Designs by Laura

In my brief moments of spare time here in Bolivia, I have been working on developing new skills and talents.  My most recent educational pursuit is fashion and clothing design. Or, maybe it is more correct to say clothing re-design. Take for example the shirt I am wearing in the photo to the right. Before my creativity and scissors hit it, it was merely an old Gecko T-shirt that I received as a hand-me-down over 14 years ago (thank you Zumwalt family). But, just the other day, when I was studying and working on my homework, I had an amazing moment of perspiration, oops, I mean, inspiration, well actually I had both, but you didn’t need to know that. Either way, as I was sweating, I looked up from my notebook and I saw the shiny metal of my scissors from across the room and I was suddenly filled with creativity and the need to revamp the T-shirt I was wearing. I ran into my bedroom and with the snip-snip of my scissors, I chopped off the sleeves of my T-shirt. My friend that was standing nearby took one of the scraps from my shirtsleeves and cut it in half, demonstrating that the scrap could make a lovely headband. I then cut another strip from the sleeve leftovers and proceeded to tie it around the neck hole and arm holes on my shirt, first the right side, then the left. It was perfect. The scraps tied around my shirt made a lovely little embellishment for my newly designed creation. I put on my new shirt and headband and looked in the mirror, “not too bad, if I do say so myself, an old T-shirt, transformed with the snip of my scissors into a new, fashionable, weather appropriate, masterpiece, with matching headband.” My old wardrobe is being transformed weekly and for free! If I get sick of nursing, I may start my own business, “Designs by Laura, fashion at the snip of your scissors!”