My Biggest Fans

These heinous, sun-faded, thrifted, dust-ridden, crimes against good taste that had been sitting in the boys' room for longer than I care to think about were destined for the charity bag or bin. I didn't much care which. Because being beyond fugly makes it OK to dispense with things in my book.

But then. There was that nagging voice in my head 'waste is the biggest sin', and I really do not like wasting perfectly useable things. It makes me tetchy even thinking about it. But I did so want something shiny and preferably not fugly... what to do?

And then Pinterest saved the day. Again. Paint! What was I thinking?! Of course, paint. Always paint.

A quick trip to the DIY store to buy aqua spray paint resulted (due to the fact that I took the boys and there was no aqua spray paint) in this - slightly better than heinous - gold fans. "We can pretend they're trophies, mummy!". Hm.





I know for a fact that one day these will be aqua. I'm just biding my time...

Jeans to Bag

On a whim I snatched these from the never-ending mending pile, realised my son had now out-grown them *blush* and decided to have a go at something completely unnecessary - a bag.

I simply snipped off the legs, sewed the hem, added a lining and used the belt as a strap and this came together in under ten minutes. It's OK as a rough-n-ready go-to purse. Hardly evening wear, but I like it. I'm scouring my house for all those old button badges to add punk element to this schoolgirl project.

It certainly has enough pockets for all my stuff and I think I'm going to like toting this around....