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shiftythrifting · 4 months

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homemade monster energy can pirate ship???

#thrifting #shiftythrifting #submission #thrift finds #thrifted crafts #monster #pirates #decor #upcycled

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angeluvkiss · 8 months

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jane birkinfying bags

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generaljenobi · 3 months

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borninwinter81 · 2 months

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Cyber goth dress + my favourite way to make patches

I thrifted this dress a couple of weeks ago for £1. I believe it started life as some sort of costume, possibly a sexy firefighter, but the fabric is really good quality cotton, and I thought it had some cybergoth potential with the yellow and reflective bits. I also really like the metal fastenings.

I already had a high-viz coat in my wardrobe from when I used to go bicycling more often, so I was able to steal more reflective bits from that. Not yet sure what I'll do with them, probably cut interesting shapes and glue or sew them on. Photos with and without flash.

And then yesterday I got a half meter of cotton fabric for £1 which is an almost exact colour match, so I can make some stencilled patches.

I already had fabric paint at home, so this entire outfit has only cost me £2! Cybergoth clothing is usually super expensive.

There are lots of tutorials for making stencilled patches on YouTube, (@rattusrattus3 has some excellent ones) but I lack patience and don't like cutting out intricate pieces, especially for lettering, so I had the idea to use alphabet stickers. You can pick these up really cheap from your local pound shop or dollar store depending on where you're from. I think mine were 40p a packet.

Stick them to your fabric, use fabric paint and a sponge, then when you peel the stickers off you'll have the words in relief. You can go thicker than I have here to make the surrounding area totally opaque, but I like the edges being messy and faded out. These are both song titles from cyber/industrial bands that I like.

Here are some other examples that I've done in the past. These were all done with pound shop spray paint which isn't ideal for fabric, but it's cheap! You'll also get more of the original fabric colour showing through with this kind of paint, which is nice.

If you're using black fabric, gold or silver paint will generally work better than white. These are all Devin Townsend song lyrics.

The only negative to this method for some people may be that the letters will be very uniform, but I like that. And if you want to you can space them irregularly to break things up a bit. Or you might be able to find more interestingly shaped alphabet stickers than I did!

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dark-comforts · 11 months

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Source: Pinterest, TrashToCouture

(Sidenote: her blog also has some interesting tutorials for goth/alt-adjacent clothes, like this lace choker or a lace slip dress)

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chocodile · 1 year

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Custom Sylvanian Family figure commission for @roccoco-co, based on their Rococo unicorn character!

#sylvanian families #calico critters #custom figure #custom toy #doll custom #art doll #getting a lot of use out of my various thrift store finds in these lil shots #I think I need to take a break from Sylvanians for a while though because the weather has finally gotten warm enough to garden #crafts

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zitacuaro · 7 months

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#cross-stitch #artwork #fiber art #craft #unknown artist #embroidery #textile art #textiles #fiber arts #handmade #thrifting #celestial

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eringurumi · 5 months

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Here is my latest crochet project!! And thrifting, sewing, crafting... I knew from the second we were going to move to New Zealand, my "Halloween" (they don't really celebrate it here, but I feel like these costumes are going to be pretty versatile) costume for the family would be Lord of the Rings inspired! So here's our little fellowship - an elf, a dwarf, and a hobbit!

I of course was excited to crochet / yarncraft an epic beard - there are many examples online, I just sort of winged it.

For the cloaks and robes, I thrifted mostly duvet covers, bedsheets, and pillowcases. There are a bunch of cloak tutorials on youtube, but again, I mostly took some inspiration, and worked with the limitations of what I had. A lot of the rest of the clothes were thrifted / we already had.

I also made the leaf pins, trying to make them look a little like the silverfern that is so prominent here in New Zealand, the beard-rings and One Ring out of foil (the gold foil was off a Whittaker's chocolate bar!), elf bracers out of a thrifted purse, and elf ears from some felt and wire I had in my craft stash!

This was really fun to do! It's not a high quality cosplay or anything like that, but the cloaks have great swish, and I'm gonna get some use from them, I'm sure!

#crochet #yarn #cosplay #costume #lord of the rings #fellowship of the ring #the hobbit #elf #dwarf #hobbit #middle earth #thrifting #crafting #diy #diycostume #sewing #new zealand

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lake-lady · 10 months

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Someone please tell me this outfit will make me the hottest she/they at the Renaissance Faire I am feeling highly insecure 🥲

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hidefdoritos · 7 months

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[Infomercial voice]

You there! Human owner of clothing!

Do you have a zipper that simply won't stay up? Are your pants unwearable because of this twist of fate?

Worry no more! A simple ring of metal is all you need! Put the zip back in your zipper and keep the barn door closed with this ingenious invention.

First, affix the ring of metal to the zipper pull. Next, place yourself in the pants and pull the zipper up. Then loop the ring of metal over the button of your pants. Finally, button your pants.

Potential alternatives to the ring of metal are notecard clip rings, D-rings, a bit of chain, any wire available, hair ties, ribbon, twine, yarn, embroidery thread, or anything else imaginable.

Go forth! Be free! And wear those pants!

#mending #life hack #diy #zipper #solarpunk #sewing #it's not waste until you waste it #thrifting #crafts #fixing #repair

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trashcreatyre · 9 months

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my hands may be covered in glue, and some tape is visible in the hair, but she is coming along :)

#she was missing one of her hair thingies so I made some new ones out of tape and hot glue and yarn #im planning to make some slightly better ones later with maybe an old Halloween wig but I need some stuff for that #also the clothes are just some Barbie clothes that I had laying around except I (badly) refitted the skirt #idk I think it’s pretty cute #pinkie cooper #pinkie cooper doll #doll crafts #fashion dolls #pinkie cooper and the jet set pets #thrifting

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shiftythrifting · 1 year

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Taking bets on what this could mean! Colorado, USA.

