Okay, I am ready to come clean and admit that I was born in the fifties and graduated high school in 1970. Although I never considered myself a wild child flaunting flower power, I did wear Hippie beads and flowers in my hair.

I clearly remember the transition in my school from a strict dress code that required skirts and dresses, with stockings for the girls to a new relaxed blue jeans and t-shirts. Many of my peers took to the change and culture shock gradually, not me! I was ready to let the freak flag fly with bell bottoms, over sized flannel shirts and desert boots.

When I went off to Art school, my jeans started to wear rapidly. Oil paints, turpentine, stretching canvas, and sit-ins were not kind to the thinner denim of the bell bottom. At first I merely patched the holes with scraps of fabrics left from the many peasant dresses and blouses I had made. Once the legs passed the point of no return I turned the pants into micro mini skirts. Most of my old straight leg Wranglers and Levis were turned into cut offs, anything left became a handbag. There I was with my denim uniform: jean bottom, peasant top, denim handbag, and denim jacket. I was ready to unleash the creative genius I knew the world was waiting for.

I still love denim and wear it all the time. I am still a creative genius (in my own mind at least).
However, I believe my techniques and ideas for recycling old denim may have refined, slightly.

See what you think.

Here are my top 5:

Denim Handbags

Denim Skirts

Composition Book to Journal

Denim Quilts

DS Holder

So Save money, Go Green and have fun being Creative.
Consumer Savvy Carol signing off.

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