Holidays

Okay, so as you know the holidays are coming around and its time to start preparing to the fun festivity's. Well, i know its a little early to start preparing for some but to others, early is not in there vocabulary. So all through-out September and October, every week i will post new ideas to welcome fall and Halloween. Well, more along the lines of fall for September, but when October comes around there will be lots of fun ideas you can do. There will even be a few tutorials for costume ideas, and awesome food recipes. So, check back every week in September and October for new ideas. anyways, todays quick tip.

If your between the ages of 13 and 17, then this is just for you. If you know that you have parents who are strict about how your room looks. Then make minor tweaks to make it one of a kind.

Tip #1
If your bed is looking a little bland and you want to make it look a little better. Then this idea is for you.
Get a hula-hoop a few yards of fabric and some ribbon.
Cut 2 35" pieces of ribbon. (I almost forgot. If you don't like the color of the hula-hoop, get some black spray pain and spray it.) Lay the ribbon in a plus pattern so you have for sections. Now tie the ends to the hula-hoop. This will attach the hula-hoop the the celling. Now take you fabric and lay it on top of the hula-hoop. Mess around with the fabric to make it the way you want it. Hold it up just to get an idea of what it is going to look like. If you are satisfied with it. Take a push pin and stick it through the part were the ribbon crosses each other and stick it in the celling above your bed. Now you have your very own custom mad canopy bed.

Tip #2
If your walls are white and it just is not flowing with your tang. Measure the width and length of the wall. Cut some fabric accordingly and tack it on your wall. Now you have a splash of color. If you want. You can do this to all four walls.

Tip #3
If you have a lot of posters laying around and your parents don't want you putting holes all over the wall. Well, convince your mom or dad to let you put a few pins in the wall. You will find out later why you have to turn on your kiddish charm on your parents. Lay your posters out on the floor and arrange them the way you want. Take some tape and tap the together creating on big poster. Now you only have to put 4 pins in the wall instead of a bazillion pins.

Tip #4
Convince your parents to put shelfs up on your wall and get some antique treasures and put them on your shelfs. This adds for a classic look and makes your room seem not so bland.

So get to crafting and remember. Don't buy pre-made, buy handmade.

Trash to Treasure

My mom has always asked me if i was ever going to be a pack rat like her grandma. I never really gave her a straight answer, but awhile back i started to collect pop tabs. My mom asked me what i was going to do with said pop tabs and i said i don't know. Well finally, i found this awesome idea and i said "see, i told you they would be useful" or something along thought lines. So over time i have been doing a lot of research on diy projects. While i was on my quest for tutorials on handmade items, i stumbled across a website called www.cutoutandkeep.net and found some neat stuff. Well i found a tutorial on how to make a bracelet out of pop tabs and elastic cord. (sorry the image is not that great). Anyways, this is my newest creation and i absolutely love it. I barely had enough to finish this one, but ill tell you it will not stop me from making more. So, if you want to find out how to make your own go to the site i listed before and get to making. There are a lot of other great projects there as well and each one is a marvel. Enjoy

Shoes!!!

Ok, so i recently came up with a totally awesome idea to redesign your shoes and make them one of a kind. If you have the money you can go to www.converse.com and get custom shoes created in any color that you want. Well when i was thinking about stuff one day i came up with the idea to make jokers card shoes (jokers cards-the 6 albums of the insane clown posse) for those of you who don't know who they are. Anyways here is my awesome idea.

Tip #1
Get some shoes

Tip #2
If you have plain white converse get some fabric paint, or spray paint and start tagging up.

Tip #3
For those of you who have the money go and create some awesome colored shoes. They even let you put your own personalized text on them, but the down fall is that you are limited to a number of characters which sucks horribly

Tip #4
If you have patches sew or iron them on.

Any other ideas to deck out your awesome shoes feel free to leave a comment.