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How To Make Hime Gyaru Shoes Bodyline… Take 2!

by VioletLeBeaux | Sep 23, 2010 | Craft, Hime Gyaru, Shoe-Tutorials, Tutorial

Following on from yesterday’s tutorial, remember these Bodyline shoes?

These were the originals:

So what you need for this Bodyline modification:

Shoes (obviously)
Fabric to make bows with
Ribbon in pink and white
Lace
Needle and thread
Glue gun
Scissors
Flowers

Really you only need all of those things if you’re going to try and make these *exact* shoes. I think that the idea of these tutorials is to show you all that modifying shoes like these is really easy so you can use your imagination on shoes you already have!

First thing I did was remove the bow on the front.

I played around for a while with different materials I had before finally deciding on a design.

I cut a couple of rectangles of fabric to make large bows:

After folding them:

Using a small amount of glue I attached the bow to the strap of the shoe and sewed it in place. I also added a piece of white ribbon to this area and attached it to a pink ribbon strap to go around the ankle.

I then covered the white ribbon with two rows of lace 😀

After taking apart the bows that came with the shoes I noticed that when you removed the bit that was tied around it they were kind of cute. So I added flowers 😀 You can never have enough flowers!

After attaching it to cover the join in the ribbons they were all finished 😀

Taadaa!

And there you have it! $12 shoes turning into something a bit cuter! You’re only ever going to have as good quality as your base is so these shoes are probably not going to last you forever but still not bad right?

I hope some of you feel inspired enough to go do something with your shoes!

Ugh this is reminding me that I need to clean out my shoe collection… it’s getting a little crazy! But there’s pretty much always room for more Bodyline Shoes.

How To Make Hime Gyaru Shoes – Bodyline

by VioletLeBeaux | Sep 22, 2010 | Craft, Shoe-Tutorials, Tutorial

Bodyline Shoes Modification time!

I made them from these:

Well as promised this the guide to how I turned these cheap Bodyline shoes into this:

When I got these shoes I decided that I wanted to make 1 dressy pair and one more casual pair. This is the casual pair and they were inspired by the standard big fluffy shoes that have been a staple of Hime fashion forever and my current obsession of Eva Gabor in Green Acres.

What you need:

Base shoes
Faux fur
Needle and thread
Hot glue gun
Ribbons, roses, or whatever decoration you like
String of pearls (optional)

So let’s get started!

First thing I did was unpick the bows from the front of the shoes.

I then played around with materials I had to decide exactly what layout I wanted. I happened to have these ribbon rosettes that I pulled off a hair band. You could use anything as an accent like this though or you could easily make your own version with some roses, ribbon and a couple of diamantes.

Laying things out before you get all crazy with the glue is really important because once it’s stuck, it’s stuck!

So next step. I carefully cut out a rectangle of faux fur which was wide enough to cover the band of the shoe. I left a good couple of inches on the top and bottom so there was enough to wrap around the whole thing.

Now starting on one side I put down a line of glue around the very edge of the strap and pressed the fabric on to it.

The glue is kind of just like a guide to stop the fabric from sliding around while you’re stitching it. Should look like this:

Applying a bit of glue over the whole band I wrapped the fabric around to the other side and trimmed all of the extra.

Now it’s needle and thread time! If you want the shoes to be hard wearing you will need to stitch around the edges of the fabric to prevent it fraying in the future. After that fold the top and bottom edges into the inside of the shoe and stitch them together. You should have enough so you are stitching the fur to the other side of the fur (like a big tube) rather than stitching it directly to the shoe. You can sew to the shoe if you want but making it a tube will make it easy to remove should you ever want to change your mind.

Once you’ve stitched everything in place it’s time to decorate. I decided to sew on these little rosette things. I think these shoes would be even better if they had a nice string of pearls hanging from the front but I don’t have any left at the moment so that will have to be a modification for another day!

And that’s it. It really is a simple modification ^_^

I’m ready for my close up with Eva now daaaarlingk! 😉

Tomorrow I will show you what I did with the pink pair, it’s much more dressy and a bit more impressive ^_^

Glad to be back in business and I hope you all enjoyed the post! If you decide to modify some Bodyline shoes let me know!

