Riverside Picnic With Miss Lottie! Melbourne Snapshots!

by VioletLeBeaux | Mar 22, 2014 | Life, Miss Lottie Pomeranian

Melbourne is too unpredictable for picnics. It was supposed to be amazing weather but the entire time we were relaxing at the river it was chilly and windy!

Lottie couldn’t care less though!

She spent most of the day testing the limits of her new retractable leash.

She’s not great at judging distance though… at one point she tried to chase after seagulls which were like 5.1m away from us, her leash being only 5m made this a little bit of a problem.

We spotted some little fish in the river but Lottie was much more interested in chasing birds. The funny thing is, she’s such a coward that if she manages to get close enough to them she freaks out and runs back away to hide behind us XD

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The second we had packed up all of our gear into the car to go home the sun came out and it was beautiful *_* Oh Melbourne! Y U HATE MY PICNICS!?

Do you guys know any good picnic places I should check out? Maybe somewhere slightly less weather dependant >_>

How To Create Simple Rose Print Nail Art

by VioletLeBeaux | Mar 21, 2014 | Nail-Art-Tutorials, Nails, Tutorial

For today’s nail art tutorial I thought I would show you guys how to do another version of rose nail art. This one is very simple and as long as you have a very thin paint brush it’s much more achievable than the more complicated roses I’ve done in the past here.

You need:

Lilac base polish
Pink polish or acrylic paint
White polish or acrylic paint
Green polish or acrylic paint

Begin by painting a base of lilac polish.

The rose pattern looks best when it’s completely random so add pink splotches all over the nail. I like to make some of them double roses by making one large splotch with a slightly smaller one next to it. You can see this in the bottom left of the nail below.

Allow the pink to dry and get your light green ready with the thin paintbrush. I prefer to use slightly watered down acrylic paint rather than nail polish for these kinds of details because it’s easier to work with and doesn’t dry as quickly.

With the green add small green triangles coming from the roses.

Add at least one leaf to each rose. Some of them will look good with double leaves as well.

Next, mix up your white acrylic paint/polish and draw a very small “C” shape in the centre of your first rose.

Draw a larger “C” shape further out and at a 90 degree angle to the first one. These lines will make the rose petals look defined.

Complete this on all of the roses. You really don’t have to be precise or neat with this, having them all look random and a bit different only adds to the realism of the rose!

Add a little white line in the middle of each leaf.

To finish it all off, wait for everything to dry completely then top coat with clear polish.

All done! and super pretty!

Want to download this tutorial in one handy file?

How To Make Your Own Decorative Pom Pom String

by VioletLeBeaux | Mar 19, 2014 | Craft, Home Sweet Home Tutorials, Storage/Utility-Tutorials, Tutorial, Video-Tutorials, Violet Vision Videos

Last christmas I saw little felt pompom decorations everywhere but they were quite expensive. I think they were overpriced because of the hipster tax. Every time something uncool is picked up by the hipsters here it pretty much quadruples in value, case in point: dear heads. Apparently pompoms are cool who knew?

Anyway, if you have some spare time they are actually extremely easy to make with some needle felting supplies. Of course you could take the even easier route and just buy premade Pom Poms but I find that the repeated stabbing of needle felting is good for getting the stress out ;D