This Is A Message To All The Guest Forum Readers!!!

[pinoyblaze]

:eek:Join us, you can't escape!!!! hahaha :oseriously these people are cool, click the join...sign up... or whatever button above:rolleyes:!!!

Join the REVOLUTION!!!:D

DIY is a life style not just a fashion choice!

-Karlo<3

[pinoyblaze]

I just noticed from the Who's Online page the "guests" aren't even reading this...fine go do your DIY projects >_< lol <3

[lafemmedramatique]

I just wanted to agree with you that DIY is a lifestyle, for sure! Once you start you seriously can't stop! You start looking at every old outfit as something that could be imporved upon, and every thrift shop as your playground. You will start carrying your projects to work or class with you if you don't have time to do them at home, and you will use every free moment you get to at least start another project... even if that means just cutting the parts of your t-shirt in the 20 mintues you have between classes or work, or something, and then you will pin them in the next 20 free minutes, start sewing the next....

Plus then you start realizing that you're actually saving yourself money, and then you start realizing all the good you're doing by keeping clothing out of landfills and not supporting sweatshop labor (FYI, if it doesn't say "made in USA" on the tag, then it was probably made in a sweatshop by some little kid who got paid 12 cents a shirt....)

Finally, you turn out like me and start showing every person you've ever been friends with the tutorials and examples of stuff they can do too, and give your final speech to your speech class on ways you can keep from supporting sweat shop labor (i'm giving that in about 4 hours! WHEE!)


But yes... join us... enjoy... let it take over your life! You'll be so much happier when you do!

[miss.green.tea]

leik omagod nowai join the clique and shop at goodwill LOL

~ha i'm glad i don't talk like that...

but really, why be a clone of every other person who wears abercrombie and hollister and juicy and whatever? how about a little originality? you get to excercise your creativity and mad skilllzz, as well as save money and maybe in the long run help lower the amount of sweatshop labor~ what's not to like?

SOOOOOOOOO go on, git!! your local thrift stores need you!! goodwill is there to offer you materials!! the salvation army is backing you up!! and your closet clothes would rather be remade than thrown out!!~

this isn't a one time thing, you don't make one shirt then switch back to the monotony of trends and "what everyone's wearing"

YOU'VE GOTTA COMMIT!!!

a'ight theres my input~

[pinoyblaze]

but really, why be a clone of every other person who wears abercrombie and hollister and juicy and whatever?

GASP!!! I have a confession...O_o I worked for Abercrombie and Fitch a while back....then again it was with graveyard shift with all the weirdos, and I broke my arm the next day and was forced to quit....I felt much better after that...seriously what was I thinking?!?!

I wanna make a shirt now, DIY or DIE lol like the voting ones a while back.

[miss.green.tea]

GASP!!! I have a confession...O_o I worked for Abercrombie and Fitch a while back....then again it was with graveyard shift with all the weirdos, and I broke my arm the next day and was forced to quit....I felt much better after that...seriously what was I thinking?!?!

I wanna make a shirt now, DIY or DIE lol like the voting ones a while back.

no i'm not sayign they're bad, there's a lot of cute clothing, and i've tried some meself but i'm just saying~ SO MANY PEOPLE these days are judging by what brand of clothing you wear.. which is great for their business becauses they get so many people, but it kinda sux that if you don't wear the top names some people tend to look down on you...

[pinoyblaze]

no i'm not sayign they're bad, there's a lot of cute clothing, and i've tried some meself but i'm just saying~ SO MANY PEOPLE these days are judging by what brand of clothing you wear.. which is great for their business becauses they get so many people, but it kinda sux that if you don't wear the top names some people tend to look down on you...

I notice that too..I personally can't fit anything at A&F, and I wasn't trying to say they are bad people (My best guy friend works there). But It often does fall under the topic of class issues in our communities. I'm not :mad:for big business, and when people get all judgmental that I shop at thrift stores and flea markets, the thought on the back of my mind is :confused:

"Sure, go spend money on $300 dollar jeans with a hole in knee".

I'll make my own for a fraction of that. :D

Also I noticed the lack of fore filling conversation with the day shift staff. So to tell you the truth, I knew it wasn't for me. ::SHRUG::

DIY or DIE!!! <3

[miss.green.tea]

yeap... well i prefer DIY to spending money any day :p

[craft.addict]

well i just wanted to let you know that you have converted someone.

i had always just been a forum reader (feeling that i did not have enough to contibute) but i have been hooked on threadbanger all summer and have been avidly reading the forums. (thus i saw this thread) plus i created my own craft/diy room in my house and i am quickly making it a way of life. my summer job is at a thrift store(which not only supports my reduce, reuse, recycle mantra, but also provides first dibs, AND a discount on already good prices).

so in short, i have joined the forum and will now hold myself to posting projects.

keep crafting people, keep crafting.

[pinoyblaze]

well i just wanted to let you know that you have converted someone.

i had always just been a forum reader (feeling that i did not have enough to contibute) but i have been hooked on threadbanger all summer and have been avidly reading the forums. (thus i saw this thread) plus i created my own craft/diy room in my house and i am quickly making it a way of life. my summer job is at a thrift store(which not only supports my reduce, reuse, recycle mantra, but also provides first dibs, AND a discount on already good prices).

so in short, i have joined the forum and will now hold myself to posting projects.

keep crafting people, keep crafting.

