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DIY: High-Low Skirt

Friday, May 25, 2012 § 0

Want to know how you can make a high low skirt like the one above?

1) First you take a skirt you would like to turn into a high low skirt. The Skirt should be preferably long and flowy.

2) Once you have your skirt you need to measure how short you would like it in the front and how long you want it in the back.you should use safety pins the areas were you want to cut the skirt.

3) The Best Part is cutting up the skirt. You basically just want to follow were you marked the areas in which you would want to cute it.

4) It should because in kind of a circular shape.

5) You want to make sure that the front is even as well as the back.

6)If not then you would need to hem it.

Goodluck! and Hope your skirt turns out Great

<3Frances

Drifting...Oh no wait, THRIFTING :D

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 § 0

Drifting...Oh no wait, THRIFTING Yesterday we went to EcoDrift here in Hayward. When we entered the store, there was lots of clothes everywhere! I didn't know where to begin looking. The clothing there was honestly really ugly, but that's why i chose the ugly clothes, so i can make it nicer ! :D i got a pair of shorts, i want to bleach them like i saw on the website iSpyDIY.com.

Everything was pretty cheep, i got 4 shirts, 1 pair of shorts, & a scarf. I am ready to get all the materials i need to fix these clothes up :D I am going to need sparkles, laces, bows, beads...lots of beads! I want to make these clothes into something comfortable to wear, especially right now in the summer time. I want to make the long sleeve shirts into no sleeves of short sleees :) and add a little style of Michael Jackson<3 (: with sparkles, and many more things. I hope this is not difficult to do, if i mess up i'll be outraged...totally outraged! >:O But it will be fun making all these clothes look actually nice :D

I am really excited to start working on these clothes. And the best part is that we get to keep the clothes after WWW! :D So all of these clothes were cheap but we are going to make them nice looking so that people would think we got it in the mall or something :D I want to make these shirts pretty enough that people ask me where i got them from.

I love different patterns and beads. Like i said before, I am going to try to do a style sort of Michael Jackson, at least one shirt. For that i am going to need sparkle glittery things.

Collared Shirt

Week Without Walls: Day 1.

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Yesterday was such an adventure. My WWW group went THRIFTING. It actually felt nice going thrifting for the second time in my life. My partner and I actually found some really cute stuff. As I walked around to find something, I would always think to myself, "Why did they give this away? It's so cute!" 4 items only costed me $17.23. Although, I did go over my budget just by a little. I can say that my shopping experience at a thrift store with my group was pretty fun. On our way back to school after thrifting and having lunch at McDonalds, we waited at the bus stop waving to random passing cards. Most ignored, most waved and most honked. After acting like complete weirdos, the bus finally arrived and we were on our way back to school. Day 1 of my WWW was awesome if i do say so myself. :)

Day One of Week Without Walls

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May 21, 2011

Yesterday was Day One of our Week Without Walls. We came to school and pretty much just looked at the clothes that were in the trash bags. I found this floral skirt that I'm going to turn into a high-low skirt Then i found this black cardigan that I'm thinking of making it into a cropped cardigan. After looking through the bags we headed over to the bus stop. We took the bus to this store called Ecothrift.Ecothrift is a big thrift store in Hayward. When I first started thrifting this was actually the first store that I had went to We spent about 2 hours at that store. All of us girls found so much clothes that had been within our limit. I was pretty happy with the items that I had got and I can't wait until I am able to alter them. Mostly all of the clothes that we got yesterday was for alteration to make it into our own type of style. I was really surprised on how much clothes you are able to get for such a small amount. Because usually at Foever21 or H&M one blouse is usually the pricing of the limit that our teacher had given us. After shopping we walked to go get some lunch. Then after lunch we took the bus back to school. When we got back we just wrote prices on the paper. That was the end of our day.

Day 1 of WWW

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May 21, 2012

As soon as I walked in the Eco Thrift store, a jean jacket caught my eye; that was one of items I was dying to buy. There were so many things that caught my attention, and some of the prices were irresistible, like the lace tank top I got for only .99 cents! A lot of items had discounts, some had 25%(blue tag) off, others 50%(orange tag), the best tag to choose was the yellow tag which was 75% off! Sadly I didn't find any items that I liked with 75% off, but I got four items for less than 17 bucks!

I chose a jean jacket, a lace tank top, a red wine button up, and a black skirt to alter. While shopping I came across a gorgeous pink-ish dress, it looked very sophisticated and I really like the way the top was, so I was think of cutting the top off, but I did not buy it because it was too cute to cut; I regret not taking a picture of it.

Yesterday was my first time thrifting for my own clothes, it was overall a nice experience. Eco Thrift not only has clothes to offer, but a wide range of everyday items.

What I plan to do.

I am going to cut up the jean jacket and transform it into a vest because its sleeves fit me too loose. I plan on adding a patch of lace from the tank top I got and adding it to the pocket folds. I am still debating on whether or not to add rhinestones. The skirt I got has bit of layers of lace, and originally I was looking for a high waist skirt but did not find one that I really liked, so I am try to see if there is a way in which I could take of the layers of lace from the skirt that way it is straight black and the way I envisioned it which is hard to explain. Anyways, I plan to match the skirt with the red wine button up after I cut off the sleeves from the shirt to make it a bit more in style according to what's "in" today.