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guest blogger~Adventures in Dressmaking!!!
i am so excited to share with you my FIRST ever guest blogger!!! my new friend Suzannah from Adventures in Dressmaking was kind enough to be my guest. as you may know from previous posts i have been out of it lately with being pregnant and trying to move [...]
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elastic waistband with casing tutorial
experimenting with sewing projects is fun and a little frustrating. haha. but this one turned out nicely! here’s my attempt to show you :)
pretty sure this is meant to be a dress…but it’s a shirt on me. there’s no waistband and i normally wear belts with it but i wanted to change [...]
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pajamas all day long
i like to wear pajamas. all day. :) i even wear them to the grocery store. now, i’m talking about comfy pants and shirts…nothing crazy. :) anyways…i had these pants for the longest time and would wear it around the house but never out because they were too short for me to wear in public [...]
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tie dye all day.
hello all!! wanted to share a little make over i did today. sooo i got this dress for uber cheap awhile back but never wore it because the top part didn’t fit me very well…lame.
sooo naturally i tried fixing it. i had a thought of putting some elastic banding around the top [...]
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cupcake bag
new handbags are fun, especially if you make it. of course! i love jessica’s placemat clutch tutorial over at happy together. go check it out!! here’s one i made!
lovely vinyl placemat that only cost me $1 for 2 of them!
did some pinning…
did some measuring (i left 2 inches at [...]
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the knitting lady
so i feel like i have neglected my blog. sad day. i kind of stress out when i don’t post something. lol. is that normal?? well since i didn’t have my machine for a few days, i knitted! i felt like the knitting lady. literally taking my yarn with me everywhere…i loved it. here [...]
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plaid pillow partners.
hi everyone!!! hope y’all had a great weekend! we had a dinner and movie night with the youth, got to hang out with one of my oldest friends, cooked lots and lots of homemade vegan meals, had a fabulous time at church and gospel lunch, listened to one of the best times i’ve heard my [...]
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jumper love.
i don’t do many apparel projects but i want to get back into it! so i was motivated to create a lil jumper. this was one of those projects where i didn’t really know if it would work out. ha.
i used an old pair of cotton shorts (pretty sure the elastic [...]
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i can wear my jacket again!
so i don’t know how i get all these random stains on my clothes. but i am glad i kept them for snowy days like this! :)
here’s the lovely jacket and the lovely stain. lame.
used some extra pedals i had laying around (tutorial) and some hand stitching with some yarn and yay!
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lovely guest post~happy together!!