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DIY Jewel Costume

27 Wednesday Feb 2013

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Happy Wednesday!

This is the last installment in regards to my sister’s 30th birthday šŸ™‚ 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 moreĀ commandedĀ 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

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 aĀ t shirtĀ and a headband.

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

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Jasmine as a Jewel

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

Take care, until next timeā€¦keep restyling!

Amour xx

 

Jellybean Outfit

19 Tuesday Feb 2013

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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 šŸ™‚

  • Make a headband out of Jellybeans
  • Make a ring out of Jellybeans
  • Embellish aĀ t-shirtĀ with the word JELLYBEAN

Here are the steps I took to make my headband:

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

Repeat the same process for the ring. For theĀ t-shirtĀ 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?

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Amour is a Jellybean

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

Take care, until next timeā€¦keep restyling!

Amour xx

Lemon and Thyme Salt Scrub

15 Tuesday Jan 2013

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Lemon and Thyme Salt Scrub

This time we tried a salt scrub. At some point we saw this one somewhere but we couldn’t find it anywhere to reference in this post šŸ˜¦ Our previous successful experiments have been Vanilla Sugar Scrub and a Natural Hair and Scalp Treatment. We found that the textures differed between the sugar and the salt. The sugar felt more like wet sandy mud whilst this salt scrub was drier and rougher. Now this doesn’t mean the salt scrub wasn’t any good – it was great on the more tougher parts of the body like feet, elbows and legs.

All that you need...

All that you need…

1 cup rock salt (not the big chunky pieces or the really fine stuff – something in between)
1/2 cup almond oil
Zest of one lemon
6 sprigs thyme leaves stripped

– pour salt in a bowl
– add lemon zest and bruised thyme leaves
– pour in oil and mix

The almond oil we used was purchased from Health and Happiness. Check out their website (it’s on their Facebook page) as well they have so much education on natural products – there’s also heaps of DIYs! Please do not disturb us – we are now very busy šŸ˜‰ just kidding – but seriously please check them out!

Another body scrub that we adore! We are totally loving making our own beauty products. Have you got many recipes you can recommend to us? Please do tell us about them.

Take care, until next timeā€¦keep restyling!

Amour & Renee xx

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Pin It and Do It: A Pinteresting Challenge ā€“ The Summary

31 Wednesday Oct 2012

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Earlier this month we joined Trish atĀ Love,Ā LaughterĀ and a Touch of InsanityĀ in herĀ Pin It and Do It October 2012 Pinterest Challenge. I discovered this viaĀ Kelly atĀ Cobwebs, Cupcakes & Crayons.

This post is to summarise all of the fun things we did this month – We hit Pin ObsessedĀ status! We were busy so here goes:

  1. Bleach Print Bibs
  2. Baby Singlet Restyle
  3. Tie to Headband Restyle
  4. Plant Spoon Restyle
  5. Polka Dot Nails
  6. Googly Eyed Shoe Restyle
  7. Mermaid Slipper Nails
  8. Neck Cushion Restyle
  9. Sweater Bracelet Restyle
  10. Tutu Belt

And here are the photos – so grab a cuppa and a snack while you wait for the pictures to load šŸ™‚

Bleach Print Bibs

Baby Singlet Restyle

Tie to Headband Restyle

Plant Spoons Restyle

Polka Dot Nails

Googly Eyed Shoe Restyle

Mermaid Slipper Nails

Neck Cushion Restyle

Sweater Bracelet Restyle

Tutu Belt

We had heaps of fun so we can’t wait to join the next one! What do you think of what we did?

Take care, until next timeā€¦keep restyling!

edit 5th November 2012 – link to inspiration pins

  1. Bleach Print Bibs
  2. Baby Singlet Restyle
  3. Tie to Headband Restyle
  4. Plant Spoon Restyle
  5. Polka Dot Nails
  6. Googly Eyed Shoe Restyle
  7. Mermaid Slipper Nails
  8. Neck Cushion Restyle
  9. Sweater Bracelet Restyle
  10. Tutu Belt

Pin It and Do It #10 ā€“ Blue Jean Tutu (aka The Tutu Belt)

30 Tuesday Oct 2012

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Hi everyone!

So here is our 10th Pinteresting challenge for thisĀ Pin It and Do It Challenge. We are officially Pin Obsessed status! Now before we start – this is not a restyle project – but what girl can resist a tutu???

Here is the pinĀ that inspired us on Pinterest.

This is how we put it togetherā€¦

The how did we do it…

And now the end results – we have two of the cutest little girls modelling them for us – Nina and Brooke-Lee.

Nina in the Peacock Tutu Belt

Brooke-Lee in the Ballerina Tutu Belt

Aren’t they just too cute for words? Say it with me – ADORABLE!!!

