This time I’m making some nice comfortable room wear to lounge around at home in ^_^ I spend a lot of time at home working and I like to be nice and comfy while I’m doing it so cute house clothing is the key!
The set I’m showing you how to make is a very basic loose shirt and tight pants. You reeeeally can’t get much more basic than this. The fabric I’m using is a stretchy soft towelling so it breathes well in summer and is nice and soft for relaxing. It is also nice and stretchy so it’s forgiving if you make a mistake or you’re a beginner.
It was quite hard to take photos for this one as I didn’t have a big enough space to spread the fabric out completely, I’ll be as descriptive as I can but let me know if it doesn’t make sense!
This is the result, not the prettiest but damn comfortable!
What you need:
Comfortable fabric that’s a little stretchy
Sewing machine and overlocker
Scissors
Pins
Optional pretty edging like pompoms
We will make the tunic/shirt part first, it’s super easy! You need two rectangles of fabric, the longer side should be as long as you want the shirt to be from the end of one sleeve to the other and the short side as long as you want to be from shoulder to bottom hem.
Place the two rectangles of fabric on top of each other then fold them in half from right to left.
Now we will cut a neck hole along the fold that we just made. Because it’s a simple tunic you can create the neck hole by snipping of a decent chunk of the corner like this:
When it’s unfolded it looks like this:
Using your overlocker or sewing machine stitch along the top seam from the end of the sleeve to the the beginning of the neck hole.
Now you need to decide how big you want the tunic to be around your waist/bust. The easiest way to do this is to try it on and pin in place!
Leaving a seam allowance cut along the line you pinned and then down again to the sleeve. You should be cutting out a big triangle chunk like this:
Repeat on the other side!
Now stitch all of the seams together and also overlock all the loose seams. You should have something like this, big loose and comfy!
Decoration time 😀 I added a row of this pom pom edging I had left over from another project around all of the seams ^_^
Taadaa!
Now it’s time to work on the matching pants! I wanted mine to be 3/4 length so I cut 4 pieces in that length then cut out a big “J” shape for the crotch area. Always cut your pieces bigger than you think you’ll need, it’s easy to take things in if they’re too big but if they’re too small you’re screwed!
Again the easiest way to get the right size is to try it all on and pin it so it fits. First off I made the pants loose and straight with no tapering to the ankle. I stitched the seams down the sides and down the inside of the leg.
Then I stitched the crotch together so it formed pants 😀
After trying them on I decided to make them more fitted around the bottom of the legs so they were more like yoga pants or leggings so I pinned and re-did the seam up the inside of the leg.
After I was happy with the fit I had this…
Again it’s fairly important to do simple pants like this out of fabric with a stretch to it otherwise you won’t be able to get them over your hips! Now you also need a way to keep them up so they don’t fall down unexpectedly XD
I achieved this by stitching elastic into the waistband. After that was done, time to decorate again 😀
Again I added pom poms edging to the waist and ends of the legs!
Taadaa pants!
Now put them together and you’ve got a nice set!
And there you have it! Cute and comfortable room wear made in about an hour.
Perfect for chilling out on the couch or writing important business emails… just remember not to offer to video conference call while wearing them XD
This is the kind of post that will eventually have an accompanying pattern. Let me know if you want it and I’ll move it up on the list of to-do’s 🙂
The lovely Celeste asked that I try to come up with a cuter way to store paper towels in the kitchen. Our kitchen is tiny so previously we just kept the paper towel in our cupboard which was kind of annoying to get out every time we used it. I decided to take care of two birds with one stone and have it displayed as well.
What you need:
Old knitting needle
Suction hook
Ribbon/yarn/pompom edging/something pretty to tie it up with
Blue tac
Pegs
For the string part I used old pom pom edging but you could use a pretty ribbon or anything you like as long as it goes with the colour scheme in your kitchen.
Tie each end of the string to a peg.
Stick the knitting needle through the paper towel roll.
Clip a peg to either side…
Leaving a gap around 3cm from the edge of the paper towel wrap a piece of blue tack around the needle. This is to prevent the peg from getting to close to the towel and stopping it from spinning on the needle.
