Land of Silk and Candy

I finally found the perfect setting for the eyeballs I embellished weeks ago.
It's in the shape of a globe.

A while ago ModCloth sold this dress for $44, which is quite insane considering it's nothing more than a striped tanktop and a skirt with elastic waist.

I found a striped shirt on clearance for $3. I got rid of the flowers (I don't know what the designer was thinking when he/she decided to put them on in the first place).

Sew some gold anchor buttons on

Add a blue skirt with elastic waist.

I really like the green color of Garnier Fructis bottle, so I cut an octopus shape out of it. There isn't a lot of skills involved and I could probably come up with more shapes to cut out.

Since tiny elongated rice-shaped pearls are called rice pearls, I added some large red oval howlite beads as beans.

All strung together

While most things are cheaper if you make them yourself, sometimes the time and effort it takes is just not worth it. For example I recently bought a pack of 20 stamped metal butterflies from eBay for about $2. It would probably going to cost me a lot more time and effort to make my own die and stamp metal sheets.

I made a necklace with 10 of them.
(The most annoying part is removing them one by one from their individual plastic packages.)