Homemade Yoga Skirt

I love yoga skirts and cannot get enough of them. I had this short "dress" that I had wrote about a while ago of me wearing it with leggings. Well, I was grabbing it out of the dryer yesterday and when I was holding it up to fold it , I noticed that IF I was to cut it under the armpits , it would be a perfect length yoga skirt. So , I got out the scissors, and cut it across just under the armpits. Now I have a perfect yoga skirt that has a cute print to it.

         No need to do any sewing or anything. Just cut it across. Let it bunch down on its own.

I really like the skirt a lot better than when it was a long "dress" top. More comfortable and I can wear it with a lot more things.

Yoga Skirts - Comfy Style

Not sure why, but lately , I have become obsessed with yoga skirts. They are so comfortable. I already had one black one that I wear all of the time. I went to a thrift store the other day and found 3 more - I used my $10.00 bonus card so all 3 of them cost me about $2.00! I found a Free Sewing Pattern so that I can make some more whenever I find some t-shirt knit fabric. I have some dark purple that I plan on using now. These will be great for this summer when it gets hot!

                                          (disclaimer - I have never or plan on ever doing yoga!)

DIY Legwarmers & Hat

Do you have a sweater that you love , but just don't wear anymore? Either too small or whatever. Take it and make some quick legwarmers. No-Sew! Really easy and then if you sew , take it and use another stocking cap as a pattern to make a matching cap. Keep warm and not cost any money!!

                     Lay the sweater out flat and cut the arms off straight across from the armpit.

                                                           Wear them to keep warm!

Take another stocking cap and lay it on the sweater towards the bottom to make your self a cap. This one I left a lot of the bottom so that I could fold it up.

                    Easy winter items and they cost me nothing , but about 10 minutes of time!!

Homemade Makeup: The Complete Guide To Making Amazing Organic Makeup At Home For Your Skin And Body - Includes 33 All-Natural Makeup Recipes (Healthy Recipes, Simply Homemade Books) was a free kindle book when this post was written.

Homemade Makeup

The Complete Guide To Making Amazing Organic Makeup At Home For Your Skin And Body – Includes 33 All-Natural Makeup Recipes

There are so many chemicals in the makeup and beauty products that are on the market today and we are putting them on our skin. You no longer have to worry about covering your skin with these harmful makeup and beauty products just so that you can look your best.

This book is going to give you everything that you need to know so that you never have to go buy a bottle of chemicals to put on your skin, hair or teeth ever again. From the top of your head to the bottom of your feet this book contains every recipe you will ever need to ensure you are able to make all of the beauty products and makeup that you need with natural ingredients right in your home.

By the time you finish this book you are going to know how to make your own shampoo, conditioner, Hairspray, mousse, foundation, blush, eye shadow, lipstick, body butter, deodorant and so much more. Everything you will ever need to know about creating your own chemical free natural makeup is in this book.

Flannel Sheet To Pajama Pants DIY

What do you do when your Puggle chews a hole in one of your most warm and favorite flannel sheets? You make warm and comfortable pajama pants out of it!! Great way to save some money. You can get a couple of pair out of the full sheets.

It is super easy to do.

Take the clean flannel sheet and lay it out. I always use the edge as the bottom of the pants so that I do not have to hem. Makes these even quicker to make.

Take your favorite pair of pajama pants that you already have and lay them down on the part that you already have folded in half. Those are your pattern. Cut two out. Do it to where the sewing down the pants leg is on the inside.

 Sew both "legs" and then put one leg, turned right side out, inside the other one - sew down the middle (crotch) .

 Pull the leg out of the other one and turn down about an inch at the top for the waistband. Sew around and leave an open place for the elastic to go in. Sew it all together and finish off the opening.

YOU NOW HAVE A PAIR OF WARM AND COMFY PAJAMA PANTS!

Purses?

Look around you when you are thrifting. There might be some crazy things that are meant for one thing ,but could be used for something else. Like, baskets for purses. Camera cases and thermos cases are a great way to get a vintage style purse. When I was a teen, hmmm a long time ago, I had taken an Army "butt" pack and put a shoulder strap on it. It was my favorite purse. Not sure what happened to it. Moved too many times. I would still be using it, if I had it.


Look around and be creative!

Decorate Your Walls

You can find so many different unique ways to decorate the walls in your home at flea markets, thrift stores, and yard sales.

I like the idea of using vintage game boards as decor. They are very unique and look very interesting. You can usually get them for next to nothing also.

                             You can also find some great vintage art work. Like these kitties!

