Pants Refashion

The other day I bent over to pet the dog before I left of work and I felt and heard a rip in my pants.  I quickly did a check in the mirror, because of course I was running late, and everything looked good.  Well, after I got home that night I realized that there was a tear in my pants and it was about 1 inch long right on the butt.  I had to laugh because I went the whole day and nobody said anything....hmmm

Since I am a thrifty shopper.  I headed to the thrift store to find another pair of work pants.  I found these beauties.  I wish I had remembered to take a picture before but here is a picture with one leg done.  This is one of the easiest ways to make the leg part of the pants skinnier.

All you need to do is flip the pants inside out and sew on the inner part of the pants ( the inner thigh side), starting from the bottom of the pants and stitch up.  I actually had to take in about 2 inched on these.  As you sew up the leg slowly merge your new stitch into the old stitch and they will look  awesome!!  After you are done stitching cut off the extra. I did a zigzag stitch over the part I cut just to give it some extra support, I really don't need another rip.

Clock Refashion

We had a cool church activity a few weeks ago. Basically what happened is we brought a few decoration or other like items that we didn't want anymore (but they had to be in good condition still) and we swapped them with other items people brought that we we liked.  I got a really cool glass cake stand as well as this white porcelain clock.  At first glance it isn't my style but I liked that it was porcelain and I knew I could come up with something

Lucky for me the clock center part came out really easy. I was able to pop out the clock center.  I then sanded the entire surface a little bit to make it ruff so that the primer would be sure to stick good.  Then I used a spray paint primer on the entire surface.

After that was dry I painted it this cool teal color.  I also spray painted the metal ring black.  I think it turned out cute.