Up-cycling or refashioning: It's Game On!

We touched on this last year on the radio show regarding up-cycling. Now this has turned into quiet the little business. Thanks in part to a young woman whose blog is making a lot of us re-think fashion. Refashioning is a hot topic. From pinterest tutorials to step by step instructions from Jillian the Fashionista and her friends, women everywhere are creating new etsy businesses every day. I will admit it. I have tried my hand at it too. My project was a winter cloak. And not just any cloak a thick warm winter cloak. If you can't find what you need you make it. It does remind me of a time when women did make what they wanted and needed by patterns. Back when if something was broken you fixed it, not throwing it out.

That is a lot of what refashioning is. Taking something old and making it new. Taking what some would consider garbage and turning it into expensive beautiful creations. And it's not just stopping in the etsy market people are opening stores just for their one of a kind pieces of fashion.

Ugly Christmas sweaters become skirts and leggings. In some cases they become skirts. Jewelry gets a new fresh look and lives on further. Purses and bags are created from tires, old bags and clothing. Because everything is new different and one of a kind, it becomes products that people want unable to live without it. It's a great thing, making sure that a lot of these items don't end up land fills.

Up-cycling is fun, inventive and unique. Not many pinterest fails with up-cycling because this is the fashion that you create. Yeah, some do it far better then others but that's because practice makes perfect. Face it very rarely someone can create the first piece perfectly without practice.

If up-cycling is something that you have been debating with your crafts, there is a market for you. You have others that are interested in your work. Remember if you do what you love you never work. And on that note I have a few projects that I'm refashioning. Have fun everyone!