Welcome<3 Thank you for Joining DIY Anomalous, cookies and milk will be one the table at the corner of the room.

HAHA <3 I hope you enjoy it!!!:D

[pinoyblaze]

bump<3

[crazydaiz]

I just joined and like to say, thanks!
I am a rookie DIYer who used to feel hopeless in this fashion conscious world. I hated all the styles the stores were trying to sell. But thanks to all the DIY stuff out there i was able to find some of my own style.

Now I am a new thrift store shopper locked in her room with only the sounds of a sewing machine and a cd player heard through the door

soo..yep
thanks again!

[pinoyblaze]

I just joined and like to say, thanks!
I am a rookie DIYer who used to feel hopeless in this fashion conscious world. I hated all the styles the stores were trying to sell. But thanks to all the DIY stuff out there i was able to find some of my own style.

Now I am a new thrift store shopper locked in her room with only the sounds of a sewing machine and a cd player heard through the door

soo..yep
thanks again!

WELCOME!!! ha ask all of us were little seeds with potential for creativity and innovation, so shall you sprout into the beautiful and sweet scent of DIY. BTW even DIYers need sun light and freash air once in a while<3 heheh

[sewittogether]

If you by one thing for 300 dollars , imagine how much money you saves if you go to good will or sometin like that. Amagine how many things you can make with that 300 dollars you would have spent on that pair of jeans that doesnt even fit. Imagine that poor little boy in africa getting paid 10 cents a shirt!

And you dont have to be pretty or cool to wear diy. In abercromie or hollister , they have all the good looking people in the front , and not so good looking people in the back.( but we are all beautiful on the inside , Aren't we?)

Down With Store Bought Shiz!
Help that poor little boy in child labor eating garbage with a disease..
i better stop now :(

[Rufus-kun]

:eek:Join us, you can't escape!!!! hahaha :oseriously these people are cool, click the join...sign up... or whatever button above:rolleyes:!!!

Join the REVOLUTION!!!:D

DIY is a life style not just a fashion choice!

-Karlo<3

you caught me with your tractor beam of truth ^_^

guess I'd better start making stuff, neh?

I love the stuff you guys have made here and so you've inspired me to try and make some stuff for myself :D

[Mina]

>>
Moar DIY please. I must find fabric to decorate my ninja mittens.
-bad obsession with useless decorative garments-

You've confused/convinced me into joining this forum. See ya around~

[superdoofus]

now shall come the voice from the seemy underbelly...
mua-hahaha...
see your couch?
see your sewing machine?
NOW I CAN MAKE PIPING AND REUPHOLSTER YOU!
see your senseless ikea curtains?
*ZZZZAPP* NEW FABRICS THAT ACTUALLY LEND SOMETHING (long chiffon dresses or bedsheets or 15 tee's from the "red section" of the thrift store will be enough for an entire house)
see those clothes in your closet that still flatter you but you think are outdated in color or style or don't match your personal outlook?
RIP IT AT THE SEAMS INTO A TEMPLATE AND BUY AN OVERSIZED SIMILAR GARMENT IN THE COLOR YOU LIKE AND BLAMMO, NEW WARDROBE.

i would rather decide what i feel good wearing than have my perceptions of such tethered to some market trend. "wtf? i like this style for me, now you're going to change it all up and tell me that this new cut/color/whatever of it is the next thing?" leave that to your market research people's justification of a job. i'm good here. i'd rather reuse or refit/alter non-current patterns and color schemes, i have the technology (a freakin' sewing machine and some pins).

see, "craft" is exactly such. compare craft and personalization to having a brand identity. i would never deify myself for my own choosings of style, nor would i condemn someone for their own choosing of their own, but i will say that i define that which makes me comfortable and pleasant, and that my boundaries are endless and up to me, not to some caucus of trend or newish style.
i fashion my own self, ok? i see what you're trying to do and bless you for it, but i'm kinda going to be over here, kthnx.

[WonderlandAlli]

srsly.

^_^ Dude I have such an urge to go to GoodWill today...

[lafemmedramatique]

srsly.

^_^ Dude I have such an urge to go to GoodWill today...

I have that urge about once a week, at least.... but after I started spending $50 every time I went in, my boyfriend put me on goodwill probation.... so I'm not allowed to go in again until I go through all the stuff I already have....

I miss Goodwill...

(oh, a suggestion for anyone who DOES plan to go to Goodwill soon... if you take the time to drive to ritzier towns you'll get a better selection! There's a town about 45 minutes to an hour from me, and they all have money out the wazzoo, and they take in expensive clothing WITH THE TAGS STILL ON THEM! Seriously, if your Goodwill doesn't have much to work with, try one in a town where money flows like water, and you'll find more stuff.... and have a little laugh at their expense, too!)

[suburbanjungle]

Thank you for Joining DIY Anomalous, cookies and milk will be one the table at the corner of the room.

Dude, milk and cookies?? I am totally in...[like the ninja mittens didn't already have me hooked XD] DIY=..does anything really compare? Thanks for all the advice everyone has *unknowningly* given! Wow that makes me sound creepy...I'm not, really!

[Create and Destroy]

craft addict...thats awesome. you should send us pics of that room and whatever you make in it !

-rob