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DIY patches for well-loved shoes

Harlow has these shoes, shoes that I really love. But they have seen better days, the toddler wear and tear has left them looking..pretty rough. I am not quite ready to let them go without a fight, so I thought I’d patch the well worn parts. This is what I did (this would be great for your own well loved shoes too! re cover worn shoes, patch worn shoes, repurpose kids shoes, kdis fashion diy, kids style diy,

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  • Shoes (they don’t have to be worn, this would be great to do to any shoe)
  • Scrap fabric (for your drape/pattern trace) *for best results; use fabric that is very close in quality to your final fabric.
  • Final Fabric ( I used suede, durable and very easy to work with ). *I recommend leather since you are creating patches and leather does not fray, and conforms easy to shape.
  • Scissors
  • Pen/Pencil
  • Small pain brush
  • Glue. Plain white glue or carpenters glue work best. (pretty much exactly the same thing)

re cover worn shoes, repirpose kids shoes, kdis fashion diy, kids style diy, Lay your scrap piece of fabric (drape) over the place you want to patch. hold in place and begin drawing the base line (along the sole)

Roughly draw the shape you want to patch to be. Just lightly get the shape how you would like. Do this for all places you want to place patches.

Take the scrap fabric with your traced shapes and clean up your traced lines. Make everything smooth and even.

Ideally you would want to transfer your traced patch to paper and create a proper pattern. But your probably only going to use these pieces for this one pair of shoes, so just lay it directly over your final fabric (double layer if you want this piece to be on both shoes). Annnd Cut.

Prep your cut patches for glue. I just laid mine on a larger piece of the scrap fabric.

Glue. Put a small bit of glue in the center and use your brush to spread it evenly. Not too much as you don’t want to glue pouring out from behind the patch.

Place patch on shoe, I started with the base edge (sole edge), and used my nail to make sure it was close and tight to that seam, then the rest. I waited for each piece to dry completely they pulled at all the edges gently, any spot that lifted off I gave another dab of glue.

And that’s it! Basically a brand spanking new pair of shoes, and I think they are even cuter now!

re cover worn shoes, repirpose kids shoes, kdis fashion diy, kids style diy, I want to try this with Kingston and Chris’ worn Tom’s, since those always get really worn at the toes. I’m sure it will be alot trickier since they have those two folds at the toe, trickier but not impossible.

I think Harlow might only get a few more  wears out of these, since they are so close to being too small. But that’s ok, still totally worth it!

NOTE: This is only a temporary fix, but if the patch ever starts to peel…a quick dab of glue will do the trick! On a pair of adult shoes (since it will be easier to do on a bigger pair of shoes), you could do a little hand-stitch after the patch is glued in place.

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January 17, 2012     |     written by Brandy     |     27 Comments



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DIY | Printed Shopping Totes

My kids’ love to help with the shopping it’s actually a bit of a dream since they don’t have a choice to come along or not.;) If the grocery store has a wheelie basket Kingston is the man with the basket, but when stores don’t have the luxury basket with wheels; he wants to carry his own bag and have me put things in as we shop. Usually that means he carry’s around a produce bag or one of our big shopping bags, not that exciting really. I thought for Christmas I would make both kid’s their own little shopping tote (if King has one Harley needs to have one as well), and why not take a few photos along the way and share it with you.

This is how to print your very own graphic little tote (a full size tote, or tee would be great too) using the freezer paper printing method (with downloads below).

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diy graphic printed tote bags, diy freezer paper screen printing Supplies Needed:

  • Tote Bags (you can buy blank canvas totes from your local craft store). I bought the smallest size possible for the kids.
  • Paintbrushes. I like to use a round stencil brush for the main stencil,  a 1/2″ flat brush for larger areas, and a tiny little paintbrush for finishing details (and fixing mistakes).
  • Fabric Paint. In what ever colors you please. I use Dylon or Pebeo, but you can also buy an Acrylic Fabric Medium (which when mixed with any acrylic paint makes it workable on fabric).
  • Freezer Paper. Which you can find in most large grocery stores.
  • Iron. not pictured
  • Self mending mat for cutting. (or an old magazine). not pictured
  • Exact-o Knife.  For cutting out the stencil. not pictured
  • Ruler or Rulers. Metal cork back ruler (which is great for cutting), a one to measure the surface our going to print on. not pictured
  • Magazine. This is to put between fabric layers when printing (to prevent bleeding). You can use the same magazine you used for cutting. not pictured

diy screen printed graphic tote bags, dit tote bags for kids, don't forget to be awesome, enjoy the little things, city kids shopping bags 1. Measure your bag length x width and decide how large you would like your print to be. Then measure how far from top&bottom and each side you would like your print (you can make a small mark at all four corners with a tiny pencil mark if you like).

