Cute Bathroom Bottle Storage

by VioletLeBeaux | Sep 29, 2010 | Beauty, Craft, Storage/Utility-Tutorials, Tutorial

Today is all about cute storage. So many tutorials lately 😀

I have a lot of bottles in my bathroom, lots of hair spray, make up remover and things like that which are staples that I re-buy when they’re empty. Unfortunately the manufacturers that make all of those products didn’t bother consulting with each other on the designs so none of them match… how inconsiderate of them ;P

So how did I make my bathroom all pretty and matchy?

Slip covers. Very very easy to do and a very pretty result.

What you need:

Whatever bottle you’re going to cover
Felt or fabric
Needle and thread
Magnets or elastic

So you begin with something like this…

Get your fabric together, I am using pink felt with while polka dot tulle over the top.

Measure around the outside of your bottle. You will need to cut a rectangle of felt which is exactly the right height and width to wrap around the bottle.

After cutting this out you can decorate it. I am just adding a spotty overlay but you can do pretty much anything. I’m going to make some more which have embroidery and other fun things.

Fold the edges around and sew in place.

Now if you have a metal bottle you can simply add some magnets around the side to keep it in place on the bottle. Super easy.

If your bottle is plastic then all you need to do is form a tube with the felt and add a little bit of elastic which joins the sides together, now you should be able to slip the cover on and off easily.

And you end up with something like this…

Took about 5 minutes to make and they look much prettier all in a row in the bathroom.

Yay for quick craft!

News and Site Updates…

by VioletLeBeaux | Sep 28, 2010 | Notices

You’ve probably started to notice some of the changes I’ve been making around here ^_^

The smaller things I’ve done are…

Revamp my Twitter widget image to make it cuter/load faster
Moved all the widgets around
Added a new “Popular Categories” section on the right sidebar
Reworked the “Quick Links” section on the sidebar for easy access and quick loading
Added a “Subscribe by email” option in the right sidebar
Added “Cuties” section to menu bar (more on this below)
Added awesome spam killing tool. Please note if your comment looks like spam (or has a couple of links) you will be asked to fill in a captcha code. I know they are irritating but having to go through 300+ spam comments a day was too time consuming for me to keep up with 🙁

Next on my list of things to do with the site are…

Update the Links, Tutorials, Snaps, and FAQ sections
Make the layout equally friendly for people with small screens 🙂
Make a new header
If you have and comments or suggestions please let me know in the comments and I will look into them ^_^

So the biggest change is the addition of the “Violet’s Cuties” section!

As some of you will know, I’ve had a second Twitter account called VioletsCuties for a while now. So far I have been using it to post links to random cute things I find on the web but I’ve been wanting it to be more involved so I’ve set up a mobile blog via tumblr on my domain. Now I can update all the time with short fun posts without bothering everyone on this blog.

So what you will find there is:

Things I think are adorable
Cute shopping finds or bargains I stumble across on the web
Random photos I’ve taken
Links to articles or blog posts I’ve read and enjoyed
Sneak previews of posts or upcoming tutorials
Random sentences in Japanese as I try to practice and improve

I aim to update a couple of times a day so I hope you enjoy it ^_^

I know this isn’t going to be of interest to everyone and that’s why I’ve kept my regular blog and my mobile blog a little bit seperate, that way you can follow either, both or none of them. They have seperate RSS feeds as well as seperate Google Friend Connect accounts so how much you want to see is up to you 😀

I will still be updating this blog as frequently and with exactly the same kind of things you’ve all come to expect, the other account will just be extra stuff ^_^

You can visit my new mobile blog by clicking the “Cuties” link at the top, the side or click below!

Visit Violet’s Cuties!

If any of you guys have tumblr accounts let me know, I would love to follow you all!

Lastly a new free forum which is all about deco has opened up so for those of you who enjoy deco as much as I do have a look here ^_^

Well I’ve clearly still got lots of work to do so I better back to it! Hope you’re all having a really good night 😀

Melbourne Snapshots

by VioletLeBeaux | Sep 28, 2010 | Life

This post was sponsored by Nuffnang and Panasonic.For more information on sponsored posts please click here.

Another addition of snapshots 😀 This has been quite a fun busy week, I actually got to leave the house a few times XD

Architecture first, this is one of the most awesome buildings I’ve seen here in terms of details. I think it’s a bank though, such a waste >_<

Every single window has a ridiculous amount of detail!

And the doors are awesome, I want a house like this 😀

We also visited the Camberwell markets over the weekend. They are absolutely huge markets! It’s mostly vintage things and clothing as well as little bits and pieces. There were a lot of beautiful flowers too.

It was crazy busy!

More pretty flowers, I want to fill my window box with these ones!

James found some fancy walking sticks…

Of course he managed to pick up the manliest one there… with a dolphin on it XD

Posing with the delicious “wall of chewing gum”. Seriously there was about 10 times as much as you can see in the photo. Ick!

Our tour guide for the day was the lovely Super Kawaii Mama

I didn’t have any money to spend so I just took photos of all of the things I wanted to buy. The sad thing is I didn’t realise until we got home but everything I look photos of matched XD

Cute little dress…

Matching handbag which is completely hand embroidered…

Lovely bowl that I would keep accessories in…

Heehee scotty doggie tin with little figurines XD

VERDICT: There was so much there that I wanted to buy, I definitely want to go back when I have more spending money. The only thing I ended up buying was a gigantic comfy sweater with flowers embroidered all over it, it was only $2! I’ll show you a photo next time 😀

James decided to try and make another of the recipes he really misses from the US. This time is was “Onion Blossoms”. Apparently this consists of cutting an onion so it looks like a flower and deep frying it. Then you eat it with ranch dip 😀 Hideous looking but quite yummy.

We also had a date night this week to try to relax. James cooked a lovely dinner and picked the movie… 1993 live action Super Mario Brothers XD Epically awesome and terrible! Who knew Luigi looked like this in real life….