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Second refashion under my belt.

maryjojo — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:16:16 +0000

Another refashion! I pulled out my trusty serger and went to town on one of my large eddie bauer shirts. I took a shirt that does fit to give me an idea of width. So sides gone. Next I took the neckline and sketched out a wider line. Done and done. I think a good starter for both a refashion era and serger era.

I’ve done it again!

maryjojo — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:25:39 +0000

I’ve joined Wardrobe Refashion and pledge for 2 months. I’ve tried this before and no luck. Either there is not enough time in the day or my scaredy cat self is too chicken.

So today I start! I have many projects to start and variety of fabric to use. A few men’s slacks I’ve been wanting to reconstruct is on the list as well. Watch for later postings on my refashion adventure!!

Other things that are going on are organizing. Sounds like fun right? Well, when there’s too much stuff that you keep cleaning and cleaning and cleaning I doubt any organzing will assist. So I’m going through my craft room and removing all the extra baggage that is in the way.

A lot of fabric is going to a friend I met at Urban Craft Uprising show. She makes these wonderful resusable / collasable totes. Check it out: Tote2Go.com I’m sure she’ll do fantastic things with the fabric i’ve collected from thrift stores and craiglist.

I’m also thinning my scrapbooking / crafts / art stash. My sister mistakenly agreed to take it. (HA HA Ami!!) I hope she will put it to good use because I’ve got so much that who knows when I will get it.

I better get crackin’ on some things. Until I post again!

cheers, MJ

Who knew lists could be so fun!

maryjojo — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:31:14 +0000

or at least helpful. I’ve finally had a weekend where I didn’t just wish I could get myself motivated to do projects. I created a motivation list and BAM! I was working to get it the list done.

Over the weekend, the Craft-a-long had it’s debut. The first ever! Washington state had it’s first snow fall of the season and a freakin’ cold snap that has been going since then. That definitely had an effect on who was going to show up for the event.

In the end, it was just mum and I. We had fun no matter what. She worked on some cute Halloween pictures of grandchildren into a layout. I worked on some snowy pictures from Jeff and I going up to Alpental for snowboarding. The layout took all my time, some veggies, two cups of coffee, and a cookie. Oh that cookie was good. It helped create some cute chipboard covered in some embossed white powder. Turned out really awesome. I also added some felt and transparency flakes. This layout also popped the cherry on my new Making Memories Slice machine. Quite awesome to use on crops. So small and compact that is was easy to transport around. I loved the fact that I didn’t have to feed the paper into the machine. I also realized that I could position the cut where I needed it. I could fuse the letters together by watching where the blade was placing itself according to the previous cut.

I was working on another layout after this one, but with my sister’s family stopping by, I started to talk more than work.

So tonight I finalized the layout and here is the fun layout I got to breathe life into tonight.

My new craft room

maryjojo — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:01:39 +0000

My new craft room is practically finished. I have been waiting for this make-over for sometime. The deep blue that was covering the walls made it so dark and dismal.

Now with this “lily” or a light yellow, the room looks so bright and cheery.

Not only that its cheery, but its been deep cleaned. Everything has its place the room. No more rotating things out of the way. Just plain awesome. However, the living room still has remnants and boxes from the room. So guess what room is next to declutter. Yep. it’s a never ending cycle.

See more pictures of my room…