This art work was so neat. It is an actual window that they painted and added a piece of art behind. Really neat. Probably would not be hard to make yourself one of these if you didn't want to buy one.

Vintage Sewing Patterns

The best way to get sewing patterns is at thrift stores, yard sales, and flea markets. They are usually VERY cheap. Most of the time they arr vintage and already cut, but if you get a pattern that you will use a lot , it is a good thing it is already cut. Especially if it is your size that you need. That is the part that I hate about sewing - cutting out the pattern! You can even find fabric for low cost. Even Walmart usually has marked down fabric for sometimes $1.00 a yard!

If you don't know how to sew - LEARN! You can save a lot of money this way. I taught myself how to sew just so that I could make the cloth diapers that my son wore. I even made some money selling some online. Got us thru my husband lay-off.

You can find a lot of FREE sewing patterns online - I have a lot of my favorite free sewing patterns listed on my Sewing Ideas Pinterest Board.

 

DIY Privacy Screen

This is the neatest thing that I saw at the flea market ...They took old doors and made "walls" for their booth! I want some to make a privacy screen. Would be good in a house or for what I want it for on my patio. I would have to make a stand for them out there or somehow put them in the ground. But, it would be neat looking. Frugal also. A lot cheaper than $100.00 + dollars for actual privacy fence panels. I see old doors all the time at yard sales and such for $10.00 to $20.00. Pretty easy also. They had big hinges on them.

Reuse/Recycle/Alter/Redo DIY

This tray out of a big toolbox was leaning up against the wall at a flea market and the first thought thru my head was "wow, what an awesome spice rack!". My daughter wanted it for all of her makeup and nail polish. Neat how different things can be use for many different uses. I bet you could even come up with something else that this could be used for.

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DIY Christmas Decoration

This is such a cute idea. They took an old book and folded it in such a way to then decorate it as a Christmas tree. I love it. They were selling them at the local flea market, but they don't look too hard to make yourself.

I found on Youtube several videos on how to do this and it is not too hard.

• How to make a holiday tree using a paperback book
• Book Christmas tree - reuse/recycle books DIY
• How to make a folded book tree for Christmas

Do a search and there are others decorations that you can make from folding books. Even wreaths.

A very frugal way to decorate. Everyone has old paperbacks laying around, why not use them.

Take Care

excuse the mess, a puggle helped me make the bed!

When you have very little room and hardly any closet space, but have a large amount of clothing, you have to find ways to hang them and take care of them. I found this clothes hanger at the dollar store for $10.00! It holds a lot of clothes and they hang perfect so they are wrinkle free. Just because your clothing came from a thrift store, doesn't mean that you can't take care of it. This has helped me a lot to have this.

 I am planning on getting a couple more. My wardrobe will be growing , won't it??

A New Use For Something Vintage

A Shabby Chic Re-Do!
 
Went to the flea market today and seen so many amazing items. This old wooden ammo box(?) is one that, if I was redoing a bathroom, I want! Put a couple of small shelves inside it and a small mirror on the outside and it would be a great medicine cabinet.

Use your imagination and you can find many different ways to use items except their intended purpose.

DIY Homemade Gift Wrapping Ideas!

You spent all of your money on the gifts so save a bit by making your own wrapping paper. This Christmas I am using all of the packing paper that came with any packages that I have gotten in the past year. This makes great wrapping paper. You can decorate it or just leave it plain. I plan on leaving mine just plain. I like the looks of that. With red tags.

Here is a list of some other ideas for you to use:

• Use comic book pages or newspaper.
• Maps that you can get free from each state. I have to admit that I have bags and bags of maps, but I want to save them for if we ever have to bug-out. They do look great as wrapping paper though. Maybe choose a state that someone you know is from or something like that.
• Using reusable shopping totes as gift bags is a good idea. They sell them at dollar tree that are plain also so you can decorate them.
• You could wow everyone by reusing the cardboard boxes that food comes in. Like cereal boxes, etc. Kind of neat and with this you do not have to wrap, just put the item in and seal it up.
• Aluminum foil looks awesome. Wrap a colorful bow and it is stunning.
• Wrap gifts with pretty scarves! Silk ones that you can get at thrift stores would be an awesome idea and they can use it!
• Kitchen towels make good wrapping "paper"! Get print ones at the dollar tree and use it to wrap the gift. 

There are many ways to wrap gifts that is basically free.

Don't forget to save any packaging paper that you get for next Christmas!!

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DIY Camouflage Skirt

Found a book at thrift store - Free-Style Handmade Bags & Skirts - and right away found several things I want to make. I want to start with this skirt. I had found a pair of camo pants at a yard sale last summer for 50 cents that I can do this with.
Seems easy enough and since they cost almost nothing , it will be worth a try.

