Fingers crossed

I'm going to join a competiton on one very nice blog leatte.blogspot.com. Check her blog, she's taking beautiful pictures. It's definitely worth seeing.

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Well, fuck you too, snow!!!

I fucking want spring!!! Can't stand that motherfucking winter any longer!

Tumblr

If you want, visit my tumblr.

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Fabric painting tutorial

So, I promised you to show you a tutorial of my diy jeans here and finally here we are. I'll show you a method I used, just with different picture. First, what you'll need:

- fabric paint

- manicure scissors and knife

- brushes and old sponge

- paper

- plastic for stencil ( I used one of the thicker paper covers)

- t-shirt or fabric you want to paint

- old fabric you can damage

-carton/ paperboard to put under the fabric

- water

- cd liner

1. At first we're going to create a stencil for our painting. For the first time I recommend to choose simple designs without any small parts. I've done this difficult rococco pattern and I've almost died before I finished cutting it off.  You can draw your own style or use a picture from internet/ book or from wherever. I made a simple silhouette of bird sitting on twig.

2. Cover your picture with plastic and retrace it- you only need contours of the picture.

3. Then take your manicure scissors and cut your stencil out. Make sure all the parts are separate so it's good for stencil.  

You'll end up with something like this: 

4. Now the hardest ( and boring) part is over. Take a brush and paint and try to use your stencil on the paper, just to see if you want to change or repair some parts.  ( Don't be affraid, it looks better on fabric than on paper) 

 5. Now when everything is perfect, take an old fabric you aren't sorry to damage, put a carton under it, so the paint doesn't dirty your table, and try your stencil out. Give it few tries, so you kow how it works best. You can use a brush to fill it, but for me, small piece of sponge worked much better. Just cut small piece of sponge and soak it in color. Than start to gently tapping/pressing on the fabric. Remove stencil...( be careful- you don't want to smudge your painting) And it's done! Now you can do same on the t-shirt or jeans or whatever you want to paint, let it dry and, if necessary, ( it depends on color you're using) iron it.

  Tip: Try to wash your stencil after using it, the more times you'll use it, the more paint will get stuck on it and it may cause the edges to became less sharp. 

 Now you have a new t-shirt with your own design and a stencil you can use over and over again. Hope you'll find this tutorial helpful and interesting and you'll try it on your own. Let me know how it worked.

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Diy jeans

I've made new jeans! All you need is paint and little bit of inspiration and tadaaa. I really love this style. I've made whole front side as you can see, but on the back I've put only one pattern on each pocket. I'm so proud of myself! Here you can see the original picture I've used for stencil. I had to change some parts of it, but result is still great, I think. Also, if you choose simpler stencil, you will be able to make it totally same. If you want to know how to do this, take a look.

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Bird cage

      Finally! I've found you. When we were shopping yesterday, we went to Kik just to see what's there and my mum found there this beautiful bird cage. I wanted bird cage for ages and now, finally..! It's just "baby size" but I like it because it's perfect for my shelf. I don't know what to put there, yet, probably nothing, because it has to be just as epic as cage itself, so it will be difficult to find something like that. ( and on the second picture you can see my diy wand- you can see tutorial in diy)

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News

Yesterday I was shopping with friend and.. well, I've got four new t-shirts. I'll definitely show you, but I haven't got any photos yet, so you have to wait a little bit. I'm going to do a new "art" project, too, I would like to customize my old jeans. I've decided to paint something on them, well, I'm going to write something on them. Probably one of Poe's poems or maybe my favourite poem from Baudelaire or some lyrics, I'm not absolutely sure now. Right now I have to buy a paint for textil and decide what to write. I would like to customize my old bag, too. I was thinking about painting some pattern, maybe something like this:

But I will have to use a template, of course and I don't know how to create it yet. Haven't you got some ideas? Also there's a quite big picture on this bag and I would like to cover it with something different, but I don't know what would go well with this patterns. I'll show you that bag later and maybe you can help me little bit? 

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This is just hilarious.

Well....

I've read this somewhere and I completely relate to this opinion. There are two types of bloggers: the ones who change their design and the ones who haven't got any time to blog. I am the one who haven't got time, of course. Plus, I don't have anything interesting to post- it's about quality, not quantity, you know. Soo, I hope soon there will be something to make a post about.

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