Put the suction hook up on the wall and hang in place…
I decided to tie the top up a little higher so it looked more interesting. You could also add a big bow or something pretty to cover up the hook depending on your style. So that’s the basic idea, now it’s all about customisation! If I customise mine any more I will definitely post about it 😀
Do you guys have cute kitchen things? I’m slowly adding to my kitchen collection but nice kitchen things can be quite expensive! Haha that’s just another excuse to craft more things myself though 😉
EDIT: As Sefie pointed out in the comments, you should never hang paper towel above gas burners in case they catch fire! I thought I had mentioned it but apparently I didn’t so completely my bad >_< The back two burners on our stove are actually broken and so are never used. There is also a fairly decent gap between the back of the burners and the splashback behind even though the angle of the photo makes it look like there isn’t much. My bad again and please do be careful where you hang this if you decide to make one!!
While I was editing this I realised it’s been like a year since I did a make up tutorial video *_* I knew I’d been put it them off being self conscious but I didn’t know it had been that long!!
This tutorial is for the eye make up I was wearing in the wig styling tutorial and review of the Fashion Addict stuff:
It’s a nice look for every day and can be really dressed up of down depending on your outfit.
Anyway here’s the video, I hope it makes sense and you all like it. ^_^
Thanks for watching, let me know if you have any questions!
*Edit* The lovely You’ve Got Nail just pointed out that you can totally see James holding up the light in the mirror behind me the whole time hahaha! Editing fail, apparently I was too focused on getting clear shots of the eyes that I completely missed everything else >_<‘ Ok note to self: next time pay more attention to where he’s standing or buy a better lighting set up XD
Also for future videos, would you prefer super awesome quality with slower load times or lower quality and quicker load times? This is the lower quality version but you can click through to Youtube to watch the HD one atm.
This is a very simple tutorial made for a post on my blog. It is a very easy gold and bronze eye make up style using mostly 1 palette. I do my make up like this quite often as it only takes around 5 minutes when you get the hang of it.
For more information please visit the post over here:
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A blog and Youtube channel about a girl and her quest to make everything sparkle. New craft, hair and beauty tutorials every week!
Violet LeBeaux spends most of her time trying to think of ways to make life prettier, posting said ways on her blog and drinking very strong tea. She writes about big hair cute things, girly fashion, beauty finds, sometimes Hime Gyaru fashion (姫ギャル) and crafty tutorials.
She lives with her adorable boyfriend Jimmy, fluffy puppy Miss Lottie and Bergamot Bunny in Melbourne, Australia.
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Music: Garageband unless otherwise credited
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You can’t say no to the girl with the lashes.
Today on Violet Vision… basic gold and copper eye make up.
This is the finished look.
What you need for the eye make up:
False lashes/glue, mascara, gel eyeliner, cream shadow, gold eye shadow, bronze eyeshadow, dark brown eyeshadow.
Clip back your hair.
Use the foundation routine you’re comfortable with. This is my 1 minute basic one.
Illamasqua and Innoxa foundation.
Mix them together and dot around the face.
Blend and pat with a sponge.
Pat a little extra around the eyes in place of concealer.
Finish with a little pressed powder.
Bourjois mascara.
Apply a light coating of mascara.
Clean up any little mistakes.
The Face Shop lashes.
Lash me Type 1 Glue
Apply glue evenly to the lash bone.
Bend to shape and press on to the lash line.
Repeat on the other side.
Bobbi Brown gel liner in Espresso.
Fill in the lash line using an angled brush.
Apply in a thick line along the lashes ending in a flicked wing.
Join the wing with a small line on the lower lash.
Maybelline Eyestudio.
Apply crean from the crease to eyebrow following the socket.
Add cream to the lower inner corner of the eye.
Load your brush with the gold.
Apply on the lid from the inner corner 2/3rds the way along.
Apply a small amount on the lower corner of the eye sticking close to the lash line.
Load your brush with copper and apply in a “c” following your eyelid crease and wing of the eyeliner.
Following the eyeliner, apply to the edge of the lower lash line.
Load up with the brown.
Start at the wing and go over the eyeliner with a thick line.
Use the cream to blend all the edges together.
Apply a coat of lipstick.
Add some lipgloss.
All done, super pretty!
I hope this was a useful video, please check out the blog post linked in the description for more information and tutorials.
Thanks so much for watching.
Bye!
Project Make-My-Bedroom-Nicer is in full swing now and over last weekend I made my biggest project so far:
A chandelier!
I’ve wanted a chandelier since I was a little kid ^_^ The bedroom is taking a kind of romantic silver/gold/black damask theme to it so I figured that this would be the perfect accompaniment.
