Two New Things

So remember these? The bleached black skinny jeans that turned yellow? Well I gave them a spin in the washing machine with a packet of Dylon antique grey and they are no longer yellow.

They are not entirely what I imagined when I first got the bleach out, I was thinking more along the lines of a distressed light grey look, but they are certainly more wearable than when they were yellow. In fact I wore them on Saturday with another recent refashion.

Jacket Next
T-Shirt New Look
Scarf Me
Jeans New Look, Bleached and Dyed by Me
Boots Jane Shilton

A circle scarf made from the bottom of this velvet dress. This turned out to be harder to make than I thought it would be. Originally I sewed it right sides together into a tube and then tried to turn it the right way round but I kept ending up with tube inside a tube for reasons I can't understand so I had to unpick the whole lot and sew it wrong sides together. What should have been a 5 minute project took around 2 hours.

Need a Good Laugh?

So I had a pair of black skinny jeans that after several washes had gone more of a dark navy blue colour. No problem I thought. A bit of bleaching and I will have a lovely pair of grey distressed look skinny jeans. So I put my jeans in the bath and started mixing various concentrations of bleach. 1 part bleach to 9 parts water, no effect. 1:6, no effect. Nothing happened till I got down to 1:1. Then I got bored and just sloshed pure bleach over them. So after washing and drying this is what I ended up with.


Pretty pattern but yep, they are yellow. Was not expecting that. I haven't given up though. I recently bought some grey fabric dye to dye the sleeves and collar of a dress I never wear. After I've done the dress I'm going to stick the jeans in the mix and hope for the best. It can't get alot worse. Yellow is just not my colour.

MySpace Archive - Shopping Sprees and Window Sills

Okay so I had a little shopping spree...

Shoes; slippers; (fake) leather jacket; tights; necklace; material, buttons, ribbon and elastic for sewing; waist belt; hiar clips and... black skinny jeans!

This is actually quite good for me. I wouldn't let myself have several things I wanted (including a gorgeous pair of black patent ankle boots in Next) until I get a job, and therefore some actual money!

And don't think that I spent ALL my money on silly expensive, will go out of fashion in 10 minutes, new clothes, no... (only most of it)

I got an oversized black and white top from the British Heart Foundation which I plan to shove a waist belt around and wear as a dress. It works pretty well until I lift my arms up, but has a hole in the side which I'm planning on fixing any day now. I have two other dresses that I got cheap in the sales because of faults that I'm going to fix, pictures when I get round to it. I also got these shoes -

For £3.50! I hardly ever find my size in charity shops probably because most of the stuff is donated by old ladys who have smaller feet than me.

I cut out a pattern for a new dress yesterday so sewing will resume shortly, if I don't get a job soon or anything silly like that! In the mean time for no reason in particular (except that now I know how to add pictures I can't stop) here are some pictures of a few of my favourite things, most of which live on my window sill.

Wooden roses, or flowers that never die.

Hematite, This gem stone is supposed to represent war and make warriors invincible, also meant to promote calm, confidence, strength, concentration and other crap like that. I just think it is pretty.

Poison bottle, found when digging up our old backgarden.

Music box, plays a song from Phantom of the Oprea.

Sad man figure.

My rather expensive but very pretty wallpaper.

And finally... my new shoes! and no don't be stupid, of course they aren't comfortable!

MySpace Archive - Skinny Jeans and Other Unflattering Things

While you will never catch me denying I'm interested in fashion, I'm rarely found rushing out to purchase the lastest trend. However I NEED a pair of black skinny jeans as they will probably, absolutely go with EVERYTHING in my wardrobe!

I'm also loving the harlequin/masquerade look. But I think I can save myself some pennies and create something with the sewing machine. It won't be nearly as elaborate of course.

Fail! Can't remember where this image is from but it's not mine. Sorry!

Image from TopShop

Moreover I love this dress from Topshop and am having a hard time accepting that it will NOT flatter my thighs!

Image from TopShop