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Welcome back to make thrift buy, a show where you guys send me cool clothes and accessories from the internet and I try my best to recreate them.
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Today's suggestion was sent in by Vatoyyo, who sent me a link to this banana backpack.
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Now, I found this same item all over different store envy shops, so it does seem to be a cheap, mass-produced design and it's also something you could totally make for yourself.
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So I've been keeping an eye out for plain backpacks,
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at market stalls and thrift stores and I found this one the other day.
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I thought it looked pretty similar so now I'm going to begin.
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The first thing I did was to work out a good banana design on a piece of paper
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before trying it out on the bag itself.
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Next I mixed up some yellow and white acrylic paint to make a good banana colour
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and added some fabric medium to help the design stay permanent on the fabric.
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This isn't really needed if you're not going to be washing your backpack much but seeing as I had some lying around, I thought 'why not?'
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Then I laid the backpack flat and put a plastic bag inside to stop the paint from transferring through to the opposite side.
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Then I started painting banana shapes on to my bag.
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The first thing I did was to cover up this quite prominent stain with this strategically placed banana.
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Then I continued painting on bananas in a random fashion.
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Now, you can wait for your paint to dry naturally or you can get impatient like me and speed up the process with a hairdryer.
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Once I had covered my backpack with bananas , I ironed over them to set them into the fabric.
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Then, using a permanent black marker, I drew a couple of simple lines over the top of the paint to finish off the design
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and I repeated this for all of the bananas.
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Way too easy to make and I've given a new life to this old, stained backpack.
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If you have any suggestions for things for me to try out
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then leave a comment below.
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Thank you all so much for watching and I will see you guys in the next episode.