Skittles cushion.

Everyone knows that i love skittles :) and if you don't.. well.. then you don't know me that well.

[Front side]

I still remember when i came up with this. One day i was in class at school and i was eating skittles, then a friend told me "aagh! i wanna sleep so bad.. these desks should have cushions or something" . When he told me that i was looking  at my folder [ which had empty packages of skittles in the front]  and i was like "mhm.. cushions..skittles..." That's when i decided to do this. 

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For this cushion  at first i wanted to stuff it with cottons, but i didn't work out [ they turned into big massive ones]. Later, i got an old cushion and started taking out all the stuff from the inside and then my pops looked at me and he told me that it was better to just put the piece of yellow fabric i had already made on top of the old cushion.. and yeah it was a good idea. So basically this is a yellow fabric stuffed with an old cushion. The only things i made was to give the fabric the shape of a cushion and to sew the skittles packages into the fabric. Oh and see the red square in the center?.. it's a pocket. [ or wannabe pocket?] . 

 < i know it doesn't match..

Anyways this is not hard to do, and i only spent like umm 3 days? doing it. You can choose any fabric color you desire and also the candy packages you want. I'm thinking of making another one of these but instead of the skittles packages i wanna use some photos :) if i do it i'll post it here.

Things you'll need:

*Piece of fabric

*Needle and thread or a sewing machine

*Candy packages [empty duh]  

* An old cushion

*Scissors

*Ruler

*Time and dedication :)

Cassette purse.

This is personally one of my favorite things i've made so far..

The front side i think..

It consists of just some cassettes glued together in the shape of a bag/purse. For this i used a special glue, which i'll give you the name later.

One of the sides.

< The other front side.

< Down side, you don't have to use the six cassettes you see here in the picture, the amount of cassettes will depend on how big you want it.

<< Inside of the purse, i glued a black piece of fabric . This can be any color you desire. Also you can leave it without anything but i recommend you to put one.

Again i tell you, you don't have to use the amount of cassettes you see here in the pictures. For this purse i used umm 22-24 cassettes, but you could make one using 36 or more!

Things you'll need:
*Cassettes, useless of course.
*Glue [not any glue.. a strong/ rawr one]
* A saw
* Ribbon or something similar to use as the handles
*Piece of fabric
*Time and dedication :)

CapriSun wallet.

This may look familiar to you..

That's because i posted before a purse i made using this CapriSun envelopes.Only that now instead of being a purse it's a wallet.

< Down side.

< As you can see i sew some velcro on the top and in the middle of the envelope, this is for closing and opening the wallet. It's very easy to do, you only gotta know how to sew and if you don't know you just learn . 8)

You have to use a sewing machine to do this kind of wallet but... as always you can sew by hand too!

Things you'll need:

*Two CapriSun envelopes

*Sewing machine

*Thread

* Velcro

*A pair of scissors

*Time and dedication :)

Purse made with can pull tabs.

This looks difficult to do and YEAH! it is very hard to do it. Also you'll need a lot of spare time. The first thing you gotta do is collect all those pull tabs from the cans, i remember i was all the time like "hey! don't throw that, i need them.." Besides the pull tabs you'll need to break a gallon of milk to put it on the down side of the purse , this will bring the purse some kind of  base.

< Down side.

< I used some velcro to open and close the purse. This is not necessary but i strongly recommend it. On the inside you have to put a piece of fabric [any color] . I sew a black one on.

You can do this by knowing how to put together all those pull tabs , using some yarn and a thick needle. And yeah... it takes a lot of time...

Things you'll need :

*7975453 pull tabs

*Yarn and a thick needle

* One milk gallon

*Velcro

*PATIENCE

*TIME  and dedication :)

Bracelets, ring and one necklace.

This things that you'll see next are not hard at all to do, and you can do them in like.. 5 minutes? really easy!

From left to right: bracelet made with ribbons and buttons, bracelet made from a shoe lace , bracelet made with the thingy you use to open cans, bracelet made with buttons and finally a necklace made with lots of lil' things i happened to found.

Here we can see the ring i made with a button, and the two bracelets i made using buttons too. "You love buttons ilze or what?" No i don't but i think they look cute.

