To go with the cute shirt I have been challenged to make(but am not finished with) I decided to add some ruffles to an old sweater.

Making ruffles is super easy!

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If you know me at all, you know that a challenge to me is not something to be ignored, in fact, its something I take very serious. Someone asked me once if I could shove this piece of cake in my mouth all at once, and as soon as I feel like there is a challenge on the table, well I will show you that I can. I did shove that cake in my mouth, unfortunately I did spit it out again, but I did shove it right back in(which made everyone sick) and chewed and swallowed the whole thing. That just tells you I have a big mouth and that I will do whatever it takes to prove to you that I can do it!

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I was looking through the Anthropologie catalogue, as I normally do for ideas, and saw a pin tuck tank. I didn't think it would be too tough and so I tried it on a shirt my daughter was getting rid of. The shirt was a cotton but it was a stretchy smooth feeling cotton and sewing pin tucks in it was not the easiest.

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I found this cute checked fabric at the Goodwill bins about a month ago and I used it on this bolster pillow but still had a bunch left, so I found a tutorial online for Handmade Napkins here. I have a friends wedding coming up and thought some napkins and napkin rings would be a great gift. Still looking for the perfect napkin rings to make. Thanks to the Purl Bee for this napkin tutorial!

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This is a quick post today. I saw this skirt made from tee's over at Beelieve and loved the way it looked. Of course mine is a bit different. T-shirts really are great material for a comfy skirt. I made this skirt in about an hour. I just started cutting shirts apart and piecing them together. Next time I will try overlapping more, like Karen from Beelieve did. I even used a long piece from a tee for the drawstring.

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I have this beautiful niece who gives me clothes that she no longer wears or doesn't like and this week she gave me this really cute strapless dress with a side zipper. I love it but for me I knew I would never be comfortable wearing it without some sort of strap. I had this scarf that I had found while thrifting a while back and decided to try some different ways of adding it to the dress for straps. I sewed and seam ripped and sewed some more before I decided to do plain old straps.

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I love looking at the clothes in the J.Crew catalog and while I was looking I came across this silk tank top and I remembered this vintage silk slip that I had found a while back, dug it out and decided I would turn it into this.

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I talked about this before, right here, but I never actually did it, now that I have done it(and a pretty crappy job at that), I want to try again. I actually think I could make a cute swim suit out of a t-shirt. I also have figured out easier ways to do it, which seems to happen when you make something for the first time. The second time always brings about changes to how I did it the first time.

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We have a wild game of Nertz with the same 6 friends each month and this month I wanted to make something fun for them to take home with them. This isn't the first candle holder I have made with recycled jars, you can see the others here and here, but this is the first that I have used playing cards on. It took me a few tries to come up with this but eventually I got it worked out. These were a lot of fun to make. Try one for yourself. They make great gifts.

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I have been looking at the future with a little apprehension, knowing that there are a lot of changes coming my way, hard changes, ones that cause me to want to climb back into bed and stay there until they all disappear. Well it doesn't work that way. Changes come with life, that's just the way it is. So I'm getting out of bed and going to be a big girl and face these changes head on.

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