Brooklyn Bows featured in Manhattan Brides Magazine

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Make.Shop.Live. is proud to be in this month's Manhattan Brides Magazine.  We have already featured our custom magnetic fabric bow ties for our friend's Brooklyn wedding. Click the below photo to learn how we did it!

Congrats to Alessandra and Paul Womack and it was a pleasure to provide these special re-purposed gifts for your guests to wear throughout the reception.  For more tips on re-purposing materials and custom event crafts, check back every Tuesday for the How-To's Day Tutorial.

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How-To's Day: Summer Upcycling Refresher

Kevin here,

Make. Shop. Live. has had a hot summer and busy time for crafters and creative types.  We wanted to list some of the hottest How-To's from these past few months to get your creative juices flowing!

Bow Tie Wedding Decor

Using a variety of extra fabrics and clothes and some strong little magnets, our team completed an assortment of handmade cloth bow ties.  Upcycle those old outfits and learn how now!  

Record Bookends

Follow these 4 quick steps to make your own Bookends out of Vinyl LP Records.

Make your own Hairpin Lace Loom

Beer and BBQ should have been on your agenda this summer!  Use the leftover packaging and Skewers to settle in for the winter and start your Loom.

Lavender Infused Vodka

Using fresh Lavender flowers and your favorite vodka, mix it up and enjoy a handmade refreshment.

The Upcycling continues every Tuesday.  See you here next week for the How-To's Day Handmade Idea!

--Kevin

How-To's Day: Alessandra & Paul's Bow Tie Wedding Decor

The bride and KC both love bows, so it was pretty clear from the beginning that some handmade bow ties were on the horizon.  Using a variety of extra fabrics and clothes and some strong little magnets, Make Shop Live team completed an assortment of 140 handmade cloth bow ties.

KC did a great many tasks at our friend's wedding in Brooklyn.  One of the most fun projects was the seating cards for each guest at the reception. The bows are a variation on a Make Shop Live holiday project post here. For Alessandra's wedding we dropped the scale down to make the bow roughly 5" wide by 3" tall. The bow is held in place with a magnet for the fastening just like this magnetic brooch project we featured in May here.

 
To wear the bow ties as a brooch all you need to do is slip a magnet on the other side of your clothing to hold it in place. Best part of the magnet brooches is you don't ruin your fancy clothes like sometimes you do with a pin back that snags.

We started with some old clothes shown below and dug through our reserved stash of navy and pink fabrics for the assortment of bows.  To make some of the pinks look more vintage and antiqued, KC tea stained the fabrics first before constructing the bows.  For a look at how to tea stain fabric of your own here is how to tea stain fabric. 

Utilizing the project instructions here for the bow, the main variation for these magnetic brooches is placing the magnet inside the backing of bow as you assemble it as shown below:

Using a magnetic board from Ikea we were able to display all the bows and seating cards quickly and easily since they all had super strong magnets inside them.

Here are some color sample tests KC sent Alessandra to show what colors were available to Make Shop Live in Navy and Pink.

Enjoy! and have fun!!!

If you try this project out we'd love to see some pictures :)

XOXO, KC

How-To's Day: Fabulous Fabric BOWS

This past Saturday afternoon I had the pleasure of hosting our first annual Christmas Craft Party. Personally, I think it was a huge success! For the layout of my apartment it felt huge, but we had a small group of crafters over and amongst the evening's projects were these simple fabric bows that can be uses as embellishments to necklaces, hair clips, pins, and many more ideas.

I will illustrate the project, then include some pictures taken Saturday at the party.