As you could see this bracelets are easy to do , yo won't spend too much time doing them. The only one that might take some time is the red one with the can things [dont remember the name] .

Things you'll need :

*Ribbons

*Buttons and more buttons

*Needle and thread

*Those can things

* Decorations

*Time and dedication :)

Small bra purse.

I turned a useless bra into a purse.. weird? crazy? i dont't know and i don't care 8) [that sounded rawr]

This is one of the bra sides. As you can apreciate i decorated it with a small heart [i have lots of those and i don't even know why] Thta red square you see in the right side it's a pocket, yep a pocket. Both things were stitched using a needle and some thread.

We can see here the other side of the purse/bra. On this side i stitch a piece of red fabric [red!] a black button , and a red bun which we can't look. The metalic button that's on the top was sewed there so that it can be used for closing the purse.

< Inside of the purse. Not very big i know. To get this you gotta glue together the bra, the  two sides, using the hot glue gun you can achieve this.

It's really easy to do it and it doesn't take too much time. You can choose any color, any side, etc. And you can decorate it with whatever you want! Definitely an ice breaker this lil purse.. [ i've never take it to the outside world]

Things you'll need:

*An old/ useless bra.

*Hot glue gun

*Needle and thread

*Decorations

*Time and dedication :)

Remote control wallet.

This is one of the craziest ones i've made so far..
At first you see it and say "ohh wow ilze it's a remote control, what about it? i have lots back at home"

... yeah a simple/indefense/boring remote control... [front]

.. [back] ..

"Oh yes ilze we all know that remote controls batteries go in the back.. wait.. where are  the batteries?.." Yeah, i took out the batteries and the thingy that holds them and i inserted a piece of yellow fabric, which i glued thanks with the help of a hot glue gun, very easy..

I know too much cash.. yes this is the compartment for the coins, loose change and all that. You can use any color you want. This is not necessary btw but i thought it would look better with this fabric glued in it.

 Well notice that side that's broken?.. no?.. yes? all right! You have NOOO idea how difficult it was to open this control..  Thanks to the lack of strenght in my arms i had to ask my sista for help. [btw thanks sista you're the best!] . She opened that .. how? i don't remember quite well, all i remember is that i was holding the back side of the remote and she was pulling on the front side, it was kinda fun to do and watch.  After 10 min  of  struggling with this  it  was finally open [wahoo] The next thing i did was to take out all the things that were inside. [don't ask what bc i don't know those names] Then, i glued the keyboard to the front side, you don't want  the keyboard to be all loose.

Inside of the back side>> 

On the left side of the picture you can see that i didn't put anything at all inside, that's bc it would only take a lot of space and well it's already small. That'a where the bills are supposed to go.

On the right side you can see that i glued the keyboard [ like i told ya before] . I tried with the hot glue gun but it didn't work out so, i used another glue i found in my refrigerator [yes in the refrigerator] . It said on the label "glues virtually anything!" me - "anything?.. we'll see.." and yeah! it worked out.

Here you can see clearly a bill and one coin inside the remote. The 'lid' is the front side, the one with the keyboard.

To close it you just put the two pieces together and wawiwo! You have your remote control wallet. Of course the remote will look broken from the front but not everyone notice this. To open it you lift that side and the rest just pops out.

Things you'll need:

*A useless remote control

*A powerful glue

* Piece of fabric [optional]

*Scissors

*Hot glue gun

*Patience!

*Time and dedication :)

Oldest thing i've made.

Just a simple stuffed umm person? i made when i was 15 years old. Maybe it should have a name, poor buddy is nameless.

I know it looks very old, that's because i've had it for 4 years now, he's a senior or something like that. It's all washed out as you can see, and the thread from the edges is starting to get loose... maybe i'll have to sew it again.. sometime.  

You can stuff it with old pieces of fabric, cottons, etc. For this i used at first some cottons but then i noticed that they kinda turned into a big big cotton ball and i didn't like the look of it so i trade them for pieces of fabric. To be more specific i used  the stuff that you can find inside an old pillow. You can sew it using colorful thread [recommended] . I also recommend you to sew it from the outside not the inside, this way you'll have all the stitches visible and that's what it makes it look cool i guess..

