Trash to Treasure – an inspiration – DIY T Shirt Refashion

08 Monday Oct 2012

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Originally we wanted to reblog this one but couldn’t figure it out *blush* We didn’t want to overlook this one because of our newness so decided to do it in a way that we knew how 🙂

Check out this beautiful restyle from The Renegade Seamstress. It’s a DIY: Art Nouveau Inspired T Shirt Refashion Tutorial. Absolutely lovely patterned material and beautiful pleats. Maybe one day we can sew like this 😉

DIY: Art Nouveau Inspired T Shirt Refashion Tutorial

This deserves a like like like! Talk about trash to treasure – we love it! what do you think of this restyle?

Have you got any restyles that you are proud of? Share it with us 🙂

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

Inspire Me Monday! Tie Restyle Project

08 Monday Oct 2012

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It’s another Monday so time for a new inspiration. Last week we had posted the men’s tie with the pretty little duck print.

Men’s tie for restyling

This is how we restyled it.

This also covers our # 2 and #3 for the Pinteresting challenge – Pin It and Do It Challenge.

For Pinteresting challenge #2 – baby singlet restyle – we were inspired by this pin and here’s our end result – it’s just too cute!

Baby Singlet and Hair Bow

For Pinteresting challenge # 3 – tie to headband restyle – we were inspired by this pin and here’s how it turned out – we love it!!

Headband

This week…

Its a pair of very plain black wedges…such a lovely blank canvas – so many possibilities!

Shoes for restyling

What do you think we should restyle it into? Where do we start? Inspire us…

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

 

Pin It and Do It #1 – Bleach Print Bibs

07 Sunday Oct 2012

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Hi everyone!

So here is our first Pinteresting challenge for this Pin It and Do It Challenge.

Here is the pin that inspired us on Pinterest. Instead of using a t-shirt – we decided to restyle some baby bibs we had on hand. So silly – we forgot to take a ‘before’ picture of the bibs!

And here is our finished product…

Pinteresting Challenge #1 – Bleach Print Bibs

After we made these the crew at Oh So Pretty the Diaries posted a DIY on their blog. We just love the horse silhouette – so graceful! Check out their DIY tutorial – the DIY: SPRAY BLEACH SHIRT – it turned out better than ours! While we were writing this we realised that the inspiration pin came via Oh So Pretty the Diaries.

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

 

Pin It and Do It: A Pinteresting Challenge – October

02 Tuesday Oct 2012

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We were reading up on some blogs and came across this challenge via Kelly at Cobwebs, Cupcakes & Crayons. So we headed over to join Trish at Love, Laughter and a Touch of Insanity in her Pin It and Do It October 2012 Pinterest Challenge.

October PinitDoit

It’s quite simple. So join the fun!

To participate choose your level (Timid Pinner: 1-3 Pins, Pinterested: 4-7 Pins, Pin Obsessed: 8+ Pins) and then make (or do) that amount of pins during the month of October. As you complete your pins you can report back by linking up to her blog at Love, Laughter, and a Touch of Insanity. The challenge ends October 31st.

We’re trying for Pinterested! Follow us on Pinterst to see our progress.

Thanks to Kelly at Cobwebs, Cupcakes & Crayons and Trish at Love, Laughter, and a Touch of Insanity for including us in this challenge – we can’t wait! 🙂

Inspire Me Monday! PJ Restyle Project

01 Monday Oct 2012

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Hi there!

It’s another Monday so time for a new inspiration. Last week we had posted the playful print pajama pants. This is how we restyled it.

Restyled clutch purse

Close up of purse detail

Restyled bracelets

Here are the before shots of the clutch purse and bracelets.

Before shot of clutch purse

Before shot of bracelets

This week its a pretty tie we got from a swap meet market. Look at the little duckies – So adorable!

Tie – How shall we restyle?

What do you think we should restyle it into? Inspire us…

Just Out of Pinterest…Tutu skirt

29 Saturday Sep 2012

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If you haven’t already been on Pinterest yet – be warned – its sooooooo addictive! We have spent many hours scrolling through and finding things we love. This regular feature will be us attempting a variety of projects that have captured our Pinterest! Hehehe!

These projects won’t necessarily always be restyles but we will try 🙂 Check us out and follow us on pinterest – lovenotesstudio

So the first project we will attempt a combination of two pins that we found. It is to make a little girl’s tutu skirt. We found a pin for a tutu dress and a pin for making a tutu skirt. We liked the skirt design and preferred the crochet headband waist – hence the combination of the pins.

And here’s the end result…what do you think?

Thanks to Mischa for modelling the tutu for us!

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

Inspire Me Monday….Let’s get this started!

24 Monday Sep 2012

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Happy Monday everyone!

This will be a weekly feature where we will be calling out for our lovely readers to inspire us! We will post some pictures of an item that needs some restyling – then you can inspire us by posting comments about what you think we should do with it 🙂

We will then work with the inspirations you have provided and post what has happened – Grand Success or Epic Fail 😉

So with our first post in this feature – here is our item. It’s a pair of pajama ‘satin’ bottoms we got at the Fairfield Markets Swap Meet. We just love the pattern and the playful colours!

So tell us…What do you think we should do with this discarded item? Inspire us with your ideas of how we can restyle this into something new.

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

Upcycle! – We call it Restyle <3

14 Friday Sep 2012

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Hi everyone!

So what is upcycling? Basically it’s taking an unwanted item and making it better – the folks at upcyclemagazine.com say it best. We call it Restyling!

Since our last post, I’m yet to go through our big bag of goodies from Flemington Market so thought I would upload some things we have made from our last trip to Flemington Markets.

I found a beautiful large cushion cover – unfortunately I didn’t take a photo of the original item 😦 At first I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it – I was thinking of making a little dress out of it for my 7 month old niece and then I decided to use a little piece of it to make some flowers for the restyled disco shoes I was making.

Upcycled disco shoes for my little niece ❤

Since then I decided to make shoe clips and hair clips from the left over material.

Shoe Clips and Hair Clips made from upcycled pillowcase ❤

I then restyled some of the decorations from my other niece’s recent 4th birthday and made some shoe clips and hair clips.

Shoe clips and Hair clips made from upcycled party decorations ❤

What do you think of our creations? If you are just too excited and you would like to see more of our creations check us out on pinterest – lovenotesstudio (we are still trying to figure out how to put buttons on our blog!)

We are still slowly working on our blog – it’s all very new to us – so stay patient with us whilst we get it all together 🙂

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

Swap Meet at Flemington Markets…

09 Sunday Sep 2012

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This is our first blog! We are still getting the site together – slowly but surely!

On Friday night (ok it was Saturday morning at 2.30am) I went to the Flemington Markets Swap Meet with my little sister. We go around once a month and dig through what they have to offer and every time we walk away with bags and bags of pieces and a head full of inspirations of what we will do with our new treasures.

Flemington markets and my sister with our coffees…

My Treasures…

Then to top off my weekend on Saturday we went to Ikea in Tempe and I got myself the SY Sewing Machine…it’s so cute and functions nicely.

SY Sewing Machine from Ikea

My head is overflowing with ideas of what I will do with all my new goodies. Thank you for reading and please come back to visit our blog and we’ll show you our creations as we make them.