kayak girl and I have been talking about making our own dressforms (based on threadbanger easy podcast tutorial )for a while and we finally got around to doing mine.

It's amazingly simple and everyone should really make one. Just start by putting on an old shirt (It has to be really long or just use a piece of fabric to extend it) and have your friend wrap you in duct tape
 


Wrap around your torso but when you get to the chest area, start going up and down.
Excuse my weirdness...


Do a couple layers...




Cut it off you (avoid your actual shirt or you next project will be patching)


tape the back up


and if you stuff it you're done.


But I went to my local thrift store and got a lamp base to stick it on during stuffing. So here it is:



and posing with my hoodie and scarf...




I love it! and it's so useful!

Please comment!

I recieved this lovely bag from sunspotted this morning, just in time for christmas.
In all it's glory:


The handle:


Modeling it:


Thank you, Sunpotted!!

I've received! And I can now be counted among the anxious. This is starting to be a killer gallery.

First of all, an octopus hat:

My favorite colors, too.

Octopus earrings:


On me:


Octopus shirt:

I love it!

And the back of the shirt:


THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

my package was sent today, so I hope you get it soon.

i'm so pleased you like it. I was afraid you had disappeared off the face of the earth for a while... 

And the cards on the tin are a mini pack my sister won at a birthday party, i think. I sort of stole them from her. but, it's not like she could haved really use them! So, i was really doing her a favor.


*And here are some photos I took before I sent:

The pins:


and the pillowcase:

It says " After this i shall think nothing of falling down stairs. Also, "It would be so nice if something made sense for a change!"*

I found this cute vintage sheet in a thrift store and had to get it. So here is my first ever bag, made just in time for school, which started yesterday  But i'm really pleased with it  .

Action shot:

Fabric detail:


Bag:

Lined with canvas for support:


Thanx for looking

Photobucket is fixed so here are my beautiful items from lis enthusiasm! I love everything. She made this amazing painting of Alice and the door:

a pretty necklace with an Alice charm:


Some lovely Alice coasters:


And a stenciled tank top that I absolutely love:


Thank you so much, I loved my package.

This was the second stencil I ever did- way earlier in the year.  Looking back, I'm suprised it turned out so well.



Sorry about the bad photos

Hey, I made a bunch of these really easy bottle cap necklaces:

Bird


dutch pattern


sunflowers


strawberries (sorry about the bad pic)


& cupcake


thanx & please tell me which one you like best

Hey, this necklace has an old scrabble piece (obviously)



The beads are from a kit, though

I was oridanly aiming to makle a belt but, I don't drink that much soda and i get kind of impatient so...

Here's my bracelet
Action shot:


flat on my table:


close up:


thanks for looking