¡Craft Attack: Shorts & Shants!

Omg! Omg! OMFG IT'S HOTTTTTTTTTTTT! I live in one of those places that gets all triple digit burn your brain up and kill your makeup kinda hot. The only thing acceptable to wear in weather like this is your birthday suit. Straight up! But seeing as that's probably a no-go for Target runs, I've had to figure out some better options using my mommy budget of $0.00.

First up was an already made pair of jean shorts I had and some of that lace I told you my GMa bartered for a while back. Well I had got excited on a previous project with RIT dye and attempted to dye some of it black... Well it came out navy blue-ish. No biggie tho cause a few snips of the scissors and sum E-6000:BLAMO! These lil bitches got jazzed up all cherry!

Next up, I raided my CraftCrap closet to add a few new additions to my shorts drawer. All the fabric used was from clearance bins at Walmart & Joann's. Nothing over $3.00. It's how I roll.

After I zipped these up I added some zazz with these studs that originally came off my punk belt from my youthful days of "eclectic" fashion (that's what my GMa would say ). The studs were repurposed once before on to a jacket my kids said looked like something Michael Jackson would wear (uhhhhh....) and now again on these sweet little Bettie's. 

My sister already called dibs on these. And she never really likes anything I make so that must be a good thing!

Here's the other materials that got some time in on my machine:

The safari one was from Walmart for like $3.00 and the other one is from Joann's for like $2.50 .

Because the shorts take so little material (like a yard or so) to make, there is plenty of scraps left and because of the cuts made, the remnant shapes left over had me making all kinds of baby projects like this head scarf w/ studs!

Here's the final products in all their photo-filtered glory. The pockets were made out of remnant felt I had lying around. 

My GMa put me up on game last summer on how to make these and boy am I glad I paid attention cause the Sun ain't got no mercy for us this season!!! Lawwdddd have mercyyyyyy!!!!!

-CraftCrapQueen

Droppin sum S.B.Ds up in this bitch!

By S.B.D I mean silent but designing. Being a blogger is hard work. Like you actually have to keep up with this shit if you want people to look at it. That involves time. That is which I do not possess. At this point I'm just lucky to take a dump w/o my 3 yr old turning a private moment into a full on song performance about mommy going to the potty and how he loves me so much. (What can I say I'm loved no matter what I'm doing!) Keep a blog going? Damn near impossible. 

In the few moments that my children have decided to comply with Mommy's nap time wishes, I have managed to make and revamp a few nic-nacs.  Peep game homies:

I tried doing that Galaxy DIY everyone's doing on Pintrest. Pretty firme no?

I did some shorts that were aight but my hubby and I both agree that the shoes looked wayyyy better.  Still need to re-do the sole part. That was a previous project gone horribly wrong. 

I've been working on my Mommy/Munchie gut for the past few months and so I was stoked to find this past project in my crap. Unfortunately these bitches still don't fit but its koo cuz my 10 year old just picked up a perfectly awesome new pair of jeans. I added the lace (which has a dope story behind it provided by the one and only G.Ma) and the studs were part of a revamp I was previously doing to it. I dunno. I kinda like it. Pretty sure she will too.



Another revamp. Trying to unmistake a mistake. I thought it would be cool to make the top seams into velcro-d sleeveless sleeves. Uhhhh yeah. Not cool. Shit itched so bad because of the edges of the velcro. Scratch that idea. Went back. Chopped those suckers out and threw on these pieces of lace (Yup same lace from above). These pieces I had attempted to dye black but for whatever reason they turned into navy blue vintage lace. Nice but not what I was looking for until this revamp came along. I really like it too. The holes I think I should left in the idea box but whatever. Its still aight.


Accessory time foos!!! My sister gave me these Vans glasses that were plain (She's an accessory whore. I can say that because its true and she knows it.) and the dino came from the kids crap that they have left for dead around the house. Picked up the gold and silver sharpie pen markers and got to attacking these lil buddies. However I went wayyyy too far with the Sharpie on the glasses! OMFG! I finished drying these ray blockers (or so I thought) and went to Home Depot with the esposo. Put them on my head to read something and holy hell my face had silver lines circling my eyeballs!!! WTMF!! CraftCrap gone wrong like a mofo! I was so terrified of what I looked like I tried to keep them on during the entire shopping experience but then I just looked like a bootleg celebrity trying not to appear so high.

Damn.

Since then I have taken some nail polish remover to fix that lil problema.

The dino ring is solid tho. E6000 bayyyybeeee!!!

This beautiful piece of cloth comes from the depths of the discount vault known as Factory 2 You. That place is full of some real gems and this one right here got me some street cred with my 3 and 17 month old. Ever since Rugrats came back on TeenNick, my DVR has been hummin like an Edison power station. The box is smoking its so hot! My kids are straight up addicted to the show, so it went without saying that this shirt was going home with it. And while it brought mad joy to the ninos, my crafty spiedey senses were tingling hella hard. Didn't want to ruin it with some ill thought out idea (that happens a lot with me) that makes the project go south, so I ran with light crafting on this one. A few studs. Thats it. But I at least I feel resolute about the shirt when I see it. Its like when a dog pisses on a new spot and is like ya thats my shit! 

Its KINDA like that.

Last one cuz its like the only one left that I would say is semi-publically acceptable. I have had this since I was like a teenager. My mom got it for me and it hasn't met it's death to any moths or other unforeseen damage but since its been in my closet for awhile I figured: REVAMP TIME!!! Theres that lace again. I dunno. I guess I was having a lacey kinda day or maybe I was getting toasted off the E6000 fumes. Either way, I really like it. Don't really want to do the whole thing with lace crap on it. I figure less is more on this one.

Ok. Super stoked I was actually able to finish this up and post it. Golf claps for me!!

-Craft Crap Queen