Repair, Recycle, and Reorganize!

First of, I'm listening to the 500 days of Summer soundtrack and it is amazing! I love those songs and I think you should check them out if you haven't already! Oh, and watch the movie, too. It's pretty great!

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So it's summer and I gained a lot of free time on my hand. I decided to clean out my closet so I could repair, recycle, and reorganize my clothes. After an hour or two of throwing things on the floor for donation/trash, I found several things that I could keep if I do a little of repairing. I ended up gaining 2 pairs of denim shorts for the summer and fall, 1 pair of dress short, and 3 more denim mini skirts. I cut my unfit jeans to make my shorts and the same went for the dress short. And of course I cut my longer skirts into the mini skirts. I actually only finished with 2 of the shorts because I am doing everything by hand so it takes a bit longer. Here are my shorts:

Back side of denim short

Front side of denim short

Front side of dress short

Then I also found a beautiful summer skirt but it was way too long for today style and I didn't want to cut it... so I turned it into this:

I think I will probably wear this as a tunic top instead of a dress like the picture because it is quite short as a dress! Then I can pair it with either skinny jean or tights! =)

Speaking of tights, I just bought 5 pairs from Forever21 on monday! I've been wanting tights for awhile now because I bought a pair of ankle booties from Naturalizer and needed tights to pair them with. After I bought those fabulous tights, I didn't know where I should put them in my closet/drawer, so I looked to the internet for help! And I found this efficient way to store them:

Tying them like a scarf on your hangers!

Close-up on the knots

Seeing my tights hung beautifully on the hanger and my closet was not as neat....I went folding-crazy to reorganize my closet and drawers so that my tights can have a "better home" =)

Folded T-shirts

Folded tees and tanks

I even folded my jeans and put them in my drawer!

I did realized that I have to pack all of these clothes in like 3 weeks for back-to-college but I folded them anyway. It's just more organized and pretty to look at! Now I have more room in my closet for my tights to hang =)