DIY Jewel Costume

27 Wednesday Feb 2013

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costume, DIY, Do it yourself, dress up, Jewel

Happy Wednesday!

This is the last installment in regards to my sister’s 30th birthday 🙂 I dressed up as a Jellybean and I made her a Strawberry and Mint Sangria.

My sister’s name is Jade and she stated….actually more commanded that everyone dress up as something beginning with “J”. A week before the party Jade started to stress out because she didn’t have a costume for her 1 year old daughter. So it was Aunty Amour to the rescue!

Jasmine’s Jewel Costume

I created a costume for Jasmine so that she could be a Jewel for the night. I found some bits and bobs to be her bling and made her a t shirt and a headband.

It turned out pretty good – and of course Jasmine was as cute as a button!

Jasmine as a Jewel

If you had come to this party what would you have dressed up as?

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

A Kid’s Yoga Book

22 Friday Feb 2013

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Kid's Yoga Book, Love Tmah, Religion and Spirituality, Smiling sun Sees Me, Yoga

Happy Friday!

Smiling Sun Sees Me by Tanya Maria Mah

My little sister Tanya has a blog over at Love Tmah I love the way she writes – i’m left giggling all the time. She writes about health, happiness, yoga, meditation and hang overs.

I love the kid’s yoga book that she created – Smiling Sun Sees Me by Tanya Maria Mah. Please check it out and download your copy today!

Jellybean Outfit

19 Tuesday Feb 2013

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costume, DIY, Do it yourself, dress up, Jellybean

Jellybean Accessories

It’s Amour here again. Last Saturday was my little sister’s (Jade) 30th birthday – I can’t believe she’s now 30 years old! In order to celebrate this special occasion she asked for everyone to dress up as something beginning with the letter ‘J’.

After much thought I decided to come dressed up as a Jellybean. How did I do this? Well it was really quite simple 🙂

Make a headband out of Jellybeans
Make a ring out of Jellybeans
Embellish a t-shirt with the word JELLYBEAN

Here are the steps I took to make my headband:

Lay out Jellybeans on waxed paper
Cover in a layer of clear spray paint make sure all sides are covered
Let dry overnight
Repeat steps 2 and 3 for two more days. This is to make sure that they Jellybean doesn’t melt and get sticky later on
Cut a circle from the lid of a plastic container and glue on a piece of felt to cover it
Starting from the middle of the felt covered side, use a hot glue gun to stick on the Jellybeans
Once one layer is complete do a second layer
Using another piece of felt glue the circle to the headband

Repeat the same process for the ring. For the t-shirt I just cut out the letters and painted on the word JELLYBEAN with different coloured fabric paints. Ta da! What do you think of my outfit?

Amour is a Jellybean

Coming soon is the costume I made for my 1-year-old niece – Jasmine.

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

Thank you for the awards…

12 Tuesday Feb 2013

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Adored Vintage - the blog, Adorned From Above, Beautiful Blogger Award, Daisy Yellow, FroilanErik Artistry, Hey Lady Spring, I'm Not a Trophy Wife, Inkomplete Design, Jelly Bones, Kate Campbell Designs, Le Reveur, Life on Lakeshore Drive, Love Laughter and a Touch of Insanity, Love Notes Restyle Studio, Meijo's Joy, Naughty Shorts, Pillows A-La-Mode, Poppytalk, Saccharine, Serenity You, Thingiemajingie, Twigg Studios, Twin Dragonfly Designs, Versatile Blogger Award, Winter Owls

Happy Tuesday everyone!

Recently we were blessed with two awards from fellow bloggers in our community. Thank you so much Jennifer at Winter Owls and Jiandra at Thingiemajingie for taking the time to nominate us for these lovely awards!

Versatile Blogger Award

The rules of this award are as follows:

1. Display the award certificate on your website.
2. Announce your win with a post and include a link to whoever presented your award.
3. Present 15 awards to deserving bloggers. Create a post linking to them and drop them a comment to tip them off.
4. Post 7 interesting facts about yourself.

We are both very musical – Amour sings and Renee is a conductor
We love to cook….and eat!
Renee loves black and skulls – Amour loves red and hearts – We both love purple and silver
Renee and Amour met at Hillsong Church during our late teen years. We’ve been friends ever since!
Renee loves the country – Amour loves the city
We are Glee addicts!
We are both girls that would pick dogs over cats any day! 🙂

In no particular order here are our very Versatile Blogger nominees:

Beautiful Blogger Award

The rules of this award are as follows:

Thank the person who nominated you
Post the award image to your page
Tell seven facts about yourself
Nominate 15* other bloggers for the award and let them know about the nomination.

