Yay for earrings that have the look of patina, but not the smell (thanks, Shelby for pointing that out)!  These were super fun (and easy) to make.  I may have to “weather” everything brass lying around my apartment! 

Supplies: 

– Brass filigree drops (I bought mine at Joann’s) 

– 2 brass earwires 

– Green acrylic paint (I bought mine at Joann’s – color is “Traffic Light”) 

– Paint brush 

– Jeweler’s pliers/pliers 

– Paper cup 

– Paper plate (to paint on) 

(Step 1}: Pour 3 drops of paint into your cup.  Then pour 3 drops of water into your cup.  Mix the paint and water together.  You want your pant to be watered down. 

{Step 2}: Paint over both of your earrings completely covering them.  Let your earrings dry. 

{Step 3}: Grab your earwires and pliers.  Take your pliers and open the loop at the bottom of yourearwires. 

{Step 4}: Take the open loop of your earwire and put it through the top loop of your earring drop going from the unpainted side through to the painted side.  Then, take your pliers to close the loop of yourearwire. 

 Finished! 

{Photo credit: Top – People StyleWatch Magazine 

After doing this CIY I now want to cover everything in lace!  This was as easy as wrapping a gift (well, maybe a few extra steps).  My clutch is a little more basic than my inspiration pieces.  I did not include any adornments of sculls, jewels, or chains.  I am trying to keep this tutorial easy! 

Supplies: 

– Old clutch (mine is a $1 thrift store score!) 

– Lace (enough to cover your clutch I got a 1/4 of a yard) 

– Scissors 

– Hot glue gun and glue 

 Step 1: Open your clutch and lay it on top of your lace.  Trim around the sides.  I trimmed my lace about an inch and a half away from my clutch. 

 Step 2: Trim the lace at the top of your clutch.  Once again, leave enough to cover the top. 

 Step 3: Pull your lace over the top of your clutch and glue. 

Step 4: Trim the excess lace. 

Step 5: Wrap your lace over the bottom of your clutch. 

Step 6: Glue the lace to your clutch. 

Step 7: If you have a metal clasp on your clutch, cut the lace around it so your clutch will close. 

Step 8: Take the lace on the side of your clutch and glue it to your clutch. 

Step 9: After your glue dries, cut off the excess lace. 

Step 10: Now glue the excess lace on the sides of our clutch. 

I remember when I moved to the city and hailed my first cab.  I felt so cool because I was officially a city girl!  When I saw the cute taxi gloves I thought they were the perfect accessory for a city girl.  I mean, gloves that actually work for you?  Um, yes! When I decided to make the taxi gloves I headed straight to the thrift store.  The store I go to hangs clothing items by color. Genius!  It was so easy for me to track down the sweaters and find the perfect yellow sweater hanging on the rack. 

Supplies: 

• Sweater (preferably wool because you will want to wash and dry your sweater first.  Wool will felt up nicely) 

• Black Felt 

• Black thread 

• Sewing needle 

• Thread 

• Scissors 

When I challenged myself to find a way to create an infinity scarf, without actually knitting one, I thought this was going to take some REAL creativity. 

I was at Joann’s hanging out, per usual, when I happened to spy some fabric in the sale section.  I do not usual look at fabric in the sale section because it is so hard to find anything, since fabric is stacked on top of one another (and I am not that patient).   This fabric was maroon and was a knit.  SCORE!!  The fabric was P-E-R-F-E-C-T!  I bought it and started my infinity scarf adventure. 

Supplies: 

• 1 yard of a knit fabric (Boucle fabric should do the trick) 

• Thread – make sure it matches your fabric 

• Sewing needle 

• Sewing Machine 

• Scissors 

• Straight pins 

Step 1: Take your fabric and fold in it half. You want to make sure the nice part of your fabric (i.e the good side of the fabric) is showing on the outside. 

Step 2: Take your fabric and fold it in half again.  You will want to pin all of the open sides. 

Step 3: After you have pinned your scarf, start sewing!  You will to start sewing at the upper right hand corner of your scarf.  Make sure you have enough of a seam allowance when you sew.  You will sew all the way around your scarf and will stop when you are 3.5 inches from the end. 

Step 4: After you sew your scarf, you will want to turn it right side out.  You will start pulling the fabric through the opening you left when you were sewing. 

Step 5: Keep pulling your fabric through the opening until all of your sewed ends are now “inside”. 

Step 6:  You will now need to sew the open section you left. 

Step 7:  Take the fabric of the open section and tuck it inside.  You will want nice finished edges.  After you have nicely tucked your fabric inside, pin it, and then sew it. 

Step 8:  Your scarf should look like my scarf below.  You are going to take the left side and fold it over to the right side and pin the edges together. 

Step 9:  You will start to do a whip stick to hand sew the ends of your scarf together.  Make your stitches close together.  You will go down your entire scarf until you get to the end. 

You are finished!  You now have an infinity scarf that looks knitted, but is not!  This was a gift for my friend Danielle. 

Thanks Danielle for modeling my finished product!