by VioletLeBeaux | Oct 20, 2012 | Life
It’s another family trip snapshot post today!
Aww James and his Mum! Hi if you’re reading this!
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Some delicious pork from Kaneda.
We wandered around Myer trying to find everyone and while James was trying to give directions over the phone, I was more concerned with photos XD
While we were shopping for a jacket for James’ brother he spotted this mannequin who was in need of a belt.
Then we spotted these expensive pants which literally had a piece of rope as a belt… seriously. I guess they might have helped the mannequin.
This is my Dad getting to read my Bergamot book for the first time!
Bergamot on my phone looked on XD
Marionnettes like this creep me out.
I saw this snoring prevention device… it’s a stick with a glove to punch your partner in the face with!
 
We had lunch at a super cute little cafe. I’m a sucker for anything with flowers.
  
They made really nice crepes.
James tried out a racing game and he was doing really well until he crashed on the last lap (so he says…). 
Now let’s get in some pretty architecture! This is the chandelier where Dad was staying.
The city is having a lot of construction at the moment but I find building sites quite beautiful too.
The Hyatt is possibly the ugliest building in the entire city, it’s bright gold, it reminds me of costume jewellery from the 1970’s.
This one kind of reminds me of a highway with lots of cars on it.
I feel like this restaurant wanted to be called “Kings of Thai” but that was taken so they just went with “Things of Thai” hahaha!
This is the place that James’ family was staying, so pretty!
I told James and Kris to look cool and this was the best they could come up with, really?
That weekend I had the best cheesecake I’ve eaten in my entire life at Hopetoun. Normally their cakes have been kind of whatever but this cheesecake was so good, my mouth is actually watering again right now thinking about it.
I have to go now and dream about that cheesecake again.
Did you eat do anything good this week? |
by VioletLeBeaux | Oct 20, 2012 | Miss Lottie Pomeranian, Violet Vision Videos
Just a quick video to introduce the new member of our family Lottie the puppy! Hope you love her as much as we do!
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A blog and Youtube channel about a girl and her quest to make everything sparkle. New craft, hair and beauty tutorials every week!
Violet LeBeaux spends most of her time trying to think of ways to make life prettier, posting said ways on her blog and drinking very strong tea. She writes about big hair cute things, girly fashion, beauty finds, sometimes Hime Gyaru fashion (姫ギャル) and crafty tutorials.
She lives with her adorable boyfriend Jimmy, fluffy puppy Miss Lottie and Bergamot Bunny in Melbourne, Australia.
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Violet- Sneak attack
James- Oh that’s recording
Violet- Anyway she’s been keeping us. Calm Lottie!
Introducing Lottie
Hello! I just thought you guys would like to see what had been keeping me so busy and why videos and comment replies have been a little slow lately.
Meet Lottie, our new puppy!
After a very long search we adopted her into our family so she’s been settling in for the last couple of weeks.
She’s keeping us extremely busy!
So I put together a little video, a teaser of everything she’s been doing.
She’s a little bit crazy. You can see she’s really into this treat.
So I hope you enjoy it, make sure you subscribe to my vlog channel which is VioletsVlogs.
Annotation here, I’ll put it over Lottie’s face, there you go.
For lots more cute puppy videos.
Because trust me, there are going to be heaps!
We have been filming everything, and she’s so cute she does so many cute things.
So enjoy!
Thanks so much for watching, I hope you enjoyed the first look at Lottie and we’ll see you next time on the vlog channel.
Bye!
Say bye Lottie!
Don’t lick my face, that’s gross!
by VioletLeBeaux | Oct 18, 2012 | Clothing-Tutorials, Craft, Tutorial
I’ve been doing a lot of remakes from my old clothes lately. It’s more fun turning something old into something new!
This is the story of how I made this suit vest…
…out of this ill-fitting suit jacket! My Mum was throwing it away so I figured I might as well have a play with it and see what I could come up with!
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I used:
- A suit jacket
- Sewing machine/needle and thread
- Scissors
First thing I did was cut off the sleeves. I cut them very close to the collar so the shape was more vest-ish than just jacket-with-no-sleeves 😉
See what I mean?
Next I tried it on and pinned so it was fitted under the arm holes. I also started playing with the shape at the bottom to make the edges a lot more pointed.
The back started off plain like this:
But as the waist was far too loose I pinned it in a box pleat.
After trying it on and adjusting the fit I started securing it all together. I stitched the box pleat first.
Then the dart under the arm hole.
Then I stitched the pointed ends at the front. While doing this I folded so far that the bottom button was off to the side to open it more up.
Lastly I re-hemmed the arm holes.
The result was much more fitted!
I didn’t like the top of the box pleat sitting slightly bunched so I stitched it down a little more. I left the bottom to flare out so it created a slight bussle effect.
And there you have it!
The back puffes out and looks great with a ruffly skirt but I’m thinking of adding some snap closures so I can decide if I want it to be puffy or not depending on outfit.
It’s not something that I would wear every day but I like the shape and it fills a gap in my wardrobe!
 
Have you guys done any fun modifications lately? |
