Filed under: Creative Airam, DIY, Look what I've got..., My outfits, Playing With the Camera, fashion
Yes, Cookie, I finished a DIY. Well, sort of a DIY. I’ve knitted my second scarf, and the first one to turn out nicely. The best thing about it is that it’s so soft and warm. Perhaps I could knit a house of the same yarn? Oh, and I’ve coloured my hair. It’s almost black now (but golden in the sun), and I love the change.
I cannot do any fancy knitting at all, just the basic thing, but the lady at the yarn shop told me that if I used one rather thin (5mm) needle and one quite thick (12mm), it would create a sort of pattern all by itself. The lines that look thin and opaque come from the thin needle, and the wide and see-through lines were made by the thick needle. It turned out so nice I just might have to make another one.
This picture is closest to the real colour of the scarf, a gorgeous, dusty red-orangey shade.
PS: Thanks to Boyfriend for being the photographer. I paparazzied him while he wasn’t looking, moahaha.
As I’m spending the day redecorating my room – after wonderful Boyfriend moved all my furniture around yesterday – I thought it only suitable to show you my little creation: the Origami Bird Lamp.
My lamp looks like an ugly beehive, you see, so this is my attempt to distract the eye. Here is how you make one:
1. Fold a lot of origami birds according to this site. You can use patterned paper, like I did, or make lots of birds in different colours, or simply make them with plain white paper. It will take some time in the beginning, but once you’ve done it a few times you probably won’t spend more than about 4 minutes on each bird, so hang in there!
2. Stick a needle with white thread through the middle of the bird, from the bottom up. Remember to tie a knot on the end of the thread so it won’t just fall out again.
3. Measure a ring of paper to the same size as your lamp. Then tape the threads of the birds to the paper ring (easiest to do if you remove the paper ring from the lamp while working). I think it looks the best if they hang at different lengths.
4. Fasten the paper ring to the lamp. My ring fit so snugly that I didn’t even have to tape it, which is good as the tape might have melted or become permanently stuck to the lamp because of the heat.
You can, of course, make something similar without attaching it to a lamp by simply taping the threaded birds to the ceiling itself, or to a wooden/plastic ring and then hanging that from the ceiling.
I also added a bird taped to the paper ring itself. It looks like it’s hiding, trying to ambush the other birds, don’t you think? Boyfriend suggested I tape a single bird to the ceiling itself a bit further away from the lamp, like this:
I think this is my favourite bird ♥
We all remember my last horrible-melted-ice-cream-nail-art-attempt, right? Well, wanted to come up with some ideas that even I can do, and I wanted something simple. I haven’t any particular sources of inspiration, but many of the nail art tutorials on youtube do something similar (they usually add more fancy stuff on top, though). I’ve used two coats of OPI’s Nail Envy as a base – more on that in a later post! – but you could naturally do this on top of a coloured polish. A dark brown looks fantastic!
1. Make sure there is just a tiny amount of polish on the brush. Start at the tip of the nail, and brush with a light hand towards the cuticle. Try not to get any glitter on the bottom half of the nail, and make the transition gradual. The first coat should be thin, then do a second one to make the gold less transparent on the tip.
2. Cover the entire nail in two layers of gold. Yeah, I ran out of ideas, but it’s nice and sparkly, don’t you think?
3. A very easy French Manicure, where the tip is gold and the rest is kept au naturel (almost). I didn’t even use tape or anything to keep the edges nice – since the glitter polish is transparent and the Depend brush is rather tiny it was easy enough to do. Two layers makes the glitter more opaque.
4. A reversed version of number one. Do exactly the same, only make the gold “pour” from the cuticle, not the tip of the nail.
5. A reversed version of number three. I covered the entire nail in glitter, except for the white tip, which I left bare. Again, I did this without tape or anything, and two layers of the glitter polish will give you the best result.
I’d normally pick only one version and do it on all nails, of course; I did one on each finger just to show you the different varieties.
Which one is your favourite?
