I DIY, you DIY, we all #DIY at the #tinybandit #samplesale — @swellmayde @mistersqueeze (Taken with instagram)

Getting my #DIY on w/ @swellmayde at the #TinyBandit #samplesale last night! (Taken with Instagram at Palihouse)

#DIY studs & safety pins. #fashion #streetstyle #details #LAFW

Do you like to…DO IT YOURSELF?

Aimee from Swellmayde is amazing. Her DIY projects are so the biz-ness.

(Via Swellmayde)

I MUST do this. Time to take a trip to Michael’s, OSH, and/or REI!?

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Do you like to…DO IT YOURSELF?

YEZZIR! I love me some good DIY…how awesome is that jacket?!

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Delightfully old-fashioned menswear…

…made NEW via Alexander Wang Spring 2010 Sock Braces! When I think of sock braces, I think of gentlemen in spiffy tweed suits. Sherlock Holmes, perhaps. 

Sock braces come in light of the sock/knee high/thigh high trend, which I am currently digging. A LOT. I probably won’t pay the price tag on the Alexander Wang sock braces, but I’m definitely up for a simple (and much cheaper) DIY project!

Speaking of which, do you like to…DO IT YOURSELF?

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Above: Our DIY Woody & Jessie costumes. Below: Actual Woody & Jessie.

There’s a snake in my boot! After watching the Toy Story 1 & 2 3-D Double feature a few weeks ago, we were set on being Woody and Jessie for Halloween.

How we made the costumes: We bought a yard of cow print fabric, then I sowed it onto an old pair of jeans and helped my boyfriend make his vest. We bought Woody’s shirt at American Vintage in Sherman Oaks, and my boyfriend used a red fabric marker to draw the pattern. He’s wearing his own jeans. My white shirt was from the boys section at Target. I used yellow t-shirt fabric to make the yoke and the cuffs. I sowed the yoke onto the shirt. The cuffs were sown onto paper to make them stiff, and I wore them them as bracelets over my sleeves. I also used a red fabric marker to draw the loop pattern on the yoke and cuffs.

Accessories: Our belts were thrifted from our parents’ closets. We bought the toy guns and holsters from a local party store. My boyfriend’s boots are vintage, and his hat is just a straw cowboy hat with yarn trim, which he spray-painted brown. My hat is from the Disney Store online, and my yarn rag doll wig is from the local Halloween Store. The wig was originally in pig tails, but I undid those and braided it into a big ponytail secured with yellow ribbon at the end. My boots are from Steve Madden. And I’m wearing fake eyelashes in attempt to get that DOLL look.

It was hard work, but it paid off! I had so much fun this year!

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