College :)

6 hours.

That's all the time that remains until I move into my new home and I'm so super excited!! When I was packing up the car, I ended up turning it into a giant game of tetris without meaning too. All the boxes just fit so perfectly!!

I'm going to be half an hour from my house, which isn't too bad, but it's separation and that's good :)

I'm laying in the living room, listening to a playlist on Spotify and watching infomercials about a robotic vacumn. Pretty nifty. Maybe I could use that for my dorm haha :D I'll be sure to post some pictures of my lovely dorm once it's all decorated. <3

Making my own jewelry.

Yep, that's right.
Currently, about 30% of my jewelry is handmade.

Mostly it is bracelets because they are the simplest to make. And after I move into my dorm [in THREE days], I'll try to get a tutorial up :)

If you want to make one, you're going to need :

Pliers [roundnose and clipping]
Jumprings [medium and small ones]
Headpins [Either with a round or flat head]
Beads [Most of mine use pearls, but for the tutorial, I will be using simple black beads]
Chain [Long enough to fit tightly around your wrist]
Closure [either a lobster or c-clasp]

And that SHOULD be it.

I know it seems like a lot, but in reality, I only use 11 headpins per row [we'll only be making 2 rows. One with beads, the other with chain], so a $2 pack of 100 from Walmart will work wonders! [hey, it's what I use!!]

<3

Band Camp!

Well, even though I'm out of high school, I decided to take my two other friends to band camp and help out the new guard members. :)

We ended up learning the routine and adding our own stuff to it also.

It was definitely a great day.

I also downloaded a bunch of music last night when I get transported to the back side of Youtube <3 So many lovely songs :D

I hope everyone is having a great Monday!

Bleaching and Dying Denim :)

I decided around midnight on July 16th, that I wanted a pair of colored shorts. Now, I could have gone the easy way, and bought a pair of white shorts and fabric dye, but psh, I'm on a college budget [well, my mother's budget] and I love crafting so I decided to DIY them <3

To begin with, I went to Wal-Mart and bought 5 packs of Lemon-Lime [green], Grape [purple], Fruit Punch [red], Lemonade [yellow], Orange, and Pink Lemonade Kool-Aid.

Then, I got a bucket [just an old ice cream tub], filled it about a quarter with bleach, put the shorts in, and filled the rest with water, and stirred the mixture. I let it sit for about 45 minutes, and received very little bleaching. So, I did the process again except with very hot water, for around the same amount of time, but received the same result....so I decided to go ahead and dye them. [they were already a pale blue and the bleach lightened them a little]

[this is where I noticed a bleach spot on my favorite tshirt (sad face) so I tossed it into a diluted solution of bleach/water after spraying it with straight bleach]

I had trouble deciding what color I wanted.

I boiled about a cup and a half of water and poured in 3 packets of pink and then poured the mixture into an old squeeze bottle, along with some vinegar. I laid the shorts flat and sprayed the shorts, being sure to soak them fully.

The pink didn't show up too much so I decided to spray purple on the shorts as well. Which gave the shorts a cool tie dyedish look. I let the shorts sit in the sun for a few hours, flipping them over now and then, before tossing them in the dryer to let the dye heat up a bit and hopefully soak in more.

After the dryer, I tossed them in the washer, set the water on warm, and let it run through the cycle. Sadly, the dye washed out of the shorts and I was left with normal light colored blue jean shorts. But it was worth a shot!! :)