Everything you need: - waist measurement and waist to how long you want it measurement  - fabric of choice ( I am a small and got about 2 yards which was perfect) - invisible zipper in similar color to fabric - matching color thread - pencil - crap ton of pins - zipper foot for sewing machine (and the machine itself of course)  - seam ripper for mistakes - 1 inch elastic in your waist measurement - fabric scissors - tape measure

Fold your fabric in half with the side you want to show touching.  Sketch out a curve with half of your waist measurement.

Take your length measurement and draw out another larger curve out so it looks like you've drawn out a rainbow.

Pin down the fabric and cut along all the lovely lines we just made.

With some of the excess fabric fold it over and pin it down.  Measure out your waist measurement for the waist band.

Make a line at an inch and a half and cut out the piece.

These are the only pieces of fabric you are going to need so go ahead and put away and excess for some other project or something.

While the pins are still there, go ahead and sew one side of the skirt together at half an inch. Go ahead and take out the rest of the pins as well.

On the waist band, fold back half an inch..

.. then fold that in half with the side you want showing in. Then go ahead and sew that down and stay as close to the edge as possible. Repeat this for the other side of the waist band.

When you turn the waist band it should look like this.

Place the elastic inside the waist band.

Pin down the waist band onto the skirt along the edge of the side you want seen. Make sure to leave a half inch of space on each side of the skirt.

Using the zipper foot, sew as close to the elastic as possible.

Sew on your zipper according to the directions in the packaging. Make sure to finish the seam down to the bottom below the zipper. This was the trickiest part for me, took a couple tries being that I am not  an experienced zipper sewer. That's when the seam ripper came into play.

Fold up half an inch along the entire bottom of the skirt and sew down for a finished edge.

first of all you need some shorts. I made these cut-offs from an old pair of jeans.

next you need to find/buy some paint and paint brushes. this is all I found in my house . tip: don't use the spray. it gets messy and difficult. stick to regular paint if you can.

paint the left side blue and the right side white

draw an outline for your stars on the blue half of the shorts and begin painting them white

as you can see I'm not the best at stars, but they work just fine

draw evenly spaced out lines on the white half and paint every other section red

this is what they looked like when I finished painting

I then threw them in the wash and they came out with this great distressed look

Last week I helped costume the show "Alice in Wonderland" at my local Jr. High School. My favorite characters to costume were the flowers. I made them all some cute flower crowns with the type of flower that they were playing. These crowns were a lot simpler to make then I thought they would be. I just bought plastic head bands and fake flowers at the ¢99 store, hot glued them on and Voila! Here are some of the flowers I made for the girls.

Don't you hate it when you buy a cheap pair of tights and after wearing them once, maybe twice if you're lucky, and then suddenly, out of nowhere, a nice hole appears thus making the tights "ruined." But guess what? They aren't ruined. You can now make these once boring tights into the latest fashion trend and it is super easy. All you need is a pair of scissors and you will have fun, fashion forward tights in about ten minutes.