I’m still catching up after all of the Blogopolis fun on the weekend so just a short video post today. Here’s a very simple nail art tutorial for a pink and silver lacy design. Hope you guys enjoy it!
I’m planning time tonight to re-upholster my couch finally so you can look forward to that post, I still can’t decide between pinstripes or leopard print, what do you think?
Also I’ve been thinking of a lot of ways to improve the site for you guys recently and get more of the reader requests I’ve got piled up actually done. I would love your input on it all so if you have a chance please take a second to answer a quick poll below on what you would like to see more/less of ^_^
Yesterday my laptop Sophie became deathly ill with a broken right fan motor. It looks like she’s going to be out of action for a least a week while she’s in hospital. I’ve got posts saved for this week but until she’s better I’ll be working from Edward, my 7yr old previous laptop so replies and everything might be slower than usual because well… he’s slower than usual XD
Tomorrow I’ll be posting another hair video Celeste and I made and after that is using some Illamasqua make up as temporary hair colour. Hopefully the only thing that gets pushed back is the crochet bunny tutorial because I can’t video edit on this machine (the edit software is too new to run on him).
Fingers crossed I can find a reliable non-busy, non-crazy expensive place to fix Sophie soon!
Recommendations of city based Mac repair stores would be greatly appreciated!
Have a good weekend, I’m going to use the down time to do a bunch of craft projects! I’ll probably post the list of projects over at my mobile blog later today if anyone wants to see ^_^
It was a pretty close vote so what I’m going to do is have the crochet bunny as the first tutorial and then seeing as the scarf got so many votes I’ll use that as the knitting tutorial.
I’m aiming to start filming them this weekend and hopefully have the first one up next week so go get your yarn and a hook if you want to give it a try!
I’ve been promising to do a basic how to knit and crochet tutorial for quite a while now and here I am with the first step.
What I want to do is rather than just have the standard “how to” that you could find anywhere online is that I want to show how to actually make something useful so it’s more interactive like a big knit-a-long and by the end of the tutorial you’ve got something nice to show for it. I wanted to make something that you guys would actually like so rather than picking myself I figured we would have a poll and whatever gets the most votes is what we will make for the project ^_^
I’m not sure whether more people are interested in crochet or knitting so that’s the first section of the poll. All of these projects can easily be done with either knitting or crochet so it doesn’t matter.
These are the projects and their positives and negatives, you can cast your vote below after you read through.
#1. Striped scarf with pockets on the end.
Most beginners start with a scarf, I started making scarves for my dolls when I was 3 in England. This one is super easy but still has cute elements to make it interesting. It can be as long as you have patients for and there are pockets at the ends for your hands. Depending on the yarn and needle size you use you can make it suitable for most seasons. The downside to this one is that it does take a very long time to make, this isn’t a quick project if you are a beginner! While it’s an impressive end project it’s very tempting to not bother to finish a project like this when you get half way and realize how long you’ve been doing it!
#2. Heart face washer.
I did a brief tutorial on this one before but it wasn’t very detailed. This is very quick to make and doesn’t take much yarn so it’s cheaper too. The end product is cute too because you can use it as a wall decoration to remind you of your first project ever!
#3. Small basket
Again on the smaller and quicker side of projects so you won’t want to quit half way. This is a very little basket which can be used to hold hair accessories or trinkets. Not much yarn needed here either.
#4. Bunny Toy
Lastly we have the bunny toy which would make a really cute present for a friend or just a present for you! While it doesn’t have much actual use it’s still adorable and a good keepsake for remembering learning how to knit. Again this one doesn’t take up much yarn so is quick and cheap to knit.
All of the projects have the same skill level (they are all basically just knitting squares or rectangles) so just pick the one you like best!
Ok so please cast your vote in the poll below if you are thinking of taking part and I will do my best to come up with something easy to follow. I’m planning both video and also photos to make it easy for everyone.
