#diy pride

Seasonal depression is hitting me super hard this year. I feel like there is nothing to hope for...

Ok so, I was going to make a video where I showed you how to do it but things have honestly been so busy I literally have not had time to get around to it, and you're anon so I don't have anyone to tag so.....I'm very sorry basically. I hope you see these.

So I used these beads:

They're called pony beads and you can find them places like Michaels, Amazon, the online Pony Beads Store, etc.

I got a single pack from Michaels and they were like under 4 dollars, but they were missing some colors like grey (which meant I wasn't able to do the ace flag......) so like if you are looking to do a flag it might be worth seeing what colors they have.

But anyways to get them on my shoes I basically unlaced my shoes entirely, strung the beads on my shoelaces in the order of the flag I was using and about 9 across in total (but really that just depends on how wide your shoe is), made sure the beads sit in the very middle of my shoes and then relaced my shoes making sure the beads were facing outwards.

There's lots of different ways you can do this though, like mine was just a single line across but people have done things like this:

As well where they put the beads all the way up.

You can also do cool stuff like these:

If you have some clear string and smaller beads (or the larger pony beads, you know, whatever you have on hand will work). And you can get fancy and attach it with clasps like these or you can just tie those fuckers like I did on mine. Be warned though, if you have zip up shoes and these go across where they zip up, you have to make them loose enough that you can open your shoe still. If you just tie your shoes, I don't think that's a problem, but I have accidentally broken one string on my boots before in public....so like, just take that into account.

Or if you don't have strong but you've got safety pins, you can do stuff like this:

Like honestly I would legitimately suggest checking out pinterest for ideas like this if it's stuff you'd like. This is my DIY board and you can find some of this stuff on here, but just looking at pictures of what people have made can give you some ideas on just DIYing your own clothing. There is so much you can do with things like basic needle and thread (patches from old tshirts, embroidery, mending, sewing entirely new clothing, etc), acrylic paints and an iron (paint directly on fabric, heat set with the iron and bam, you can paint on clothing), bleach (add a cup of water and a brush and you've got a whole new thing you can "paint" with, or you can literally just dump that shut on there in fun ways), or things like beads and safety pins.

Like here's some things I've done to clothes:

And these are some future things I want to do to clothes that I've found on pinterest:

I enjoy embroidering and the main thing I embroider is patches, many of them having to do with aro or other queer pride things.  Above is a picture of the back of my denim vest along with most of the patches I have made with varying degrees of completion. Here is a link to a tutorial of 2 aro patches I posted previously (one is the aro arrow that is pictured above, the other is an aro arrowhead that is attached to the front of my vest currently).

Here is another link showing an aroace patch I made (which is also currently on the front of the denim vest). (below the cut is more specific descriptions of the various patches pictured above...a mix of image description and commentary)

my two pride flags, one I made almost a year ago now, and the second one I finished about half an hour ago!

Me making homemade PRIDE marzipan? It’s more likely than you think.