Upcycled Bath Towel

Here's a simple upcycling project I've recently completed.
A simple old bath towel being snipped up, over-locked at the edges, followed by simple home-stamped labels (I prefer the clean-up towels at home to have designated uses and labels help us keep to that).

This project took no more than 2 hrs, am a tad slow in sewing.

So here's my little contribution to saving our earth :)

Proj2: Pinky lurve

Every notice how we out grow our jewellery and accesories? Instead of throwing them away, why not give them a little TLC face-lift ?

I had this string of Tourmaline for the longest time purchased with the believe of it’s healing properties. I had almost forgotten I had it till I gave my little jewellery box a spring cleaning.
It's now been given a little up-cycling as it’s previously strung style is a little too passe for me and I can’t bear to dispose it. Now, I can’t wait to wear it with my little Garnet bracelet which is in need of a hook change for a multi-layer bohemian look :D 




Here's it's before


After


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Here’s a little read about it’s healing properties:

Relaxing and nurturing, pink tourmaline is associated with feminine energies.
It vibrates a deep resonance with the heart chakra. It has the potential to heal emotional wounds with its soft, soothing energy to bring feelings of comfort and safety.

 Emotional balancer and cleanser.

• Alleviates stress and obsessive behaviour.
• Assists in changing patterns to better align with spiritual growth.
• Radiates kindness and tolerance.

Plastic Surgery

I’ve had an ammmmazing day today! I’ve finally continued my custom on a Blythe clone I had recieved almost a year ago. The motivation? My motivation to beat consumerism lol!
I’ve been feeling too disgusted with myself over-purchasing stuff for the sake of ownership and then chucking them aside.

The work I’ve done on her are, enlarging of eye sockets, craving super poooofffyy-puffy-botox lips for her and giving her a new face lift. If only I could perform such plastic surgery on myself as easily!

It’s also my 1st time using the new air-brush my husband and I purchased together to pursue our hobby in model building and Blythe. 

Yeah : ( Consumerism 1 Frigginfuchsia 1, we’re on a tie now till this project is completed.

Now:


Slightly before:


WAY before:

Proj1: Wristlet

For over 2 years, I’ve never stopped flipping through my favorite Japanese interior and craft books. Inspired by them, I decided to give my tiny apartment a facelift before I over-flipped the pages to death. But alas, I was faced with an amount of items that made this task impossible. You have noticed why every interior-styled pix look great in books is actually due to a lack of clutter yar? From the above attempt of decluttering, I’ve come to realise I was part of negative consumerism. I’ve toooooo much of everything. 3 huge boxes of fabric (I’ve no idea what possessed me), 5 tool boxes of craft tools, 3 boxes of doll customising items (and approx 35 and above blythes) .... just to give you an idea.

It hit me that I had to do something about this. To help my already spent money and the ailing earth as well as to heal my guilt on consumerism.

A friend suggested that I should take part in http://www.theuniformproject.com/
It was a pretty great idea given that I’d have one less clothe to wash, but given the humidity of our climate, I think I’d proberly end up air-polluting tiny Singapore.

My problem. OVER consumerism ( I do not see this as contributing to the economy as much as am OVER-using the earth’s resources)
My solution. Re-use, Reduce, Recycle & UP-cycle.

With the above thoughts, I’ve came to realise that I finally have an aim and topic to blog (after 4 years). Yes it'll still have dolly content!!!!!

I’ll be taking up a challenge inspired by OVER consumerism to by contributing ideas to this blog with solutions created from material/items already purchased over the years to help this little ailing planet we all live in.


I am not perfect but I will try to do my little bit each little day.



My first little project was to replace my 2 year old wristlet.

Below are pixs of my solution created from diving into my at least 10kg of fabric. I found some lovely Polka-dot linen, brown zipper which I bought 4 years ago!!! and some remnant khaki fabric from a styling job.

Am now proud to say Biona/Frigginfuchsia 1 Consumerism 0