I'm so glad that you had fun, and especially that you got annual passes. Please give me a call sometime when you are coming out again. I live about ten minutes away and would love to meet up with you even just to say hi :O)
I have a large growing pile of fabric scraps. I refuse to throw them away because I am sure they can be used for something. I have been seeing different types of interesting necklaces made of buttons, beads, and fabric. Then, I figured why not make one out of my scraps...
I think it made my white shirt a little less boring. This was so quick and easy to make.
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How to make a recycled scraps necklace (which is very similar to the straps on my braided tablecloth bag):
1. Take your scrap fabric, I cut a .5''-1'' snip and tear the rest of the fabric down for a nice frayed edge. Used 3 different fabrics for each strand.
2. Take 3 of the torn pieces and tie the ends together with a rubber band.Â
3. Braid the 3 pieces together and tie ends together with rubber band when done.
4. Repeat steps 2 & 3 for more strands. Remember you can make the strands any length you want, if run out of fabric, just weave more into the braid.
5. Once all the strands you want are braided, gather one end of each strand together and straight stitch together with sewing machine. Repeat for the other ends of the strands. Snip off any excess.
6. Gather ends of the necklace and sew together (snip excess) or a ribbon can be sewn at the ends to be able to tie the necklace closed, but I just sewed both ends together.Â
7. Voila! A nice way to make use of all your lovely scraps.
Sorry if the directions get you a little lost, but it really is easy. I promise. Maybe I should put some in the shop. Please share any other good ideas you may have of things that can be made with scraps. I would love to hear (read) them!
Love the title of this post! Great shots.
Love your pictures… if only my first trip to sea world was that exciting. maybe things have improved since I was I was 13!
oh fun! Happy birthday to Brave 🙂
what a great birthday!! those flamingoes are almost fluro!! Awesome.
I'm so glad that you had fun, and especially that you got annual passes. Please give me a call sometime when you are coming out again. I live about ten minutes away and would love to meet up with you even just to say hi :O)
Love, Susan
SO fun! Your girlies are adorable…
my kids love Sea World, they never get tired of it…we have the 2 yr passes that have renewed every year since Ethan was little.
Happy Birthday Brave! too bad we missed you guys when we were out there…we got to see your family tho! Enzo and Lizzie loves RJ and Andrew…
these photos are stunning rubyellen!
We're actually planning a trip there now!
Brave looks adorable and totally enjoying!
Oh my! Look how long and beautiful True's hair is now! Lovely!