2. Tear a piece of freezer paper (a little larger then the print size you just measured). You can print your graphic out of a regular piece of printer paper (below are downloads you can use to create your stencil in two different sizes) then trace it onto the freezer paper. But I like to save that one step and paper, and trace directly from the computer screen (just make sure your image on the screen is at 100% before tracing. Since I traced from the computer screen (and on an angle) my tracing is a bit wonky, but that is easy to fix when you cut out the letters. *Be sure to trace onto the matte side, the shiny side is the side that faces the fabric when being ironed.

3. Get your self mending cutting mat (or place a thick magazine under your freezer paper, something to save your table surface from permanently looking like your stencil), and a cork back metal ruler (these work best but any ruler will be okay).

4. Cut along the lines. As neat as possible.

5. Save all the pieces you cut out. Put the letters aside for later and keep the center of each letter for the next step.

6. Place your freezer paper stencil on your tote, use those little pencil marks you made early to help you place or quickly measure again. After you iron the large stencil on; place the center pieces in their place (the center of the o’s, etc) and iron those on.

7. Insert a few pieces of paper or a magazine into the tote bag, to prevent the paint from bleeding through to the other side.

8. Paint away. I like the circle brush, much better for stenciling and results in less bleeding.

9. Peel back the stencil when the paint is still slightly damp. Let dry fully and Iron to set the paint. Now the front is done.

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10. On the back side of the tote, measure the same distance from top&bottom and side to side and make four small marks in each corner. Lay out the individual letters (that you saved from when you cut out the stencil), I like to keep the file open on the computer so I can use it as a base when laying out the individual letters. Iron the letters onto the bag.

11. Using pencil or chalk draw by hand a large shape (larger so the letters will end up sitting inside the shape) that you like or trace a shape from a cut out piece of paper (or use the star or heart download below).

12. Paint the shape all the way to the lines filling the entire shape in. For this type of painting I like to use a flat brush as it gets better coverage for such a large area.

13. Peel back the letters after the paint is almost dry. Iron after the paint is totally dry to set the ink. If you like fill in the letters with a color (I did this on the Awesome bag), just use a smaller paint brush and free hand it.

The Final Product: two little tote bags printed front and back.

diy screen printed graphic tote bags, dit tote bags for kids, don't forget to be awesome,  city kids shopping bags diy screen printed graphic tote bags, dit tote bags for kids, enjoy the little things, city kids shopping bags I’m pretty sure Kingston and Harlow will love these little bags,  like I said they love to help with the shopping and having their very own special bags to carry is going to make it extra fun. Also I have a feeling these little graphic bags being carried around by two little kids might put a few smiles on strangers faces.

These steps and stencils would be great for t-shirts too (adult or kid sized).

The Stencils: (click the links below then right click>save as on the image)

Enjoy The Little Things: 10″x10″  /  15″x15″

Don’t Forget To Be Awesome: 10″x10″  /  15″x15″

Heart: 15″x15″

Star: 15″x15″

(for personal use only, please)

also I had planned to do this for The Paper Mama’s 50 DIY Days of  Christmas, but I couldnt get my act together in time. But you should check out some of the great DIY’s she has there as well.

December 19, 2011     |     written by Brandy     |     7 Comments

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DIY: Indoor Play TeePee

Kingston’s birthday was last Sunday and one of his gifts was a very special play teepee (If you follow me on Twitter or Instagram you might have already seen a peek at this). One in which I made my self, of course it made it 100 times better seeing how much both kids loved it after putting my own love into it. The teepee itself was so easy to make it was almost laughable, I mean cause it looks like it should be tough {and it’s no sew, easy peasy} .

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I followed two awesome tutorial’s: Smile and Wave and Sew, Mama, Sew! you will find all the supplies and steps on these great blogs. Both pretty close, but really great and easy to follow. I used leather for everything, the lacing, securing the poles to the fabric and to each other.

DIY play tee pee, diy kids teepee, homemade play teepee, 3 year old birthday gift Once I finally set King’s {automatically Harlow’s too} new teepee in the their room I finished the corner off with a little clothes line, a little carpet {more to act as something to help keep the poles from slipping on the hardwood}, and our little dollar store bird house craft mobile {keeping up the theme of keeping all our artwork handmade}. It’s currently the only totally finished corner in their room {and by default our fav}.

The day after I too these pictures I switched out the box holding the stuffies with a giant wicker basket  {which I’ve been having a hard time keeping the kids out of}.

September 26, 2011     |     written by Brandy     |     18 Comments

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DIY : Chevron Wall Art

I had a big blank canvas just waiting to be painted, and many blank walls needing art. I plan on only filling them with things we make ourselves {or I make}. So far that is the only art hanging on our walls ..the handmade with love kind.

This is our latest colorful and fun creation that me and the kid’s made together…

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1. Gather the supplies: Acrylic Paint, Painters Tape, Paint Brushes and a Canvas {not pictured}. Little Tip: We did each step a day or more apart, the kids had fun doing this craft everyday, and I didn’t go totally crazy. 😉

2. Tape off your chevron lines. I did 2″ lines with 1″ painters tape. I first created a 2″ wide V paper pattern to help create the first line. After the first line two lines are taped it’s really fast from there.

