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How To Make A Cute White Board – Home Sweet Home

by VioletLeBeaux | Nov 14, 2012 | Craft, Home Sweet Home Tutorials, Storage/Utility-Tutorials, Tutorial

Fridge looks a little boring and plain?

Time to make your own pretty whiteboard!

Hours of fun drawing or more realistically writing shopping lists!

You need:

Whiteboard paper (got mine from Daiso)
Markers
Old magnets
Hot glue gun
Lace
Diamantes

So first step is deciding what size you want. The whiteboard paper was really easy to cut so in theory you could make all kinds of shapes.

I decided to edge it with lace but I thought pink would look better with the fridge so I coloured the nylon lace with a Copic marker.

Easy!

Glue the lace to the sticky side of the paper all the way around the edge.

I taped it in the corners for a little extra strength.

I was kind of decorating as I went along so the next thing I did was clean off my fridge and remove all of the stickers. I find it easier to do projects like this when they’re actually on the item. Sometimes you just need to see things from further away to pick up any mistakes!

This is what I had at this point but it looked a little plain.

Diamantes to the rescue! I put a row of large diamantes around the edge of the paper.

Pretty!

Now it’s time to do the matching pens 😀

These are really simple too, just make sure you use actual whiteboard markers not regular ones or else you’ll never be able to wipe them off XD

All you need to do is cut some old magnets to be the size and shape of the lid then glue them of. You may need to glue one to the actual pen too depending on how strong the magnets are.

Easy!

I added my Bergamot magnet for another little detail too 😀 You can learn how to make your own Bergamot magnet here.

Taadaa!

Now you just need to draw something on there!

When I made this one I was thinking I would use it for shopping lists and things like that but all I really ended up doing with it was drawing cute things XD

The fridge definitely looks cuter now! I’m still considering adding a heap of flowers to the bottom of it too but I can’t decide on which medium to use!

3 Ways To Get The Best Ribbon Bows

by VioletLeBeaux | Nov 13, 2012 | Craft, Other-Accessory-Tutorials, Tutorial

Today I thought I would do a bit of an experiment and compare different ways to tie ribbon bows.

There are three methods which I wanted to compare:

The Fork, The Knot and The Cut.

So let’s get started!

#1. The Fork.

This is a larger version of something which has been all over Pinterest and Tumblr. I have no idea who invented this originally but here’s a site with a pdf which is fairly self explanatory.

For the big version you just need 4 fingers and some ribbon.

Wrap a piece of ribbon around your fingers like this and hold in place:

Poke the top end between your middle fingers at the bottom.

Poke the other end through the the fingers at the top.

From the back it looks like this:

Tie the two ends in a knot so they hold it in place.

Wiggle it off your fingers.

Even it out and this is the front:

And back:

Not bad and it’s very easy to get a lot of bows done quickly which are completely even. It can be a bit fiddly though.

The Knot.

Take a piece of ribbon and fold the end in to the middle.

Fold the other end to the middle too:

Now grab the folded ends and tie them in a knot.

It makes an upside down bow.

Pull the ends tightly and even it out.

That’s the knot! It’s a very simple way to get a bow but the tail pieces come from different sides of the bow which I’m not a big fan of.

The Cut

This version kind of cheats by using 3 pieces of ribbon instead of one. I’ve already done a more detailed tutorial on this one so if you need instructions check out my ribbon bow tutorial here.

This is the end result, it’s the perfect shape but it takes so much longer to do.

So looking at them side by side I like The Cut the most but I think the Fork is best when you need to do them in bulk. What do you guys think?? Which is your favorite?

Here they are in the order of Fork, Knot and Cut:

I’m so weird about bows, I can’t believe I actually just wrote a post comparing them XD

High Messy Bun Tutorial and Red and Black Eye Make Up

by VioletLeBeaux | Nov 12, 2012 | Beauty, Beauty-Tutorials, Hair, Hair-Tutorials, Tutorial, Video-Tutorials, Violet Vision Videos

It’s round up day today!

I have another matching set of videos. This time it’s the look I used when we filmed at the ocean. First is the Morning Make Up video featuring the red and black eye look. It’s nice and dark and quite versatile!

Then the hair style tutorial from the same look. I do love matching sets! The hair for this look is a big messy high bun.

Lastly, every year James and his brother Kris have an arm wrestling competition. It’s full of brotherly smack talk XD Enjoy!

Hope you all had a good weekend! ^_^