Another project complete! (February 28)

I have recently started a BUNCH of projects and hadn't finished many of them. So I've been on a finishing streak. I have posted about a bunch of my finished projects, but this is my favorite, it only took me 2 days to finish it! I laid it all out on the 26th (as you can see in my previous post) and finished sewing late last night.

Here is the finished personalized snuggie. Remember to use an iron and a sewing machine... two things I didn't have.

Haircut!!!!! (February 27)

I was WAY overdue for a haircut, like WAAAAAAAY overdue. My hair was looking HORRIBLE. So I splurged on a new do. $36 (including tip) for a decent cut from a level one stylist. Anna was a great stylist and a good conversationalist. I had a lot of fun while she cut my hair. And I think it turned out really well.

I took this in the car right after the cut in order to show Ludwig his new girl!

What do you think?

Personalize your snuggie! (February 26)

So I had a whole bunch of t-shirts laying around that I don't wear anymore. I can't get rid of them though because they mean something to me. Some are shirts for my favorite sport's team's victories. Others are from high school clubs, others still gifts from people that are important to me. I know I'm not going to wear these shirts anymore, so what is the point of keeping them? Memories of course, but what to do with them?

A lot of people make t-shirt quilts. I think that's a wonderful idea, but I don't know how to quilt, and if I learned, I'm SURE I wouldn't have the patience for it. So instead, I cut up the shirts and put the important parts on my plain blue Snuggie.

I plan to sew these onto the snuggie, therefore personalizing it. I would suggest that if you want to do this to one of your old blankets that you use an iron and a sewing machine (folding over the edges of the t-shirts to avoid those pesky threads). However, I don't have the patience for folding, and I don't own an iron or a sewing machine. So my finished product will be all sewn by hand and will definitely LOOK handmade ;D

Better DIY (February 25)

Not a better DIY than yesterday's, but better than the previous DIYs of the same sort. I found a tutorial for fabric-ing boxes. So I used the tutorial and created a blanket box for the blankets taking up space in Ludwig's closet!

I did not however put a cute little bow on it... maybe one day!

DIY project (February 24)

So Ludwig has TONS of plastic grocery bags. He uses them to bring lunch to work, so they are nice to have around. However, they take up a lot of space!!! I was sick of it! So I cleaned out an old clorox style wipes container, dressed it up with scrapbook paper (cut to size) and folded the plastic bags to stuff inside. Now we have a cute, small storage container for all those plastic grocery bags.

There are many tutorials on how to fold grocery bags, but I found mine here.

There are about 30 grocery bags in there!