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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 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!

Made by Love Notes Restyle Studio

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!

Amour xx

 

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Jellybean Outfit

19 Tuesday Feb 2013

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

Made by Love Notes Restyle Studio

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?

Made by Love Notes Restyle Studio

Amour is a Jellybean

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

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

Amour xx

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I’m a Blog Love Student!

08 Saturday Dec 2012

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A Beautiful Mess, Blog, Blog Love, Do it yourself, Dream Job, E-course, Love Notes Restyle Studio

Hi, it’s Amour here. Happy Saturday!

When we decided to start Love Notes Restyle Studio we were looking for a platform to host and share our creativity. In order to put ourselves out there more we started this blog. We are still very new to this world and we have learnt a lot so far!

In looking at other blogs we came across A Beautiful Mess – I love their DIY‘s – lots of photos that make them so easy to follow. I started reading their past posts to get to know more of what they are about. As I was doing this I was feeling so inspired and I’m loving the cheery vibe of their posts! In doing all of this I found that they offer e-courses – so I signed up for their Blog Love – an e-course for bloggers!

A Beautiful Mess

I have finished it now and wanted to let you know that I loved it! If you are new to blogging or just want to take your blog to another level I suggest you check it out. It’s only $34 and well worth every bit of it!

It was so comforting to be introduced to ALL of the information out there about blogging in a clear and concise way. It was also refreshing to get more insight into the creators ofĀ A Beautiful Mess and their sister businesses.

Just putting it out there – this post isn’t sponsored in any way. I just found something that I personally found valuable and wanted to share that with ya’ll šŸ™‚

Click on the link to take you to the E-course library – A Beautiful Mess E-courses. I plan to do the Dream Job E-course next šŸ™‚

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

Love Notes Restyle Studio

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DIY Posy Flower – we call it ‘The Burnt Flower’

07 Friday Dec 2012

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Accessories, Candle, Do it yourself, Flower, headband, Pinterest, recycle, restyle, Tealight, Tutorial, upcycle

We first saw the Posy Pin Tutorial by Grace LacedĀ in the beginning of our life with Pinterest.

They are so easy to make and are our favourite of the DIY flowers. The end result is always very elegant and doesn’t look cheaply made at all. We have also found many great ways to use them – from headbands, to tank top embellishment and various other restyles.

Here is our tutorial on how to make ‘The Burnt Flower’. It’s our first one, so we are Ā open to any feedback you have so that our future tutorials are easy to understand and full of FUN!

Flower - Tools

Flower – Tools

You start with circles of polyester fabric (like satin or organza) – around 3 – 4 different sizes (and around 2-3 pieces of each size) depending how ‘full’ you want your flower to look. It doesn’t have to be neat and perfect – the messier the better!

You will then need a candle and lighter – in the picture we have a normal candle (it is all we had) – but normally we would use a tea light candle. It’s easier to manage the flame. For your first few times you will want to have a small bowl of water nearby in case of any out of control fires.

Step 1 - burn edges

Step 1 – burn edges

Step 2 - burn centre

Step 2 – burn centre

Step 3 - assembly time

Step 3 – assembly time

With this flower we used a button (again all we had on hand) but you can use any sort of bead as well or a clump of beads. We’ve even used an old earring before!

Final product - The Burnt Flower

Final product – The Burnt Flower

Here’s a few links to Pinterest of how we’ve used this little gem in different ways.

Polka Dot Dress Flowers

Pajama Pants Flowers

Disco Shoes Flowers

Necklace Flowers

Bracelet Flowers

Flowers for Headbands

You were warned that we loved them! Hope you enjoyed our first tutorial. What’s your favourite DIY flower?

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

Amour & Renee xx

 

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The Missing Pin It and Do It #4 – Plant Spoons Restyle!

30 Tuesday Oct 2012

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Do it yourself, gardening, just out of pinterest, lavender, Pinterest, plant spoons, plants, repurpose, restyle, spoon, tomatoes, upcycle

Soooo ummmmm we were just working on the summary post of all of our pin it and do it challenges for tomorrow – and we realised that we are missing #4! Poor number 4! *blush*

That’s ok – we had a restyle that we were going to post later on in the week – so instead here it is šŸ™‚

Here is the pinĀ that inspired us on Pinterest. We did a slightly different spin on it – we painted with old nailpolish instead.

And here it is…

Plant Spoons Restyle

The Tomatoes Plant Spoon

The Lavender Plant Spoon

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

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Pin It and Do It #10 – Blue Jean Tutu (aka The Tutu Belt)

30 Tuesday Oct 2012

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Accessories, Ballerina, DIY, Do it yourself, etsy, just out of pinterest, Peacock, Pin, Pinterest, tutu, Tutu Belt

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 together…

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 time…keep restyling!

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Pin It and Do It #7 – Mermaid Slipper Nails

18 Thursday Oct 2012

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art, DIY, Do it yourself, glitter, mermaid, nail, nail art, Nail Care, nailpolish, Pinterest

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 here’s how we started…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 here’s the end result…What do you think?

Mermaid Slippers – Love Notes Style

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

 

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Inspire Me Monday! Black Wedges Project

15 Monday Oct 2012

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DIY, Do it yourself, Googly eyes, Halloween, Inspire Me Monday, Pinterest, polka dot, recycle, repurpose, restyle, shoes, upcycle

It’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 – Shoe Restyle – we were inspired by this pinĀ and the Halloween season. Here’s our end result – 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 us…

Take care, until next time…keep restyling!

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Trash to Treasure – an inspiration – DIY T Shirt Refashion

08 Monday Oct 2012

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Art Nouveau, DIY, Do it yourself, recycle, refashion, restyle, sewing, upcycle

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 time…keep restyling!

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Pin It and Do It #1 – Bleach Print Bibs

07 Sunday Oct 2012

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baby, DIY, Do it yourself, just out of pinterest, Pin, Pinterest, restyle, upcycle

 

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 time…keep restyling!

 

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