New Ideas

I won't be able to start these ideas until I go home and have access to a sewing machine, but here they are:

scrap bag using scraps of fabric laying around and ties and old tshirts that I love but don't wear

embellishing clothes. I have lace and rhinestones and who knows what else. I'm going to make my old things sparkle

dye stained tshirts different colors Micheal's and other craft stores sell individual packets of dye so you can fix up your tshirts that your mom bleached by accident this can also make socks look really cool

Well that's all that I should think of for now or I won't be able to finish these

Trashcans

Basically every room has a trashcan; something to hold nasty trash and just sit in the corner out of the way. My new project is to decorate a trashcan my dad took from a hotel and make it fit for a girls room. So far I have painted a unicorn on the side and am now heading for my old sticker stash to make this ugly household item some-what cute. I thought it would be fun to change around the color on this photo. Gives me a new idea. I want to go to a thrift store and buy frames, paint them black, and then take photos and change their properties and make them look cool like some sort of surreal art. It'll be cool to hang them up because they'll be of me and my friends.

Update on the unfinishedd projects:

I started painting flowers on the Narnia dresser and outlined the actual designs in the wood with green. It's a work in progress.... I have the motivation from one of my roommate's mom. She basically told me that when she comes back to the house, the dresser better be finished.

Until an ABC party rolls around, the ductape dress will continue to be unfinished sorry

the crazy cat

So someone stole my pumpkin. This is Philly so leaving it outside wasn't the best idea. This is totally off topic from this blog but my roommates recently got cats. The one is super cute and lovable, while the other.. well hes alright. The one that isn't as well liked is named Bandit and this name was given for a specific reason. WE CAN NEVER CATCH THIS CAT! I hadn't seen him for 3 days so I went looking with my roommate and after checking the whole house, we heard meows in the kitchen, behind the stove. Kill me now. We moved the stove and while we were doing this the cat went under the stove. so we opened the bottom drawer and out popped Bandit. Geeze kitty's getting locked up for life. I decided to draw what my pumpkin looked like even though you can't see a picture.

Pumpkin progress

So.. just visited my dad today and got the pumpkin. Had to ride my bike from Park to 6th with a huge pumpkin in my arms. Lets just say, this better be worth it. My friends suggested I carve it to look like the joker so that's what I'm going to do. We'll see how this turns out... tomorrow is the big night..

First exercise :)

So fashion was brought to my attention in the last class so I was researching sites about recycled fashion to post about on the main blog page. I had meant to find articles or sites about people recycling the styles of the past but instead found the literal recycling-of-materials-to-make-fashion sites. This one site that I came across struck me. click here It was about fashion designers making garments out of things like airline blankets and used clothing. "About 30% of our collection is made from old textiles." Using old textiles is actually fun and challenging for the designer and links back to class and how designers differentiate themselves even though they don't have copyrights. This is a way to see their creativity.

The sweatshirt on the right looks really cool and it is easy to determine how it was pieced together. I have seen people walking around in similar styled clothing, but I don't think that their articles were made from recycled items.

I noticed that many of the designers were from Berlin, which makes sense seeing that there were German flags for other translations of the articles. I find that these designers are quite ingenious to do this because it not only saves money, it follows with the greater awareness of "going green" and recycling. My only problem is that this is an international article, this was one of the first pop ups on Google and it wasn't from the United States. Why aren't our designers doing what the German ones are?

If our designers found it in themselves to recycle and create like the ones in Berlin, we might have the same quality clothing, but for less money, and less guilt towards the environment

Halloween!

Every Halloween we carve pumpins into scary, happy, cute, or ugly designs that are shown to the whole neighborhood. My mom bought me a pumpkin this year which I should be recieving pretty soon from my sister. This project I will actually finish.

These are some really awesome pumpkin carving ideas.

I usually end up carving my pumpkins like the first entry because its easy and effective. This year I might be a little more creative and try the technique used on the alien themed pumpkin or the skull one.

Lazy...

Have not touched that narnia dresser in forever. We just rearanged my living room and there is no space for it. My other roommates have the plan to put fireworks in it and just blow it up so I might go with that plan instead of finishing this project. (of course ill post pictures) Currently working on painting my kitchen. I drew out designs from this wrapping paper I had and my roommate and I have been painting them with our left over paint. I'm starting to realize more and more that I seriously don't finish my projects. I didn't finish the dresses because the party was a bit sketchy, and I didn't finish the dresser because it's a pain and I have no attachment to it. The kitchen wall better get finished because I have to look at it everyday.

I was serching on the internet for cool things to paint on walls before I was inspired by the wrapping paper and came across this. I was completely blown away. He paints so beautifully and with such detail that he fooled me a couple of times. It reminds me of the ways that rooms were decorated way-back-when and how much effort that was put in. We usually don't put as much effort into our homes visually besides pictures and framed paintings. I want to turn this house into my canvas almost. I won't go as far as this artist did, but there will definitly be a bit of Caitlyn on the walls when I move out.