How To Store Hair Accessories- Home Sweet Home

by VioletLeBeaux | Nov 22, 2013 | Craft, Hair, Home Sweet Home Tutorials, Storage/Utility-Tutorials, Tutorial

So my mission in life seems to be how to store hair accessories in the best way possible. I’ve written about it before. A lot. So yeah. The perfect way doesn’t really seem to exist. But that sure doesn’t seem to stop me from trying again and again and again.

The latest thing I’ve been doing is using them for decoration in the form of a big flower bouquet…

It sure beats what I was doing before then… which was keeping them in a pile:

The key to this method is to have pointy sticks which form the bouquet which you can clip the hair ties/bows/whatever to. I made mine out of wire wrapped in yarn and then mixed them in with some fake flowers for good measure.

Start by cutting a length of wire and then hot glue the end of your yarn to it.

Wrap the yarn tightly around the end of the wire and continue to the other end.

When you get to the other end glue in place and cut the excess.

Make a heap of them.

Now begin to arrange your flowers. I bent the ends of the wires so they were curly and interesting and then arranged them between the other sticks, leaves and flowers I had.

Next I began clipping on some of the larger hair flowers and accessories.

I have a lot of them so it took quite a while to fill in all the gaps…

But once it was done it looked pretty cute!

And in the Bathroom it does look huge but it’s a good way to display everything so I won’t forget what I have and can colour match them to my outfits.

The rest of the bathroom is pretty bare because I was giving it a big clean. How cute are the bee tooth brush holders though?? Everything will be spring themed soon!

So I’ve been using it this way for a few months and it seems to be walking the line between pretty and practical very well so far. I’m pretty happy anyway! Let me know what you guys think or if you have any suggestions I can try out! I think I probably need to start whittling down my collection but I’m a sucker for cute accessories and I like having things in a rainbow of colours… you know… just in case I ever want to have a neon yellow outfit… I don’t think I’m fooling anyone. I may just be a hoarder.

Stripy Knitted Neckerchief Tutorial

by VioletLeBeaux | Nov 20, 2013 | Clothing-Tutorials, Craft, Other-Accessory-Tutorials, Tutorial

Neckerchiefs! I love them! Knitted neckerchief is really hard to type without wanting to spell it knitted kneckerchief…

But back on track, for today’s project let’s make a stripy knitted neckerchief! This design and length is great because it can double as an usamimi. Winner!

You need:

2 colours of yarn
Knitting needles
Crochet hook or a yarn needle

Start by knitting a triangle of the first colour. Do this by starting with one stitch and increasing one stitch at the beginning of each row until you have 12 stitches on the needle.

Knit this in a stockinette stitch.

Change colours and then knit for 10 rows.

Change colours, knit for 10 rows etc until it’s long enough to go around your neck and down the other side.

Decrease one stitch every row until you have one stitch on the needle. I think it’s nice to end on the same colour you started. Do not change colours or tie off.

Now increase one stitch every row until you have 13 again and continue making stripes in each colour until it’s as long as the first half you made.

Decrease every row until you have one left and tie off.

So what you want to have is a really long snake with two pointy ends and a thinner part in the middle. You should be able to fold it in half and have them match up perfectly.

So fold it in half and stitch around the edges. I found the easiest way to do it was to use a crochet hook and single crochet around the edge to seal the two pieces together. You could also easily blanket stitch. I chose to do it in the lighter cream colour but contrasting would be cute too.

Now here’s the important part. When you reach the end you want to skip stitching the two halves together for one square of colour. I continued crocheting past that square but I just did it to the top piece rather than stitching them together.

Stitch all the way around the other side and again make sure that you skip the same square on the other side.

What you will end up with is a hole you can poke through:

Easy!

So all you need to do to wear it is poke one end through that hole to form a big loop!

Like this!

Yay! Now put it around you neck or your head as an usamimi and you’re good to go 😀

Hope you enjoyed it and let me know if you try it out!

Want to download this tutorial in one handy file?

New iPhone 5 Decoden Mirrors and Bling Design

by VioletLeBeaux | Nov 15, 2013 | Craft, Decoden

Yet another new case for my iPhone after the last one cracked >_< On the plus side, new phone case means new deco yay!

This design was the end result of a few art deco designs that I tried out before settling on something half way between traditional and traditional bling… if that makes any sense.

There are rows of mirror glass in between rows of a deco lanyard from Daiso that I cut up. The padding of the lanyard makes sure that the very sharp edges of the glass aren’t within reach of fingers.

The main point of the deco is in the dangly heart chain and bow on the flower up top.

I added some little gems around it too so it was a bit more impressive.

I also made a matching wrist strap from the rest of the lanyard.

I love how reflective and shiny it is, easy to check your lipstick on the go 😉

How To Pretty Up A Puppy Harness

by VioletLeBeaux | Nov 13, 2013 | Craft, Miss Lottie Pomeranian, Other-Tutorials, Tutorial

So when we first started walking Lottie everyone we spoke to told us we had to have a harness. That is a whole can of worms to get into right there which I don’t have time to debate but the only harness we could find that actually fit her at the time was cat harness from Daiso. It was pretty flimsy and a pain to clip on and off a wiggly puppy so I set about making it a bit better until we could find another one.

Yes, complete with crappy diagrams 😀

I used:

Crappy Daiso harness
Velco
Cute fabric,
Needle and thread

First I stitched it in place so it was no longer adjustable. The sliding adjusters suck, Lottie just pulls them apart to escape, smart dog!

Next I cut off the clips.

I sealed the edges with a lighter.

Then I measured out the velcro.

Lastly I covered the whole thing with thick cute fabric. This helped pad it a little so it was more comfortable for Lottie too.

Done and done!

And does puppy Lottie like it? Nope haha!

The harness made her feel invincible and she just used it to swing off like a rock climber >_< Damn you adventurous puppy!! I can’t believe how short her tail looks in these old photos *_* Omg I miss my chubby little puppy!

So make shift harness done! It served it’s purpose well until we caved in and bought a cute expensive one for Billy Idol Day last year haha! I can never say no to that face!

Needle Felted Flower Cardigan Tutorial

by VioletLeBeaux | Oct 10, 2013 | Clothing-Tutorials, Craft, Tutorial

Spring! Nice warm weather! Except it’s Melbourne and we’re having none of that! But who cares, let’s pretend! So after needle felting those gloves last time, I wanted to do some more using the same technique so I found an old cardigan that needed some updating and off I went 😀

Old Cardigan:

The technique is the same as last time. A circle of yellow, a leaf and this time I added in vine to connect them all.

After I did the basic shapes I went back to add in the swirls etc.

Taadaa!

Easy!

This took maybe half an hour and now the cardigan goes with a whole new range of outfits. It’s worth thrifting a few more of them in different colours!