January 02, 2010

Snip, Snip

Yay! I'm finally one of the cool kids. Thanks for letting me in the craft addict club. This calls for a celebratory post!

Here's what's been going on in my studio, cough cough, kitchen:

Truthfully this all started because I went to consign some of Sunwoo's baby clothes at the consignment shop but they couldn't take some stuff, because they had stains on them. So I decided to give them all new lives.

Snip, snip, snip....
I have now discovered the joys of stenciling, which is basically an idiot's beginning to screen printing and oh, how i love it. I mean. This just opens up hotels of opportunities.

Every boy's gotta have a robot shirt.

I took the sleeves off an old shirt, put them on the top of this thermal pajamas, stole the bottom band from, crap can't remember, and cut an old tshirt to make the hood. Learned two lessons: how to incorrectly sew the sleeves on, and to make bigger hoods. Also I was trying out fabric scrap garment tags!Recycled Robot Hoodie, modeled by my son, Sunwoo.
Okay, repurposing clothes, take 2. Used this purple dress, which had some tacky looking flowers coming out of the other pocket, which is covered by this yellow shirt which has stains all over it. PS these were NOT rejects from my trip to Mommy N Me, since this is not really Sunwoo's fashion. The lady at Mommy N Me gifted me two tubs of reject clothing. Score!
Magically mixed some paints for this lovely spearmint color....
Ta-da! Recycled garden dress. This second wave of sunwoo starfish energy prompted me to finally update my website (yay, check it out! www.sunwoostarfish.com) AND to actually put something on the ETSY account. This dress is officially FOR SALE. (double yay! sunwoostarfish.etsy.com)
And that is why Sunwoo and I have been picnic eating our meals on the kitchen floor and not at the table like normal people.

3 comments:

Tanna P . . . aka knitting.ninja said...

Um, loooooove! The little dress is ADORABLE! You're going to sell millions with your new site!

looselylucy said...

How timely! My bf and I were just talking about getting his screen printing stuff out and teaching ourselves! This seems like a good way to ease into it! and so many things to stencil!!! Thank you!

jillofallcrafttrades said...

hello i found your site bloghopping and just wanted to say that this robot shirt is so friggin cute,i have 2 girls so its all flowers and frill in my house,but if i had a boy i would totally need one of these rockin shirts!

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