You can use as many buttons  you want, you can make him/ her/it happy-sad-neutral , i don't know. I made a happy one. [yes, that pink thread it's a smile]   

Things you'll need:

*Fabric [any color]

*Buttons

*Needle and thread

*Something to stuff it [ cottons< not recommended, old fabric pieces, etc]

*Scissors

*Time and dedication :)

Pencil case.

I have no idea how i came up with this ... 

Yeah.. it's a case made from that carton that's left from the toilet paper.  One day i just saw lots of these lil fellas piled up in the trash can and i was like "mhm they have the shape of a cilindric case... i'll try to turn them into one!" and that's when i did this..

The first time i tried to made it i failed, it was kinda well it wasn't.. it IS kinda hard to sew the zipper into this material but eventually you get it right 8)

I tried to decorated outside but i didn't know  what type of things to use for that. So i ended up gluing a small red heart [yes red] on the left side and a red [ or was it black?] button on the right side, which fell by the way, that's why you can't see it. Using a hot glue gun you can do this very easily, just be careful with it, you can burn yourself.

That blue piece of fabric you see in the middle it's from some jeans.. yep i cutted that out from some old jeans i had.

This is how it looks from behind.

Left side.

Right side. This is the second most hard thing to do.. to put those small pieces of fabric on the sides. That's because you can't sew them, you gotta glue them and most of the time when you think you're done noup noup! it unglues all of a sudden! so, you gotta glue it very very well.  

Here you can clearly see the zipper, i used a black one but you can use any color you want. I think this is the hardest thing to do, in my opinion. I don't remember how many times i sew it and unsew it!

This is the inside of the case. It's not very big but it has space for a few things :) [ yes i love sharpie].  

I'd love to do another one but bigger! If i make one i'll show it here.

Things you'll need:

*Two toilet paper cartons

*Hot glue gun

*A zipper

*Scissors

*A needle and some thread

*Things you can use as decorations [buttons, ribbons..]

*Time and dedication :)

CapriSun purse/bag .

This is a very very small purse i made a while ago.. like one year ago. It's all made from  CapriSun envelopes.
It doesn't take too much time to do it [ 2 days] and it's really easy! you just gotta be careful where and how to sew the CapriSuns together. I recommend you to use a sewing machine, of course you can sew it using only your hand but with the sewing machine it'll be more easy and fast ;) . Besides, the machine has functions your hand doesn't have. For instance, for this purse i programed the sewing machine to sew on a zig-zag mode, if you sew by hand this will be more difficult to achieve.. but not impossible. So you do it the way you want! :) 

One side. This is how it looks from the front.

Look from the inside. [optional:you can put a piece of fabric inside. ]

  Down-side.

Things you'll need:

* CapriSun envelopes [duh]

*Sewing machine

*Scissors

*Time and dedication :)

  

why do this?

Hiya!, this blog was created with the intention of showing  how you can do so many things with stuff that you might think is useless or just not necessary anymore. If we start to look around us we'll notice that we're sorrounded by lots of things that can be used again. We could still use them  in the same way we used to or, come up with a new way to use it = to get creative.
This is sometihng i consider fun and entertaining at the same time.. i mean it.. Some people might be like " hey ilze, stop collecting all that sh** and start doing something important." or "ilze, why do you have all this garbage in your room? throw it!" . For me this is kinda important, it involves recylcing and  it keeps you busy. We gotta remember that recycling is very important right now! it really makes a difference no matter how big or small but it really does help. Recycling is an excellent way of saving energy and conserving the environment . Also did you know that ..
- 1 recycled tin can would save enough energy to power a television for 3 hours?
- 1 recycled glass bottle would save enough energy to power a computer for 25 minutes?
- 1 recycled plastic bottle would save enough energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for 3 hours?

Interesting huh? obvioulsy  there are MORE good things that come as a result of recycling but i won't mention all of them. "But, why should i recycle 'hippie' ilze?" Well, just remember that you're umm like giving something back to the earth. The rest i'll leave it to you.... :)
PS= hope i can inspire you to do lots and lots of stuff like this!!