How To Create Simple Rose Print Nail Art
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.
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You need:
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!
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How To Make Your Own Decorative Pom Pom String
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?
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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
It’s really so simple that I don’t know if this counts as a tutorial. Step 1. Needle felt some balls. Step 2. String them together using needle and thread. Step 3. Find a pretty place to hang them Here’s a slightly more detailed video tutorial I did which covers all of the basics including how to actually shape the balls:
Yay! A seriously easy and stress relieving craft ;D
Now I’m thinking of possibly doing this on a bigger scale all over the house, what do you guys think?
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How To Make A Tulle Pearl Collar
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You need:
 You will need very long strips of tulle. I used around 1.5m of it but honestly, the more the better because the frills will be more impressive.
Fold it in half length-wise and then fold the crease so it sits around 1/3rd of the way in. You can see what I mean below:
 Thread your needle and tie it securely to one end of the tulle at the folded edge. Start a very small running stitch from there to the other end. Gather it as you go by pulling tightly to create the ruffle.
 You should have something along the lines of this when you reach the other end:
 Decide how long it needs to be to go around your neck and then tie off the thread. Measure out some ribbon which is as long as the gathered tulle but also has enough on either end to tie into a bow. This is how we will tie the collar on.
Stitch the ribbon to the tulle around 5mm from the folded edge.
 Once you go all the way around it, you will end up with something like this:
 You won’t be seeing this side so it doesn’t matter how neat you are.
Now cut a length of pearls which is as long as the tulle. I’m using pre-strung pearls but you could just sew them on individually.
 Sew the pearls on to the non-ribbon side of the tulle.
 I find it easiest to get them perfectly even by putting one stitch between each pearl.
 Done!
 Now just find a cute shirt with a round neckline and tie it on!
     Cute!!
 Looking good! You can use the same technique with just about any fabric for a variety of collars. You could even cut the tulle into a Peter Pan collar shape for another version!
Hope you found it useful and let me know if you give it a try 😀
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How To Do A Bear Ear Hairstyle
Hair tutorials are back! This time I’ll be doing a lot of the reader requests that have been sitting on my list for ages!
So let’s get started, today we’ll be doing a bear ear style while was popular for a while in Japan.
Start with clean, brushed hair and part in the middle. This style works best if your hair has been straightened up the top as it forms loops more easily.
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Take a small section at the top on one side.  Tease it a little bit around the roots. This will give the finished style a nicer shape.
 Hairspray the area a little bit.
 Fold the section upwards and back down so it forms a loop. Put the tail of it in front of the loop, this will help it look a bit more natural rather than something just stuck on the side of your head.
 Pin it at the base. You can use one pin or two in an X shape to hold it in place.
 Now repeat on the other side too!
 Yay! Ears!
 This calls for your best bear impression… Yeah this was apparently the best I had >_>
 I like to add some bows to the bottom of the loops as an added point of interest.
 Hope you enjoyed it and let me know if you try it out!
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Home Sweet Home- Garden Update
It seemed a great time for a Home Sweet Home Garden update… mostly because everything in our garden is pretty much dead haha!
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Everything was actually going really well during the initial phase and we were ready to begin harvesting things including the radishes which is what I was really looking forward to!  While a lot of the flowers weren’t growing over their entire boxes they were definitely alive and kicking.
  The inside herbs and flowers were doing really well too, there was lots of natural light for them and other than a few little bugs they were surviving nicely.
  Even my peppermint which I had assumed was never going to sprout made an appearance!
      It almost looks as if there’s a garden there… almost!
 Then in the space of a 4 day heat wave… everything died >_< I think most of you will have heard me complaining about the heat on social media. We had 4 consecutive days over 43 degrees Celsius and it got up to 45 on some of those days. It went from 20 degrees on Sunday to 43 on Tuesday *_*
Unfortunately… nothing in our garden survived that intense heat!
On the first day we watered like crazy and tried to shade them.
  It didn’t really help! We have no air conditioning and because our apartment was built in the 1800’s it is basically just a big heat box so the inside plants didn’t do any better.
 Wilted chives!
 The birds took this as a hint to try and eat my radishes too >_<
  By the third day this had happened and I had given up…
 Poor sad radishes! You will never be part of a delicious salad R.I.P. ;_;
   So very sad! It kind of looks like a plant horror movie.
 Once it cooled down again we tried to revive them but there was no hope.
 All of the neighbours plants died too so our apartment block just looks really depressing at the moment. The only thing that survived was William, our Billy Idol Day tree.
I’m going to try growing some new plants again in a month or so when I have time to take care of them again but this time I’m just going to go to a nursery and buy some ready gown plants which are a bit more hardy against Melbourne’s terrible weather!
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Ultimate Floral Rice Crispy Squares
A while ago I wanted to test out all of the decorating supplies that James had gotten for me so I set out to make epic rice crispy squares. EPIC!
 The decorating part was really more important than the eating part of this project but let’s start at the beginning anyway!
Basic rice crispy ingredients:
 Melt the butter in a pot and then stir the marshmallows in on a low heat. You can see they will gradually melt. Keep stirring until it’s a big mush of goo and then add the rice bubbles gradually.
Make sure to work quickly or else it will get too hard to stir.
 Pour it out into a greased pan and leave it in the fridge to set. I like to smoosh the top down hard with another pan to get a really clean finish.
 Once it’s set, take it out of the pan and cut it into little even cubes.
 It can be very difficult to cut though so be carful.
  From here I basically decided to turn each square into a little cake. To make a smooth surface I iced each one with buttercream and put it back in the fridge.
  While they were cooling off I made the marshmallow fondant. Marshmallow fondant is basically marshmallows and a really large amount of icing sugar!
 I microwaved the mashmallows until they melted and then put them in my mixer with a cup of icing sugar.
  You pretty much continue adding icing sugar until it starts resembling a dough.
 Done! Don’t forget to dust the surface you’re going to use with icing sugar so it doesn’t get all sticky!
 I separated it into 4 pieces and added a different flavour to each. I used raspberry, lime, lemon and rose.
 For each cube, roll out a piece of the fondant.
 And lay it over the cube.
  Pinch the sides and press them into nice crisp shapes.
  While those cool in the fridge it’s time to make the bigger decorations! Most of the decorations I made were out of sugar gum paste and made using these little press stamps.
 All you need to do is press them into rolled out fontant/gum paste/whatever and then shape the leaves a bit more if you like.
 Easy!
 I also made piped icing roses. I did a full tutorial on them here.
 Now to put it all together, I used royal icing around the edges of each cube and then added a heap of flowers haha!
 I also covered them in edible glitter… because… glitter.
 They were incredibly sweet and the 35C heat made them quite melty but it was a really fun project to practice my skills on!
 They took quite a while to make… so here are a billion photos 😀
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