Homecoming

          September and October are when most of the universities (in Ontario, Canada) have their homecoming. It's almost always impossible to get a ticket for the football game, but there are always lots of fun activities during Homecoming weekend. And as the saying goes "Win or lose we still booze." Haha.. Not.

          At my school they always hand out Homecoming shirts, each year with a different slogan. Since my school's mascot is a gryphon one of the shirts handed out this year said "10 points to Gryphondor" (If you don't get the harry potter reference that's just sad :-p ). As to be expected, the t-shirts are the boring and basic style. So we, "we" meaning my roommate because I always mess up, cut up our shirts to make them look better. (Check out our DIY: Customize Your Top post for another version of this simple project.)

          For my shirt, we cut the neck and sleeves off and shortened the bottom. Remember, don't throw out your extra fabric, you can be creative and make something with it! I got a little creative myself and used the ends of the sleeves and neckline to make a cute braided headband. Here's how I did it: I braided in some yellow ribbon from my art box with the left over red fabric and tied the ends together with random fabric scraps. Sadly I didn't have my mini sewing kit with me so I couldn't finish it properly but still it worked and looked super cute!

Below are the pictures from Homecoming. I just threw on some face paint and red lipstick to go with our school colors (red, yellow and black):

              

                 Outfit No.1 with my friend Sadiya.

               She looks super cute in her homecoming gear!

Outfit No.2.