How to Create Custom Jeans in Military Style and Original Jeans Turned Inside Out

To design custom jeans in military style you'll need a piece of camouflage material, a needle and thread, buttons, scissors as well as a sartorial chalk. Turn your jeans into Capri trousers by cutting them a bit lower the knee line. Cut two square pieces from camouflage material, with a length of the trouser bottom and a width of about 10 centimeters each.

Sew the cuffs down to the bottoms of trouser legs, whip the side seam and stitch the seams on the sewing machine. Turn the cloth to the front side, carefully spread the cuffs, iron the side cuts into different directions. Turn the upper cut of cloth inside onto 5 millimeters, tack it to the trouser legs of your jeans and stitch the seams.

Sew down the buttons sideways near the outside seam of the trouser legs. Cut out two pockets from camouflage material of the same size which jeans' pockets have.

Turn over the cuts of one of the workpieces 5 millimeters and sew them down to the back pocket of jeans so that the factory stitching of pockets stays visible. Sew the second workpiece using the same technique, however, place it a bit outside of the pocket.

You can also make another patch flap pocket on one side on the thigh. Sew down buttons to the pocket and make cut loops in the flap. That's it!

To create extravagant "inside out" subculture jeans you'll need denim cloth, metallic buttons, thread, a needle and scissors.

Mark out a cut line on both trouser legs. The cut lines should have different levels, for example, one can be marked out up the knee height, the other one a bit lower. Cut off both trouser legs on the marked line using sharp scissors. Turn the cut off parts of trouser legs inside out.

Tack the outstanding inner seams so that they fit to the cloth and the stitching that will come to the front in the ready-made customized jeans model looks neat.

Sew down the finished trouser leg to the place where it was cut off so that unfinished cuts come on the outside, on the front part. Fray the cuts by taking out the threads with your fingers or using a gypsy needle.

Cut out of denim cloth of contrast color eight square worlpieces for onlays about 5 centimeters in width each. Our onlays will have different length, the longest one will be exactly the trouser leg's width, and each other will be 2 centimeters shorter than the previous one. Two last onlays should have equal length.

Turn over the cuts of each workpiece 0,5 centimeters and tack the edges. Stitch each workpiece using the thread of contrast color and on one of the ends make a cut loop using a sewing machine.
Tack and then stitch the onlays except for the shortest one to the jeans on various height parallel to the bottom of the jeans trousers. Sew down metallic buttons to decorative cut loops.

Onlays of different length can be equally placed on trouser legs of your custom tailored jeans. Cut out or pierce holes on back pockets using sharp scissors. Place them so that they would look as symmetrical as possible on both back pockets.

You can create a balanced impression of a complete jeans model by decorating one of the back pockets with a fake onlay.

Complete the pocket's decoration by sewing down a metallic button. Decorate the second back pocket using the same technique. That's it! Your originally built customized jeans are ready.

Custom jeans design, denim fashion - Getwear customized jeans brand

DIY Infinity Scarf - NO SEW!

This is so easy and fast! Very frugal , too. I found this XXL men's t-shirt at a yard sale for 50 cents this summer. Bought it thinking it would be big enough to make a skirt with to wear this winter with black tights. But , I had eyed it wrong. I cut it and right away I knew it would be way too short. So I set it aside for a few minutes , picked it up twisted it and put it around my neck! Yippeeee PERFECT and no sewing

Huge XXL men's t-shirt. I buy these whenever I see them for less than a $1.00 and in good shape. There is a lot of fabric in them. I used to make my son's cloth diapers from t-shirts like this!

 I loved the tiny stripe in this t-shirt. I wear a lot of black and knew this would go with just about everything I have. Whatever I decided to make out of it.

                                    I cut it straight across the t-shirt from underarm to underarm.

I held it in my hands and scrunched it up - bottom of shirt to the end where I cut. Then I twisted it and put it around my neck. Fits exactly like I would want an infinity scarf to fit in the winter. Just right to look great and keep my neck warm.

NO SEW and fast. Maybe 5 minutes total time to make. Now, I want to go thrift store shopping just to look for XXL men's t-shirts!!

Fabulous Tunics!

Tunics are so comfortable to wear. They are also so stylish. You have to have a few of them in different prints etc. They look so great with a pair of skinny jeans. Pretty much all I wear now that it is cooler.

