Swirling in the Swirl Skirt

Summer can play weird tricks on your mind. Maybe it's the fact that school is out, and you don't have to occupy your mind with (as much) schoolwork. Or maybe it's because of all the vacations and relaxing you are now allowed to do. Whatever it is, as I said, it can do some weird things to your brain. My brain, at least.
Like when I decided that I needed another skirt. Well, since stores nowadays only have miniskirts or ones that like to slip off your waist, the only option was to make one. To sew one. Just to let you know, I'm not a sewing fan. But I found a cute skirt in a sewing book, and (with the help of my Mother of course. If I did it all by myself it'd have had to end up as a potato costume) went to work!

I dug through my brothers' old pants that Mother had saved, and found three pairs of jeans with different values.

Then I grabbed another pair of old jeans that fit around my waste, and marked it all the way around (as is shown in the above picture) so that I could wallop off the top, along with the pockets.
Then, I cut out two strips from each pair of pants, and after a lot of measuring, cutting, and growling in annoyance, I sewed the curved strips to the top of the jeans.

The finished Swirl Skirt!

Despite all the extremely annoying parts (such as sewing something up, then realizing that I had accidentally made a tuck in the skirt, and then having to take it out again), the finished product was very nice, and the sewing experience has prepared me for later in life.

My Very First Blog Entry!!!

 Hey, Bethany here! I'm so excited, this being my very first post!!! Just to let you know, this blog will contain a lot of crafts and creativity and most likely no science lesson on rainbows and stars ;) So have fun, and start thinking up rainbows of creativity!

One of my first projects this summer was repainting an old bench, that we had had for quite a while. At first it was green, but then the paint began peeling and it began to look a lot more like this:

Pretty, right? This bench needed serious work. So, I donned a fabulous outfit (that did not match whatsoever, but it was good to get paint splatters on) and went right to work.

And of course, I had a lovely assistant who apparently knew everything there is to know about painting benches, and made sure that I was informed of that.

After I had thought that I had used up a can, I had given it to her. Well she worked that pump, and was holding it really close to the back of the bench. Suddenly, lo and behold, a red mist comes forth! And my dear sister pretty much sprays graffiti all over the back of the bench. If you look closely, you can still see it.  

The finished project. We transformed it from an ugly green to a bright red, that went well with the white and blue (so patriotic!). And so we pulled off one of our first summer projects with success!