The Guide to Update your Wardrobe with Some Cutting and Sewing. Make your own clothes easier to shop rather than going out to shop. Buy new hangers to add a consistent look making all your clothing look better: Costco, Ikea, Target, or Amazon, etc ...
How To Make A Shirtdress
This is a guide for how to choose your clothes to make into an upcycled shirtdress.
The Autumn/Winter ‘21-’22 + Spring/Summer ‘22 Fashion Forecast
From Magic Sourcing Trends Digital Discovery Session, is a validation of everything we here at SaladBowlDress stand for... In a few words making hand-tailored deconstructed clothing for the masses with clothing that would otherwise end up ...
A Dinkerer’s Obsession Finds Work
Fortunately, I had a rich imaginary life as a kid. Always playing dress-up for every kind of game, usually carrying a doll with me. One of my earliest memories was making little felt coats for my troll dolls with my older sister. She laughed at me f ...
HAND SEWING IS SLOW FASHION
Hand sewing is easy! Surprisingly how little of it anyone does anymore. It is a basic skill we could use all the time… for hemming? You would not believe how we all make excuses for not hemming something. It seems so hard. Well, I ...
WHY WRITE A BLOG?
Of course, I had to make money the artist/mom way all these years, not the business way. I made one-off goods to sell. Many customers became my friends and owned multiple garments, then COVID hit. This year may have been my biggest year yet. I fina ...
DIY HANDMADE HODGEPODGE TILE BACKSPLASH
One of my friends has a very cute house that she is always fixing up. But with the pandemic, it was hard to justify doing some projects while it was ok to try other projects. Since Home Depot was always open throughout and considered an esse ...
IS CLIMATE CHANGE CAUSING THE COLDEST WINTER?
Is climate change causing the coldest winter on record in Texas since the 1890s? Dr. Shahir Masri a Master in Environmental Sciences elucidates misconceptions about greenhouse gas emissions and offers insight into his research in his new book Beyond Deba ...
Here is The Truth About FASHION AND CLIMATE CHANGE
COMBATTING “GREENWASHING” WITH TRANSPARENCY Fashion and Climate change couldn’t be a more timely subject. Below see the presentation I gave for the Sustainable Living Fair zoom presentation. Many of the links in this piece are available on the sl ...
1 Step Easy Kitchen Island
If you are lucky enough to have an eat-in kitchen but find the table not very functional while you’re cooking around it and chairs. Make it an island! Easy peasy simple style. Just add bed risers under each leg used to raise a college dorm bed.