*Some blogs suggest nominating seven other bloggers for the BBA if you find this daunting! Ummm yes!

Seven facts about us – as listed above 🙂

In no particular order the nominees for BBA are:

Please take the time to grab a cuppa, share the love and check out these lovely blogs.

Pin it and Do it is Back!! February Link Up

11 Monday Feb 2013

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Laugher and a touch of Insanity, Linky Tools, Love, Pinterest

We are a little late in posting this one – but better late than never we always say!

Join us and Trish at Love, Laughter, and a touch of Insanity in a month of PINing goodness. Click here for the details to join. Challenge ends February 28th. Links must be submitted by March 3rd.

We’ve chosen to be Pin Obsessed and try for 8+ pins in the month. We better get a move on then! 🙂

Go on! Join us, it will be so much fun!

Valentine’s Giveaway – Win $40 via Paypal

09 Saturday Feb 2013

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Serenity You – Valentines Giveaway

Who wants to win $40 this Valentine’s day??

You do! Great then just enter this rafflecoper giveaway. We’ve joined up with Natasha at Serenity You.

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

Renee’s Personalised Bath Pamper Packs

04 Monday Feb 2013

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Bath, bath packs, Christmas, gift ideas, pampering, present

For Christmas I wanted to make a unique holiday gift for a friend and their family. I came up with the idea to make them each a personalised bath pamper pack.

Here’s what I came up with.

For dad and mum…

For Dad

Xxxx beer
Radox bath salts
Heavy metal magazine

For Mum

Champagne
Bath salts
Vogue magazine

For daughter and son…

For 7 yr old daughter

Lavender bubble bath
Pretty loofa
Princess magazine

For 4 yr old son

Duck bubble bath
Bath toys/face washer
K-zone magazine

What do you think of my gift packs? Would you have done anything differently?

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

Wrapping Paper Restyle

31 Thursday Jan 2013

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gift, gift wrap, hearts, recycle paper, red, wrapping paper

Jasmine and her wrapped present…

Last Friday was my nieces 1st birthday! I was having such a busy week at work that I forgot to buy wrapping paper. So it was time to get creative with what I had on hand.

Being that Christmas had just passed there were endless half used rolls of wrapping paper lying around. I decided to use the inside of the paper as my base. My other niece Mischa said she wanted to be my little helper for this restyle. So we got our creative minds together and got to work.

Here’s what we did…

– I cut up some scrap paper into different sized hearts
– I gave Mischa some paper doillies
– I then gave her little balls of blutac so she could stick the doillies and hearts randomly on the plain side of the wrapping paper
– We then took it outside and spray painted randomly all over the paper
– After it had dried nicely we wrapped Jasmine’s present ready for her birthday

It’s a wrap…

What do you think of our emergency restyle? I think it’s great and Mischa was an awesome little restyler 😉

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

Toothpick Scratch Art

28 Monday Jan 2013

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Canvas, children art, crayon, kids activities, paint, repurpose, restyle, scratch art, upcycle

Toothpick Scratch Art – Final

We had an unsuccessful photo canvas living in the garage – this was the perfect project for my niece and nephew to get involved in 🙂

Here’s what we did:

First I painted the canvas with a layer of white acrylic paint. Set aside to dry
Myself and the kiddos just coloured the whole canvas in different coloured crayons. In no ordered way – just however we felt
I then painted over our crayon masterpiece with black acrylic paint with a foam roller. This was to ensure it would be a nice thin even layer. Set aside to dry
This was the fun part! We got a toothpick each and just started scratching into the black acrylic paint. Again in no ordered way – anything goes!

Work in progress…

Here are some close ups of our finished artwork.

Close up time…

What do you think of our artwork? We love it! Now I just need to find a place best to display my new artwork 🙂

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

Add Color to Your Space Without the Commitment of Painting (apartmentguide.com)
Scratching the Surface: Amy Donaldson (artsyforager.com)
Easy DIY Art Collection (abeautifulmess.com)

Biscuit Tin Restyle

22 Tuesday Jan 2013

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grey, Love Notes Restyle Studio, recycle, repurpose, restyle, rosette, tin, upcycle

My niece Jasmine uses an old biscuit tin to hold her many hair accessories. It wasn’t very attractive….here is a picture of it…

Unstyled biscuit tin

So I spray painted it with White Knight Squirts quick dry gloss enamel in ‘gum grey’. I let it dry overnight and then glued on some rosettes my mum made from scrap material.