The 30 second DIY: Adding a Drape

This is the fastest and if not one of the fastest DIY's ever.This DIY is adding a drape to a garment. This is perfect if you have that shapeless jersey garment whether that be a dress, skirt or top. All you need to do this look is a hair band or elastic band.

Warning: This will shorten your garment.

To alter this dress like this all you need to do is bunch up some fabric on the inside where you wish the drape to be. (the amount is up to you) then tie the elastic band around it. Give it a little pull to fix, then your done.

Simple and easy way to get an elegant drape and add shape.

Riixx

.Ps. Sorry for my mothers messy room >.< LOL

DIY: Shred and Destroy!

So I recently posted this on Instagram:

I somehow got this idea from seeing someone's tights ladder (that's soo annoying) and I thought, how cool would it look on a shirt? Making this is also very therapeutic and was fun to do whilst watching tv. 

Also how can I post something tagged #diy without putting up a tutorial?! 

Here we go.

You'll need a shirt with lightweight fabric and scissors.

 You'll need to un-hem the shirt or just cut the bottom off so that the raw edge is showing.

If you start pulling on the fabric where it frays then we can get started. What is basically being done here is unravelling the fabric.

Keep going until you get the desired effect. If you don't want to start from the bottom of the shirt, you could always just stab the shirt in random places and start unravelling from there. Always start from the bottom up and just keep pulling and unravelling. I must warn you that it will not be perfect and there will be holes but hey, that's the whole point. 

Have fun destroying!

DIY: The Princess Peach Project!

Hello wonderful people! We haven't done a D.I.Y post in yonks so I thought I'd go through with my current dressmaking projects. 

I have been recently challenged by my little sister to create a dress for her so that she can dress up as Princess Peach for her school's World Book Day...or something like that, I wasn't really listening.

So long story short, I made this little dress for my little sister.

It took around 6 hours, 2.5 metres of fabric, bits of lace, an aching back and a very impatient seven year old girl nagging at my ear.
 I kept it pretty basic now that I think about it, but the thing that annoyed me the most had to be the fabric that kept fraying so much. 

Caramel Rock Adventures: Almost finished...hopefully.

Happy New Year everyone! Whilst you all had a wonderful rest to cure your hangovers and party feet I decided to go into Caramel Rock to finish my prototype of a "dress". The template said dress but the garment ends up being a jacket. I'm just annoyed because the sleeves don't match with the body but that can easily be fixed. Another nuisance was having to tack everything together by hand even though I prefer stitching everything in one go as it is quicker and this is only a prototype.

The fabric is so puuuurrrttyyy! I think a zip would go well with this...if I can't find a zip long enough then I'll use hooks and eyes.

I even got so annoyed I decided to stab the mannequin with pins. I think I should get one in my house to stab ...its a great stress relief.

Thanks for stopping by!

M

D.I.Y: Bye-Bye Acne Honey and Oatmeal face mask.

Here's a little secret for stress free, smooth skin. Instead of raiding your local LUSH shop for organic facial masks, why not do it at home? There are so many home remedies you can use for stopping redness, spots, dehydrated skin, why not take advantage of it? 

I've always used the combination of honey and oatmeal because my skin was prone to rashes and redness as well as annoying spots on my forehead. Honey is an excellent moisturiser and it also contains anti-bacterial properties. I either use oatmeal as it exfoliates as well as calms and soothes my skin. Alternatively you can use a bit of cinammon to exfoliate and dry out acne, however I realised that my skin becomes plump and firm  as if I just had botox because it brings blood and oxygen to the surface of the skin. 

So lets begin! 

First tie up your hair because the most annoying thing to happen is have oats stuck on your hair.

Prior to beautyfying, you should place a warm cloth to your face to open up your pores and to allow the honey to penetrate the skin further.

You'll need some honey and a handful of oats.

I use manuka honey as it is known for its anti bacterial and anti inflammatory properties. Also because I got it for a penny at the Holland & Barrett sale..

So squish your handful of oats really tightly and pass over warm water.

Drain all the liquid out of the oats and add to a bowl with a teaspoon of honey.

Mix until it into a paste consistency 

And apply all over the face.

Leave on for ten minutes and rinse with cold water to close up the pores.

And you're done!

I would say that the pros of using this face mask is it's really easy to make and it can be done in a flash. The only con would be how extremely messy it is, also because it smells so delicious, I'm tempted to stick out my tongue and eat it but no, I have to resist! One thing I can assure you, after two months of using this every week, your acne should clear up~

DIY: Acid Washed Jeans

A friend recently gave me his jeans to experiment on and after browsing Youtube I decided to give acid washing a try.The method I liked the best was spraying the jeans with bleach because you have some control of where the effect will show, also because I would just get paranoid about the jeans if I left it in a tub of bleach for hours.

