Lovely Spring/Summer Fabrics

Good day folks! Today another sort of DIY blog post. Or actually, more of a sewing post? I dont' know exactly what to call it. Let me just begin at the start. I like to sew my own clothes. I am still in the learning process and I still need some help here and there, but I am okay (:
I started making clothes for the first time about two years ago, when I was 13. It's not like I make all of my clothes myself. Not at all! Just sometimes (usually during vacations) make clothes. My latest project were some really lazy and baggy trousers. I made those the past Holidays. And last wednesday, there was a conference where there are a ton of stands where you can buy fabric, patterns, needles, and everying else you could ever need for crafting. I went there with my mom and grandma (who also love to sew and to diy. I obviously got it from them) and I went looking for some fabrics. I wanted to find 2 very colorful pieces of fabric to make a skirt and to make another one of those lazy and baggy trousers (but this time I wanted summer-y colors).

On the picture on top of the page you can see the pieces of fabric I bought. I know it's not that clear to see, but there are 2 pieces of fabric, not one haha, although they look alike. The one on the left, I want to use for the other pair of trousers. The one on the right I want to use to make a bright and happy floral skirt. So far, I have made just 4 pieces of clothing: a pair of trousers, a pair of jeans, a blouse and of course the baggy trousers I mentioned before. And since almost all of them (except the blouse) are more winter/autumn clothing, I wanted to make something cheerful. Well, if you ask me, these pieces of fabric are perfect! Don't you think?


The teeny tiny picture on the right is a model of what the skirt is going to look like. Very wavy and summer-y. I love the pattern and it is not that hard to make. Whenever I have the time (hopefully very soon) I am going to start with the trousers, since I can wear those earlier than this thin skirt haha.
Spring, here I come!

DIY Projects

 

Happy Saturday everyone! As promised, today I'm writing a blog post about the DIYs I did last weekend. As you can see on the picture above, I completed two projects last week. The first one is a painting of a zebra (oh man, I hope you figured that out, because if you ask me, it doesn't look like a zebra at all), and the second one is a black and white portrait made with paper.

School Break

Yes! Finally! School break!
One week of eternal freedom, fun, and much much more. Love it!
After 6 weeks of working really hard for school, another test week, non stop studying and stress, finally the time to do nothing!

Saturday was already a great start. I promised myself to clean my room next week, and I already made a good start. All of my clothes removed from the floor/bed/chair? CHECK! And after that I decided that this week I wanted to spend my time being creative. During school weeks I normally don't have time to DIY or to be crafy, so I went to the store and bought a bunch of stuff.
I wanted to make a portrait, made out of only black and white paper, I'm gonna make a blog about this when it is done. So far, it's doing really great.

Also, I want to practice with painting. I'm a terrible drawer and I've always wanted to be a good one, so the only way to make that wish come true is by practicing. I bought some equipment and started.

Actually, I don't have that much to talk about. I don't have that many plans for this week. Oh, almost forgot, I'm going to a friend of mine tomorrow, and have a sleep-over (: Really looking forward to it! Even though she's in the same classes as I am, we don't have too much time to talk and to do fun things together, so this would be a great opportunity.

Well, that's about it. Gonna be posting pics of my DIY projects very soon! Stay tuned!

Surprise!

Yesterday I went shopping for presents, and it took me all day to find something that Jessica (my friend, I'm supposed to buy her presents and make a surprise for her) might like. But I finally found a book that I think is really nice and funny, so hopefully she likes it too. And you can never go wrong with chocolate, eh? (:

Yesterday right after I came back from present shopping I started on my surprise for her. I bought the book 'Taal is zeg maar echt mijn ding' (translated it should be something like 'Language is like really my thing'). I hope she likes it. For surprise I didn't know what to make for her, but decided to make a kind of old fashioned camera. A bit 80's camera, you could say. I know it's more my style than hers but yeah... I'll show you how I made it! You could see this as a mini-DIY. All you need is a rectangular box, black and white paint/black and grey paper, a round tray for the lense, a bit of orange paper (optional) and a black marker.

So let's get started! To make a camera, I would need a good rectangular box, and fortunately I can take as many boxes as I want with me from my work, since they would throw them away anyway. So I found the perfect box, now I could start sketching on it to make it look as similar to the original camera as possible. Under in the picture, you can see the camera I used as an example. It's an Optima 200. I also had bought white and black paint since painting look better than covering the box in black and grey paper.

So yesterday night I spent my entire evening painting the box, letting it dry, and painting over it again. I used the black paint and a mixture of the white and black paint to make the perfect grey color. Finally I was satisfied with it, now I only had to make the lense, and after the paint had dried, draw the sensor e.d. on it. So for the lense I used a round plastic tray. I painted the inside of it grey, so that it would look like a real lense, and the outside black.

 Here you can see how I made the lense, and I simply attached it to the camera with some superglue. Now for the finishing touch cutting circles out of orange paper, and glueing it on the top and the frond of the camera to make it complete, and TADA! Here is my finished surprise for Jessica! It looks quite like the original camera, doesn't it?
This whole thing took me about 4/5 hours I think. So that's acceptable, don't you think? Please excuse the picture, the lightning was horrible so this was the best I could make of it.

I had a lot of fun making this and the only thing left for me to do is make a poem for Jessica. I am afraid that will cost some time, but hey, it's fun to do! Luckily I have until friday to make it, so I'll manage. I hope you liked this post! Maybe I'll do another DIY thingy in the future. Now this is done, the only thing left to do for Sinterklaas is wrapping ALL of my other presents I bought for my grandparents, parents, brothers and sisters and my best friend Nathalie. We give eachother each year some presents for Sinterklaas/Christmas. Just for fun. Even though she picked out her presents herself, it's still fun to do (:

Days left til Sinterklaas: 3

Days left til Christmas: 23