What you need:
Clothes hanger thing
Crystals (mine were old Christmas decorations on sale at borders)
Damask wrapping paper or paper and pens to draw your own
Hot glue
Paint
Chain
Black yarn
Fishing line or thin light thread
When we first moved in here I bought this clothes airer thing and it’s legs broke almost right away >_< I didn’t keep the receipt though so I was stuck with the damn thing. So I thought long and hard about what I could do with it and the only thing I thought of was chandelier! Let’s get to work ^_^
From the top you can see it has 8 arms and is the perfect shape for a project like this.
First thing to do is to remove all the pegs and plastic chains.
Next it’s time to paint it. I decided to aim for silver and black and I wanted the main colour to be silver. I didn’t have any paint spare so I used some nail polish the lovely BGDino sent me 😀
It took 2 coats to get it looking silvery which amounted to around 1/4 of the bottle. Totally worth it 😀
Make sure to let it dry completely between coats no matter what kind of paint you’re using. You might want to undercoat it for a perfect finish but I figure that it’s very high up so it’s not going to have much wear and tear and also no one is going to see it closely XD
Don’t forget the bottom too!
Now lay out the jewels you have. I used large clear ones and smaller pink ones as well as a couple of little star beads.
The large clear ones were old Christmas decorations I got on sale from Borders and already had fishing line threaded through to hang them with.
The pink ones I bought from a closing down bead shop so I threaded them with matching blue/silver cotton to hang them.
Each ring will have the same jewels hanging at the same lengths so make sure to cut the threads evenly.
Each arm has 4 threads of jewels hanging at different lengths. This is the order of jewels I used for each arm:
Hang the jewels from the hooks and you should start to see everything taking shape!
At this point I hung mine up from a clothes rack so I could work on it more easily. To hold it up I just hooked some of the chain through the top and looped it around the rack.
At this point I thought it needed something to make it more impressive.
So time for damask!
Cut out sections of damask which at tall like this, they are going to take the place of candles ^_^
Fold in half…
And cut out the insides!
Glue each of the “candles” to the ends of the arm parts.
To make a center piece I cut out 4 of these little butterfly shapes from the paper and glued them so there was damask on both sides of two pieces.
Then cut half the way down the top middle on one of them and half way up the bottom of the other and slot together!
From the top it should look like a cross like this:
Glue in some chain or matching ribbon in the middle for the whole thing to hang from.
This is how it looks hanging so far:
Now add in the center piece on a thread from the middle with a big jewel from the bottom.
Add drapes of chain to the first hanging points…
And drapes of yarn knotted at each loop around the outside…
Snip off any loose ends of the threads…
Hang that sucker up because you are done!
Now it’s probably not fit to hang in my imaginary multimillion dollar Swiss chalet but it sure cheers up my current bedroom ^_^
Once I can get some more supplies I’m planning to add more jewels and more dangly chains so it looks absolutely awesome. This is still a pretty good start though I think ^_^
Hard to photograph clear jewels and get in the epic sparkle of the silver but so pretty in person!
And so there you have it!
I hope you all enjoyed this tutorial as much as I enjoy watching the jewels spin around at night ^_^
Last winter berets with little pearls were everywhere in shops at crazy prices and now that it’s getting colder I’ve started seeing them in stores again. They are really cute but paying $30 for a pearl studded beret is out of my budget especially when you can get a plain one for like $6 and diy it ^_^
I had this pink one that I never really used anymore, I picked it up at a Portman’s clearance outlet a couple of years ago so I spent a few minutes jazzing it up.
What you need:
Beret
Plastic fake pearls
Thread and needle
Before I started I laid all of the pearls out so I could get the correct spacing. I started from the outside and worked in. Once I get the pattern section of the blog up I will add in a diagram.
With the beret laid flat I spaced out 10 pearls around the outside.
Then working in I added another row, spacing them between the first ones. It’s important to use plastic pearls on a project like this so it doesn’t weight the hat down. Also rather than stitching them on using one long thread sewn throughout the hat I tied each pearl on individually. This means that if one came loose the rest would be fine and also a lot less effort in the stitching/making sure the stretch of the knit was maintained.
This is what it looked like after the top was done:
Then it was time to turn over and do the other side…
I toyed with the idea of a row of pearls around the very edge but decided to keep it more subtle instead.
And here I am wearing it at a the Melbourne Flower show on the weekend!
I love projects like this that add a lot of small details to an outfit. Tiny little touches that just give something an extra level of depth make me very happy ^_^
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.
