Lunch Time Spring Bento – Cute Food

by VioletLeBeaux | Jul 18, 2014 | Baking, Cooking-Tutorials, Tutorial

Spending more time thinking about my food is something I’ve been trying to do with my whole Lazy Inspiration thing but I tend to only gravitate towards cute sweet foods rather than savoury things too. It’s really stupid because I actually don’t like that much sweet food, I prefer savoury in general -_-‘

One thing I’ve been trying to get into the habit of is having better lunches. When I’m working I tend to just forget to have lunch or if I do have lunch it’s something quick, easy and terrible like reheated pasta nonsense.

I want to be a bit healthier and have more variety in my diet now so I’m trying to have more bentos for lunch. I find that having a set number of spaces makes me think about what I’m going to eat and fill each one accordingly!

So this is a totally random one I put together for lunch a few days ago. I bought this Hello Kitty box from a random import shop in Brisbane years ago but I never really used it much until I started this.

Inside it has two big spaces and 3 small ones. I aim to have one big main food, one big salad and the small ones are for sweet things, fruit and sauces.

These were left over things I just scrounged out of the fridge.

I set an egg to soft boil while I was working on the other parts.

I used a rice press to make little mini onigiri with tuna and cream cheese in it.

Yum!

Next I sliced up an apple for the fruit portion.

I wanted it to be well presented so I used some icing flower cutters to cut out cheese flowers.

The only thing more beautiful than flowers: cheese.

Then it was a matter of putting things together.

Top left: Tuna onigiri
Top right: Crushed noodle, apple and soft boiled egg salad with furikake seasoning

Bottom left: Special Greek candy from Cel (YUM!!)
Bottom middle: A strawberry with cream cheese
Bottom right: Cut up apple

This is probably a quite a bit more than I would normally eat but having a good combination of reasonably healthy ingredients stops me from feeling so full and bleh in the afternoons.

Also, totally pretty and fun to make.

I thought that doing this would be more of a chore than it turned out to be. I actually really enjoy trying to find new things to put in each space.

And having cute things like the bunny soy sauce container doesn’t hurt!

So there you go! It takes a bit of effort but the amount of happiness that it brings is totally worth it! Do you have any recipes I should try and include next time??

All Time Beauty Favourites- Lipstick

by VioletLeBeaux | Jul 16, 2014 | Beauty, Review

Ok, time for something fun! I get asked a lot which make up I’m wearing and honestly most of the time it’s pretty much the same thing. I don’t change stuff up very often once I find something that really works for me. So I’ve decided to do an “All Time Beauty Favourites” series and we’ll kick it off with my all time favourite thing: lipstick!

These are the 5 lipsticks that I wear the most.

From left to right: Dior 565, Chanel 93 Exaltee, L’Oreal Colour Riche 267 and 287 and Revlon Colour Stay 050.

You can tell I’m into the bright colours.

My all time favourite is the Dior. It’s expensive but it’s my holy grail of lipsticks. It’s the perfect mix of BAM colour and staying power. I hardly ever have to reapply this and it doesn’t get all weird and liney around my lips. I would throw out all of my other lipsticks and just use this one for the rest of my life if I had to pick.

The Chanel is a fantastic colour and was my first high end lipstick. The colour is an amazing punch in the face pink but it tends to migrate to teeth and around the lips during the day so now that I have the Dior I don’t bother with it anymore.

The first L’Oreal is a beautiful true red. It’s creamy and bright and shiny as hell. Unfortunately it comes off on everything which is it’s major downfall. The colour punch is totally worth it though!

The second L’Oreal is an amazing deep pink glitter. Alone it’s great but I love it paired with a particular lipgloss which has been discontinued. I still wear it but I mostly cling to hope that the lipgloss will be re-released again and I’ll have ultimate POP colour ;_;

Lastly the Revlon colour-stay was a gift from Mrs DinoSlippers. The colour is a red plum and it really does stay forever. I love the set and forget convenience of this, it requires no effort and no touch ups during the day. It’s major downfall is that it is really drying, I can’t wear it alone otherwise I feel like I have lips made of wax. I really want to have a look and see what other colours this comes in though because it’s awesome when paired with lipgloss.

Honourable mention goes to this insanely bright Neon Cosmetics shade. Their website no longer works and it is half melted but it sure is a BAM colour ^_^

Here are the detail stickers if you need them:

And lastly, here’s the little compact that I use most of the time for my lipstick.

Hope you found that helpful and see you next time I do an All Time Favourite post!

How To DIY Decoupage Shoes! Tutorial

by VioletLeBeaux | Jul 14, 2014 | Craft, Shoe-Tutorials, Tutorial

I did a video tutorial on these shoes quite a while ago but thought a photo tutorial would be in order as well! The idea is a very simple one: take old shoes and decoupage them with old magazines into adorable new shoes, win!

I used old Japanese fashion magazines for mine so I could reminisce about old school Lolita fashion from like 7 years ago.

For this tutorial you will need:

Old magazines or pretty paper
PVA glue or similar
Water and bowl

Begin by tearing all of your magazines up into small pieces. Make sure to consider whether the colours of each piece will go with the rest of them. It’s better to rip everything up at the beginning because once you have glue all over your hands it’s quite difficult!

I picked mostly white and pastel colours of old dress collections.

Mix a solution of equal parts glue and water in a bowl and put the pieces of paper in to soak. Leave them in until they are wet all the way through. The time this takes will depend on how thick your paper is.

Prepare your shoes. I’m using some old leather ones. If your shoes are patent or shiny it can help the glue to stick if you buff them lightly with sandpaper or a nail file to remove the shine.

Take your first piece of soaked paper and apply it to the edge of the shoe. Always start from the edges and work inwards. Smooth it down so it’s completely flush to the shoe.

Now take your second piece of paper and overlap it half way over the first one. Overlapping will give the structure more strength.

Continue overlapping pieces until you’ve done the entire shoe. Around the top of the shoe fold the pieces over the edge. Don’t cover the sole because that will get worn down quickly.

Done! Allow this to dry completely and then coat the whole thing in a layer of glue to seal it in. If your paper is transparent when dry you can add another layer.

Now just repeat on the other shoe.

Depending on the kind of glue you use these will probably not be waterproof at this point (it is just paper) so if you plan on wearing them in the rain etc I would suggest adding a coat of sealing lacquer to the top as well.