Re-use recycle Bits of Thread, Yarn, Fabric...

When I sew I keep a trash can by my side to put all of my scraps of felt, fake fur, yarn etc.

Once I have enough of it I make a cushion. :)

I made kind of a pillow case out of thick velvet to make the cushion and I put all the scraps inside of it.

I even put old yarn that I have been given and that I don't use because it breaks very easily whenever I try to use it.

The fun part! Stashing all of it inside the pillow case! :D

Then I just have to sew the open end of the pillow case and done! A nice comfy pillow made of recycled material! :)

Happy me :)

A while ago I even made rag dolls with my sewing rejects :p

Now I have 4 cushions :) 

Re-use, Recycle Liquor Bottle Wrapping/Packaging

Today we went grocery shopping. Greg wanted a bottle of Vodka and the only ones they had at the store were all fancy and dressed up in these(see picture above :p). I don't like it when bottles are all dressed up. It just means more garbage in the end. And usually I buy the regular kind, without the pretty packaging.

So I tried to come up with something to do with it. I was pretty surprised because the whole thing was really pretty and quite good quality. I love the all 'engraving' look to it and the fur, of course, I love the green fake fur!

So I cut the stiches off the fur and got a nice band of fake fur all ready to go.

And I cut out all the pretty designs from the wrapping. Since I make brooches, I thought I could easily use those.

First I made a cuff bracelet with the fur. I've been wanting to do that for quite some time. A while ago my cat wrapped his tail around my wrist and I got the idea to make a black and white fake fur cuff for myself. I never did it.So this time it was the perfect opportunity to use this free fake fur. :p And I love the result! I used metal clasps on each end of the fur band.

Heeee! love it!

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I just sewed the cut out designs on my brooches.Simple and easy. :)

So that's how I didn't throw away the whole thing and made the most out of it. But that's just one way!

The first thing that came to my mind when I saw the packaging was to make a fake leather cuff bracelet, with lace, maybe fur.

I snapped these a couple of days ago in Paris. I love the style! Those are all over our neighbourhood.

Anyway, I just wanted to share. Since I am jobless now, I feel liberated. I feel like I have more time to look around and notice this kind of things.

I'll just go back to my wine now and enjoy the rest of the night. :p

Re-Use Recycle Extra Fake Nails from Impress Manicure Set

I love Impress Press On nails. They look nice, they're super easy to use and they last always last a week, which exceeds my expectations. I only have good things to say about them. Well, as awesome as the product is, I'm not so happy about the fact that I have to throw away 14 nails because they don't fit and the prep up wipe is all dried out anyways. So I tried to think of a way to use the extra nails.

The last set I used had the tip covered in blue glitter. So I thought I would make resin cabochons with them.

Here are the nails in question. (The more I look at them the more I realize I didn't pick the right size for each nail, oh well! it looked nice in person.)

This is what was left. All the unused nails. I have to admit I saved the ones I wore, washed them thoroughly to be able to use them as well to make the cabochons.
 I'm curious to know if you save the wipe and humidify it to use it again with the remaining nails, would it work? I'll have to try that some other time. I'm pretty sure you can have two manicures with one box. The sizes wouldn't be perfect for the two, but since I always pick the wrong sizes to start with and it looks okay, why not! The wipe is really the key for the nails to stick. I've tried to stick a nail without cleaning my nail with the wipe and it wouldn't stick. So I guess there is some chemical on the wipe that helps the glue stick.
Anyways! Back to the cabochons.

I punched holes in the tips of the nails. First I thought I would cut them with scissors and make tiny triangles but I tried the hole punch and it worked really well. The nails are not as hard as I thought they would be. It was quick and easy. I didn't remove the glue or anything, not even the plastic protecting the glue.

Here are my little glittery fake nails sequins. :) 

I mixed the resin and put the sequins in it.

Once the first layer was dry, I put another layer with black glitter in it to make a dark background to the sequins.

And here is the result! I'm pretty happy with it! At least I didn't feel like wasting perfectly good glitter :p

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Here is what I did with the cabochons. I decorated two of the brooches I made today with them and made a ring of the largest one. I love glitter too much to let it go to waste :p

Re-use Recycle Nail Polish Dissolving Dip

I've been wondering for a while if I could put new nail polish remover in my bottle of nail polish dissolving dip... You never know what companies have in mind, most of the time 'it's throw away the old and BUY a new one'.
My dip was disgusting, it had all this glitter floating around and stuck on the sponge, and the liquid was black and was staining my fingers every time I would use it.
It is super easy to clean and make a new dip with the element of the old one!

First you want to clean the bottle and the sponge that's inside thoroughly.

See how much I needed to change the nail polish remover? And wash the whole thing -_-'

You shouldn't do your nails before doing this, because you are going to ruin you're manicure. :)

And the polish remover smell is quite overwhelming at this stage, nothing too bad, but still. It might be a bother for some people I guess.

All clean and the sponge is dry.

Fill up the bottle with 1/5 polish remover and insert the sponge back. Close the bottle and shake it, and voila! My lovely assistant, thank God, was here to help!

I decorated my bottle with duck tape, the original label was so gross, all stained. I couldn't leave the bottle all white.
So I tried it and it works just fine! I love this product, nail polish dissolving dip is easy to use, you don't have to use cotton pads that you'll throw away in the end and now I love it more since I know it's reusable! Yay!

In other news I signed up today for a sale where I'll be selling my jewelry line in a month! I'm very excited. I'll do it with my friend Estelle, it's going to be so much fun. We'll get to spend the whole week end together plus we're going to sell our stuff! Estelle makes jewelry too.

Here's the flyer of the event:

I'll leave you with pictures of my sweet little kitty. :) Yep, he had to nap after assisting me...