Pj pants can be more.

Since my love for the ARC stores (or thrift stores) has been made pretty clear at this point it shouldn't be a surprised that I found something there that I liked. I ran across a pair of pj pants that I really liked, but sadly they didn't fit like I thought. The pattern and colors were what I really liked and so I wanted to keep those pants. I cut them along the seams and across just below the crotch.

I rolled the seams over and sewed them to keep the edges from fraying. I then sewed those edges together and made it into a bag. The material is a little thin, but that's not really my concern. I don't plan on using it for anything that would rip it or poke through it.

It was an easy project and a good use of the pants. The remaining material will get used for other projects. It was entirely worth the $3.99 I paid for them.

Don't ever think that just because something doesn't fit it should be 'dead' to you. Try being creative and think with an open mind.

Sweater's repurposed

Just because something is not your style or doesn't fit, does NOT mean it isn't worth your attention and consideration. Take previous owned sweaters. The A.R.C. stores here have a sale every February on sweaters for .99 cents. Means the stores will be busier than normal, but its worth it.

Mom has been looking for wool sweaters that have interesting patterns or designs on them for a purse project. She wants to felt the sweaters and make them into a purse. We got the idea from a lady that goes to our quitting store in town. She had a really lovely one and she told us both how to do it.

I wanted to find some ones to wear and I wanted to find a few for projects of my own. I have found two of three projects online that use old sweaters, so I thought I would give them a try.

We found MORE than enough to do our projects, to enjoy for ourselves and then some more!

These are mine.

These are Moms.

Lost Treasures

Around the middle of December I was doing some indepth cleaning and organizing and I discovered a bunch of pendants. They either didn't have chains or I simply forgot about them. Even found one I thought I had lost a long time ago. There was about 5 or 6, so I thought it would be a good way to use up the small beads I have.

I don't use seed beads for much of anything, but for some reason I always end up with a bunch. These necklesses wiped out about one tube for each neckless.

I have a pink cross and now I have a neckless that fits it.

I got a Chinese fish pendant from my mother  a few years back and never had a gold chain, so I made one that fits the colors in the pendant.

I had a two sided stone pendant that was on a leather strip, but it broke, so I thought this might be better.

This Chinese lucky pendant was actually part of a package that is for using on cards and scrapbooking, but I wanted to do something different. 

Forgot about my music pic pendant compeletly. Glad I have a neckless for it now.

I didn't have any more beads that I thought would look good with this clover pendant, so I just made a new chain.

From one little discovery I now have several new necklesses!