5 minute DIY and Headbands

Hey guys =D

I saw a picture of Sylvia (from Lipgloss & Black) the other day and looooved her headband!
I feel like I am kind of stalking those two right now XD
But you just have to love their style <3

anyway, I thought I could pull off a headband look myself and anyway life is too short to look boring, so here is what I looked like saturday, when I went fabric shopping (that was before the idea with destashing hit me ^^)

the yellowish skin tone and the colors in general look a bit off, I had the worst light when taking the pictures and obviously I am no pro in editing them XD

the headband was originally a scarf I borrowed from my dear granny ^^

Anyhow, I only got one scarf like this, and it isn't even mine! There had to be other ways to get a fashionable headband statement right?

so here is what I came up with yesterday night:

braided headbands from fabric scraps, yeah ^^

I made a thick and a thin one, but I don't think they go really great with my hair, so I sell/swap them on KleiderKreisel <- German side, If you need translating, just write me a comment ;-)

They are so easy and fast done, you could easily make one yourself and you get rid off some of your fabric scraps too =D

and last but not least, A quick DIY something (it isn't really worth mentioning it is so easy...)

I saw a guy the other day, probably someone from fashionweek ^^
wearing a thin chain several times wound around his right boot and it looked fabulous!

it took me 5 minutes to remake and I already had all the supplies I needed:

just a long (leftover) chain, I had lying around, a jump ring and some sort of jewelry clasp will do. Also a chain cutter/ plier thingy is quite handy since you can easily break your nails when prying open those nasty jump rings -.-
and tadaaaa...finished

just be carefull that your chain length is enough to measure several times around your bootleg.
If you don't like ankle boots, you can make this chainklet by Jenna C. It looks great too!

xoxo
Julia

Destash

woah...remember this post

It's more than a year ago and so much stuff happened o.Ô
enough happened that I never continued my upcycling after the second piece ^^
Oh well, but the thing is, I still have the problem with my two too full closets! Not to mentioned my growing fabric stash...Oh dear

 Oh how I love that kitty :3

So what to do with two closets and three big and heavy containers full of juicy fabrics?...

Do I really have to ask ;-)

I am going to do fantastic things of course!

but other, than last year I won't make any promise or set myself a time limit to how often I do these reconstructions! It didn't work well last time, so I won't try it again.

I did a couple of things I somehow never got around to post, but hopefully that will change soon! The weather will be nice (can't wait for spring and the first sunbeams!!!) and than I will probably be more motivated to take some pictures.

Oh and I get a (real!) dress form!!! where I can change the sizes and everything =D
It will arrive mid february I guess, but I can't stop anticipating the mail man everytime the dorrbell rings XD

Soooo, maybe you'll here soon from me, but first I have to finish a dress I started to make my mum ;-)

xoxo

Oh NOM!!!

I defintely have to try THESE

they look simply delicious :3
xoxo

long overdue hairpost

Maybe it's because of the season or the bad weather, but I see those hairtimelines spring up all over Blogworld...

Originally I only wanted to comment on L&B recent Blogpost. Where Syl is unhappy with her recent hair style, but now see what happened o.Ô

here you go, my very own hair timeline

At the moment, I think my hair looks really bad, I got a hair cut at the weekend and the fringe/ bangs got cut way to short... I think I look a bit like a friar (first picture when you google it XD )

but what are wigs, hair accessories and hats for... eh?

xoxo

edit: it's only a timeline of length considering the last two years, I had lots of different colors and hair styles over the time, but to cut my hair this short (summer 09) was the biggest decision yet ^^

ABCcreativity

Hi there,

SoI dived right into college and kind of drowned in it, to much work, to many new people, to many courses, to many copy crads, books and stuff to organize etc...

so, I already ditched my second subject (I started studying theater and egypt studies) so egypt studies went done...hieroglyphs are fascinating and all, but it's just not my kind of stuff...
you should read the "red pyramid" (from the author of percy jackson)  though, its fun ^^

though i'm still enrolled in theaterstudies I haven't been going to my courses recently, cause I got an internship at the "Deutsches Theater" in berlin, where I am responsible for costume and stage design, yeah =D

so thats that and, hey I discovered some real nice art journaling/ mixed media thingies in the past few days:

you should totally check that out:

ABCcreativity
it's a free e-course about exploring your creativity hosted by Andrea. She has really great ideas and works with meditation to!

also some cool videos I found, via iHanna, are from dirty footprints studio:
you totally want to get your brush and colors out when you watch her work, ahhh...bliss

and I don't know if I ever came around to showing you this video from tracy bautista:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvBHqXgk3hg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq9mT1HsxMA&feature=related

I think the idea is really great and I've already made two little journals with this method. I changed the binding though. i took the books to my sewing machine and ran a straight stitch down the masking tape and it worked fine for me =)

and yeah, it is snowing like, well not hell, but you get my point, in the last few days...I can't believe that a few weeks ago it looked like this:

until next time
xoxo

So, I'm going to study...errr right o.O

I applied for theater studies and... got in...  weird huh?
So I'm going to start next week. First some introductory course, then I hopefully get my schedule some day and mid october I'm officially a student again
...so weird.

Anyhow,
I haven't really sewn in a while and think this:



is the right idea to reduce my fabric stash (which expands over three huge plastic boxes from ikea now)
evidence picture with cute kitty:

 and another one, cause she is sooo adorable :-*

 Soooo cute< <3<3<3 !

enough... of  de cute kitty
so yeah, I'm trying to participate in the named game and have at least two items to create. First "my awesome halloween outfit" and second, a really great tuxedo shirt, both inspired by the awesome couple of Lipgloss & Black . Gosh, you have to love these two <3

xoxo

(birthday) wishlist

So I'm nowadays constantly broke -.- but have a huge wishlist in my head: You find on it things I desperatly need or just things that are pretty and make me happy.
With the help of my beloved brother I dived into image processing the other night and made a collage ^^

 

1. this or similar (the second is my priority, cause it is especially for dawanda)
2. just lovely
3. forgot to save the real link...here is the cheap alternative
4. I'm so going to make this for halloween (with a lot of changes...but I still need 5m of black jersey ...did I mention I'm broke?)
5. nail stamping set from Konad via ebay
6. fascinator
7. reclam Schauspielführer (new edition comes out in october)
8. love american apparel <3  ...and being "inspired" by there designs
9. I so desperatedly need labels for my new dawanda shop (pst... still not official)
10. more undies, cause I lovem (and most of all, love to make them myself ^^, so I need money for cute fabric, ribbons, lace, elastic ... you get my point)
11. docking station and speaker for my Ipod
12. threadless <3<3<3 (I have at least 13 designs on my wishlist, but this one is the best ^^) the size is unimportant, cause I can sew ....duuh ^^
13. knee-high stockings =D (I'm going to make these, too) yeah

gosh, that makes so much fun ^^ (it is even my wallpaper on my desktop... am I crazy?)
love y'all

xoxo