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 :)

Mushrooms! *non magical ones ;p

This is all Jamie Oliver's as well as all the other cookery shows being aired on telly. You know, the type of cookery shows where the chefs just effortlessly harvest a couple of herbs, vegs etc and dump them in a pan and magically produce food?

Its kinda long shot to achieve the above as I live in a little flat in tropical Singapore. But guess what?! I can now do that now with the 4 oyster mushroom logs I've purchased! Thank goodness for mushrooms being an easy food to mix and match. We've prepared them with stews, bbq, stir-fries and more.

Sure it proberly costs less to just buy them from the supermarkets and takes more effort to grow them, but the taste of freshly harvested shrrooooms just makes such a difference in the dishes. (after harvesting they can be kept for up to a week in a zip-loc bag)

Here's a couple of pixs of their growth stages.

Little mushroom sprout

3rd day from the appearance of mushroom spouts

Lovely plump Oyster mushrooms ready for harvest

Lovely plump Oyster mushrooms ready for harvest

PS: Oyster mushrooms are known to have higher nutrient levels, reducing hyper-acidity and cholesterol and blood pressure.
info from : http://tempoafrica.com/2011/03/mushrooms-growing-food-on-waste/

Her name is

Tsumori

A girl who’s sweet, charming, a traveller, a lover.... (of all things beautiful)

A survivor of multiple bad hair days and severe reconstructive ear surgery.

Tsumori, means intention, purpose equating to determination.

Tsumori now


after reconstructive ear surgery

She needs a name : (

Am terrible because:

1. She proberly can't hear now because she was the first SBL I tried taking apart and totally injured her.

2. Her lips were terribly carved as I did not have the proper tools (I was based overseas and was desperate to custom a doll, with or without the right tools)

3. I never set her fringe properly

4. Her makeup looks terrible!!!!

5. I NEVER NAMED HER!!!

I'm trying to make amends. This is also my break month thus I've been going through my older gals, touching them up and giving them make-overs! Hopefully I've learnt a little some thing from Project runway and watching numerous episodes of Tim Gunn's guide to style!

ps. do feel free to leave name suggestions.

Here's a little picture story of her:

her before:


her hearing issues :(




her little road to recovery:

Loving Denim

Hi everyone,
If you were to see one of my post awhile bk, I had mentioned that I wanted to take up the challenge against over-consumerism and trying to reduce my carbon footprint, thus the inspiration of the material usage in this set.

It's now close to winter, and what better way to warm up in denim. Denim, our staple throughout all seasons will now function as a tunic over a long sleeved tee to help keep the gals tidy as they finish their late autumn farm chores.

All tees will have a vinyl print of every girls' favorite animal : )

There are 4 variations of this dress set.

Materials used are up-cycled cotton and denim.

*pls take note of the little denim rip in set2, I kept it as part of the design for a more rugged look but do understand not everyone might like it.





the tees with vinyl prints
*Close up of the 'worn' out feel, pls take note that the vinyl prints were intentionally heated a bit more at the edge to make it appear 'worn'


Each dress set is priced at 36usd each.(Only set 3 left)

International Shipping is 3usd

Pls contact me at fuzzie_dud@yahoo.com

more pix can be viewed at http://www.flickr.com/photos/rayne

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


Biona/Frigginfuchsia 2 Consumerism 0

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