High Waist-ed Shorts!

You need:

• A pair of jean you don’t mind cutting up (I bought a pair at Savers for $7)
• A pair of good fabric scissors
• A measuring tape
• A marker or pen
• Pins
• Needle and thread

What To Do:

• Put your jeans on and mark where you want your shorts to be cut. To do this, I put on a pair of shorts that I liked the length on and marked that on the inner seam. I like the trend on shorts that are higher on the outside, so I measured equal lengths down to where I wanted the outside edge to end.
• Measure 2 inches down from those marks because you will be cuffing the ends. Draw a line across the pant leg connecting the two ends
• Cut carefully!
• Cuff the ends (I did it twice) and pin in place. 
• Use the needle and thread to sew X’s on each seam. If you want to seam it completely or just add a few stitches to keep the seams in place, go ahead!
• Iron down the seams to keep them in place
• Try them on to make sure the lengths are even and that you like the length! I had to adjust mine a couple times to get it just right. 

And there you go! I’m probably going to add some studs or lace later, but you can add whatever flare you want! Have fun!

Also I’m sorry the picture quality is so bad. I took them on my phone.

Tee-shirt to tank top!

You Need:

• A tee-shirt you don’t mind cutting up (I got mine at Savers for $3)
• Scissors
• Pencil
• Needle and thread (the same color as the shirt)

What To Do:

• cut the collar and sleeves off along the seam
• use the pencil to draw a deeper neck line and more cut off sleeves and cut
• take a rectangular piece of fabric from the sleeve and sew it to make a tube
• gather the back of the shirt and wrap the tube of fabric around it, sew it together so no seams will be showing. Cut off any excess
• adjust it accordingly so it will fit

I would recommend getting your size or just one size up. This is a large and now it’s gathered a bit weird in the back and is shaped strangely along the sides.

If you want a more in depth tutorial, go here!

Impromptu DIY of the Day!

Studded Shirt

You need:

• An article of clothing you want to stud (the denim button-up is from Target)
• A needle
• Studs (I got mine at Hobby Lobby)
• A marker

What to do:

• Choose the area you want to put the studs on
• Hold the prongs of the studs against the fabric and mark on the back where they will poke through with the marker
• Take a large needle and poke through the fabric to make a hole for the prongs
• Put the stud prongs through the pre-made holes
• Fold over the prongs (I had to use scissors to press them down all the way)
• Repeat until you get the desired pattern

modcloth:

Adding a little bit of a floral print to a plain pair of boots? Brilliant. I must try this soon. (via A Beautiful Mess)

<3 Mandy, ModStylist

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Tissue Paper Pom-Pom Balls:

What you need:

• Tissue Paper (about 8 sheets)
• Wire
• Fishing Wire

(I had a Martha Stewart kit, but this can be done with regular tissue paper)

What to do:

• Lay out the tissue paper (you can scallop the edges like in the picture if you want)
• Accordion fold the tissue paper
• Wrap the wire around the middle 
• Spread out the folds and pull each sheet of tissue paper
• Fluff it how you would like it
• Hang it using fishing wire

Like I said, I had a kit for this, but it would be super easy to do without it. 

Spiked headband

You need:

• A headband (preferably one that has an empty space in middle, ~$3)
• Fabric (Hobby Lobby ~$2)
• Studs (Hobby Lobby ~$2)
• Hot glue gun

How to:

• cover your headband with the fabric, use hot glue to secure
• put the spikes through the fabric and secure
• cut a long strip of the same fabric, fold in half (or a tube), and secure with hot glue. Note: the fabric will probably be fray-y
• wrap the long strip around the headband, not only hiding the bottom of the spikes, but also securing them. 
• hot glue both ends to secure

For a visual tutorial, go here

Elbow Patches!

You need: 

• Fabric (scrap fabric works perfectly, but I got 9” at craft warehouse for ~$1.50)
• Embroidery floss ($.39)
• A shirt or cardigan you want to spruce up (I got this at Forever 21 for $7.50)
• A large needle
• A sheet of paper, pen, and scissors

What to do:

• Trace your pattern on paper and cut it out with the scissors. From there, use the paper pattern to cut out two patches from your fabric
• Put the shirt on (make sure your sleeves are straight!) and mark the spot where your elbow is with the pen
• You can machine sew the patch on with regular thread, but I chose to hand sew it with embroidery thread. I used a normal stitch, but a whip stitch would be cute too. Sew the patches on over the spot you marked. Be careful to line it up straight

Voilà! Now you have super cute patches that you can remove anytime! (Sorry about the bad camera quality and awkward pose)