Store Grand Opening!

This Friday I will be having a grand opening of my etsy shop! I will be stocking it periodically in the next two days to be prepared for it's internet debut!

I hope that you will all come check it out. It will feature things like vintage dooney & bourke bags, other vintage bags/wallets, handmade accessories (flower crowns and head chain wraps!), vintage and retro clothing, and much more!

Check back on Friday sometime for a link to Repurposed Remade: Recycled Rags & Reworked Vintage, owned and operated by yours truly.

Back to the sewing machine

I've been wanting to get back into buying and altering vintage clothes from thrift stores and selling them on eBay and I'm starting with this project; a dress for my birthday. I'm starting with a rough beginning with a dress from a local thrift spot. I have to take in the existing dress, hem it, and add cut out panels as well as sleeves. You'll have to bear with me on the following photo, I was attempting to sketch my vision for how I want it to look when it's finished since I haven't drawn the pattern yet. Sort of like some of the cute dresses for sale on Nasty Gal right now. But anyways, I'll definitely post photos and comments on it all once I've finished the dress. Hopefully not too long from now.

P.s. since I'll be drawing up an entire pattern for the dress, this dress will be available for purchase (by order only) customized to your liking! 

Head wrap chain

Today I was inspired to make one of those chain head wrap things that are all over lookbook and stuff. I thought about buying one on etsy, but it just looked so easy to make, and I didn't want to pay $25 for a pretty one.

What you'll need:

• old necklace or bracelet chains, just get some from around the house
• any charms, stones, or decos you'd like to add
• pliers
• tweezers
• wire cutters
• metal chain links/jewelry links (Joanne's and Michael's carry them)

First you'll want to gather all your supplies and decide on a design for the head piece. I took some inspiration from etsy and mixed it with some ideas of my own. Decide how many chains you'll use and plan out the overall construction. At minimum you'll need at least three chains: one to go over the crown of your head, and one to drape down either side of your head (they will all be connected in the back by a jewelry circle link)

Then start putting it together!

 

I ended up using 5 chains total. One for the crown piece and the i double draped chain on either side of my head. I used a turquoise stone as a connector for all the chains, meeting in the center of my forehead. The whole things took me about 20 minutes, enjoy!

Question, comments, concerns? Please comment or email at repurposedremade@gmail.com

Dream catchers

Alrighty, just a quick one today! Super easy too.

What you'll need:

• bendy twig or something
• dental floss or embroidering floss
• ribbon, feathers, any decos you want!

All you'll need to do it use the floss of your choice to make the twig into the circle that will serve as the outer support of your dream catcher. Then you'll want to weave and loop your floss around and around the twig, first looping around the wood itself and then continuing around by looping back through your previous layer of floss, creating a spiderwebbing type mesh.

Once you're satisfied with you're web, decorate and voila!! Keep away those nightmares.

Sweet dreams DIYers...

Beer blog

I apologize for being MIA for the past week, I've been working like crazy. But today I finally got started on my new beer blog so I hope you all decide to check it out, maybe start following it, and hopefully enjoy reading it! Brew Blog!

Happy Saturday

American workwear

Since I have been working like a dog and can't post any DIY until the weekend, I've been inspired to make a post about old American workwear. Who doesn't love a little bit of Americana? The early american workforce is a fascinating bunch. Train conductors, fisherman(real fisherman, like the deadliest catch before technology), mechanics, professions involving overalls...old traditions that are hard to come by today. Just the bare essentials in a piece of clothing that's well made, functional, and will last you forever. 

Being the shopaholics we are, my coworker Sean and I spent about 90% of our shift today browsing the sale section on Opening Ceremony. There we stumbled upon a company that I haven't heard of before called Confezioni Crosby, a New York based brand that is actually made in the USA and in collaboration with an old manufacturer of professional uniforms and workwear! You can read more about their story here since I've pretty much skimmed through what they're all about. Anyhow I just wanted to post a link and some photos of some awesome classy stuff that OC has to offer, at a reasonable price. I'd wear all of it every day, so lovely! Check it out.

Dried roses

I think that this post is appropriate for today because it is unbearable hot and I feel like drying up and dying like these flowers ha! Anyways, let's get into it.

What you'll need:

• roses of your choice
• ribbon, twine or rubber band
• nail to hang roses on upside down in your house ( somewhere safe where someone won't bump into them and make them disintegrate)

Basically you'll just want to wrap your flower bunch up and hang it upside down until they're dried and ready!

After about a week you'll have lovely flowers that won't die that you can use to decorate with

From here it's pretty easy to make your own potpourri sachets. just take all the petals off of your flowers and lightly douse them with a tiny amount of your favorite essential oil (kind of expensive and hard to find so any oil concentrate or parfume oil will suffice). Toss the petals and the oil like a salad and then put a bit into a pouch of sorts that you can sew shut!


*** side not to everyone: I have a beer blog in the works which I'm kind of excited about, so I'll keep you all updated about that! As usual, feel free to email or anonymously comment with any ideas or recommendations for my beer blog or this!