I am still spending much too much time having fun here in Melbourne so I’m going to photo spam your a little bit. I promise there are going to be a bunch of tutorials when I get back so you’ll all just have to put up with it π You guys are totally going to love the photos from the tea party too!
Basically it’s a gigantic warehouse that has a whole bunch of smaller shops inside it selling all manner of antiques and pretty things.
Here are a few photos from the day!
I spent so much time looking around at everything, I swear I could lose days in antiques stores π
We found some awesome old roller skates that I really wanted to buy!
So many jewelery display cases, so little time >_<
There were so many beautiful scarves, I wanted to take them all home!
Bonus picture of the day, at the vintage hair setter π
By the time you’re reading this I’ll probably be on a plane on the way home back to my own bed and back into the swing of normal blogging ^_^ Hopefully we can get back to visit the Woolloongabba Antiques Center again!
I had SO much fun picking out everything from Notorious Kitsch, there were just so many things on their website that I couldn’t decide :O
What I ended up with waaaaas:
-I Married A Monster From Outer Space greeting card
-Looking for Trouble pouch
-Of Course it Buys Happiness business card holder
-No Reason Note book holder
-Sew n Save Tin
-Je T’aime Paris magnetic Address BookAll of that for 30 Pounds! One of the coolest parts? She threw in an awesome set of mini emery boards in the shape of an old hotel match book! SO COOL! I keep them in my purse now for emergencies π Fiona was so delightful to deal with and she really went the extra mile to find cool things that were in stock for me π Go check out her store now!
They make the most beautiful swim suits I’ve ever seen. They are all retro themed and have really flattering cuts. One thing that I *really* liked was that you can choose some of the designs to fit your bra cup size. As a girl who is slim but *cough*curvy*cough* I have a lot of trouble finding swim suits that well… fit. After chatting to Vicki about which style would suit my figure the best as well as be very supportive I picked one out π
This is what arrived at my door… How cute is the packaging?!
And this is the swim suit, you can see it on the site here. It’s made of quite thick material and it has boning in the sides to give you a really nice shape.
Okokokokok after much debating I decided to post some pictures of me actually in it.. but I’m completely self conscious so be nice ok! I normally don’t even leave the house without stockings and a cardigan so this is quite out of the ordinary! I’m also a little paranoid that the photos will end up somewhere I don’t want so extra water marks today sorry!
Hahaha so pasty and white, I love being pale! Epic tanning fail=
I really can’t say how much I LOVE this swimsuit, I used to hate swimming and going to the beach because I was always scared of having a “costume malfunction” but this is so supportive and nice that I go swimming with James all the time now π
What you don’t check your false lashes while you’re swimming too?
James played with the colours here to make it look really pretty!
I had a huge amount of fun trying to decide what to choose from Blue Velvet Vintage, there were so many pretty things on the site that I came very close to spending a lot of my own money too *_*
Adorable business card!
So what did I get? First I got this super cute bracelet by Sarah Coventry. Unfortunately a couple of the rhinestones had fallen off in transit but they were very easily fixed and Theresa was extremely apologetic. Anyway it looks so pretty on!
The other item I got was this super awesome purple pleated skirt from the 1950’s!
It was way too long on me so I took it up around 10 inches very carefully and taadaa:
Too cute right?
I absolutely love it!
Thank you so much to Notorious Kitsch, For Luna and Blue Velvet Vintage, I really appreciate all the wonderful gifts they made Christmas extra special!
Special thank you goes out to Super Kawaii Mama for being incredibly awesome and holding this competition! LOVE.
What do you guys think? Did I pick well? What would you have gotten for your vintage christmas prize?
Today I’m going to show you how I went about making bunny slippers out of house hold items, trust me it’s not as hard as you think!
This post is for Eszwho is awesome and won the name my camera competition. She asked for a post about how I turn something ordinary into something awesomely cute. I thought what better than turning something old and useless into something cute?
So today’s tutorial is going to be about how to turn some old socks and a pillow into…Β cute bunny slippers!
What you need for this version of making bunny slippers:
-3 old knee high socks -1 pair of old ankle socks -Cardboard -Old pillow -Pen -Scissors -Needle and thread
First put your foot on the cardboard and trace around it with your pen.
Do one for each foot:
Now draw around the shape you made, leave around a 1cm gap and make the shape more rounded and even. This will be the base of your slipper so you want room to wiggle and move around a bit ^_^
Cut out the larger shape.
This is what you end up with!
Now grab your old ankle socks, this works best if they are the thick and kind of squishy like those sports socks.
Put the cardboard bits you cut out into the socks.
You should fit the heel of the cardboard into the heel of the sock, it should end up like this:
Next you should cut up your pillow to get some stuffing out! If it’s a really old pillow it will look kind of gross like this…
So what you need to do is shove the stuffing into the bottom side of the cardboard. That means the side that doesn’t have the sock hole on it will end up thick and squishy.
