Monday, March 2, 2009

Lent

Sometimes I give things up for Lent even though I’m not Catholic. This year, I decided to give up buying new clothes and accessories. That includes everything. No new shirts, jeans, jewelry, purses, and (gasp!) shoes. I waste so much money on clothes and stuff that I don’t need and really aren’t that great anyway. Plus, I rock at sewing and making stuff myself, so I kind of see this as an opportunity to get creative and be more self sufficient.

So the first thing I made after ash wednesday was this pretty grey top with drapey sleeves. I made it out of an old XL t-shirt, so it’s super comfy and soft. I also made that bracelet and that necklace; I copied both of them from jewelry I saw on freepeople.com (their stuff is EXPENSIVE, yikes).

4 comments:

Frankie said...

Wow that's a really good idea. I'll have to do that next year. Why didn't I think of that?

Jamie May said...

seriously! you're amazing at reconstruction! I'm so jealous! I saw your blog on craftster! do you think you can make tutorials, that is whenever you're free?

Frankie said...

Weird Jamie May... my name is Heather May... little things like that make me happy.

jamie.t said...

I love this shirt. How did you do it?