3. Let the kids go to town, paint and have fun on the canvas. Maybe not let them go to town eating the paint like Harlow {there was actually no paint on her brush}

4. It’s messy and actually pretty will covered, but I think the white spots and choppiness make it even better.

5. Peel back the tape, I like to take the tape off when the paint it still slightly tacky.

6. Make sure the chevron stripes are totally dry. See the choppiness looks better. right?

7. Tape over the chevron lines you just painted.

8. Let the kids go extra crazy painting the canvas again. Then peel back the tape and Voila!

 

It’s fun, it’s bright it’s sorta turned out looking like a navajo inspired chevron. I’m still not quite sure where it’s home will be, but for now it’s living on our mantle with the art we made dad.

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What do you think?

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xoxo

 

September 1, 2011     |     written by Brandy     |     32 Comments

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DIY | Little Hippie Headband

I had a few people inquire about the Little Hippie Headband Harlow wore in this week’s Little Style post. So instead of answering each individually I figured it would be way easier to just do a quick little DIY for you all to see.

So you can make your little girl, or your self a quick Hippie Headband too! all things fashionable for kids, kids fashion, stylish kids, little girl headband diy, kids hippie headband diy, how to make a leather hippie headband for your kids 1. Measure your little one’s head, the entire circumference then minus about 4″ from the circumference {this will be the measurement of the braided leather}. Gather your materials: Felt {will cut to fit later}, Leather {I used left over suede from a past project}, Elastic {any side, shape or color}, and of course a Glue Gun and Scissors. Also a ruler and chalk if you like.

For the elastic, if you don’t want to go all the way to the craft store, just buy a pack of those thin elastic headbands at your local drug store, and cut them in half to use as supplies.

2. Cut 3 strips of leather {use a ruler and chalk to draw straight lines to cut along if you like}, I like to cut them extra long just in case. But 18″ will do. Cut 2 small rectangles of felt {about 1/2″ in height and 1 1/2″ long}, you can trim the excess length in the felt later.

3. Once you have everything all cut and your glue gun is plugged in a hot…

4. Start braiding your leather strips, I always tie a loose knot at the end holding the strips together. Braid until it’s just about a couple inches longer then your measurement {the circumference -4″ measurement}. Then cut the strips on one end, glueing the braid with no knot to the elastic {one dot of glue, just to hold while you work}. Then place a small line of glue on the height of the felt strip, then wrap it around the leather/elastic raw edges. You will have to add a bit more glue, and trim the felt once you reach the point where it over laps where you started. Now before cutting the other side of the elastic….you can make the elastic extra long {longer then your full circumference measurement}, or exactly the measurement you took -0.5″ {as the elastic will stretch a bit to fit}.

5. Do this to both sides. I like to make the elastic longer then the circumference I took, I just tie a little knot at the back so I can adjust the size. This way as her head grows I don’t need to make more. AND I can wear it too. 😉

And that’s it! One of a kind Little Hippie Headband…

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I have also switched out the leather and used embroidery floss or yarn to do the simple braid, OR if your feeling like spending more then 10 min of this..use yarn, leather or embroidery floss to make a friendship bracelet the length of the circumference -4″ { I like to use cotton yarn, cause it’s soft and not abrasive after all the knotting}. Really adorable as a hippie headband. all things fashionable for kids, kids fashion, stylish kids, little girl headband diy, kids hippie headband diy, how to make a leather hippie headband for your kids

Really easy, REALLY cute and stylish. Also a bit of a change from the regular little headbands.

xoxo

July 21, 2011     |     written by Brandy     |     2 Comments

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DIY : Father’s Day Wall Art

Yesterday we had a wonderful day celebrating dad, well morning. Dad had to work in the afternoon, but we had a great time making the time we had with him, all about him. I love to make things by hand, especially gifts, and Father’s Day was no different. The kids and I painted him a picture, and since I took pictures along the way I thought it would be a great little post to share.

This is an easy way of making kids art, art gallery worthy..or at least our version of an art gallery. dadsdayart

1. We bought a blank canvas from a local art store, a big giant one for high impact. I also bought vinyl repost-able letters and pasted them on to spell out ‘With All Our Hearts” {for obvious reasons}. I had initially planned to cut letters out of paper, use tacky rubber cement to stick them to the canvas but I found these letters at the store {saved me like an hour of work}

2. We picked out our acrylic paint colors and brushes.

3. Since we were painting indoors I cut open a few garbage bags and taped them to the floor, for easy clean up.

4. Hold your breathe because there is probably gonna be paint everywhere.

5. I let him paint away, he is learning how to paint ‘Up and Down’. After each color we went over it with a wide brush to smooth things out.

6. Then we peeled off the letters.

And volia, the perfect piece of art made with love by Dad’s Loves. fathers day gift, how to paint art for your home with kids, kids artwork

 

June 20, 2011     |     written by Brandy     |     55 Comments

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