Day 26: A Most Practical Bolero
Today’s piece started out being anything but practical.
Boler-WHOA!
Those are some extreme shoulder pads I’m rockin’ there. Oh..and check out those sleeves!
Satin!
This was a quick fix. First, I took out the offending pads.
Later!
Then, I cut off the offending sleeves.
Begone!
Now I can wear my strapless dresses to work without offending anyone’s sensibilities! 🙂
A Curtsy
Trying to do that “bored and hungry” supermodel look…not working…
Hi. Welcome to my Bolero!
A few days ago, a reader suggested I do something with the shoulder pads I cut off, rather than toss them out.
I took one of the pads, and turned it into a catnip mouse for little Gypsy! 🙂
Hi. I’m Mr. Mouse!
This took all of a minute to do. My plan is to save up all the shoulder pads I encounter to turn them into toys for the kitties at the animal shelter. 🙂
Gypsy seems interested in the prototype.
Mrow?
Cheers!
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15 Responses to Day 26: A Most Practical Bolero
Hey that’s awesome! Helping the environment AND the stray kitties with re-used garments – brilliant!
I have a tortoise shell calico cat named Gypsy too! Love your blog. Found it via refashion co-op. I’m a baby refashioner, so I love to see what others are doing! Thanks!
I love calicos! I’ve never met a mean one. 🙂 We named her after the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (geek alert!) character. 🙂 I’m glad you like my blog and the Co-op. Have you shared any of your refashions on the Co-op yet? 🙂
I applied to be part of the c-oop, but I think they have a waiting list, and since my refashions so far are in a facebook photo album (http://tinyurl.com/crafts-album), I don’t have a blog to put in my “application.”
I love Calicos for a geeky reason- they are always female because the gene for brown or black color is on the X chromosome, so only females with 2 Xs can have both colors. (Yay genetics!) My husband came up with the name Gypsy, but we started out trying to name her after some sort of composite mineral (like granite- because of her patchiness) but all of the mineral names sounded too masculine- so we settled on Gypsy.
Awesome cat toys! Awesome bolero! Awesome blog!
I like your blog better, Susan. 🙂 I’m excited to see that you’re making good use of those flags! 🙂
Isn’t it great when something is so easy to fix and still make it look a million times better? Also, I love your plan of turning icky shoulder pads into cat toys! I’m sure the kitties will love them.
Thanks! I hope the kitties like them. I think the catnip will help! 🙂
I love that you can turn the hideous shoulder pads into something so fun! love your blog.
You are awesome. I have gobs of ideas for those shoulder pads but your making kitty toys for shelter cats is the best! I’m going to do that too. <3 My kitty “SC” short for Silvercharm gets to be my test kitty.
hahah, brilliant shoulder pad mouse! Love the short sleeve bolero too
YAY! Catnip toys — great minds….
That was totally your suggestion, too! 🙂
You did a group sew-a-thon for the flags — maybe you can do a group sew-a-thon for the animal shelter donation of catnip toys. I could donate fundage for catnip or notions (little bells, string for tails,..)
An ace with a sewing machine and an artist with your work.
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