Category — Repurpopse

Of all my girls, my 14 year old daughter Kalissa is the least likely to sew.  But last week, she did a little bit of “sewing”.
Check out what she “made”….

She didn’t exactly make her top, she refashioned it and is VERY proud of her accomplishments.

We were used store shopping and she saw this dress on the “new clothes” rack and tried it on. 

After consideration, she decided she probably wouldn’t wear it, not knowing if this style of dress would be popular again this season.  Then, just as we were checking out, she grabbed it off the rack and decided that she would repurpose the dress.  She explained how she would cut the dress off, hem it and make it into a shirt.  (I think she has seen me reading Samster Mommy’s blog too often…she is often repurposing clothes.)

Well I encourage ANY kind sewing so Kalissa came home and started her project….She was busy pinning and cutting but the sewing on the knit T-shirt material ended up being a bit of a challenge.  She couldn’t get the concept that when sewing knits, you can’t pull them or it will stretch so…Mom to the rescue…

She LOVES the shirt and started talking about how she was planning to wear it to school when I informed her that it wouldn’t meet dress code.  She inventively coupled it with her white T-shirt and off she went.

She coupled the shirt with some black dress capris and wore it Saturday for choir contest too…It looks like the $3.50 maxi dress was one of the best clothes purchases she has made in a long time.  Now she’s asking, “Mom, how do you put in elastic?”  It looks like the bottom of that dress just might become a skirt!

About seven years ago, hubby and I visited the Amish in our area and had a carpenter custom build an entertainment center for us.  I LOVED it! 
BUT…fast forward to flat screen televisions that are MUCH wider, digital television, and the need for large screens, our entertainment center had lost it’s appeal.

The television used to sit in the middle area, filling up much of it but our new television just didn’t fit.  Someone asked, why didn’t you purchase a television to fit in the hole?  Well, we would have had a sardine can sized television. 

In despiration, we put the television on top….talk about ugly and neck aches after watching a movie….
So I, yes I, came up with the suggestion of removing the top, lowering the shelf, cutting off two feet and setting the television on top….guess what?!  It worked!

We took it to a local craftsman and he did the work….all for $88.  That sure beats the cost of a new entertainment center!  I love REAL wood furniture.  It lasts, and it allows a person to remake or restore.  You don’t get that from particle board furniture.

Now that I saved a little money there…you know what that translates into….MORE FABRIC!