DIY Jewellery Display Case

by VioletLeBeaux | Sep 16, 2010 | Craft, Storage/Utility-Tutorials, Tutorial

Omg look a tutorial shock horror! One about storage no less 😛 See I am slowly catching up on everything, it’s just taking me a little while to do it. Next month I’ll even hopefully be back to posting every day ^_^

Anyway back down to it… a whole bunch of you have asked me about storage solutions and how to make mundane things look prettier. I’m slowly working through all the requests and today I’m going to show you how I store my rings and also my bobby pins. Hair flowers and pins that are stood up vertically (like this) are my absolute favorite kind because they are so versatile but they can be a little hard to store.

Today I’m making/decorating ring boxes!

What you need:

Ring display boxes (I happened to find these for $1 each at a jewelery store which was closing down. You can easily make your own using a cardboard box and some foam. You just need to cut it to size and then slice lines to place the rings in)
Glue gun
Stanley knife/box cutter
Adhesive spray (optional)
Fabric to cover it all with

Remove the piece of foam from inside your box.

Cut a square of fabric big enough to cover the section of foam. We will work on this piece first. The fabric I used is stiff black chiffon with tiny diamantes all over it. I thought about using pink and green to represent a garden for my flower pins to grow in but decided that this would fit more with the look I’m trying to achieve in my bathroom.

If you have adhesive spray use it to hold the the fabric flat on the front of the foam. This will make sure it’s all tight and possibly prevent fraying when we eventually cut it (depending on the type of fabric you have chosen).

Using your glue gun glue the fabric in place on the sides So the front section is nice and tight.

Now let’s do the box. Cut a strip of fabric long enough to go around the outside of the box. It will need to be wide enough to cover the outside as well as wrapping around to the inside surface and the back.

Use your glue gun to put a spot on each corner of the outside and wrap around the fabric. Fold the extra over onto the back of the box and glue it in place.

You should have something like this:

Fold the left over into the box and glue in place.

Now take the covered piece of felt and glue it into the box.

Take your stanley knife and cut through the fabric where the pre-cut lines in the foam are.

This is mine looked like after I cut it… If you had used adhesive spray yours would look neater:

Now it’s time to put in all your hair pins and rings in!

Taadaa…

I stacked by boxes in my bathroom so they took up less space while displaying everything really nicely.

Hurrah new cute display boxes that let me see every thing and make it much easier to grab things quickly in the morning.

What do you think?

Crochet Flower Tea Pot Holder

by VioletLeBeaux | Sep 2, 2010 | Craft, Other-Tutorials, Tutorial

Time for a tutorial ^_^ It’s been a little while since I’ve done something yarn related so today I’ll show you how I made a garden themed stand thingy for my tea pot.

You need:

Crochet hook
Green yarn
Purple or pink yarn
Matching styrofoam flowers

Please note my crochet instructions will be a little vague because I’m not familiar with how to write patterns in crochet, you should be able to get the idea from the photos though.

Start with the purple yarn and chain 5.

Join to the first stitch to form a circle. Chain 4.

Follow around the circle as if you were making a granny square, you should DC 3 times into 1 stitch, chain 2 then DC into the next stitch etc until you reach the beginning.

Join, chain 4 and start the next row. For proper instructions on how to make a granny circle click here.

Keep going though add 2 lots of 3xDC in each gap so this row is larger. For the next few rows I alternated between 2 and 1 lot of 3xDC in each gap to form a circle.

You will need to make it large enough so that you can comfortably sit your teapot on top with a couple of inches on each side.

Finished:

Next grab your green yarn and tie it to the middle.

Start making a chain and when it’s long enough to fold in half and push through one of the holes single crochet to the next group of double crochets. This part is quite free-style as it depends how big the holes in your crochet are etc.

But right side up it should look like this:

Continue doing this around and around until you’ve got one loop to go through every hole:

Right side up it looks like this:

I didn’t think it looked stable enough so I added a little stitching with a needle and thread.

So you’re done with the basic shape, now it’s all about decoration!

Now it’s time to add the flowers. The reason it’s important to use styrofoam flowers is in case you spill tea on them. Where as fabric flowers will get wet and eventually mold, styrofoam can just be wiped off.

I decided to use large pink flowers and smaller white flowers. I arranged them around the edge alternating between the colours. I used the wire stems to loop into the crochet piece then attach to flower opposite to make it sturdy.

I also stitched them lightly in place for peace of mind. Finished:

The bottom looked like this… quite ugly so I added a large circular piece of felt to the bottom and stitched it all together.

And there you have it… very spring-ish.

