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Wrapping Paper Window Wall Tutorial- Home Sweet Home!

by VioletLeBeaux | Jun 20, 2012 | Craft, Other-Tutorials, Tutorial

The house make over Home Sweet Home style continues with another really easy yet extremely effective project… wall papering doors with wrapping paper! And it’s a built in photo back drop 😀

Our bedroom has no windows, it only has a big sliding door and matching side glasses. It is very pretty but it does kind of suck for lighting. They look really plain and boring so I always want to jazz them up into some kind of feature.I’ve done this before but last time I didn’t think it through fully so after a few months it turned into this…

This time I measured and thought about the colours I was buying.

You need:

Wrapping paper
Thin double sided tape
Measuring tape
Scissors

So first step, measure the place you want to cover. Seriously. Do it really well. Measure twice, cut once and all those sayings are true. It’s much easier to do this right now then to screw around with it when you’re standing on a stool on one leg leaning across to try to put the last bit of tape in.

Pull off all of the old paper.

Clean the windows very thoroughly.

Lay the paper out flat. I’m using $2 a roll wrapping paper from the junk store, you can use real wall paper but it’s very expensive and hard to find in Aus.

I layered the old paper on there to cut around but you can just measure and rule your shape on.

So cut it all out.

If you don’t have a ruler long enough you can carefully fold it into shape and cut along the line very carefully.

Repeat until all of your rectangles are cut out.

Now bring them back in and grab your double sided tape. I don’t recommend using poster dots unless you have a heap of them because these tend to be quite heavy. Much cheaper to use a roll of double sided tape.

So to stick it on you need to have everything ready at once, stick a long line of tape all the way along the top.

Add several along the middle, bottom and sides too.

Peel the top tape and carefully stick the paper to it starting at once side and going across. Next peel the middle pieces of tape and smooth it down. Do the bottom last. Press all over it firmly. Cut any random pieces which stick out along the sides with a scalpel. My windows were poorly constructed so they weren’t exactly square making it a pain in the butt.

Repeat over and over again until you’re all done and that’s it! Notice the floor full of scraps from the tape XD

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I was so happy with how it turned out that I took a photo in my pajamas XD

And in photos it just looks fantastic! So happy with them and they really brighten up the room!

Nice and easy so anyone could do it and it cost very little! One step closer to my Home Sweet Home!

Paperclip and Wire Heart Ornament Quick Craft Tutorial

by VioletLeBeaux | Jun 2, 2012 | Craft, Other-Tutorials, Tutorial

This is a mini project, literally. ^_^

Take 1 paper clip

Bend it in the middle and push the sides up to the top.

You made a heart paper clip, hurray!

Squish the extra parts into the middle.

Taadaa…

Then take some red wire.

Make a loop at the top.

Wind it around and around and around and around and around.

When you get to this area you will need to start winding it around each of the top bumps.

Keep going until you either run out of wire or it looks finished.

Messy and adorable. I think if you made like 10 of them you could decorate a tiny adorable Christmas tree XD

In theory you could also make whatever shape you wanted if you had some pliers haha!

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Or it could be a wall hanging in a doll’s house XD Or a gift for your friend who really likes The Used hahaha!

Guitar Hero Modifications Controller Adorable Make Over V2

by VioletLeBeaux | May 16, 2012 | Craft, Other-Tutorials, Tutorial

I started these Guitar Hero modifications months ago. I finished James’ one straight away because it was super easy and he’s really not picky XD

Mine took a lot more thinking through. I wanted it to be over the top, what’s the point of rocking out if you can’t do it turned up to 11?

So result?

And how did I do it?First up was the face place the same as James’.I removed it and covered it with some left over fabric from another project.

I hot glued all of the edges down and it was much more time consuming because of how stretchy the fabric was.

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And from the other side it looks nice and neat 😀 I added a bow at this point too.

Back on the controller it looked ok but I thought there was much too much black.

Easy fix though, in came the acrylic paint.

Several coats of white later it had a decent base.

I then used pink. Unfortunately I picked a glitter paint which left it texturised. Not my favorite look but it kind of worked. This paint was much too see through so ended up going over it with nail polish for a shiny finish too.

Face plate back on after it dried and then I added some more bows and things… just because 😀

To carry it off you really need the attitude though!

Hurray! So now I’m waaay cuter than James when we play! Unfortunately the girl character choices are limited… so my rock alter ego looks kind of like a hooker >_<

And I will totally use my looks against him to win mwahahaha! Take that James!!!

Guitar Hero Modifications Controller Make Over V1 Tartan

by VioletLeBeaux | May 15, 2012 | Craft, Other-Tutorials, Tutorial

Guitar Hero! James is obsessed with it, he’s only had the PS3 since Christmas so he’s catching up on all the games he’s missed in the last few years including looking like a tool playing Guitar Hero 😀

But our controllers were second hand and had ugly Metalica stickers from their previous owner. Meh.

James requested a remake and I was happy to oblige!

First I removed the face plate and laid it out on the fabric face down.I cut around it leaving a few cm around the edges.

Next went all round the edge and snipped it around the edges every few cm. This was so I could glue it flat around the curves.

