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I’m worn out. Barely the energy to wash my hair.
Good thing I’ve got a handy pantyhose waistband lying around to wear as a headband.
Lips get dry in the winter. Pantyhose are ever so slightly abrasive, but still gentle enough to bring some life back to your kisser.
Slather on your favorite lip balm and gently rub a bit of pantyhose on them until you’ve rubbed the balm all off.
Finish with another coat of your fave lip balm.
To test effectiveness, find someone to kiss.
Okay, we’ve had some easy ones the last couple of days. Here’s a more involved project. It’s Saturday, after all. In winter. You’ve got the time.
You will need: A chunky beaded necklace you’re tired of (preferably one of those that you tie on with a ribbon that were so popular a couple of years ago); two pantyhose legs with the feet cut off.
1. Line your materials up next to each other, and snip off the extra pantyhose, allowing an extra two inches for the pantyhose.
2. Pull the necklace through the pantyhose tube.
3. Snip several loops off of the other pantyhose leg; one for each bead, plus an extra two.
4. Snip each loop open.
5. Beginning at one end, tightly tie the space between each bead with a snipped-open loop. Be sure to tie a double knot.
6. Continue along the length of the necklace.
7. Rock it.
Hopefully your Friday night means you’re heading out for fun at some irregularly heated club or bar. To maintain homeostasis in such an erratic clime, I suggested using two pantyhose legs – sans feet, of course – as arm warmers.
Thursdays are recycling days where I live, which inspired this use for the waistband of your pantyhose:
Easier than twine!
For today’s project your will need four pantyhose legs with the feet snipped off. It’s more fun if you’ve got at least two different colors.
1. Line them up next to each other. If they’re uneven, snip off the extra.
2. Use this extra bit to tie all four legs together.
3. Begin braiding, alternating colors as you go.
4. Continue braiding along the entire length.
5. When you come to the end, snip off any unevenness.
6. Use this to tie them together.
7. Wear as a scarf-y necklace….
8. Or Rhoda-esque headband.
Tuesdays have always been the bane of my existence. Give me a nice blurry Monday any day; Tuesday everything is all business and way too high stress for me.
That said, here’s a super-easy project that has the built-in bonus of keeping you organized. Every little bit helps on a Tuesday.
You will need one pantyhose leg, complete with foot. Just slide it onto your wrapping paper (you can roll together those sad little post-holiday odds and ends for this and make one super-roll.)
Now tuck it away, nice and neat!
As in my two earlier posts, I’ve cooked up a short series of projects that rely on pantyhose as the primary medium.
Today’s project is suitably simple for the Monday of the first full week of the new year. In addition to pantyhose, it requires only that you have an empty wine bottle lying around, never a problem at our house.
I like a nice negro amaro or nero d’avola, but any grape will do.
1. Cut the leg and foot off of a pair of pantyhose. Stick your hand in the leg, grab hold of the bottom, and pull it through so you have a double-thick, half-length leg.
2. Slip this over the bottle.
3. Fold the collar over like a loose turtleneck.
5. Drop in a bud.
The second entry in the “10 Uses for Pantyhose” series (see the first one here) uses little bitty scraps to make some lightweight yet heavy impact fan shaped earrings.
You will need:
22 gauge copper wire
wire cutters
flat-nosed pliers
1 pair simple ear wires
2 4-inchX 8 inch rectanglish shapes cut from a pair of pantyhose
1. Begin with one of the fabric shapes, and fan-fold the entire piece.
2. Pinching the fan shape to maintain its shape, place it on top of the copper wire.
3. Wrap the wire around the top of the fan three times, then create a small loop at the top; continue to wrap the copper wire around, securing the loop in place. Snip off the end of the wire, and flatten any scary/pointy/sticking-out part with the flat nosed pliers.
4. Use the pliers to bend the ear wire open.
5. Place the loop of the earring on the open ear wire; use the pliers to re-close the ear wire.
6. Repeat steps 1-5 to create the second ear. Put them on and bask in the warm glow of creative reuse.
One of the by-products of organizing is that I come up against my resistance to throwing anything out. Even, for example, three pairs of pantyhose that have long since passed their prime.
Rather than banish them to the dustbin, I decided to figure out what I could turn them into. A warning: if you Google “what to do with used pantyhose,” instead of “uses for pantyhose,” you will end up in a dark and scary part of the internet.
After eventually tearing myself away from that particular cyberhood, I did come across several lists on different sites that offered variations on the theme “put it over your vacuum cleaner to suck up a tiny valuable you might have lost.”
I’m not familiar with the aforementioned “vacuum cleaner,” device, so that particular tip is of no use to me. I did have fun spending the better part of a day playing around with pantyhose and seeing what I could come up with on my own.
I ended up with about ten different projects or ideas, and have decided to post them here on the off chance that there is someone else with my inability-to-part-with-anything disorder.
Today: Sachets.
You will need:
- scissors
- pleasantly scented tea bags (unused)
- pantyhose
- ribbon
- Snip the feet off of a pair of pantyhose.
2. Place a teabag inside each foot.
3. Tie each sachet closed with a bit of ribbon.
4. Voilá! You’ve got some lovely sachets for your drawers.
