Boring Sweater Made Better!

Sometimes it scares me when I realize how crafty I am!  I haven't been able to do some good crafting since the summer and let me just say, it's good to be back.

I've become hooked to the blog Grosgrain recently and have tons of new ideas because of it.  Today I woke up early and decided to get my craft on.  I raided the DI bin to see if there was anything that I could re-purpose... there was!

My favorite salvage was this lack luster sweater of my moms.

It's kind of boxy and really didn't have any redeeming qualities besides the fact that it was grey and had stripes.

After thirty minutes this is what I came up with. 

I removed the waistband sort of thing and turned it into the ruffle that goes down the front and around the bottom.  I tapered the sides to give it a more feminine shape and brought the neckline down just a little bit. 

I just love the ruffled edge!  I got a cute new cardigan for free ninety nine.  Score!

Scarf Disaster

Just before Thanksgiving I had a craving to get my knit on; I love knitting!  In the beginning I thought I was going to be diligent and knit scarves for all of my roommates... all five of them.  Ha, I was ambitious! 


   I kitted for hours on end and once the scarf was a foot long I looked at it closely and realized it was all skiwampus and would win and ugly 1 foot scarf competition.  Epic fail!  *face palm*  I decided that it would be best to bag the whole scarf idea, unravel it and start again.  Sadly the motivation was gone so I took on the challenge of making head sweaters (I think that's what they're called).  So much easier!

I'm going to be honest, I've gotten so sick of flowers on headbands that I decided to embrace my inner four year old and put a bow on it.  I love it!

This is my strategic picture that doesn't show my hair, room or outfit.  It's finals week and everything in my life is a disaster at the moment... actually I think i'm just choosing to be lazy.  Yay for stress up the wazoo! 

My Next Craft Project

I just got done making the flower "poofs" for my apartment and now I'm thinking of making this:

Okay, maybe I lied. I'm not making a ring pillow like the one shown, but I am going to make the uber cute flower and then put it on a more appropriately sized pillow.

My bestest friend and I always go to the store and she point things out and says "Kelsey, I want you to make this for me!".

For my birthday we went down to Gardener Village and we saw some pillows that looked exactly like this one and she wanted me to make her one. 3 months later I've finally found the pattern and am finally going to be a good friend and make her a pillow.

She'll probably get it sometime around Christmas.

Mommy, Look What I Made!

Take a peek at what I made for my apartment!

I think the tissue paper "poofs" turned out pretty cute if I do say so myself. And what better way to display them than in a teapot?

I love teapots!... A LOT! I have some magenta tissue paper that I'm thinking would look super cutie next to the lime green. I'm thinking i'll also go with a royal blue. Yes? No?

Silver might look kind of cool. Maybe?

So I Just Might Be Crafty

Before I show you my awesomely cutie craft project that I'm working on for my apartment I have to admit that I stole the idea from one of my friends blogs. She's making the exact same clock for her apartment in "the burg". I know, tisk, tisk tisk, but the idea is so cute that I feel it would be a sin if I didn't share it with the rest of the blogging world. And I know i'm being a total copy cat, but lets face it, if there is anyone that I have always admired and wanted to be like it would be her.

I'm also in the process of making some of these babies to hang from my ceiling!

I dare say that apartment 305 is going to be so super cutie come fall 2010!

What do you think? Are tissue paper balls hanging from the ceiling tacky or super cutie?

Flower Power

I think it's safe to say that flowers are totally in right now... not that something that naturally occurs in nature can ever really go out of style. Anyway... I was looking at flower arrangements that people used for their weddings when I came across these two super cutie ideas.

I have absolutely no clue how someone made these flowers, but they are made out of a crepe paper type of material. I LOVE that they are scattered on a bed of grass, but I think that you could easily turn a bunch of them into an adorable spring wreath!

Those red flowers are in fact made out of yarn! I'm thinkin' they would be way cutie in my dorm/apartment up at USU, my roommates and I are in desperate need for some decorations! These flowers are Super simple, super cheap and super cutie! What if we made some with red yarn and some with aqua yarn? Yes? I think so!