Pinteresting Cardigan Upcycle

This is a project from last year that I loved! When I first saw the inspiration pin, I knew I had to have one!

THE PINSPIRATION:

I finally found where this came from - it's here - but they don't sell them anymore. 

I had a dark gray cardigan that was too boring and a lighter gray henley-type shirt that looked horrible on me. I liked the contrast. Cutting out appoximately 50 'flowers' was super fun (feeling the sarcasm?). Sewing them on was like spending time in a field full of flowers with no bees reading a great book.

As you can see from the photo below, just the flowers sewn on was not enough flair for me (NO sarcasm - I LOVE FLAIR!), so I then hand sewed every button into place.

Buttons or no buttons? Definitely Buttons! They tied the whole thing together!

Once it was finished (I did not count hours - I didn't care how long it took - I wanted this cardigan!), I couldn't keep it. It now required hand washing. So I gave it to my mom...I know she will take proper care of it.
(Yes, I did spend days making this and then refused to spend minutes washing it - sounds dumb when you put it like that. So shut it.)

This is my beautiful mother who made me promise to cut her head off in this picutre. 

She cut her own head off in this picture. 

Pinteresting Ice Sculptures, or How to Waste a Whole Day

Yesterday I revealed my Pinteresting Ice Sculptures for the Birds to Eat where I made some pretty cute bird feeders with some ice sculpture molds I found in my supplies (garage sales are awesome). That whole project happened so I could avoid cleaning my supply room. I stretched it out into 2.5 days of not cleaning my supply room (yay me!). But I did have to venture in there for a few more items...

The fingernail polish was to make a hole for hanging. It only kind of worked...

Glitter, crayon shavings, ornaments, beads, food coloring, more molds...I ignored the mess while I looked for anything that would cool in ice.
Got all the molds filled in about 15 minutes. I spent the rest of the day adding layers and watching the water freeze. By evening, it was pretty obvious that I was going to have to wait until morning for solid blocks of ice. Probably could have had a more productive day...

I did, however, end up with these in the morning:

I'm glad I got to enjoy them today because it's supposed to warm up again tomorrow and then all we'll have are the memories...oh, and this blog post.

Have you made some ice sun catchers? Send me a pic!