diy: glitter and clay earrings

We love love working with clay and have loved working with Premo Clay on these earrings. This stuff is so versatile and easy to use. The perfect crafting medium. But, seriously. I've made so many jewelry pieces with clay and they all look so different yet, they all look great!

 

To make these earrings you will need some Premo Clay, some glitter, 2 earwires, and some extra wire or 2 eye pins. Either will do. You will also need some jewelry pliers. Preheat your oven to 275 degrees.

Start by mixing some glitter with a little bit of clay. Use as much or as little as you would like.

I ended up adding three more rounds of glitter to get it mixed thoroughly.

Take your eye pin and bend it into a teardrop shape with your pliers.

Take a little bit of clay and fill in the empty space in the teardrop.

Bake in the oven for 30 minutes.

Attach the earwires to the clay/wire pieces. If the earrings don't lay correctly, use a jump ring in between the two.

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diy: cold porcelain gemstone earring

It’s been about two months since I made my first batch of cold porcelain. I’ve been keeping it in a airtight box and bringing it out for bits and pieces every now and then and it’s still going strong! It’s a little tricky to make but so worth it. I found the recipe here on Pinterest but if you’re not keen to make your own, white clay will work just as well for this DIY.

I’ve been having an amazing time making faux gemstones out of pretty much every material I can think of. It’s surprising how much the material can change the overall aesthetic of an item. These porcelain stones look more like pearls than say these faux marble ones. I love the simplicity of the stones which give the earrings an understated glamour.

Materials: Cold Porcelain / Clay Gemstone Mould Earring Blanks Glue

Instructions: Take a small ball of your porcelain/clay and press it firmly into the mould.

Carefully peel the porcelain/clay out of the mould trying not to distort the shape at the same time.

Cut the excess porcelain/clay off the shape giving the edges a sharp, clean look and leave overnight to harden.

Using a strong glue secure the earring blanks to the back of the gemstones and leave to dry.

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diy: personalized stamp

I know you hear me saying this ALL the time BUT, we have had the supplies for this project for a while and just got around to actually using the supplies. We had bought two different types of carve-able stamps and had no idea what we were going to use them for. We just knew we wanted to make stamps. Then the need came up for an "Oh So Pretty" tag for some merchandise. So we took that opportunity to use these supplies! It's super easy, it just requires a little patience.

You will need a stamp, this is a Speedball Speedy Carve, a carving tool, a brayer and some block printing ink. You will also need a pencil and a thing permanent marker.

Sketch the design to want on paper with a pencil. Just draw it the normal way you would, no need to make it backwards.

Put the design face down and rub the back of the paper. Make sure cover the whole area, you're trying to get the pencil to rub off on the stamp.

Should look something like this! And note that it is now backwards on the stamp, as it should be.

Go over the pencil with a permanent marker.

Start carving all the space the isn't written on. This is the more tedious part.

Be patient and soon you'll make it!

I just used an xacto knife to cut the stamp down to size.

Then you just use the stamp as you would. You could put it on an ink pad but we used printing ink a brayer to apply the ink. I'm thinking about mounting the stamp on some wood to keep it more sturdy. And I have another idea for this stamp so stay tuned!

xo, Savannah

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299 no-sew ways to alter a t-shirt

I know, this may seem a little crazy... Who would sit around and think of 299 ways to alter a t-shirt? It actually wasn't like that. It was more like, I want to do a post about all the ways you can alter a t-shirt and then I got overwhelmed because I kept thinking of so many different things you can do. So I decided to make a little graphic showing all the ways I though of. I'm sure I've forgotten something but this is specifically about not having to sew. All you have to do is cut and in some cases, tie. If you add sewing in, that is a whole new ball game and that's just too much for one post. There are 5 categories: neck, sleeves, bottom, back and side. Just pick one way in each category and get to cutting! I must also note that in the category of "side" there is also an option to do nothing, making it 3 choices instead of the 2 in the picture. You can also play around with using baggy shirts or fitted shirts. Oh, and if you are wondering "Why 299 and not 300?" The last one would be choosing "original" in each category and you'd end up with the exact shirt you started with... un-altered. So, there's that. Now, I'm going to show you two ways I've recently altered a shirt.

You will need:

- t-shirt(s)

- scissors

To make a crop tank, make these cuts. Cut the sleeves off right next to seam. Start cutting the neck by the seam and then go into a more deep scoop-like shape. Stretch out the edges where you just cut by grabbing either side and pulling. This makes the edges look less choppy!

And then you have a nice little crop tank!

This shirt is a bigger shirt so I'm doing muscle sleeves and a fringe bottom. The bottom of the sleeve is low enough so I started cutting there and then cut diagonally to where my shoulder would be. I also cut off the trim at the bottom so there wouldn't be any weird edges on my fringe.

Start cutting fringe. I wanted smaller fringe, which takes FOREVER.

After you've cut your fringe, pull each piece to stretch it out and make it look less like you just cut it.

I LOVE this design. Got this guy at Goodwill, it was brand new AAAANNNDDD it's glow in the dark.....what?!? That could be weird or awesome, we will see! If you don't have any old t-shirts, just buy some and you can put your own designs on it. Anyway... hope this is helpful! And may you never have a plain boring t-shirt again!

xo, Savannah

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before and after: goodwill dress to a flirty romper

So a couple weeks ago I posted a picture on Instagram of this romper I made out of a dress I got at Goodwill. Everyone seemed to really like it (and I really liked it) so I decided to do a post about it. Now this isn't a full post about how to turn any Goodwill piece into something awesome, this is just what I did this one time. I don't know if I could exactly recreate this again.

We have a little collection of vintage patterns so I found this pattern for shorts. I picked the simplest short pattern. Duh.

This is the dress I started with. I had bought it because I loved the pattern and I had the intentions of altering it into a more flattering dress. The dress sat in the house for a while before I actually did anything to it. Classic Oh So Pretty...

I cut the shorts out of the very bottom of the dress. Then I followed the instructions but I didn't finish the top of the shorts since I'd be adding a top to it. After I did this, I got inspired by this romper. I had been searching the internet for rompers that I liked and could easily recreate with this dress. This romper was super cute and would be the best use of what fabric I had left. I did have to sew a few pieces of fabric together to create the ruffle and I used almost every piece of the original dress. There were hardly any scraps left. We also have a lot of this vintage trim so I used that around the romper instead of making my own trim, Mostly because I didn't have the fabric for that and this adds a more unique detail!

Anyway, this is the finished romper. It's super cute! I love it so.

We like to do alterations and sewing projects like this every now and then so if you enjoy posts like this, comment and let us know! We do it, we just want to know if we should take pictures and share them with you!

xo, Savannah

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