This is what it should look like from the side…
The hole part of the sock is in the bottom of the picture above. Now take your needle and thread and sew up the hole ^_^
Just like this:
Now you have the bases of your slippers!
Ok next part! Get one of your other socks and put your foot on the base you just made. Lay the leg part of the sock over your foot like the photo below and cut it out so you have enough of it to sew to the base.
Keep the fabric as a tube because later we’re going to stuff it. This is roughly the shape it should be:
Put a little stitch at the toe of base and the top part we’re about to sew on. This is just to keep it in place and make sure it doesn’t move around, if you would prefer just add some pins.
Put the top part on the side of the base that doesn’t have any stuffing on it. We are going to sew it on the wrong side so we can turn it inside out and hide the stitching later. So pick a side and start sewing around.
Keep sewing all the way around to the other side until you have around a 4cm gap left. Now grab some stuffing and shove it into the upper part.
Now sew up the last little part and you end up with something like this:
Turn it inside out and the padded bottom should be where your foot will go and the padded front should be enough to cover your toes.
Like this:
Now make the other one!
And now it’s time to make some ears for our bunny ^_^ Get another of the knee high socks and cut the top and bottom off so you’re just left with a tube.
Cut down the folds and then in half so you end up with 4 parts.
Take each of these and fold them in half and cut the top into a bunny ear shape.
Sew around the edges…
Then turn them inside out and stuff them too.
This is what you should end up with:
Decide how you want to place them on your slippers, I want them to be nice and pointy so I am going to put them close together.
Turn your slipper inside out and sew on the ears.
When you turn it back out the right way it should look like this:
Clean up any loose threads you have.
And decorate them! I embroidered little faces on to the bunnies and then using some stuffing I made a little cotton tail to sew on the back ^_^
And there you go! This is how they look when they’re on ^_^
So you just made slippers out of old junk around the house, congrats! Pretty cool huh?
And you know the best part? They are awesomely comfortable because of the padding and they stay on well because of the elasticity of the socks!
What do you think?
Thanks again Esz, I hope you like it π Let me know if any of you give making bunny slippers a try!
In which we start with nail art and it just gets more random from there….
I’ve been wanting to do a proper update for a while but I just haven’t had the time >_< So I present you, the last couple of months in photos!
I made my Mum some Christmas themed nails for her work party:
I like the nails that look like presents!
And the stripey ones. Stripes are awesome π
I made this cake when my Mum came over for dinner.
It didn’t turn out very well but it was pretty yummy! I think next time I need to just stick with icing because I tired to paint roses on the sides and it looked terrible!
One day I went to brush my teeth and there was a lizard in the sink who couldn’t get out. He was stuck because the sink was slippery >_<
He was scared of us (I named him Steven by the way) so I used the string on my pajamas to make a ladder for him. He got out and lived in our bathroom for a few days eating the ants.
One day he tried to venture into the lounge so we had to put him outside in case someone stepped on him π
BYE STEVEN! He lives under our back steps now.
We discovered that there was a Japanese bakery that just opened up at one of our favorite shopping centers… and went a bit crazy. Turns out that as pretty as the below cake looked it was disgustingly stale >_< Luckily their other things are absolutely delicious so we’ve been going back almost every week!
These are the photos James took on Christmas Day. I didn’t get any of the morning when we went to my Dad’s house so here are the ones from lunch with James’ family. The food was so yummy!
And the table was very pretty ^_^
Candied yams… we don’t usually have this in Aus, it’s very American. I’d never heard of it until James introduced me but it’s sooo yummy!
Group shot!
I stole some of the decorations from the crackers to make my bow more Christmas-y.
For New Years we went to James’ Parent’s unit in Mooloolaba. There was such a pretty view from the balcony!
Oh course it always had a breeze in the most inappropriate times XD I still love this photo!
James wanted to try out lots of new camera settings so I got to do lots of cam-whoring.
And I wanted to show you how glittery my nails looked in the sun…
So glittery! I can’t believe I forgot to take a close up >_< They were seriously all pink and silver glitter with some cute black hearts.
For dinner that night I had Okonomiyaki from a street vendor, so over priced and not very nice. I give it a 5/10 because they didn’t have extras on top.
The view from that night, there were lots of street stalls there.
A kiss at midnight!
And the pretty fireworks.
It was a pity that half of them were behind that tree. Pretty anyway π
So there you go! I’ll be back again with another nail art tutorial soon ^_^
Illustrator. Strong tea, knitting, watercolours, and making a video game called Moonlight in Garland. Living with her adorable husband Jimmy, fluffy puppy Miss Lottie and Bergamot Bunny in Melbourne, Australia.
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