#submission #shiftythrifting #thrifting #thrift finds #decor #in frames #thrifted crafts #embroidery #moose #99% sure it’s a pun on ‘‘mousse’’ 🙂

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moonhedgegarden · 5 months

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#pagan #spiritual healing #spirituality #healing #nature #paganism #earth #mother nature #mother earth #beautiful earth #nature devotee #nature lover #upcycle #thrifting #tea #recycle #craft #not mine #photos

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brazenedminstrel · 8 months

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Made something I’ve been wanting to make for a long long while now! For all your morbid craft needs: claw marks, wounds, not terribly gorey scratches. Whatever you wanna call them.

Someday I’ll make a version with more painted or beaded blood but these came out so well already.

All fabric were little throwaway bits from the thrift I work at. We don’t sell pieces smaller than 3ft squares, but employees can take them home during sorting.

#things i made #diy #diy clothing #goth diy #gothic #crafts #sewing #handsewing #hand sewing #upcycling #thrifting

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borninwinter81 · 2 months

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Collage box collection

After discovering that I had a reasonably big stash of interesting flyers, greetings cards, guidebooks and other bits of ephemera, and seeing this tutorial, I was really inspired to use it all for something.

This was helped by the fact that recently I've found a lot of really nice wooden boxes in charity shops for very cheap - all the ones pictured here were £2. Either I've been extremely lucky, or these things turn up very often and I just haven't been looking for them.

I've posted about some of these previously (here and here), but they were only half done and these pictures are better! Plus there is one new one.

First was this wooden chocolate box. Before...

And after!

You can tell this is my first one as I oversatured the paper with Mod Podge, leading to it bubbling and creasing, but for a first attempt I don't think it's bad at all.

All the pictures I used were taken from an exhibition guide for an event I went to called "Exploring the Gothic" which contained a lot of beautiful pictures. The floral parts were from a pad of scrapbooking paper, which I also used to make the individual compartments (they are origami boxes, see a tutorial for how to make them here) and I then filled them with pieces from my collection of beads, charms, and broken jewellery.

I also had a guide to a William Blake exhibition I'd been to, and since there was an entire plate from "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" I had to make it into a miniature wall plaque.

I did this one at the same time as the first, and again you can kind of see that I oversatured the paper which caused it to tear slightly, however thankfully it wasn't in an area where there was any writing.

(BTW, if anyone is interested in the meaning of this section, Blake is describing his creative process, albeit in a fantastical way. This blog post gives a good analysis)

The next one was a beautiful little cabinet with a broken handle.

And here is what I did with it. I kept the collaging to a minimum, only on the inside, though I might add something to the outside in the future. The replacement "handles" are a pair of my earrings!

I used some more of the gothic exhibition guide and scrapbook paper, and also a flyer for a ballet version of Dracula. I need to find some more interesting things to fill it as it currently only contains my resin crow's skull and a miniature book of Tennyson poems. Also my Cthulhu candle gets to sit on top and be worshipped by the skeleton on the right door.

I did much better with the collaging process on this one. I was a lot more patient, used less Mod Podge for each layer and allowed them to dry fully in between, resulting in no tears, bubbles or creasing.

The final and most recent is this plain box. I noticed it originally came from somewhere called "Palmyra Hardware" which instantly made me think of the Palmyra Wolves (I'm a fan of MrBallen and saw him tell the story on his YouTube channel) which gives a pleasantly creepy angle to this one before I even did anything to it!

After collaging

The central image on the outside is another William Blake painting, an illustration to Dante's Inferno, which includes the famous quote "Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here". The writing saying "The way, the truth, the life" came from a religious leaflet that a friend of mine was forcibly given, and which he ripped to shreds, but I saved this part because for some reason I liked it.

Inside we've got a very famous Blake painting called "The Ancient of Days", the praying skeleton again as this image was reproduced several times in that guidebook, and a block printed demon from a handmade birthday card that a friend gave me several years ago. I'm very pleased to have finally been able to use him for something!

I've enjoyed making all of these immensely and no doubt I will do more in the future as I collect more papers and find more nice boxes 😊

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envirogoth · 2 years

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I already own fast fashion/I can only afford to buy fast fashion, now what?

>Sustain what you buy-sewing, washing, and an attitude that cares about the garment

>Fast fashion can break or wear out easily, you can upcycle the fabric

cut out prints for other projects

use fabric for patches

use fabric to repair other clothes

cut off sleeves/collars/make into crop top

t-shirt bags (an option- but inconvenient to use from personal experience)

other non-clothing crafts

>If you won’t use the clothing item and want to give it away, ask people you know before donating to a thrift store. Thrift stores are already overrun with fast fashion as it is, try not to give them more. But if the only other option is throwing it away, it’s fine to donate it.

>Don't buy excess to what you need. yes you can keep up with trends and accessories but hauls or multiple of an item with the same purpose isn't necessary (ex. more t-shirts than what you can cycle regularly)

>Reduce future fast fashion purchases

If possible consider alternatives such as thrifting, rummage sale shopping, and diy.

Thrift stores and rummage sales support local economics! Your money is going to your neighbors instead of a company.

Rummage sales are preferable to places such as depop, becasue it involves local neighbors who want to get rid of clothes (that will possibly be thrown out otherwise) They can be much cheaper for much higher quality.

>There’s a difference between not being able to afford any other clothes, and buying hauls of fast fashion to wear for a short period of time only to donate immediately or throw away. Influencers who make hundreds of dollars worth of hauls aren’t the type of people who can say “i can’t afford anything else”. hauls aren’t sustainable.

>Don’t feel guilty if you truly can’t afford anything else, but please consider your options and sustain what you already own before buying more.

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