What Is PixiesDidIt?

Life Should Be Easy®... okay, it isn't but organizing it should be! We tell you how to make it that way by giving you home and life advice that works best for your personality type.

Sign up for our free daily e-mail PixieTips, discover your home and life personality style, and find solutions that fit who you are.

Columns

PIXIETIPS!
Life Should Be Easy

Daily tips on how to make your home life easier by emabracing who you are. We take today's home & life advice and show you whether or not it will work for you. Every week.

IDEAS FOR THOUGHTFUL PARENTS
To Inspire Creativity, Deepen Connections, & Have More Fun

Parenting comes with a lot of responsibility and stress but it can come with even more fun and hilarity if you let it. Nina Coslov and Tara Keppler, both Organic Structures, offer great advice for all types because above all else they stress the importance of finding your own way.

PIXIEDISH!
Video Gossip with Katie & Kelly

Every week OR SO (umm, or every two years ... we promise to be back soon) ....watch a quick video of Katie & Kelly gossiping about current events and other fun cocktail party topics.

dear katie & kelly

Coming this fall! Send us your personal dilemmas — from how to organize your linen closet to how to get your mother-in-law to show up on time for Christmas dinner — we will solve them or make you laugh trying.

All submissions will be confidential and therefore we will endeavor to give each published problem punny pen names. Email info@pixiesdidit.com.

Our Sponsors

Like us! Oh please like us...
« Easy Summer Meal Ideas | Main | Shopping List Central »
Friday
Jun202014

Ingenious Beach Cover-Up Idea

I'm featuring a cool idea I saw in Martha Stewart's Living June issue. What can I say? It's summer and I'm working on homework our agent gave us for our book proposal, my well is dry. I love looking at Martha's calendar in the front of the magazine to see how she fits in time to visit all of her sundry homes; it's good to be Martha. But yet I digress. This tip has Organic Structure plus a few Classics and Funs written all over it. This is because the only way to implement her idea is if you already have a key sewing tool on hand. I have yet to meet a Smart who is an avid sewer. But write me and tell me about it if you're a Smart who is a member of a quilting bee somewhere.

Pinking ShearsAt the risk of sounding like a 1950s women's magazine, the reason the tip from Martha Stewart Living is great for the really practical types is because men's shirts wear out at the collar before the rest does. Now you have a way to give their shirts a second life while giving yourself something new at the beach to wear for zero bucks.

A few snips to the collar turn a men's shirt into a feminine beach cover-up. Flip up the collar, and draw a faint line on the underside with a pencil at the desired height, curving the line at the front edges. Cut along the line with pinking shears — one laundered, the edge will fray slightly for a ruffled appearance.

NehruNow, unless you sew, you might be asking yourself what pinking shears are. Therefore, I featured an image of them from Staples where you can get your very own. But if this is going to be your only purpose for pinking shears, make life easy and just cut off the collar at the edge with regular old scissors and go for a Nehru-esque look. Naturally, if you're a Smart (and a man), I assume you forgo this entire tip entirely. This is why stores exist selling beach cover-ups. I fully realize this tip will work only once if your husband  wears insanely boring white shirts. Perhaps this will be the wake-up call to help him jazz up his wardrobe.

Ingenious Beach Cover-Up Idea

PrintView Printer Friendly Version

EmailEmail Article to Friend

Reader Comments

There are no comments for this journal entry. To create a new comment, use the form below.

PostPost a New Comment

Enter your information below to add a new comment.

My response is on my own website »
Author Email (optional):
Author URL (optional):
Post:
 
Some HTML allowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>