by VioletLeBeaux | Feb 13, 2015 | Life, Outfit Of The Day
I had to get up at 4:30am this morning for a conference skype so I don’t think I’m quite running on all cylinders today… Ahaha Halloween photos… next week we’ll have Christmas!
I think you can guess who I was for last Halloween… I had 2 costumes, this version was my half arsed one which I pulled out of my closet:
Jacket: Angelic Pretty
Skirt: Supre
Scarf: Tie shop
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And the Celina let me borrow her proper awesome proper uniform! She made it herself, SO COOL!
As per usual, I was in charge of decorations and James was in charge of food. Halloween really isn’t an Australian holiday so we had to make do with hand made stuff.
So mostly orange candles and some autumn leaves I found one year!
In terms of my make up I used soft pink colours with a lot of white in the inner corner of my eyes. I also elongated my usual flicked eyeliner and brought a little bit down in the corner of the lower lash line for a more cartoonish look.
My hair was the traditional buns of course! You guys keep asking for a tutorial on this style and I do really want to do it… but I want to do it well so I’m waiting until I have enough time to sit down and do it RIGHT.
In the mean time here’s a basic description of the steps:
1. Shout Moon Prism Power! When that doesn’t work, follow these other steps.
2. Put hair into high ponytails.
3. Separate a small section of hair at the top.
4. Tease and hairspray the section until it’s huge.
5. Shape it into a ball and pin it all around the top of the ponytail so there is no band showing.
6. Once it’s pinned, continue to shape with your hands. Once it’s round, hairspray it.
7. Divide your fringe in half and use a straightener or big styler to curl each half under.
8. Tease and hairspray the curled sections so they stick outwards with a lot of bounce and give that nice rounded heart shape.
We cleared off James’ desk for all of the food and tried to decorate it too. He really pulled out all of the stops!
Spider devilled eggs.
Shrunken head bread rolls and candy corn fudge.
Evil red velvet cupcakes with graveyard frosting…. I don’t know >_>
Mummy sausages, one of whom seems to be wearing hammer pants for some reason.
Bat wing cheese balls.
Celina’s spooky drinks.
My favourite was the little oranges with jack o lantern faces on them… I might be biased because I painted them 😀
Rice krispy brains.
Cooked bats. These were actually delicious honey soy chicken wings but they were so weird to eat because they looked so burnt! It was just black food colouring.
James was my Tuxedo Mask for the evening. We hadn’t counted on how hard it would be to find him a costume at the thrift store! Apparently Tuxedo Mask’s 80’s clothes aren’t so much in fashion any more. Who knew!
Look at that sweet rose throwing action. I feel so much safer with that around. And that high quality mask!
For the rest of the night we watched Zombieland and ate a lot of food. That is my favorite kind of party… the kind with minimal people and a lot of food and chairs to sit in. I am such a party animal.
Later that night I dissected one of the orange jack o lanterns but it felt kind of wrong eating it while it’s brothers were looking at me >_>
I feel like I’ve left this so long that I now need to start planning the next one…. This time we will plan costumes out in advance… maybe. >_> Happy Feb-ween?
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by VioletLeBeaux | Feb 10, 2015 | Life
Hey Besties!
Today has been a little bit of a different day for me. Normally at this time of day I would be sitting at home wading through emails and trying to get some work done. Instead I had to help James bring some photography gear out to a job so I have a few hours to kill waiting for him before we take it back home again.
I had a bit of wander around Carlton park and found a nice shady bench to sit on. It’s a really lovely park and has some beautiful buildings as well.
I wish we lived closer because it’s really refreshing to just sit here in the cool breeze and people watch.
My camera connects directly to my iPad (which I’m writing this on) so here are some of the photos I’ve taken so far ^_^
This is like a live version of snapshots haha! I even managed to balance the camera on some sticks for a where I walk shot! I’m trying to break in my new shoes today but the backs still rub quite badly so I had to add some socks. I’m thinking of trying out knitting some lace socks like this for my first sock project.
There is a group of little old ladies monopolising the basketball court as they work out. They totally look like they are having some kind of gang meeting in their work out clothes.
It was supposed to be very hot today but there is a lovely breeze coming through…that said a weird yellow bug just crawled onto my bag.
There are heaps of people here with their dogs too. I think Lottie would love rolling around in the grass! We’ve considering trying to buy an apartment again when our lease is up so maybe we should look in this area. Kris gave me some directions to lovely cafes but I wanted to take some photos in the park first.
Let’s see, what else is happening today? I’m a little desperate to go home because I will hopefully have a package of new watercolour paints waiting. I say hopefully because I’ve been waiting for 2 weeks now for the package to get from Byron Bay to Melbourne but that’s a story to put in the review I’m going to write when/if it arrives >_>
My comfy bench…
I’m really excited for these paints because it’s a lot more colours than I’m used to and they are actually set into fabric so you can fit a full colour pallet onto a page of paper for portability *_* it would have been really nice to be able to sit in the park and paint today but I’m a few hours early I guess. Timing has really not been my friend this week!
The grass here is all covered in dew drops, it’s so pretty.
There are an awful lot of people making out in this park XD
I’ve been keeping busy at nights by knitting a new shirt. It’s using stretchy yarn that has some elastic woven in so it should give a good fit when it’s done. The endless rows of stockinette have been really relaxing while watching tv at night and it’s the perfect project for watching subtitled TV.
We bought a subscription to Crunchy Roll and I’ve been totally obsessed with the show Servant X Service. It’s so freaking funny and I hope they make another season! We are having issues getting the streaming to work with Chromecast though so I think we will cancel next month and see what else is available. I really wish Funimation was available in Aus because they have all of the 90’s shows I used to watch! Stupid licensing laws. We might have to get a VPN at this rate.
Ok, James and Kris have finished up at the job so time for me to pack up and head home to check my mail box 😀
I hope you guys enjoyed the live snapshots haha! It was really fun to write so maybe we can make it a proper thing again ^_^
Bye!
by VioletLeBeaux | Feb 7, 2015 | Life
I’m still completely obsessed with these photos. When I have enough of them I think I’ll turn them into like a massive collage photo and print them out for our wall. Maybe when we move house we’ll have a space to display them. I think that would be so lovely to look back on all of the places we’ve been!
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