Skinny Jeans (for free!)

I've been looking for skinny jeans for a while, but for a small girl, I have really muscular legs, and I always end up looking like my calves are about to burst the seams.  So I found myself, a girl with not a single pair of fashionable skinny jeans, with a few pairs of flare legged jeans I never wear, because they were too short (not dragging the ground = too short when it comes to me and flares) Since skinny jeans shouldn't be as long, I thought I'd give refashioning my flares into skinny jeans a try.

Here's the before pictures for the 2 pairs I did:

 I turned them inside out, pinned them up the way I wanted them to fit, then stitched them up, leaving me with these:

They are both a little too long, but that's been a problem with all the ones I've tried on in the store too. I may hem them later, or I may just wear boots over them so it doesn't matter.

Decorations found around my house

These aren't so much crafts, as decorations I came up when I was a broke college instructor with no budget, but I thought I'd share anyway.


This one has been hanging over my stove in 4 different apartments, and my house. I love reading it in the morning, helps me start my day in the right frame of mind.

Sorry for the glare. The words are:

IF TODAY...

"If you planted hope today
In any hopeless heart.
If someone's burden was lighter
Because you did your part.
If you caused a laugh
That chased some tears away.
If tonight your name is named
When someone kneels to pray.
Then your day has been well spent."

~Author Unknown~


I printed it out on printer paper with the sky design on it, and put it in a frame I had laying around.


The next one is the picture at the top of my stairs. Ignore the boring white walls, it's on my list of things to take care of.

It is actually a puzzle my family did on vacation a few years back. I couldn't find a frame the right size, but I thought it would be cool to come up with an idea to decorate the white edges anyway. Just haven't found one I like yet. Suggestions are welcome in the comments!