Pastel Green Garden

 Okay. So with all my bragging about how easy it was to get pastel blue hair.... well HAHAHA on me: it's gone green. Still, I don't hate it, and it's gone quite a nice pastel green at least, not seaweed green or oscar the grouch green or baby-poo green. At the very least. Anyway, this week I'm going to try bleaching it again and then mixing Turquoise hairdye with Blue hairdye and see what happens.

I paired my green hair with an amazing pleated pastel skirt that I bought in Tokyo. Isn't it pretty? Also, I got this lovely bag vintage as well, for $5 in Salvos, just yesterday! And it fits my camera - no more ugly red (and practical) camera bag for me! Hooray!

 Wearing:

Blouse - Wholesale-dress.net

Skirt - Vintage

Belt - Vintage

Bag - Vintage

Hat - Wholesale-dress.net

Shoes - Forever 21

Tights - Forever 21

Necklace/Pocketwatch - Wholesale-dress.net

And a lovely collage of this outfit, of course:

All my love!

Annika xxx

Black Dress, Blue 'Do

The final product of my adventures into the world of home bleaching and hair dye - pastel turquoise!

Also, another outfit for you to view. I completely didn't know what colour to match with the new turquoise hair today, so I stuck to a very neutral palette; the only colour I could think to match with blue was blue (so very inventive) so I stole my brother's blue socks. Now I'm going to have to do some experimenting with what clothes go with blue hair. I think all reds, yellows and oranges can be ruled out. Although perhaps I'll find a way to clash those colours which will still be pleasing on the eye. I think it'll force me to combine items in my wardrobe in a way I never have before, at the very least.

What do you think of the turquoise hairdo, anyway?

I'm sorry that I only ever wear these shoes now. Once I get hooked on a pair of shoes, I wear them every day until they're ruined and broken. The heel has already begun to wear off (grrrrr), but I have worn them a LOT, so they are lasting quite a while for cheap shoes.

Wearing:

Dress - wholesale-dress.net
Lace Blouse - wholesale-dress.net
Bag - oasap.com
Belt - vintage
Shoes - yesstyle.com
Socks - stole them from my brother, I think they're about a billion years old
Pocketwatch/necklace - wholesale-dress.net
Velvet Bowtie - DIY

Keep an eye out for my next post all about bleaching and home hairdying adventures.

Much Love,

Annika xxx

Baking Soda

I'm blonde today! But I'll only be blonde for this post, because this gorgeous canary yellow is NOT going to be the final product of hair dying. It may look good on some people (in rare instances), but for me, canary yellow is not the way to go. I had enough of experimenting with bad yellow hair when I was 15. No, you'll all see the final product of this home bleaching and dying tomorrow ;) Today though, I'm wearing an incredible vintage dress that I got in Tokyo (the label is "Baking Soda" - it's just too cute!), and an amazing new 60s style leather bag c/o oasap.com! Wearing: Dress - "Baking Soda" - Vintage store in Tokyo Bag - OASAP Necklace/Pocketwatch - wholesale-dress Belt - Vintage Tights - wholesale-dress Shoes - wholesale-dress Hat - markets in Osaka Have an amazing day all! Annika xxx

"Sew" crazy! (So I made another dress)

  Well, I love my sewing machine. I sure do. I'm so loving being able to make my own clothes, AND so I made another dress. And I thought I'd share it with you all, again. I actually managed to make it fit properly this time! To make it, I half used a pattern (a vintage 1960s dress pattern for the top) and half used my own pattern (for the pleated skirt), then joined them both up, and used buttons on the back. Check it out!

 

I'm pretty happy with it. I'm just soooo excited now because there are SO many possibilities, so many dresses to be made, now that I know that I can successfully make one! I'm thinking crazy detailed giraffe or safari print fabric in a 50s style dress, open back with bows and a scalloped peter pan collar..... I can make anything I want! I think I'm going to become the crazy dress lady. I will! And I sure am excited about it! 

Wearing:

Dress - handmade

Bag - wholesale-dress.net

Necklace/pocketwatch - wholesale-dress.net

Belt - vintage

Socks - tutuanna

Shoes - yesstyle.com

New philosophy - you can NEVER have too many dresses. Especially not if you're making them yourself. *Hooray for continuing justification of my endless obsession with clothes!*

I love you all! Have a super day!

