Make Your Own Powdered Sugar

Did you know you can make powdered sugar! I found a post about it, I can't remember where but all you do is measure the amount you need into a blender then add 1 Tbsp of corn starch for each cup of sugar and blend until powdered. You may need to stir and blend some more. So if you do 4 cups of sugar you would add 4 Tbsp corn starch.  It's that easy!

Second Desk Refinish

I already took out the drawers. But here is the before.

We Acquired this desk for free, it was intended to be a temporary desk to use until we could afford a new one....We used it for 4 years! Way to long! Since we bought and made over this one. It also has a tutorial for painting with out sanding. Here is the after:

It is for my Daughter and turned out awesome!

Desk Refinish

I found this Desk at goodwill for 35.00. All the drawers worked, and it was a big solid desk, so I bought it! Thank goodness I had my hubby with me!

Here is the before!

I want to stress, I hate sanding. Now that I have discovered this:

I found it at LOWES!

                                                            I will NEVER sand again!

Here is it Primed.
I did 2 solid coats.

                       While Priming I discovered it was a Lazy boy brand and came from a Bank.

Talk about an awesome score! Soon you will see the desk we acquired as a temporary and used for 4 years! Its going in my Daughters room and is in the process of being painted PINK!

Here is the finished product!

I think black makes everything Better!
(and yes the walls are ugly, but we are renting)
There you go!

                            I did 2 coats of high gloss black, also from Lowe's, and I am loving it!

T-Shirt Refashion

I wish I had taken before pictures and Pictures along the way. But honestly I wasn't sure how this would turn out. So here is a shirt exactly like the one I cut up only a different color.

men's extra large

I used the extra for the ruffle and flowers.

I kept the original hem but ruffled the sleeves and gave them a new hem.

Since this was my first refashion of this kind I call it a success! A few tips, try on your shirt before cutting extra and use a favorite shirt as a pattern. plus take into account the stretchiness of both fabrics. And last try on before deciding where to place flowers. I would have liked mine a little higher.

A Messenger Bag for a Reverse Walker

So my oldest boy uses a reverse walker, he had a nasty bag zip tied to it from the school P.T.(physical therapist). It was ugly,could hold all his stuff, so all it did was lighten his back pack but he still had to use one. I decided to make him one. Since I'm not clever enough to actually design a pattern I used See and Sew B4583 and left off the strap. instead I did 3 straps that button, those I did come up with on my own.

inside

I am super happy with it and now he doesn't have to carry a heavy backpack!

Easiest Dress I ever made

The top fabric is vintage, it belonged to my Grandma.

This dress was super easy! 

In the middle of sewing this my serger ran out of thread and I had to re- thread it for the first time since I got it! It was such a pain in the butt, because it's not a self threader! However I stopped freaking out and was able to do 2 of the threads(the other 2 were still fine)! I am loving sewing!

Dress For E

This Dress took me 2 days total. Over all it wasn't the easiest but it wasn't the hardest either. It was my first time doing pockets and working with bias tape. I love the finished product!

Notice the fabric Flowers. You can find that tutorial here.

Here is the finished dress

She is planning on wearing it to the Daddy Daughter Dance at school next week!