do you like to do it, yourself?

as school starts to wind down (two weeks to go yay!) we have fewer projects, and i just get in that mood where i want to do other things, and for once, i actually have the time! last night, me and the girls decided to go for a value village shopping date and a diy bracelets/crafts night. sooo grade 5, but whatever, i had a blast! we headed over to value village after school and starting searching. whenever i go thrifting, i always find myself drawn to big grandpa cardigans and pullovers like, literally the ugliest things ever. my mum always cringes when we go together at the things i buy. i decided that night, that since it is almost summer, i am going to limit myself to one sweater only. it was successful, and the sweater has short sleeves, so it's okay! i did really well, and even managed to find a supercute owl figurine for my friend allison :)

my one mission was to find the perfect pair of jeans to cut off into high waisted denim shorts. it took probably about 20 pairs in the changeroom, but i eventually found them. $4.99 and a pair of dull kitchen scissors later, i got me the coolest lil shorts in town.

so excited to wear them! summerrrr 

i also picked up a few cute blouses. one a white button up and one in cream... with shoulder pads ohh yeah! it has a cute little flower embroidery on it, very old ladyish. i'm in love.

sailor type top 

it's not very clear here, but there are little crystals on the sleeve detail

star buttons

 i can justify buying this sweater because it is short sleeved! ;)

probably one of the best finds of the night was a pair of sperry top sider boat shoes that vanessa found for me. at $7.99, they were the most expensive thing i bought but definitely one of my favourites! perfect for my summer job at the yacht club. they are already broken in and super comfy. ready to rock them with my rolled up cargo pants.. so preppy haha

the last thing i found at vv was an adorable skirt by kenziegirl. it is the perfect length, and the colours/pattern are gorgeous. perfect for a summer day

all in all, i spent about $45. pretty awesome considering buying those sperry's (which i wanted to buy a pair of anyways) new would have set me back at least that if not more.

after value village, we wanted to make some bracelets. i had brought some hemp, but we wanted the string to make friendship bracelets, so off to walmart we went. we got a huge pack of colours, as well as rawhide string and feathers to make these cool headpieces we saw on the blog PS I Made This.

i busted out the string and got to work on my bracelet, a four coloured ode to the great bob marley

most recent bracelet: green/red/yellow/black chevrons

this is how the headpiece turned out:

the string is still fairly stiff, so i need to figure something out so that it doesn't hang as awkwardly! i was thinking of making a whole bunch of these in the summer, in both double stranded and single versions, and selling them. maybe setting up an etsy store or something, we shall see! what do you guys think? would you buy one? i'm stoked to wear mine to the beach in the summer :)

so that was my awesome night. great hangouts with the girls and it was really nice to pursue another creative outlet rather than just writing. diy date = a smiling success!

i stayed at vanessas crafting until 130 in the morning! by the time i got to bed, it was 2am, only to get up 5 hours later to get ready to go downtown to Grip (@bigorangeslide)... which is a whole other post worth of information, which i will definitely write about tomorrow. 

hope everyone's friday night is great tgif! and school is almost done we can do it guys! 

peace

soph

listening: 1901 - phoenix