All you need is a tea pot! Looks like you found it at the bottom of your garden 😉

This is the first tutorial of many to come revolving around how to organise and host a tea party! Now you’ve got something to put the tea pot on, next time will be all about how to decorate the tea pot itself!

Cute Felt Pudding

by VioletLeBeaux | Aug 30, 2010 | Craft, Other-Tutorials, Tutorial

When Tiff visited Japan a little while ago she brought me a few presents home and the funny thing is that one of the things she brought was the exact same cute strawberry tart felt kit that Celeste got me from Singapore!! XD Clearly I have very distinct tastes right?

So when she saw the post I made about it, she swapped it for another one in the series! How nice is that? So after the response from last time I thought I would show you this one too ^_^

I bring you the Cute Strawberry Pudding!

Obviously again I can’t take any credit for making this tutorial because I was just following their instructions. Full credit goes to the original company but I took photos while I was making it I though you might find it interesting anyway ^_^ You can find most of the materials around the house and you can easily substitute anything you like.

The cute package it came in:

The cute instructions:

What you need:

1 circle of yellow felt
1 smaller circle of brown felt
1 large and 1 small circle of cardboard
1 curved rectangle of yellow
1 pointy circular star thing for the whipped cream
matching thread and needles
1 quarter circle of red felt
1 tear drop shape of white felt
1 larger tear drop shape of pink felt
2 small green tears shapes of green
stuffing

Start by sewing the smaller side of the curved rectangle to the brown circle.

You’ll end up with something like this:

Stitch it closed around the seam:

Pop the small circle of cardboard here:

Now fill it with stuffing and put the large cardboard circle on top:

And the large circle of yellow felt:

Sew the whole thing shut.

Now let’s start the strawberry!

Using a needle and white thread stitch a seed pattern like this:

With red thread running stitch the top of the strawberry and gather it.

Now stitch the white tear to the pink tear with big white stitches like this:

And the go up both sides sewing it to the red:

Stuff it!

Then stitch up the hole 😀

Tadaaa! Strawberry slice!

Add the little leaves to the top:

Now time for cream! This is what the piece you need looks like, using your needle and thread sew straight through each point.

Add a tiny bit of stuffing…

And pull the whole thing shut.

Now stitch the pieces together and you have a pretty yummy looking pudding! Heehee I forgot to cut off one of the threads >_< Now you can attach it to a magnet (which is supplied) or a headband or an obnoxiously huge cute ring 😀

Super cute right? Thanks so much Tiff!

Rough Guide To How I Recycled My Filofax

by VioletLeBeaux | Aug 23, 2010 | Craft, Other-Tutorials, Tutorial

The last few weeks have made me really sick of the calender programs on my iPhone. I miss pen and paper, for like 8 years I used my trusty black leather Filofax for everything and it was with me every single day. Then I got my phone and I got caught up in all the applications so the filofax started gathering dust. After a few years without it I missed the poor old thing! I drafted my very first comic book in it so it’s very nostalgic! ^_^

Unfortunately the whole black leather thing doesn’t really go with my look anymore and with no cash to spend it was time for a re-think! There’s no point it just sitting there doing nothing, Filofaxes are there to be uuuused!

Digging into my fabric scraps box I found a couple of pieces for inspiration 😀 I think this post is more of a guide than a tutorial because I’ll just give you the general idea and you can take it and run with it how you like rather than making exact versions.

I decided on a light pink satin cover and ironed it flat. I then used hot glue around the edges of the diary to attach it:

Flattening the whole thing out I trimmed the extra fabric off.

And glued down the edges. I was careful not to glue any of the inside pockets shut in the process.

The outside:

That was a bit plain for me so I decided to add a band of colourful floral fabric that was a scrap from a dress I made ages ago. I ironed it out and folded the edges over.

Very carefully I glued it around the middle.

Cuter already right?

I carefully covered the clasp thingy too and then cut a small hole so it could still click closed. This is it pre-hole:

And post hole showing how it closes:

I was so caught up I kind of forgot to take photos of the next bit sorry! Basically I used the floral fabric to completely cover the inside including all of the pockets. I’m sure you can use your imagination ^_^ I then added lace around the outsides to hide all of the glued areas. So it ended up like this:

I realised I needed some cute paper to write on too! Luckily I had a bunch of supplies left over from a Cristina Re gift bag I was given when we had out tea party earlier in the year so I set to work.