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17Jan | 2012

Super easy fabric scrap mousepad tutorial

Posted by Joy | under Crafting . Sewing . Tutorials . Upcycle | 39 Comments

After I made my chair cover, I wanted my desk to have some of that fabric as well and since I had a buch of scraps I decided to make a mousepad (I really needed one too) I also wanted to give my brand new ModPodge a try even tho the one that I have it’s not one the recommended for fabric. I wanted to [...]

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30Aug | 2011

Desk chair transformation

Posted by Joy | under Crafting . Sewing . Tutorials . Upcycle | 71 Comments

Last Christmas my in Laws gave Ken and I matching Desk chairs. We only had one and it was pretty broken. Ever since I’ve had a love-hate relationship with it. I love it because it’s so comfortable, actually one of the best I’ve ever had. My back does so much better with this chair, BUT it’s all dark and leather, in hot days I feel like I [...]

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18Aug | 2011

The Upcycled ruffles dress tutorial

Posted by Joy | under Sewing . Tutorials . Upcycle | 57 Comments

So this past week was pretty bad blog-wise, my blog and website got attacked with malware. My feed was having issues and subscribers seemed to banish. Happily most of it is fixed now and I am happy to be able to blog again (I didn’t wanted to post anything until I was 100% sure the malware was completely cleaned) And if you saw my site [...]

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20Jul | 2011

Restoring the storage cube tutorial

Posted by Joy | under Crafting . Tutorials . Upcycle | 18 Comments

Last year I purchased a Whitmor 4 Storage Cubes in White to organize some of my craft boxes, and even tho they work, those particular ones are not like the old, resistant and super durable ones that Ken had. So when he decided to toss his, because there were some connectors missing, I decide to restore them at a very low cost, $5.50 to be [...]

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13Jul | 2011

One and a half dress

Posted by Joy | under Crafting . Sewing . Upcycle | 14 Comments

Since I am always in the hunt for t-shirts, pants, dresses and pretty much anything I can use to upcycle, I could not be happier that Ken actually set apart a big tub full of t-shirts for me =] and the very first project I started with them are top of dresses. I am still not finish with the second one, there the name of [...]

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