One by one I folded the flaps over and hot glued them in place.

This is how it ended up, nice and clean!

I used the same technique to cut out the holes in the middle.

Done!

Lastly I used fabric glue to add little metal findings and bits and pieces to make it a bit more punk-rockish ^_^

So did James like it?

Apparently!

Tomorrow you’ll get to see what I did with mine 😀

My New White Painted Make Up Table- Home Sweet Home!

by VioletLeBeaux | May 1, 2012 | Craft, Home Sweet Home Tutorials, Other-Tutorials, Storage/Utility-Tutorials, Tutorial

Yay for another Home Sweet Home post finally 😀

Honestly I feel like with this project I finally made some kind of progress with the apartment. The little details always make a difference but sometimes you need something really big to show the progress properly. I hate working for a long time and not being able to see results, that’s why I can never stick to one craft at a time I just get bored too easily.

So this vanity is both my most loved and least favorite piece of furniture in the house. I loved it enough to drag it down from Brisbane and I hate it because it doesn’t look good with the style of apartment and it really darkens up the room.

Also after a few days of use it looks like this…

Well realistically it looks more like this…Honestly I’m one of those people who can’t keep things neat unless there is an exact system to do so >_<

How can I keep stuff clean?

Wipe off bench top
Everything needs a home

DIY Ideas!

Paint table white
Cover guitar case
Make box for camera
Better lighting set up
Storage for back drop
Bin for rubbish.

LET’S DO IT!

So problem number 1 is that it’s dark wood. I love dark wood but it’s just not good for this house where everything is light and white. I previously covered the stool with pink leopard print so it seemed fitting to paint all of the wooden parts white.

I chose to do this with acrylic paint because:

I can paint indoors without killing myself with fumes
I can easily remove it when we move and I want the dark wood again
It’s cheap as hell, you can get huge bottles for $2 at craft stores or junk stores

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Diary entry:

Le Fancy Stool!

We started with this… I removed the seat and covered it with awesome.

Fancy level 20%

That left us with this. Not bad but so dark!

Fancy level 50%

So I painted it with acrylic and gave a top coat of watery PVA.

And we have this…

Fancy level 90%

Winner!!

I tested it out on the stool first in case it ended up sucking 😀

It took a couple of coats to get a nice finish. I began painting without bothering to remove the seat part so I wouldn’t get paint on the floor but after doing most of the top I removed it to get closer to the edges.

Eventually it started look good 😀 I used a sponge for an even finish.

When I had the finish that I wanted I mixed some PVA glue with water to create a wash. I painted over the whole thing with it. The reason for this is to protect the paint and make it more durable. It also gives a slightly shiny finish to it.

Taadaaaaa 😀

So with the test run complete I moved on to the actual vanity 😀

Beauty!

The current beauty set up is messy and awkward

I was extremely dirty from all of the make up and dust floating around so step one was to clean it up.

Next was removing all of the pieces I could without damaging it.

A couple of coats of paint later and I was well on the way to a nice vanity! I added a pink doily to see if I liked it at this point too.

I painted the other parts too including the mirror. I masked it off with tape first to make sure the mirror wasn’t damaged.

The round parts were the most irritating to get smooth.

Ok so I wanted to make this nice and durable and to be able to clean it easily and not stress about spilling make up on it. The solution? Book covering contact!

I decided that I liked the pink doily so I glued it down.

I cut out the length I needed.

The little grids made it nice and easy to line things up.

I cut out tabs so it could go around the top part.

Then I slowly pulled out the paper and smoothed it all down.

When it got to the heart I made sure to smooth out all of the little bubbles as I went. It was very irritating to get right!

Looking good!

Aaaad all put together!

Getting there but not quiiiite what I wanted..

So I covered James’ guitar case with some nice fabric XD

Sorry James… well not really sorry XD

Putting things back in I was more careful with organisation and making sure that I had things I used often at hand and packing up other things I used less often. Win! I still haven’t organised the stuff on the far left pink shelves because they are going to be folded and stored away soon but everything is coming along 😀

James’ guitar case becomes a nice shelf for hair products. I don’t know how I managed to buy only pink hair products, clearly it’s ingrained deeply in my subconscious haha!

This is my set up for filming videos, lots and lots of lighting but it also means I can’t see the big mirror so I had to add a second smaller mirror angled so I can see.

I have a silicone pot mat to keep my straightener on and everything has a space to stay in, there’s even a heart container to dump old eyelashes in.

Things I use every day go up here and my little white picket fence container sits next to it.

So much happier with it all clean and neat. It’s easy to keep clean and makes the whole room look so much brighter.

I am really happy with my first big project for the Home Sweet Home 😀 What do you guys think??

Quick Craft Tutorial- Flower Magnets Again

by VioletLeBeaux | Apr 8, 2012 | Craft, Other-Tutorials, Tutorial

I’ve done flower magnets before, you can see the daisy ones I did over here, but back to the point I made another set of them for a friend’s care package so I thought you a might like to see it for some other inspiration 😀 Honestly these are a cute idea no matter what kind of flowers you have. Hell I’m just sticking magnets to anything that doesn’t move now XD

Big flower with two lavender sprigs!