How exciting! I finished the course and got my certification through Michael’s Arts & Crafts. I’ll be teaching scrapbooking classes at Michael’s and hobnobbing with other scrapbooking enthusiast. Fun times are sure to be had.
Since I’m certified and have lots of new tricks up my sleeve I”m going to be sharing them [...]

I finally got around to taking some half way decent photos of my latest Chester Cheetah Trash Bag Purse.  I hand wove the fused plastic to create a basket weave pattern, added a zipper, some d-rings to the straps, made a chain out of soda pop tops and blinged out Chester with some Swarovski crystals.  The [...]

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Diners, Drive-ins and Dives is one of my favorite cooking shows.  Guy Fieri screams Santa Cruz to me and being a fan of Santa Cruz I figured Guy’s opinion would be worth listening to – when it comes to food anyway.  I’ve tried several of Guy’s recipes at home and these [...]

With more and more fashion designers looking to use recyclable materials in the making of their clothes it only makes sense to fuse plastic together to create new and unique textiles. Yard lengths of material can be made from fusing plastic trash together so that they take on a vinyl-like texture durable enough to withstand being [...]

Guess what I did today?  I made a purse out of Cheetos bags.  For my first Cheeto bag purse I chose to go with a simple square shape to get a feel for what it’s like to work with Cheetos bags.  I have to say the plastic of the Cheetos bags are not anywhere near [...]

I am pleased to say that I have finished my trash bag dress project.  There are some mistakes and not everything came out perfect but for my first time working with a material like this I think I did damned good.  Here’s some shot’s of my daughter wearing the dress.

So, tell me what you think.

Here’s another update on my Trash Bag Dress Project. I spent hours and hours hand making all the flowers I’m putting around the waistband of the dress. It took a little experimenting with the plastic to achieve the look I wanted for the flowers but they are so adorable I love them.

The Trash Bag Dress is coming along really well, especially considering I’m not using a pattern. I have some alterations left to do to the bodice, some final touches and of course I still have the dress’s accessories to make. Here’s some photos of how the dress is looking as of right now.

It’s been pretty difficult pinning down my daughter for fittings so my progress has been slow to say the least  I had a major meltdown – literally –  one night while fusing my dress pieces together.  I failed to realize that the trash bags being of different weight and thickness would need different temperatures and [...]

I am making a dress out of trash bags.  My dress won’t be your typical loosely draped, tied up and duct taped trash bag dress.  I won’t be using duct tape at all.  My dress will be white with pink and purple layers. I’ll also be using a “scrunching” technique to create tutu-like ruffles and [...]