Steampunk Inspired Paper Mache Art Dress

Hello everyone,

                       Hope you had a great Canada day and having a wonderful 4th of July :)

Recently I have been posting soo much Steampunk inspired art and pieces on Facebook than usual, I donno the reason for that lol I've been obsessed over the weird arty facts I guess.

Here I have a sketch I did about few days ago.

I went ahead and researched a bit in to an form of art called Paper Mache Art dresses 

I found few tutorials on Youtube sucha as these,

 

and also this

And watching these I knew I wanted to make one.

So I recycled a lacy skirt in to this..

I just love how it turned out! maybe in near future I will do a tutorial on how to make one :)

Stay Crafty!

-Janani 

7 Spring/Summer outfits from 4 versatile pieces

Hello bees,


                                 Today's post isn't about some DIY project.
           Spring has finally arrive and we are looking to renew our wardrobes. It's been so long since I posted a style post. So here we go,

I have chosen 4 versatile pieces that every girl should already own. These are Just some basic pieces that I wear in regular bases. I'm sure you don't even have to dig deep in your clothing pile to find these items,

What did I use?

- Basic long sleeve tshirt (American Eagle)

- Leopard print black jeggings  (H&M)

- Sleeveless blouse with a collar

- Lace circle skirt ( Jessica Simpson)

Additionally I had few accessories to make the out fits more put together.

It's simple as counting 1 to 7 :)

Here are my 7 outfits I put together using the 4 pieces above.

(sorry I couldn't get the full length pictures. A timer can't full fill every expect of mine :P)




































Now that's a week worth outfits. Who said you need to have thousand clothing items to look stylish?

Enjoy.♥

-Janani 

DIY shorts update :)

So, I know this suppose to be a summer thing :/ well I didn't have blog in summer duh!
Good amount of my readers are from Sri Lanka (secretly woohoo-ing) so, as it's ALWAYS summer there, shorts are a must in a girl's closet..

Bored with your denim one colored shorts? yeah thought so! x) I'm giving you few ways that you can easily update those bad boys and rock them again :)  

Here are few ways how I updated my shorts, not to mention the laziness!
oh well! just enjoy and be inspired :)

TIP : Use a Knit fabric, so that it won't unravel and to achieve the best results with those almost ruffles. 

Few I did before....


Ombre colored pockets...

Dip Bleached ...

Distressed..

















Little more Inspirations :)

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The Unwanted Purse makeover :)

I hope everybody had a Spookalicious weekend parting hard and dressing up. 

Guess what! I didn't lol I was too lazy to get dressed and go party and my significant other lives 8000 whatever miles away and I don't feel like going all woohoo -.- yeah yeah BOO me..

Anyhow, There was a little ugly purse lying around the house and nobody knows who bought it or how we got it. Nobody liked to wear it and we used it to carry our nail colors in them for emergency when we were in Sri lanka for vacation. But most of the time it stayed there in the storage. 

I saw it earlier today and wanted to change this miserable fallow up to something that the "girls" in the house including me would use it. oh the misery! 

lets get on with making the world b'ful :D shall we...

Things I used to get this purse out of misery

- White acrylic paint 
- Any two acrylic paint color of your choice
- paint brush(es)
- Glossy mod podge or clear nail color 
- A paper or fabric Doily or lace 

Here's how The Unwanted purse looked before the makeover 

I applied few coats, about 2-3 coats of white acrylic pain on the front pocket at first...and waited it to dry

To keep the edges clean I dabbed few drops of nail polish remover on to a cotton bud and cleaned the edges.

Here comes the Doilies! :) Place your doily where ever you like. I prefer to place it starting from the corner. 

Dab paint color of your choice over the doily making sure you'll get paint on in the cut out parts. ( also if you are using lace make sure the paint transfer in to the materiel though it nice and crisp) 

I over lapped my doilies so the colors will contrast out nice.. to the corners where there was no design I mixed the colors around with white paint and added a shading effect. 

I worked with white paint on the top part of this purse too. 

After finishing I applied a coat of mod podge over the painting. Don't worry if you don't have or donno what the shing is mod podge is just use a clear nail polish that you wouldn't mind using. It's just for the sake of protection of the work of art we did and to duh! give it a glossiness xD 

And here's The Unwanted in to everybody's wanted.. but seriously my mom and sister both asked me for it!

Too bad so sad... Finders, painters keepers I said.. 

Happy Painting!!