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Posted on February 27, 2009 - by Chezlin
Ay Sus!
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I’m Filipino-American so I know a few silly Tagalog words here and there that my mom says now and then. My little sister and I like to combine some of these words to make completely nonsensical phrases. One of these gems is “Ay sus ginoo, sapatos puwet kugmo!” Any Tagalog speaker now should see that this doesn’t really make any sense, but that’s the point! “Ay sus ginoo” is an expression.. kind of like saying “oh my god.” I’m often greeted with that expression from my mom when I’m just goofing around the house. The rest of it is literally, sapatos= shoes, puwet= butt and kugmo= booger. So yeah, as you can see, it makes no sense. Spanish speakers may notice the influence their language has had on Tagalog.
Anyway, the point of this post is that my sister and I wanted to make shirts with this phrase on them. We would always talk about it, but never really do anything, so randomly I decided I was going to make mine at least… I didn’t know what shirt she wanted to use, and I didn’t know if she approved on the final layout of the letters.
Here’s the printout.
Posted on January 22, 2009 - by Chezlin
The poor mans dress form
Soooo, not everyone has enough money to buy a dress form.. especially nowadays. Luckily for those of us who would like one, it’s not too hard to whip up a cheap one if you have the right stuff. There are a zillion tutorials on how to make one for cheap.. whether it be with paper-tape, paper mache or duct tape.
Posted on November 3, 2008 - by Chezlin
Wind me up!
Phew, it’s been a while! If you guys hadn’t noticed, this blogging thing is pretty difficult for me to stay on top of. Hopefully soon I’ll be able to post somewhat regularly, haha. 
I’ve done a few things between now and my last post.. one of the biggest things being attending the Austin Maker Faire.. and I know I’m going to be a few weeks late, but I’ll eventually post a few of my pictures from there. I also made a duct tape dressform for my little sister and I’ve started a jacket.. which has been sitting in my room half finished for about a week. Oh yeah, I just made these awesome earrings, but you’ll just have to wait for those pictures because this post is really for my… halloween costume!
Posted on September 28, 2008 - by Chezlin
Oh my god, shoes.
I’m not even going to try to come up with excuses as to why I haven’t posted in forever… I’ll just get to the good stuff.
My little sister had some shoes she didn’t really care for anymore, and asked if I could re-cover them for her. I had seen an article in Craft Magazine where they had done this so I knew it could be done.
Here are the shoes in question:
Posted on May 17, 2008 - by Chezlin
It’s time to dye some shoes.
A week or two ago, my little sister asked me if I could dye her shoes black because she didn’t like the blue and red plaid. I finally decided to do it and share the process with you guys. This is my first time dying shoes, so I might have done some things strangely, so if there’s any way I can improve, please let me know!
What I used: shoes, dye, a container, gloves, cotton balls(not pictured)
Posted on May 9, 2008 - by Chezlin
A skirt!
I’m so sorry for my disappearance everyone! I had to run away to work on school work and whatnot.. finals week called for many projects, papers, etc. but now I’m all done! Yay! My older sister is done with college too.. cept not like me.. I still have a year to go. No, she’s done completely! We’re heading to her school to watch her graduation today, and I had a skirt I was going to wear but when I was looking at it last night and decided that it looked too much like a work skirt.. so I decided to make something to wear. I combed through my fabric stash and picked these:
I’ve had these for so long!
So I got to sewing and cutting. I had just vacuumed my floor and now I have to do it again because of all the seeds I had to cut off of this fabric so it wouldn’t break the needle in my machine..
Here’s the finished product!
Don’t pay attention to the green shirt, it’s just what I was wearing at the time haha.
Kinda blurry, sorry 
Again, apologies for the lack of posting.. I have a lot of things lined up, I just never had time. I do now though! 
Posted on April 7, 2008 - by Chezlin
Late night crafting: Part two!
Well, I showed my little sister my new billed beanie hat, and she fell in love with it. I found her wearing it a lot after I had made it, so I decided to make her one today! (It’s her birthday)
Posted on April 6, 2008 - by Chezlin
An oldie but a goldie: Mohawk Beanie!
I don’t have time to make anything today, so I figured I’d show you guys one of my older crafts that I’m pretty proud of. Since I made a beanie last night, I’ll post another beanie today! I give you, the mohawk beanie. It’s inspired by the book from knit-head, Pretty in Punk. They offer knitting patterns, but at that time, I wasn’t confident with my knitting skills, so I decided to crochet it up!
Here are the results:
Posted on April 5, 2008 - by Chezlin
Late night crafting
This will probably be one of many late night craft sessions/blog posts. It’s just a trend for me to start crafting in the evening.. Anywho, let’s get to the meat of this post! After watching Threadbanger’s latest video, I was inspired to make a billed beanie. Even though the video topic this week was male fashion, I liked the beanie too much to pass up.
