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Broken Dress Form Peat Pot

April 30, 2013 / BY Okio B Designs
I'm a firm believer that if life hands you lemons, you make lemonade.  Case in point, my broken dress form peat pot. I bought some rub-on transfers from Joann's a couple of weeks ago.  Now, I'm no expert on rub-ons.  I've only used them a handful of times.  After rubbing for what seemed like forever, this transfer just didn't seem to be happening.  So I kept at it. I must have moved it while rubbing...

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Playing Dress Up

March 05, 2013 / BY Okio B Designs
I just love dress forms, don't you?!  I have about 20 in the house of varying sizes.  Some are fabric; some are metal.  I think I have one in just about every room in the house.  Here is my newest one: Someone posted a lovely dress form template on Pinterest.  I used it to make this cardstock tag that measures a little under 8.5" x 11".  First, I printed it out onto regular white paper. ...

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Random Acts of Craftiness

July 05, 2012 / BY Okio B Designs
Hope everyone had a safe and happy July 4th!  Now that I can upload photos again, I wanted to share some random projects. This is the dress form I got from Home Goods earlier this week.  Ain't she pretty? I also picked up this birdcage while I was there.  I loved the one my sister Kathy (CreativeHomeExpressions.Blogspot.com) did last week.  I gave mine a quick birdy makeover.  I added some faux dollar store moss, hand-stamped muslin...

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