Customisable Alphabet Sleep Mask Sewing Tutorial

by | Jan 24, 2012 | Craft, Other-Accessory-Tutorials, Tutorial

Quick note- The Pantene competition on my Beauty section has been extended until Monday so if you’re in Aus head over to enter!

After I made the kitty sleep mask James gave me an idea to make a customisable one which could spell out a message to people looking. His suggestion of what it should spell was somewhat… inappropriate but I loved the idea and so this is what came out!

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So if you’d like to make your own customisable sleep mask you need:

  • Black felt
  • Thick velcro
  • Other felt for the letters (I’m using grey)
  • Needle/thread
  • Ribbon or elastic to attach it
  • Lace or more ribbon for edging
  • Matching thick ribbon or more felt to match.
Start by cutting out the mask shape from your black felt, this will be the backing that everything gets sewn to.
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Cut a piece of thick velcro which is the same width as the mask, the thicker the velcro is the bigger your letters can be so I chose a very big one. You will only need the pointy side of the velcro for this, not the soft one. The pointy side will hold felt letters fine but if you want to use something else to make the letters just add the soft part of the velcro to the back of them so they stick.

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Now we need something to cover the edges and the rest of the backing. I had some pretty matching ribbon but you could also use some more felt. So cut a piece to go above and below the velcro like this:

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The velcro makes it a bit harder to work with than regular fabric so pin it all in place.

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And then cut it to shape.

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To hold it all together you will need to edge it, I hand stitched some lace around all of the sides. If you didn’t want to use lace you could use matching ribbon or bias binding tape. Make sure you encase all of the raw edges in the lace so nothing can come undone later.

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At this point you probably want to stop and have a bit of a giggle that you’ve inadvertently created a Kanye West style shutter glasses sleep mask XD If you’re into that kind of thing you could always just stop here haha!

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Now you need a way of attaching it to your head, I sewed a piece of lace on each side to form ties but you could also use elastic.

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Now cut out the words you want to spell from matching felt. If you want you could also cut out several options to use depending on your mood.

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Press them firmly to the velcro and you’ve got a descriptive sleep mask!

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Now if the mask actually said what my brain thought when people wake me up from naps it wouldn’t be suitable for the internet 😉

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Morning Make Up- Plum For The New Year

by | Jan 23, 2012 | Beauty-Tutorials, Tutorial, Video-Tutorials, Violet Vision Videos

A new segment I’m trying out where in I show my morning make up routine for various days and chat about what I’m doing that day. Not really a tutorial, more of a random girly chat while we get ready together in the bathroom 😉

Today’s style features plum and white blended together. I wore a very similar look to this on New Years Eve and I think I’ll be wearing it again for Lunar New Years Celebrations this year because I’m in love with the colours.

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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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Time for another random morning make up video in which I do my make up and we chat.
Today is a variation of the look I wore for New Years.
Ad usual I started with my foundation and added light pink highlighter to my brows.
I applied light pink shadow all over the lid.
What did you all get up to for New Years?
All of our plans were cancelled so we did everything last minute.
A purple/maroon colour was added to the outer corners in a C shape.
We ended up going to Docklands for the early fireworks.
Then I added some plumb over the inner edge of the maroon.
then we came home.
I didn’t like the first pink so I added another one over the top of it.
Then we went out again to Southbank for the real ones.
I used a very dark shimmer purple on the outer half of the lash line.
James has a real love for fireworks but I’m pretty indifferent to them. I think after you see one, they all look the same.
Next I added a little white liner to the center lash line and placed a dab of white shadow over it.
Here in Melbourne they launch the fireworks off all of the tallest CBD buildings.
Then using a fluffy brush I blended it all together.
We were standing right under one of them this time so the explosions lit up the cloud like lightening, that was pretty cool.
To make sure my liner brush has a nice point I put a drop of make up remover on a cotton pad and squeeze it into shape.
What does your city do for New Years?
Eyeliner time! I used a fairly thin line.
To be honest, I think I would be just as happy to celebrate the new year by staying at home watching a movie.
I added some bottom liner to the outer corner and joined up the bottom line to the top.
I think I live the lift of an old lady: napping, tea and embroidery.
Mascara and a little pink blush next.
In fact I think my life is probably even more boring than an old lady because it’s hard to yell at kids to get off my lawn in an apartment.
Then equally pink lipstick and gloss.
“Damn you whippersnappers get out of my hallway” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.
Lastly some winged 3/4 lashes to top it all off.
I think I need to work on my cranky old lady act.
I hope this was a useful video, please check out the blog post linked in the description for more information and tutorials.
Thanks so much for watching.
Bye!

Snapshots from Brisbane Part 2

by | Jan 22, 2012 | Life, Travel In Style

Following on from yesterday’s Part One post about our trip to Brisbane here’s Part Two! The bonus shots are all up on the Facebook page now so click to have a look if you still want more even after all of these haha!

Clearly Bergamot didn’t mind the bugs in the spa as much as I did 😉

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We woke up bright, early and ready to do fun things the next morning. It’s really hard not to wake up early when you’re boyfriend refuses to close the curtains so he can photograph the sunrise >_<VioletLeBeauxP1010725_1213 copy

This is the furnace that James had so much trouble lighting. To be honest it really wasn’t particularly cold but I think his need to light it was more of a masculine thing >_<

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This is the chair that just about every one who visited our cabin fell off of! Stupidest design ever, if you even leaned slightly left or right it would over balance on the front leg XD

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We spent the morning at James’ parents cabin deciding a plan of action for the day watching tv.