This tunic in the photo , I made! Found this awesome fabric at a yard sale for 25 cents and got home and there was over 2 yards. I knew right away I would use it for this Simplicity 4180 Misses' Pullover Bias Tunics or Tops, Size K5 (8,10,12,14,16) sewing pattern.I did not sew in the camisole piece into the neckline , because I have a pink top that I can wear under this and it looks perfect.

Comment Below -  What was the last thing you sewed??

Bath and Beauty Box Set: Homemade Beauty Products for Gifting and Personal Use

Give homemade gifts this Christmas to be frugal. You can make homemade items that give that personal touch , making everyone happy , and saving you money! Even save more money because this book if FREE for your Kindle. Bath and Beauty Box Set: Homemade Beauty Products for Gifting and Personal Use (Skin & Hair Care) is free for kindle at the time of this posting. Check the pricing.

 

Bath and Beauty Box Set

DIY Body Butters: Homemade Body Butter Recipes for Skin Rejuvenation and Hydration

The saying goes that we only get one body and that we have to treat it well. One of the most important things that you can do for your body is to take care of your skin. You remember your elementary school biology lesson that your skin is the biggest organ in your body, right? Sure you have to take good care of your heart and the internal organs but your skin deserves some care as well. Keeping your skin soft and well-hydrated is important not only for its appearance but for its function as well.

Body butters are more than just your typical lotion. They are typically made from a much higher oil/fat content and provide more hydration and more softening to your skin. These body butters are also typically more easily absorbed into the skin meaning that you get the most of the benefits without the ingredients being washed down the drain or wiped away with a towel or clothing.

Since they are readily available people might wonder why making body butters on your own is even suggested let alone encouraged. As you will see from this book the benefits of homemade are extraordinary plus there is the bonus of having a lot of fun in the process.

Inside you will learn:

• The ability to control the types and quality of the ingredients that you use.
• The ability to adjust scents and additional ingredients for your own optimal health and happiness.
• The security of knowing that what is in the jar is safe for your family.
• The ability to whip up specialty body butters for friends and family members as gifts for special occasions and just because you love them.

Body Scrubs! Budget-Friendly, Homemade Natural Body Scrubs To Heal and Nourish Your Skin

Take a walk around any beauty shop, bath store or even drug store these days and you will see a million and one different body scrubs all touting their healthy skin benefits. Did you know that most of those benefits can be afforded by making your own homemade scrubs in your kitchen?

Forget spending ten, twenty, thirty dollars on a small jar of chemical infused scrubs, get in your kitchen with "Body Scrubs! Budget-Friendly, Homemade Natural Body Scrubs to Heal and Nourish Your Skin" and take your skin's health in to your own hands!

Whether you're having trouble with acne, dry skin, combination skin trouble, signs of aging or just need a good relaxing scrub down, "Body Scrubs!" has plenty of secrets to share with you that the major corporations don't want you to know.

Instead of wasting your money on pretty perfumed scrubs that offer chemical preservation, this book will show you how you can heal and nourish your skin using nothing but natural resources that cost pennies on the dollar.

Inside You Will Learn:

• Why you should be making use of body scrubs.
• Why homemade body scrubs beat out commercial body scrubs every time.
• What ingredients you should be adding to your homemade body scrubs and why.
• Body scrub recipes that you have to try.
• And Much More

Shampoo Making 101: Fun, Easy, and Budget-Friendly Recipes for Gifts and Personal Use

Have You Ever Wondered What Is In Your Shampoo?

Perhaps you have always wanted to try making your own. The good news that it is easy, fun and budget-friendly and you don’t need a lot of expensive equipment to make it either. Making your own shampoo has benefits that store-bought products cannot offer.

Inside You Will Learn:

• How Shampoo-Making Saves You Money
• What is in Commercial Shampoos and Why You Should Be Concerned
• What Equipment You Will Need and Where To Get It
• How to Make Your First Shampoo Using Just Two Ingredients
• How to Make Shampoo with Essentials Oils
• How to Make Shampoo with Herbs
• How to Make Liquid and Bar Shampoo
• How to Make Other Natural Hair Care Products

Reinvent Your Boring Sweatshirt

Here is an easy way to update your sweatshirt. Take your boring zip-up hoodie and make it new.

Get out your zip-up hoodie and take different colored strips of other sweatshirt fabric, from thrift store finds. Kids sweatshirts are perfect for getting the fabric for this project, just enough fabric and most thrift stores have kids clothing for about 99 cents each piece!

Measure the front diagonally to from the shoulder to the zipper, then from the zipper on the other side to the side seam. Cut out the fabric that you want to make the stripes with. Pin them down real well on the front and then start sewing by hand around. You can use a contrasting color thread to make it look even more interesting. That is it!! A new sweatshirt!!