Post #5-- Exciting News!

Good news! I am proud to say that we have accomplished making our first upcycled item. This was very exciting for us because we were able to use the sewing machine for the first time and learned how it works. My partner and I are very proud of ourselves are trying to find more time to continue working to upcycle more clothing. So far we have decided to work Monday, Wednesday, and Friday each week to accomplish this. I have found a new love for this project and am looking forward to continuing creating more products. I have learned that if I devote more time and passion to this project, there will be astonishing results. We have also started working on a couple shirts and will hopefully have a lot of finished items soon. The setbacks so far have been finding more time to work on the project, but will our commitment we will be able to overcome this. It is essential that me and my partner compromise and have flexibility with our schedules so that we can get good results for this project. The next step is to just create more items and be ready to teach the women at the shelter how to upcycle. I can apply things I have learned to my community by taking what I have learned from upcycling and documenting it so I will be able to teach people as well. This is why along the way I have been and will continue taking picture so you will be able to see the transformation in the clothing.

For our first item we cut out this owl from another shirt and sewed it onto this cute vest. 

Reminder: To still please DONATE clothes!!!

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Post #4-- Finding Motivation

It has been a little difficult to find motivation for this project. I haven't had much turn out with getting people to donate, so I have been looking for clothes that in my own closet and my partner has been doing the same thing as well. I have learned about my topic that I need to find the motivation to allow my passion and want to learning how to up-cycle, a reality. This has been a good life lesson for myself, because it has made me realize that I need to work on taking initiative more in order to get something accomplished. Motivation has been the main setback, however I am confident that by up-cycling an item, I will find passion and motivation to continue working on this project. I plan on making a schedule to have deadlines for when I am going to have things finished for this project. Although I haven't had many donations from school, me and my partner have found some clothing of our own to up-cycle and plan on actually starting up-cycling clothing tomorrow (April 17th). This will be an exciting push in the right direction for us and will hopefully get us back on track. I can apply what I have learned to my future, by finding ways to get myself back on track when things do not go as planned. It is important to be flexible and I am learning to do that in this situation.  

Reminder: As always, please donate any clothes you no longer want or need, it will be a big help!(Excluded items: socks and undergarments).


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