So for this DIY you will need:

Water, A spray bottle filled with bleach, any denim item, preferably dark, and gloves, unless you want an uneven skin tone on your hands.

• First make sure the jeans are nice and wet. This is so the bleach doesn't completely ruin your jeans and eats away at fabric.

• Then hang the jeans outside so that you can evenly spray the jeans with bleach. Or unless you're like me then spray at random areas of the fabric like a maniac

• I tried the effect on two different coloured jeans just because and the grey coloured jeans changed colour pretty quickly whilst the blue ones did not, so I left it outside for a little bit longer.

• Afterwards I rinsed the grey jeans in cold water and stuck it in the dryer for a while.

• I didn't really see any changes with the darker jeans so I just chucked it in the washing machine on the fast wash with cold water and prayed that the bleaching gods were on my side.

• The blue jeans turned out pretty ok I guess, I think I might bleach them a little bit more later but at least I didn't overdo it the first time.

DIY: Fringed Scarf

As winter approaches I have decided to not make the same mistake I did last year and prepare too late. So to set my self up I made a fringed scarf out of a T-shirt. I think this may be the easiest DIY we will ever do.

So here is how to do it.

 All you need is an old or new T-shirt in what ever colour you may like. Mine is new, I got it from Primark for £2.50 in the mens section. You will need a pair of scissors and if you want to, tailors chalk to help mark some lines.

1) The first step is to lay out the shirt and to cut it straight across about 3cm under the sleeves. If you are using tailors chalk you can just draw the line. The part that we will use is the bottom part of the shirt.

2) Starting from which ever end you find preferable you cut a straight line from one edge, with both the back and the front togther. This line should go up to half way from the other end. Leaving about 2cm apart, cut another straight line and continue to do this until you reach the end.

 3) It should start to look like this. The lines don't have to be perfect as the edges of them will eventually roll. Continue to do this until you reach he other end. Remember cut only half way up.

4) This should be how it looks like when you have finished cutting.

4) And there you have it a fringed scarf to put around your neck in the winter.

DIY: Bow ties are cooool!

In today's DIY post, I thought I should use up some of the scrap fabric I have left from last year's GCSE project. So today I will be showing you how to make a bow tie.

So you'll need:

• A 10 x 5 piece of fabric
• A 2 x 3 piece of fabric
• A sewing machine or a thread and needle.
• Elastic or a safety pin or a hair pin, depends on how you want to use this bow tie really.

1. Cut out all your pieces and lay them flat. Fold the edges of the large rectangle and sew along the edges for a neat edge. 
2. Then fold both pieces in half lengthways and sew along the edge.
3. Then turn both pieces right side out. You might want to use a pencil or a chopstick to turn the smaller piece right side out.
4. Accordion fold the larger piece and stitch in the middle to hold it in place.
5. Stitch the ends of the smaller piece together, wrong side up so that you can have a neat exterior, then flatten the bow so that you can slide the smaller piece through the middle. If you're using an elastic band, then stitch the ends on to the end of your smaller piece, then you can slide the smaller piece through the larger piece. (idk if that was understandable...)
6. If you're not using an elastic and planning to use a hairpin or a safety pin then just slide it through the middle and you're done!

DIY: Galaxy Dress!

Grab your paint people because you're gonna want to do this to everything you own - ok maybe not everything- but still, in today's tutorial we will be showing you how to make your own galaxy dress. The best thing about doing galaxy prints is that you can't go wrong and you can always cover up mistakes with more paint.

So you'll need:

• A make up sponge, cut up into pieces, it doesn't really matter how.
• An old dish sponge, again cut it up!
• A paintbrush
• Blue, purple, white acrylic paint, you can also add green and yellow, but it depends on you.
• A plate or a paint palette
• Any black garment that you want to paint on. If it's not black then you can dye it...unless you still want to paint on the not-black garment.

Always practice first on an old shirt or a piece of fabric to see if you really want to do it and also to see if it looks nice. We did a practice on one of Rianna's pyjama tops.

We didn't even do the whole shirt because we were so in love with the effect we decided to get straight onto the dress.

 The trick is to just dab blue and purple paint with an old sponge all over the fabric. We used two different types of blue and a dark purple. The white gives the effect of a cluster of stars, this should be done with the make up sponge as you don't want it to have the same look as the background. If you wanted to, you can dab red and orange to create nebulas but we didn't do that this time because...well because we didn't think about that at the time.

 Rii's dress was asymmetrical so what we did was put the galaxy print on the hemline of the dress and had a slight fade effect. The whole thing took less than an hour to do!

 It's a very messy job~

 After dabbing the area you want with blue, purple and white, just add some white dots around for individual stars.