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find me at Adventures in Dressmaking!

happy sunday everyone! today you can find me over at Adventures in Dressmaking! it’s a previous tutorial i posted awhile back, but it’s one of my favorites. if you haven’t been to her blog before then you are in for a treat! she has tons of refashioning and creative projects, especially with clothes. thanks again [...]
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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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new home for the earrings

so i don’t have that many earrings, but i do have enough that i have to dig my way through them to find the matching pair. clearly needed a new place for them. (realized i have a few of my bestie’s earrings as well) :) i also had 3 grease splatter screens. [...]
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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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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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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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cozy home for my phone.

another knitting project to help me not forget how to do it. :) i am still learning! i just started knitting…not really knowing what i was going to make. ha (this pic was from another camera so not the best color) so then i decided my phone needed a comfy cover. i already have [...]
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photo album makeover.

***giveaway is still open! check it out below. xox i had a few mini photo albums laying around. the ones that are nice….but a little boring in style. but if you are like me and have a kagillion pics already and do not need any  more albums laying around then there’s so much [...]
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spray paint fun.

so i have a pair of boots that i have had for quite some time now, and they are WHITE. i mean white. ha. i am pretty sure i have not worn them too much because they are just…white. not hating on white, but i guess it’s just not my color. before shot [...]
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