Tutorial: Square Scarf Shirt

Make a fun and simple shirt out of a square scarf and not much else!

Materials:
Square scarf. (choose one that fits around your ribs)
Rope, chain, or lace.
Grommets and grommet punch.

How to:

Hold the scarf up to your body. Pin where you want the straps to sit (either use your bra straps for reference, or eyeball it) I accidentally spaced mine a bit further apart than I wanted, but I didn't notice until it was too late. Oh well :).

Poke a hole and put a grommet in each side. 

Tie a piece of lace through the grommet, around the back of your neck and to the other side. Make sure it fits comfy. (Not pictured, sorry)

Grab the sides of the scarf and pull it around to your back. Take note of how high and low you want the closures to go to.

Measure and mark one inch spaces along each side of the scarf where you want the closure to go and add grommets along the way.

Before I decided to add more grommets to the top.

Lace everything up and you're ready!

Notes: I found since the scarf isn't stretchy its easier to lace up the back, turn it around, then tie the neck. I also didn't take care to make proper holes for the grommets to go (nor did I make them even) and just stretched holes in the scarf. It's old, the fabric is thin and I pulled the threads doing this but I don't care. Just keep in mind if you're going to use a scarf you really like, take more care in how you install the grommets. Or close it some other way. Next time I make this (with a better quality scarf) I'm going to close the back with a short zipper and do over the shoulder straps. Its your shirt, do with it what you want!

I told you it had potential!

Tutorial: Geometric Necklace

You can make your own geometric shaped necklace in ~10 minutes with 4 things that you probably already have.

Materials:
A chain
Strong glue
Sandpaper
And... Staples?!

How to:

-Get your staples. I like the colourful kinds myself and thought the 3 colours went nicely together. Break the staple sticks (for lack of a better word) into the lengths that you want.

-Sand the corners where it will touch your skin.. Don't want you getting scratched! I found a fine grain sandpaper and just a couple swipes worked fine.

-Glue the pieces together by putting glue on the shorter piece and pushing them together. I also put some glue across the whole back part to keep them together a bit better. I think a popcicle stick would fit there really good to make it super sturdy but alas.. I had no popcicles. Make sure you don't put so much glue so that it pushes out to the front area.

-Add glue along the edge and press the chain into it. Let dry and you're set!

There are so many possibilities! I'd love to see your versions if you try this.

Scarf Fun

When I was a child we used to have 2 big bags of scarves that I would wrap around myself in various ways and make all sorts of outfits with, and my mom has dozens of pictures in an album of this. That's part of the reason why I love how scarves as clothing are coming back in fashion. Tie them together, tie them around yourself.. They're lightweight, come in many patterns, and super versatile!

D&G Summer 2012

Link to tute no longer working on the Glamourai page, if you have a good link I'd love it.

I went to Value Village today and got a couple cute scarves that I wanted to remodel into shirts, here's to hoping they turn out good!

Fresh Start

Well we made it back safe and sound after a wonderful week home that went by far too quickly. Full of wedding events, good ol' Cape Breton kitchen parties, shopping (with mom), rides on the motorcycle (with dad), and visiting as many people as I could. I wish that it was a longer trip, but everyone has to come back from vacation at some point, right? 

I certainly got my fix of little (and not so little) fluffy things, getting to see Salem (the best cat ever), plus dad's and a bunch others. Hopefully that will keep me tide over for a little while.

They just floated the old boat that was sunken in the river for years, so I just had to snap a few pictures when we went to take a look. See all the dark grey on the lower half of the boat? It's all clams. And they're all over the ground. The ducks were having a field day but it reeked.

 Nanny has more magnets on her fridge than I have ever seen in my life. It's insane.

The Lick-A-Chick, a very popular fried chicken and fries kind of place back home, that many people from away find hilarious based on the name alone. It doesn't seem too strange to me, but then again I'm used to it. :P

Mom makes a mean strawberry shortcake. Mmm.

Lastly, a silly picture of the Mr.

I didn't have my camera with me a whole lot, and I also don't have any pictures from the wedding (of myself or the party or anything else) since I was helping him take pictures on another camera, but rest assured that it was beautiful.

I picked up a lot of supplies while I was back home (not everything I wanted to, but I got some things I didn't think I'd get either so I guess it balances out), and I'm itching to get everything redone in the shop, and get this page made over.. As well as make all those pendants for the swap I'm doing! My god I'm going to be busy. Hopefully everything looks good though when I'm done with it all.

Last Minute Gift Making

It had totally slipped my mind in the midst of everything that I wanted to make a necklace for my friend who just had a baby (the cutest little thing named Lilly). I figured it would be apt to make a necklace of a stargazer lily.

The rough draft.

Half colored. 

Fresh out of the oven!

It's currently drying its varnish in the bathroom right now, and I hope it's all ready to go by tomorrow. I kind of want to add a coat of resin to the flip side of the pendant since the lines and colors seemed to show better, but I don't know if I'll have the time. It also might look great when it's dried.. we will see! I hope she likes it :3

Edit: The finished product, which she loved. Yay!

More Brains!

So I finally got some proper pictures of these, and got them put up in the shop. You can find them here.

Chilled Treats

There's no denying my love for frozen treats, I'm surprised freezie wasn't my first word. Now with the weather continuously hot I have a strong urge to break out my popcicle molds that I bought last year on a whim. If you're like me, you'll appreciate this ice cold post.

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Strawberry Shortcake Pops

Coffee Pops

Nutella

Rootbeer Float

Coconut Cream

Maple Mocha

Peaches and Cream. The same blog also has an amazing looking peaches frozen yogurt recipe that I need to make.

Banana cream pie

Braaaaainsssss

How awesome are these?! Three experimental brains with my new mold and they came out great, just a few things to fix up (like making sure not to have air bubbles). I'm going to make some more for necklaces, as well as hairclips. (You know its a good idea when your boyfriend cringes and rolls his eyes at it!).