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In the end we took a trip to the Maleny Handicraft Markets which were full of interesting and delicious things. James bought some home made jam, I bought a home made pie. YUM. We were excited to see there was a competition but less excited when it was for children under 12.

Bergamot made a little friend though, the loveliest lady ever was holding a stall where she made tiny little stuffed animals and she gave me a little rabbit to be friends with Bergamot. I can’t find the photo of it at the moment so I’ll take some more and include them in the next Snapshots. Seriously it’s adorable though.

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We found this lizard hiding under one of the cars *_*

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Next we all headed to a French cafe for lunch, I ate a lot of food on this trip 😀

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There were beautiful roses everywhere inside and it was actually a flower and garden shop outside too.

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James’ Dad bought me the prettiest bracelet as a present from the markets! Totally love it and totally love that one of the charms is a sack of money 😀 I think it’s telling me I should get a striped jumpsuit and start robbing banks!

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I had a camembert and cranberry baguette. LOVE everything about camembert.

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James’ Dad loved the bowl of coffee because it reminded him of when he lived in France. I couldn’t imagine drinking a bowl of coffee!

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On the way home James pulled over so he could take pretty panoramas.

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I was less interesting and took photos of cows…

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The drive home was quite dangerous because it stormed the whole time but we made it in one piece.

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So everyone celebrated with fudge and cheese that we bought from a factory up the mountain 😀

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A mouse (who I suspect was named James) took a bite out of my camembert >:( Damn James shaped  mice.

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Then we had a nice big pre-Christmas dinner.

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Omg seriously I have problems saying no to food.

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James has problems saying no to key lime pie.

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This was the pie I bought at the markets!

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I played my theme song on their piano and failed pretty miserably XD

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The next day we drove into the city to meet up with a lot of friends and eat even more. We stopped in at my favorite restaurant of all time: Kwan Yin Tea House.

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It’s still as delicious as I remember it!

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It’s vegetarian but they have fake meat, so the first time I took James there I was sure he would hate it and I lied and told him it was real meat XD He loved it so much he was all “OMG LET’S COME BACK TOMORROW!”. It was hilarious telling him it was actually all fake!

Fake pork with maple syrup, YUM!

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So much food and so cheap too!

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They have a photoboard for people who’ve eaten the most food haha, the most any one person has ordered is $64.10 XD

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I’m even up the back of one of the photos because we had a party there once! This was back when I wore Lolita, I’m in the middle with black hair in white/blue.

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The lady who owns it is so nice too, when I told her how much I missed the food she gave me the card of her best friend who owns a restaurant in Melbourne to go try!

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Some Brisbane architecture to break it all up a bit, this is my favorite building in town.

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We went to my Dad’s house after that where in James and Dad talked about boring camera stuff.

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I was more interested in his dog Ruby 😀

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Typically when I tell him to take a photo with Bergamot this is what I get.

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A few days earlier James was trying to take a nice portrait of us with a flower and this happened. No idea where I get it from.

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More Brisbane architecture. I think the old buildings are fewer and far between than Melbourne but they are still nice!

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Classiest photo of James EVER.

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We wandered around the city for a while and took in all of the pretty decorations. It was funny how everything had changed but also nothing had really changed in the year and a half we’ve been gone.

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We then had coffee with the awesome Yolly from Shopping Intervention, some of the other Bris bloggers were going to come too but I think it was a bit late by the time we found a place.

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After that was dinner at Pancake Manor with Susie and Zac, we had such fond memories of this place but it’s gone really down hill 🙁

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It used to be that the service was terrible (like we waited over an hour to have our order taken before walking out once) but the food was great, now the service has improved (they asked about our meal like 5 times) but the food sucked >_<

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Zac and James unintentionally dressed to match 😀

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Too cute!

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We bought cotton candy from a vending machine while it played the song “I want Candy”. Best $2 I ever spent 😀

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Then we got to visit Susie’s new place and see her creepy light fixture of evilness.

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Cutest couple ever.

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On the last day I continued my long running feud with Karl the Magpie at James’ parents house. He tried to swoop me but went straight into the window. Karl and I have a long history. What a jerk.

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Damn you Karl!

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We went to a business meeting and the lady had her adorable puppy wandering around! He looked just like the puppy I had as a child!

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Then we decided to drive for several hours (literally) to another Big Chief Burger so James could get his special burger XD

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He didn’t notice until after ordering but they have a special challenger burger, next time this wall will be ours!

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This is what a completely contented man looks like:

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I don’t even remember taking this but… cute puppy!

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I got to stop by Vanity Box’s retail store too and drool over all of the make up!

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After that it was a mad rush to the airport, some cheesecake with James parents and we were on the flight home!

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It was a really lovely trip and I can’t believe how many awesome photos came out of it. Looking back on them has been really fun!

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Have you guys been on any trips lately? I know I have to go back to Brisbane again soon but I really want to travel more internationally rather than domestically this year 😀

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