¡Craft Revamp : My take on Free City/V.S PINK sweats/shants!

I used to have a serious lingerie collection in my mid 20's. However when marriage came, my naughty panties did what they were supposed to and had me making two babies in 3 1/2 years. GO ME!! In between the usual Mom crap I've lost and tossed most of it, leaving my sleep wear options limited to unsexy comfortable ass clothes!!!!! (Secretly stoked right?!) 

So last night I had said outfit on feeling perfectly comfortable until I realized something. These motherfuckers are thrashed?!? Holes. Stains (thank god they're navy blue). Thinning fabric. Elastic band stretched to a comfortable I'm-on-my-period-day size. Like srsly how have these not made it to the trash? Real questions to be asked here. Only answer to that was: "cuz they're so damn comfy bitch that's why!" 

But still.

Thrashed.

At this point I started wishing for a fairy godmother to grant me a stylish retreat from my tattered comfort. "I mean I really would enjoy the fashionable comfort those Free City sweats J.Lo & that High School Musical hoochie Vanessa Hudgens wear. Those would be just nice Fairy Godmother!" Is what I would say...

And then reality set back in and I got to crafting. 

I chopped off most of the damaged area on the sweats which coincidentally was on the legs. I look like a chola with the length and stretched out fabric of my shants but its all good cuz I love it like that.

Next up was the decorate your shit part and I really do like those V.S PINK & Free City sweats so I ran with that motif. Used Sharpie paint pens in gold. & silver, medium tip and freehanded it. A lil bit of glitter & irony makes everything better and wahhhlaaa!  I now got a pair of comfyass sweat shants from a hangover sleepover at the homegirl's house like 10+ yrs ago. 

Cheers to riding with your threads till the wheels fall off. Like a Toyota. Or a Honda. Lol!

-CraftCrap Queen

¡Craft Porn!

¡Craft Crap: Another Heat Rock!

I'm sure you've all seen the various tutorials on jazzin up daisy dukes and I had this crazy idea about making my own patches from shit I like on Pintrest, and thus you see my vision here with the Adelita "Si se puede!" image. 

Here's a detailed flick:

I dunno if you can see or not but I used different colored threads through out the attachment. Still using those studs from that old belt ;) (the accessory that just keeps on giving!). 

Next up is revamping this jacket my husband hates with my sassy new patches I made. I've had this oldie but goodie since I was 15 and since my DNA has left me the same measurements basically since then (a fluffy midget of sorts), I still get to rock it at age...

Anyways. Saw the back to school promotions at Target the other day which got me thinking damn... Time to get a wardrobe together for those cold crappy school mornings!

 Bleh! 

Just thinking about it.

-Cuts & Stitches

CraftCrap Queen

¡Craft Crap: Skillz Upgrade!

It can probably be said that any good craft blogger is better off crafting than blogging, and that's just what I've been doing. I get super excited to start a project so I can share my mistakes and disasters with anyone willing to view em. It's cause I have no mom friends. *tear*

Because its been hella hot, my ass has stayed inside trying to keep sane under less than comfortable conditions. It's been 20 days straight of triple digit heat and these threads I've made are a chronicle of my time on the inside.

Some cargo yoga pants ( my new skill: making pants!), 3 pairs of shorts and an apron all made from scrap materials...

 Pretty firme no?! I did get a call from my G'ma yesterday about the shorts My sister swooped (I showed you guys last time), telling me my zigzag sewing was far from a constructed garment. My sister came by and dropped all this CraftCrap off and in turn took those cowboy leopard shorts and a maxi skirt I had made too. Well G'ma scoffed at my work and gave me a scolding: ZIGZAG + SINGLE STITCH=Awesome Ever Time! I heeded her words of crafty wisdom and made some REAL Clothes. Go me! 

I've got so much knit jersey material thanks to my Mom's jaunt to DWNTWN LA, Ill have my whole familia in maxi/ yoga something's in no time.

Upping my sewing skills and my wardrobe @ THE SAME DAMN TIME!!!

Luv ya CraftyCrap Queens!

-Lady Loca (Aka: The Craft Crap Queen)

¡Blank Canvas!

What to do? What to do??????

¡Craft Porn!

Blank purse and a bag of mystery.... Ohhhhhh yeaaaaaaahhh!