Monthly Archives: June 2010

June and July are big months for city made. Carol and Christian’s wedding anniversary is June 20th and Melany and Jeff’s is July 26th. To celebrate, we are having Wedding Week! We will feature ideas for weddings that are re-purposed … Continue reading →

We end father’s day week with this re-purposed bicycle pannier.  Citymade dad Jeff rides often rides his bike to work and carries his computer etc. in his back pack.  This gets quite hot and uncomfortable so he requested a pannier … Continue reading →

Here is another great re-purposed Father’s Day idea. Old T-shirt to Dad’s cool silhouette shirt. We found an old T-shirt (with out holes) and a cute pic of Melany’s girls. By tracing the pic and making a stencil on freezer … Continue reading →

Today’s Father’s day post combines two favorites of most Dad’s, Beer and Barbeque. We took an empty beer bottle, made our own special label and found a good bbq sauce recipe. We also used an old cork (saved from an … Continue reading →

We are continuing thinking of Dad this week. Our final project with the old tweed coat is a map bag.( Shhh. It’s for Chirstian.) We pieced the coat fabric to fit the map bag pattern. Then we used the strap … Continue reading →

This week we are celebrating the dads in our lives.  Here is yet another re-purposed gift for dad from the tweed jacket (yes, we are getting some mileage out of this very loved tweed)…. The Coffee Sleeve This handy sleeve … Continue reading →

Dad’s week continued… We continue with re-purposing the tweed jacket by using a sleeve to make an ipod/phone case.  Now dad can have a stylish, yet masculine case for his “toy”.  Email us at citymade@gmail if you would like to … Continue reading →

It’s Dad’s week here at city made. We will do a little re-purposing in honor of Father’s. Our first few posts this week will feature “the old tweed coat”. James, Colin and Ava’s Dad, Christian, has a fondness for tweed, … Continue reading →

As promised, here are some pics of Benson Summer Fest. City made had an awesome, well attended booth. If you stopped by, Thank you! We had so much fun and really enjoyed talking to people and hearing what they liked … Continue reading →

We (Christian and Carol) recently had some visitors (our dear friends and family, the Honkoski’s). They were kind enough to drive in from Illinois, about an 8 hour drive. Not bad, unless you have children and they keep asking “are … Continue reading →