11 Monday Feb 2013
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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!
10 Thursday Jan 2013
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Beauty, coconut oil, grapefruit, hair, Hair care, Health, itchy scalp, lemon, natural, Pinterest, Scalp, Shampoo
Natural Hair Treatment
We were inspired by this pin on Pinterest. It’s said to increase scalp circulation, loosens up dry and itchy scalp. It also removes residue from your everyday shampoo and conditioner.
All you need…
4 x tablespoons coconut oil
2 x tablespoons lemon juice
1 x tablespoon grapefruit juice
– mix mix mix
– apply to dry hair. Scalp only and start at the top of your head
– massage in with your fingertips and leave in for 20 minutes. We left it for an hour
– rinse out and shampoo and condition as per normal
We tried it and it definitely loosened up the dry scalp that historically never went away – 2 weeks later it hasn’t come back. It also left our hair feeling so clean! We felt it was a little heavy on our fair hair and it took a few washes to not have oily feeling hair. That’s just a minor setback and we highly recommend you try it – especially if you have lovely thick hair!
Give it a go and don’t forget to tell us how it goes for you 🙂
Take care, until next time…keep restyling!
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 Laced 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  open to any feedback you have so that our future tutorials are easy to understand and full of FUN!
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 2 – burn centre
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
Here’s a few links to Pinterest of how we’ve used this little gem in different ways.
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!
31 Wednesday Oct 2012
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Accessories, bibs, Cobwebs, Cupcakes & Crayons, cushion, DIY, headband, just out of pinterest, Laughter and a Touch of Insanity, Love, nail art, nailpolish, nails, Pinterest, recycle, repurpose, restyle, shoes, singlet, tutu
Earlier this month we joined Trish at Love, Laughter and a Touch of Insanity in her Pin It and Do It October 2012 Pinterest Challenge. I discovered this via Kelly at Cobwebs, Cupcakes & Crayons.
This post is to summarise all of the fun things we did this month – We hit Pin Obsessed status! We were busy so here goes:
And here are the photos – so grab a cuppa and a snack while you wait for the pictures to load 🙂
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 time…keep restyling!
edit 5th November 2012 – link to inspiration pins
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 🙂
Here is the pin 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!
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 this 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 pin 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 🙂
Thanks again to Nina and Brooke-Lee and their beautiful mummies Donna and Marie!
Take care, until next time…keep restyling!
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 – we accidentally deleted the original post – argh! So here we are re posting 🙂
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!
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 posted a pair of very plain black wedges.
black wedges
This also covers our #6 for the Pinteresting challenge – Pin It and Do It Challenge.
For Pinteresting challenge #6 – Shoe Restyle – we were inspired by this pin 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!
14 Sunday Oct 2012
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DIY, just out of pinterest, manicure, nail art, nails, Pin It and Do It Challenge, Pinterest, polka dot, red, white
This is our Pinteresting challenge #5 for the Pin It and Do It Challenge.
The pin 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 version…
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 time…keep restyling!
08 Monday Oct 2012
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It’s another Monday so time for a new inspiration. Last week we had posted the men’s tie with the pretty little duck print.
Men’s tie for restyling
This is how we restyled it.
This also covers our # 2 and #3 for the Pinteresting challenge – Pin It and Do It Challenge.
For Pinteresting challenge #2 – baby singlet restyle – we were inspired by this pin and here’s our end result – it’s just too cute!
Baby Singlet and Hair Bow
For Pinteresting challenge # 3 – tie to headband restyle – we were inspired by this pin and here’s how it turned out – we love it!!
Headband
This week…
Its a pair of very plain black wedges…such a lovely blank canvas – so many possibilities!
Shoes for restyling
What do you think we should restyle it into? Where do we start? Inspire us…
Take care, until next time…keep restyling!