Today is my birthday so no proper post because I’m off doing something that requires me to expend no effort whatsoever 😀 I don’t usually celebrate it but as I mentioned a while ago I’ve been in an out of character good mood for this time of year hahaha.
I think it’s because 1 year ago James and I moved in to our first apartment here in Melbourne and it’s been one of the best years of my life so far. I love the city, I love our apartment and I love all the new friends we’ve made over the last year.
It’s been one of the most eventful years of my life, to give you an idea in this last year (give or take a few weeks) I have:
Saved for a house deposit
Almost moved to Ipswich
Visited Victoria/Melbourne for the first time
Used said house deposit savings to drive down and move to Melbourne in the biggest gamble I’ve ever taken
Made SO many friends both online and offline and met a bunch of awesome bloggers in person that I had been chatting to for years online
Had my email account hacked and moved servers for the site
Picked up friendships that distance separated almost 6 years ago right where they left off
Fell in with a bad crowd (of awesomely sweet and adorable beauty bloggers who I love to death!)
Started blogging every day
Started my mobile blog
Wrote and posted 108 new tutorials (zomg I didn’t realise it was that many *_*) and 313 posts overall
Rode a tram for the first time
Had my nail art stocked in real shops
Had my hair flowers stocked in real shops
Dyed my hair pink
Opened my blog store and moved about 7000 images to my own server
Launched an ebook and started writing a craft book, put the craft book on hold because there was too much graphic design and site update work to handle
Started saving that house deposit to start things all over again!
Plus so many more awesome things that I can’t even remember now XD
I’ve read deleted and reported 27,379 spam comments up until around August when I installed a new spam system to try and help with it. The site got 4320 real comments and I replied to each one of them too so thats 8640 hahaha 😀 Thanks to you guys for reading and commenting, it makes all the time I spend writing here worthwhile!
It’s been a really good year and I’ve had a fantastic time in Melbourne, I hope we get to stay here for a good few more years to come!
So what am I doing today? No clue yet, I think I’ll relax in bed all night with a book, maybe go out to some markets and to my favorite Japanese place for dinner tonight, maybe get my nails done. Earlier in the week James and I were treated to a lovely night at the Langham so I’ll post all the photos from that soon!
Hope you are all having a fantastic weekend and here’s a picture to tide over until tomorrow ^_^ Thank you all for your support over this year and here’s hoping for many more!!
Before I get into the special outfit post of the day I just wanted to put in a little announcement. I’ve been nominated for the Sydney Writer’s Centre “Best Australian Blogs Competition”! Very exciting 😀 I’m not sure the category I’m up for but as well as the regular awards I’ve been nominated for the People’s Choice Award!
If you would like to vote in the awards (not just for me, there are lots of other amazing bloggers nominated too) just click the banner below to be taken to the form. If you want to vote for me I’m on the 3rd page of blogs under V for Violet ^_^
So yeah I just wanted to say thank you to all of you reading this because when I started this blog years ago I had no idea the awesome places it would take me or the wonderful people I would meet, so THANK YOU for reading!!!
Now on to today’s outfit post! This is a special version of this too because the outfit was a huge surprise ^_^ You remember last year when I held the One Day in Paradise competition for their 1 year anniversary? I found a beautiful Jesus Diamate dress and debated with you guys in the comments and on Twitter whether I should buy it. Well last week a package turned up in my letterbox. Turns out Marie (who is the incredibly sweet owner of One Day in Paradise) sent it to me as a present *_*I just about had a heart attack when I opened the box!!
So ruffly and pretty!
I wore this outfit to meet Thomas and Sakie who are lovely bloggers from Japan. So happy because I finally got an excuse to try Max Brenner too XD Photos of that to come in the next edition of snapshots.
This is the kind of dress you just want to spin in XD
Totally love it, can’t wait to try out different ways to coordinate it!
Illustrator. Strong tea, knitting, watercolours, and making a video game called Moonlight in Garland. Living with her adorable husband Jimmy, fluffy puppy Miss Lottie and Bergamot Bunny in Melbourne, Australia.
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