Showing posts with label upcycling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label upcycling. Show all posts

10.16.2012

T-Shirt Scarf...and New Year's Resolutions!

Well, hello, my much neglected blog!! I've missed you! If your family is anything like mine, this time of year tends to play out in fast forward, minutes feeling like seconds and a week feeling like a day. If you use this 'holiday mathematics', that means it's only been a few days since my last blog post! Ahhh, OK. Feeling much better about my absence now!


Several people have ask me about the scarf I'm donning in my profile picture (over there --->), so I'm finally getting around to doing a post about it!
It was a super easy project that I found on Pinterest. There are several styles and tutorials showing how to do this, which is good, because I forgot to take pictures after a certain point!


Step One: Lay out an old T-Shirt. This is one I've had incredibly too long, as evidenced by the holes in the shoulders. I made snips along the side of the shirt every inch or so as guides.
Step Two: Cut strips from one side of the shirt to the other (a rotary cutter would work wonders at this point. Too bad all I could find were my kitchen scissors!!)

 Step Three: You'll end up with strips in varying lengths due to the cut of the T-Shirt. Stretch each loop as far as it will go and sort them by their size.
 Step Three - B: Some of the loops broke, surely where the preexisting holes were. I used those pieces to braid a long strip.
Step Four: Gather all of the loops onto your hand. The loops will be long. We'll shorten them by folding the loops up, doubling what is in your hand. Loop the braided length with the scarf, using the end of it to tie all of the loops together at the back.






Maybe it's time to start some New Year's resolutions early...like blogging more often! Here's hoping!

5.28.2012

We're nuts about you, Dad!

Last post: Mother's Day.
Today's post: Father's Day!


You'll be glad to know that my time in between posts will be a little less than from holiday to holiday from now on. The Deeply Rooted household has finally set down their roots again! We're out of our temporary housing and into our newly gutted, re-everything-ed and renovated home. It feels wonderful to be getting back into a routine and re-familiarizing ourselves to our 'stuff' (it's like Christmas with each opening of a box!).

For Father's Day gifts we often have to delve into the mind of our husbands, and if you husband's anything like mine, that can be a scary trip! I wanted a project that the kids could help me with, but something beyond a scribbled picture or a bad combination of Elmer's and popsicle sticks. I came up with the modern-day Father's Day picture frame:


 I started out with a clear CD case (remember those things? CD's?) and took the front off to use. I awkwardly asked my father-in-law if I could have a few of his nuts (his face was priceless), and folded down some Craft Glue Dots® to adhere them randomly around the case:



 Make this unique to the dad in your life! Find what he likes and make your own Father's Day frame!



        ...unless he likes pizza. Then you might just make him a pizza.


I wrote this blog post while participating on the Glue Dots® Design Team