyway, do not mind what I say about studying ..lol. Anyway, on black Friday I went shopping :-) I think everyone did. I went to Joann's store and they has tons of deals. Some of them are the glass beads. I bought some of the glass beads only the cheap ones. And here's what I made this evening...

 earring

 bracelet

necklace

 I hope you have a great day!

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Adult's pants to little girl's pants

Okay okay I am so excited to share this with you. I have been searching for some good patterns for sewing or anything online, and I found this site the rookiemoms and the handy home project they have great ideas that you can think of. Plus I would like to give credits to my few friends who have been inspiring me to saw. My friend Claire and Adin has been professional now for creating new ideas. Thanks ladies!

DADDY's old pants to Daughter's new pants

 

Anyway, after checking some website link above. I started making this pants from my husband's old pants that he wanted me to mended for him since the knee part were all torn up. But instead of mending it I created a new pants for my daughter.  This was my very first pants project. I thought it came out good, but it was not a girly style.

So, I decided to add ruffles around the waist just below the ream line. Then I noticed that the bottom part was not really good. This is what happened when I was not paying attention to what I was doing hahaha. Instead of cutting the end part ...

 

I have tons of ruffles :) so I sewed some on the legs and covered the torn part of the pants.

 And here it is!  

Pants that was once an adult pants to a little girl pants!

Thanks for stopping by!

Saturday, November 20, 2010

boy's cloth to a girl's dress 60's style

 I have been thinking of what to do with all my son's baby clothes. Since, my second one is a girl, I decided to modify some of my elder son's baby clothes. This was my first attempt.

This was my son's clothes when he was 15 months to 2 1/2 years old. It was given to him by one of his aunt and I just hate to see it in the closet and not using it anymore, so...

I modified it from a boy's outfit to a girl's dress :)... my model has a beautiful smile in here.. we also just got that new slide so she was so happy. Anyway, I bought that ruffles for a dollar a roll ( 20 yards), I cut off the tail part of the clothes and sewed the ruffles around the tail and on the arms of the clothes. That is the outcome. Here are more of her wearing the modified baby clothes.

I will do more modifying since I don't have enough money to buy new baby clothes hahaha.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great one!

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Monday, August 16, 2010

Thomas Backpack

Thomas and Friends Backpack

I made my preschooler a backpack after meeting with his teacher and told us that she preferred her student to have a bigger bags so that she can put in the take home folder. So, I been thinking of where should I get a backpack that just fit on my small little boy. My husband suggested to buy one, but if I buy a new one still bigger than he is. 

My final decision was to make one, and I used the pattern from the green bag lady website.

He likes it because he can see the train pictures.

another shot of him

... and of course my little daughter want to try it too.

 

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Skirt for my little princess

Aside from making shopping bags, I started making a skirt for my daughter.

My very first skirt made! It was not perfect, but I did it!

... and my model in her skirt. Now , if she can just hold still :)) 

I am learning! What do you think?

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Green Bag Project

The other night, I started making some of the shopping bags. My goal this summer is to make 50 bags to send in the Philippines to give away to the kids and families who needs it.

I followed the patter from the green bag lady website here. She has the easiest pattern ever and it was not complicated to follow at all.

A week ago, I asked a friend to show me how to make the lining for the back to make it a little nicer in the inside part. I do not have the serger to make the edge of the seam look nicer, so I followed the tutorial from my friend website here  ( THANKS SIS CLAIRE!), but I forgot to lined up my handle on the same side and it was twisted oh boy!

But my second bag was all good! I am learning :) I am trying to make with different sizes because I want it to be more usable for children.

Also, I was meaning to make more bag to give away at the fund raising event on Saturday and Sunday, but I was not able to make some more :( because my kids were demanding and was busy for other stuff in the house.

Here is another one that I think is a good size for them. I made this one out of an old bed sheet that was given to me by a friend. I bought many fabrics, but I was trying to make it inexpensive as much as possible.

Thanks to Sis Claire for the tutorials and to the green bag lady for the pattern and for the inspiration.