Creatively Tinkering

 Today I snagged a bit of time to do something I'd been wanting to try for a long time! In fact I have an entire Pinterest board dedicated to ideas for repurposing/refashioning old or dated clothing. Luckily this particular project was SUPER easy and only took about an hour or two, I may have a had a little helper that was mildly distracting. She's such a good helper :-p  I've had an Old Dominion University crewneck sweatshirt kicking around for some time now and wanted to find someway to make it fun to wear. Low and behold there was a pin on my Refashioned Clothing board that was perfect for the challenge. Below is my inspiration: 17 Cheap Ways to Make Your Sweatshirts Cute AF Here's a photo of the back of the sweatshirt I started with, I was so excited to get started I forgot to take a picture of the front (womp womp). I began by finding the center of the sweatshirt and then cut that lovely line right up the back but stopped about 2-3 inches before ...

*disclaimer: I am not affiliated/sponsored by Twig and Tale*  Recently I made an adorable little puppy vest for a friend's little girl who just turned 1 year old. This vest is from a pattern made by Twig and Tale , its from their Wild Things collection. It is actually a fairly simple pattern and is pretty easy to make. The best part about the pattern for me is the variety of ways it can be used. It comes with instructions that show the many different ways that the pieces can be assembled to make quite a few styles of vest. Granted my favorite way to use the pattern is to make the adorable animal vests.  Vest all cut out and ready to sew together  The patterns are great because they come with a ton of sizes and can be printed out with the specific size you have in mind. This makes it so much easier than the traditional patterns one gets at the fabric store that are sold in size increments and are on tissue paper. Also the instructions are easy to follow and I...

Ahh this house, it's one of the big reasons I failed to get a blog up last week (other reasons include being a mom, working part time, and trying to maintain a work out schedule). It is my hope that I can utilize this blog to help inspire me to come up/follow thru with design/organization ideas for the house. When we moved in, a year and a half ago, we were filled with so much hope. Hope for the new baby that would soon arrive and hope to turn this house into our home. While the baby has provided endless fun and excitement the house has proven to be a stress inducing headache. There was/is so much wrong with this house, it is a fixer upper after all. We knew that going in but as any fixer upper is wont to do it has shown us to be more of a fixer upper than we thought it to originally be. Because of this my feelings toward this house change regularly and rapidly throughout the day. Honestly we need a fairy god-contractor to come save us, looking at you Property Brothers. Luckily a...