You see, the thing with dresses is that I feel the ways to wear it are pretty limited. This dress for example only looked perfect with a pair of boots and maybe a great headscarf. Or maybe it is just my restricted brain when it comes to getting dressed with dresses. Either way, in a spur of the moment I grabbed a stanley knife and cut of the biggest part of the embroidery. Et voila, we are talking a whole new level of possibilities now.

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It is not often that I get super enthusiastic by a DIY. I have tried some myself and I think the results were pretty ok, but it does not come near the DIY’s Ivania Carpio from Love Aesthetics is executing. The sliced shades she did last week -inspired by the Grey Ant The Foundry sunglasses are such an amazing find that I had to share.

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This is the easiest DIY I ever did and will probably ever do. It literally took me five minutes -though finding the perfect ribbon took me longer than that.

Supplies:

a belt
scissors (not pictured)
some sort of decorative ribbon (I am not sure what it is called in English)
glue for leather
nailpolish remover (aceton free)
cotton wool

1. Cut the ribbon.
2. Make sure the belt is oil free before applying the glue. I used nailpolish remover, but I am sure there is a 100 other ways to do this.
3. Apply the glue to the belt and add the ribbon.
4. Let it dry.

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For my next – and pretty big – DIY, I got inspired by Acne‘s Scully Denim skirt, ‘a short denim skirt modeled off a jean jacket’.

Supplies:

a denim jacket (preferably mens, I got a size M from H&M, it should be too big to wear as a skirt!)
scissors
pins
a needle and thread
a ripper
hemming tape and an iron
a sewing machine, with a needle for denim fabric (or mad hand sewing skills)
lots of patience and an extra pair of hands

1. Cut off the sleeves. Make sure you don’t cut directly next to the seams, you might need a little bit of that fabric later.
2. Decide how long you want the skirt to be – mine is 4 buttons long – and cut off the top part. Make sure to leave an extra few inches for a seam later in the process.
3. Cut the sides as closely next to the seam as you can, then pin to your size while ‘wearing’ the skirt.
4. Pin the top part of the skirt and make it ready to be seamed. The back should be a tiny bit longer than the front. Try on the skirt again before you start sewing.
5. Sew the sides first (I did this completely by hand, since my sewing machine can not handle 4 layers of denim), then hem the top of the skirt. I secretly used hemming tape, shhh.
6. Use a ripper to detach the collar and pockets from the fabric you cut off in step two. Cut the collar in half and close the parts by hand. Attach the collar to the bottom of the skirt and sew the pockets back on the skirt wherever you want (again, I did this by hand).
7. Perfect the fit of the skirt by sewing two darts on top in the back (tip: wear it inside out to pin the darts).

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Supplies:

• a pair of jeans
• bleach
• rubber bands
• cleaning gloves
• a bucket

1. Fill your bucket with water and make sure the jeans are wet before you tie them with the rubber bands.
2. Wrench, so the jeans are not soaking wet.
3. Tie as many and as much rubber bands as you like until the jeans are all bundled up. There is no right or wrong in this case (less rubber means the more your jeans gets bleached). It is the easiest to start with the legs.
4. Put bleach in the bucket. They say it is 2 cups of bleach with 1,5l of water, but filled up the bucket with water and put in half of the bottle of bleach. It felt like the right thing to do and the bleaching took too long with just 2 cups.
5. Use your gloves to put the jeans in the bucket. An extra tip is to put something heavy on the jeans – for example an empty bottle of wine, like I did -, so your project stays completely under water (otherwise you have to flip the jeans every hour or so).
6.  Check on your jeans every now and then.
7. When the jeans look white enough, take them out and put them in the washing machine.
8. Lay flat to dry.