If you want to see the DIY Mermaid Tail I made last year: KLICK HERE AND HERE
Here's her with the NEW MONOFIN and her UNBOXING, and Trying it out in the pool:
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Showing posts with label swimming. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Mermaid Monofin for My Daughter
If you want to see the DIY Mermaid Tail I made last year: KLICK HERE AND HERE
Artist "Black UniGryphon" 烏獨角獸 Kandice Kathleen Zimbleman 任思麒 and her creatively made stuff, thoughts, or sharing.
Wednesday, August 05, 2015
DIY Mermaid Tail: Preview
She must've begged me to get a tail from "Fin Fun Mermaid" three thousand times! Then, she showed me uptteen-ba-jillian DIY videos, blogs, instagrams, and so on, of all kinds of dumb yuppies making complete fools of themselves & their money on junk, when they probably could've just bought one from "Fin fun mermaid" to support a small business... but, whatever....
Anyways, I'm broke as dirt!
So, what did I do?????
I got 2 old pairs of tights/pants/leggings/bike-shorts or not-quite-capri-pants from Old NAVY that were gonna become rags, or trash anyways.... my kid is also going through a sudden growth spurt, so there's no friggin' way I'm buying a mermaid tail, tailored to her June-sized-body, when she's already outgrow her swimsuit, n had to get a new one on clearance!
I cut up the pants into segments.
Then, I sewed them together w/my sewing machine using honeycomb stitch.
I kept the extra pants' elastic, to tie up the fins part later...
It took forever, because my machine kept falling apart, malfunctioning, or breaking, so I would have to disassemble my machine, and reassemble it multiple times. Also, in the middle of it, we had a major heat wave, humidity finally arrived, then power surges & thunder storms... oh, and I had a job interview.... That, and trying to juggle fixing the situation w/our food stamps, and getting them reinstated... financial conferences, and I sprained my ankle, and had to go to the E.R.
The fins are 2 main components:
* Flippers (S.C.U.B.A. Fins)
* and an old 2002 Boho scarf skirt overtop of the S.C.U.B.A. Fins.
That's it!
I sewed the segments, made sure it looked right, then, she puts on the flippers and the skirt over top, then you tie with the leftover elastic.
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Here's a preview of her getting ready to swim in the pool. I expect to have a lot more photos of my daughter, Heidi, in her mermaid tail.... but, I have to start training at my new job tomorrow....
Coming Soon!
Expect to see more, of my Mermaid Daughter in the water, in the following blog posts.
Artist "Black UniGryphon" 烏獨角獸 Kandice Kathleen Zimbleman 任思麒 and her creatively made stuff, thoughts, or sharing.
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