April Refashion Challenge: Colourful Upcycles

Dye isn’t just for eggs this week!  Liven up your wardrobe for spring and summer with a few of my top tips for dyeing and bleaching clothing + a few fab refashionista tutorials too for …

Help me refashion this dress for #ThriftyThursday

After the votes had been tallied this week’s theme turned out to be Jungle Jane, unfortunately it’s full on wet and snowy winter in Toronto so a photo shoot in a jungle-y setting was a …

January Refashion Challenge: Sustainable Style

4 years ago I stopped shopping new and fully embraced creating my own unique style from secondhand, vintage, thrifted and inherited garments and materials. Giving up buying brand new wardrobe items was a lot less …

December Refashion Challenge: Thrifted DIY Gifts

Are you a nifty thrifty DIY gifter? With all of the informative articles, facts and stats about sustainability and unethically produced products readily available online it should be easy to stop consuming and start re-using, refashioning, DIY-ing …

October Refashion Challenge: An Upcycled Halloween

Halloween has always been my fave holiday unfortunately living throughout Asia and Europe for the past 2 decades means I haven’t been able to celebrate a “proper” All Hallows’ Eve for over 20 years, fortunately being …

November Refashion Challenge: DIY Bags

Tote bags, handbags, shopping bags, shoulder bags, duffel bags, evening bags, gift bags…the list of unnecessarily necessary bags we hoard to carry our stuff about is pretty darn endless. Raid your refashioning stash, create an …

October Refashion Challenge: Upcycled Accessories

A deep breath of crisp October air signals that winter is on the way bringing with it the need to get started creating those  groovy handmade gifts…akk! Put on your DIY diva caps and get making …