Sometimes when I'm thrifting I find things that I really like but don't fit, like this teapot belt. I bought it at the thrift store because it was cute but it was also very small for me, I still brought it home and tried to wear it once in a while. I also thrifted the white belt and I will admit I only bought it for the brand YSL, but I didn't like the gold buckle. It took me a while to realize that I could make them work if only I used the best of both belts. So I unstitched both buckles and used the cute teapot buckle and the supple leather white belt, stitched the belt back together and voila, now I have a cute teapot belt that fits.

This week my son is off to his first mission trip, I'm very excited for him. Now that he's gone I can't help but notice how quiet the house is without him. Every time I walk by his room I'm surprised that his room is still clean! At first I was kind of sad that he left, but I know he's going to have an amazing experience. I'm also happy to get a break from one of the hardest, but most amazing jobs there is, which is being a mom. Hope everyone has a great week!

Good day ladies! I finally managed to get out of my gym clothes, it's really hard getting dressed only to stay at home most of the day, but today my mom invited us over for lunch and I got these shoes on the mail; both were very good reasons to put on some regular clothes. I'm wearing my refashioned shirt, as you can see I got a little carried away with the fabric markers but I liked the end product. ^_^

Sometimes when I refashion something I keep changing it over time, either because I wasn't completely satisfied with it or because it need a little tweaking. This dress is on the second round of refashioning and I can't say I'm done with it just yet, but today it seemed like the perfect dress to wear to church. All I did was remove the sleeves and the ruffled collar because they just added unwanted bulk, sometimes simple is better.

One of the problems I have when I buy shirts is that the medium size is usually a tad tight and the large size is too big. I've learned that bigger is better because you can always tailor clothing to fit you properly. This week I tailored a bunch of my shirts using this easy youtube tutorial. This shirt was one that I tailored, now it fits much better, hope it's a helpful link. Have a great weekend ladies!

This necklace and I were meant to be together. A couple of days ago I made a quick stop at the thrift store and saw this necklace, I wanted to buy it but because there was no price on it so the girl refused to sell it to me. I went back the next day and didn't find it so I thought maybe someone had already purchased it. Last Friday I visited the thrift store again, I was looking at their jewelry when I saw their bundle baggies at the bottom of the glass counter. They usually put unwanted jewelry in bundles and sell it in a bag, much cheaper too. From one of the bags I saw my necklace peeking out and I only paid $3.99. I was thrilled, I came home, gave it a good clean and headed to the store to buy copper paint because it needed a little retouch. I love how it looks now, it's the perfect statement necklace for the Summer. ^_^

When I made this skirt I thought about wearing it with a lace slip under it, however the slip never stayed in place and it peeked out unevenly. Then I decided to wear it without the slip but it looked a lot like TinkerBell's skirt (not the look I was going for). Last night I decided to tweak the skirt a little, what I did was stitch some vintage lace to the hem. Now it looks much better and the lace stays in place. Little updates make a big difference.

...and work with what you have. Yesterday after I made this shirt I went to the fabric store looking for a stencil but didn't find one I liked, so I decided to make my own. I googled shirt prints online and found this printed shirt I liked. I don't have a printer so I had to improvise and use what I had at home.

So this is how I look after I shower? Not that I hadn't been showering in the past two weeks!! but I had been living in my gym clothes trying to take one day at a time. School is finally over, it was 2 very rough weeks. Once school ended I had to pack everything up to move to a new classroom, and then I had training for 3 long days. Yesterday was my first official day of vacation and I've been trying to catch up on some much needed sleep. I'm so glad I finally look like myself again. ^_^

I love white shirts, I also like coffee, you know what happens when you mix them together? yeap, disaster. I know there are many recipes on how to remove stains, but I actually didn't noticed I had stained my shirt with coffee until it was too late and impossible to remove it. This shirt was in the donation bin and then I remembered I had stencils and fabric markers, so I decided to stencil my shirt. I liked the outcome and I think I'm going to go to the store and buy more stencils, I have one more stained white shirt I don't want to get rid of just yet.