We couldn’t just stop there so we also made them matching hair pins…

Nina’s Hair Pin

Brooke-Lee’s Hair Pin

Please tell us what you think – we are planning to add this product to our Etsy store when we get it sorted. So stay tuned šŸ™‚

Thanks again to Nina and Brooke-Lee and their beautiful mummies Donna and Marie!

Take care, until next timeā€¦keep restyling!

Pin It and Do It #7 ā€“ Mermaid Slipper Nails

18 Thursday Oct 2012

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First of all sorry for any confusion caused – weĀ accidentallyĀ deletedĀ the original post – argh! So here we are re posting šŸ™‚

This is our Pinteresting challenge #7 for the Pin It and Do It Challenge. The pin that inspired us on Pinterest is Mermaid Slipper Nails by Katy at Nailed It. Check out the tutorial its heaps easy.

So hereā€™s how we startedā€¦a metallic green base with pink glitter polish.

nail polishes

We decided to put the glitter part at the tip of the nail. In the tutorial the glitter part is at the bed of the nail. And hereā€™s the end resultā€¦What do you think?

Mermaid Slippers – Love Notes Style

Take care, until next timeā€¦keep restyling!

 

Inspire Me Monday! Black Wedges Project

15 Monday Oct 2012

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Itā€™s another Monday so time for a new inspiration. Last week we had postedĀ a pair of very plain black wedges.

black wedges

This also covers our #6 for theĀ Pinteresting challenge –Ā Pin It and Do It Challenge.

For Pinteresting challenge #6 ā€“ Shoe Restyle ā€“ we were inspired by this pinĀ and the Halloween season. Hereā€™s our end result ā€“ it’s so ugly, it’s pretty!

Googly Eyed Shoes

We ran out of googly eyes and the batch ordered on ebay have not arrived yet but we couldn’t resist showing you how it has progressed so far.

What do you think of our restyle project?

This week we have a new item for you to provide us some inspiration. A brown and white polka dot satin dress that we got at a swap meet. It’s such cute material.

Polka Dot Dress for Restyling…

What do you think we should restyle it into? Where do we start? Inspire usā€¦

Take care, until next timeā€¦keep restyling!

Pin It and Do It #5 ā€“ Polka Dot Nails

14 Sunday Oct 2012

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This is our Pinteresting challenge #5 for theĀ Pin It and Do It Challenge.

The pinĀ that inspired us on Pinterest is Polka Dot Nails.

So we gave it a go…we used a BBQ skewer to make the dots…Shout out to Michelle for doing Amour’s nails!

Polka Dot – The process

And here is our finished versionā€¦

Red and White Polka Dots!

We loved it so much we did it a little more in different colour variations – which one is your favourite? We also found an easier way to do the dots via this pin – DIY Nail Art Tools.

Polka Dots of Many Colours!

We are getting just a little obsessed with the different nail art tutorials out there – Just look at Amour’s new additions to her nail polish collection!

Nail Polish Box Set

And because that wasn’t enough…

But wait, there’s more…

So you will see us start to put some of our own tutorials together – it’s just too much fun!

Take care, until next timeā€¦keep restyling!

 

Trash to Treasure – an inspiration – DIY T Shirt Refashion

08 Monday Oct 2012

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Originally we wanted to reblog this one but couldn’t figure it out *blush* We didn’t want to overlook this one because of our newness so decided to do it in a way that we knew how šŸ™‚

Check out this beautiful restyle from The Renegade Seamstress. It’s a DIY: Art Nouveau Inspired T Shirt Refashion Tutorial. Absolutely lovely patterned material and beautiful pleats. Maybe one day we can sew like this šŸ˜‰

DIY: Art Nouveau Inspired T Shirt Refashion Tutorial

This deserves a like like like! Talk about trash to treasure – we love it! what do you think of this restyle?

Have you got any restyles that you are proud of? Share it with us šŸ™‚

Take care, until next timeā€¦keep restyling!

Pin It and Do It #1 – Bleach Print Bibs

07 Sunday Oct 2012

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Hi everyone!

So here is our first Pinteresting challenge for this Pin It and Do It Challenge.

Here is the pin that inspired us on Pinterest. Instead of using a t-shirt – we decided to restyle some baby bibs we had on hand. So silly – we forgot to take a ‘before’ picture of the bibs!

And here is our finished product…

Pinteresting Challenge #1 – Bleach Print Bibs

After we made these the crew at Oh So Pretty the Diaries posted a DIY on their blog. We just love the horse silhouette – so graceful! Check out their DIY tutorial –Ā the DIY: SPRAY BLEACH SHIRTĀ – it turned out better than ours! While we were writing this we realised that the inspiration pin came via Oh So Pretty the Diaries.

Take care, until next timeā€¦keep restyling!