Annika xxx

I ♥ Polkadots - DIY heart cutout shift dress

 

 

Good morning/evening/night/what ever time it is in whatever part of the world you are in!

Please enjoy my heart-cutout dress tutorial down below! And if you think it's pretty okay, then you can hype me on lookbook, too!

This is how you can make your own cutout heart dress.

Love,

Annika xxx

DIY Vintage Style Dress (& free pleated skirt pattern!)

I blogged about my new handmade dress very briefly the other day, and didn't really get to finish that thought because, well, I'd spent my whole day making a dress and forgot to do anything else important, and then suddenly was very busy and had to do ALL these things. So anyway, here's a proper blog post about my new dress (WHICH I MADE MYSELF, YAAAY!)

 Triangle keyhole cut out on the back... which was necessary because I couldn't get the dress on otherwise due to tightness around the top part. I think I shall cover it up with a big bow though ;)

Wearing:

Dress - handmade, fabric from Spotlight, vintage mustard thread.

Belt - Vintage

Green Blazer - Vintage

Shoes - Yesstyle.com

Tights - Forever 21

Bag - Wholesale-dress

Floral Headband - Handmade, given to me as a gift

Owl necklace- Wholesale-dress

This is how I made it.

The original plan was just to make a skirt, so I started off with this:

 The two big parts are identical in size, and will make the front and back of the skirt. The smaller piece is for the waistband.

I then hemmed the bottom of each big piece of fabric an inch (on the 33in side).

Then I added pleats. I didn't take a picture of this step with this skirt, but I did with ANOTHER skirt I made (so that is why the fabric in these pictures has suddenly morphed). You make pleats like this:

fold fabric together and pin

 sew along the pleat

 remove pins and repeat along the whole length of fabric

I then sewed the skirt together on both ends (along the 18in end) the wrong way around, then turned it inside out.

For the waistband, I folded the fabric in half lengthways (the wrong way around), and sewed along the edge.

I then attached the waistband to the front of the skirt by pinning and then sewing the pieces together.

I had some leftover fabric then, so I decided to make a top part and if it worked out, to sew it to the skirt. I can't really tell you what I did here, because I just made it up as I went along, and forgot to take pictures!! Also, it really didn't work out so well, because I forgot that I have breasts, and didn't leave any room for them. So the dress is very, very tight around the bust, and I wouldn't recommend using this pattern to anyone. But basically, for the top part I used a pattern something like this:

And sewed it together everywhere except the neck and armholes. I them hemmed the neck and armholes. Then I just kind of attached it to the waistband of the skirt, and hey ho, I had a dress!

And then I added a peter pan collar too :) The steps for this are too long for this blog post! But I will write a separate blog post JUST on how to make peter pan collars and attach them to dresses. In detail. I will! I promise. Watch this space.

Annika xxx

Look what I made!

 This will be the super quickest blog post in the world because I have to get on a train in 10 minutes! But I am suuuuuper excited and really wanted to share this with you all, because guess what I made today! This dress! It's the first dress I've ever made, and I'm a little proud! I'll blog much more about it on Wednesday I promise, for now you can have this photo as a teaser ;)

Everything catches up with you in a rush if you spend all day leisurely making a dress. And now I really must dash! Have a looooovely day everybody!

Annika xxx

DIY Gold Collar & Bow

I'm really getting into the whole DIY thing, if you haven't noticed! For today's DIY I bring you this golden collar and golden bow that I made up using fabric from a poncho my Dad made for me in my first year of Primary School, when I went to a disco dressed as an alien (needless to say, the poncho no longer fits, otherwise I would be wearing THAT baby every day!), and 50 year old pure vintage cotton that my Grandma gifted me a couple of days ago! So I guess you could say that this is a proper Vintage DIY!

Wearing:

Golden Collar - DIY
Golden Bow - DIY
Cardigan - Forever 21
Lace Singlet - No idea
Petticoat/Skirt - wholesale-dress.net
White Tights - wholesale-dress.net
Shoes - yesstyle.com

How to make a collar.....
Using a detachable collar I already owned (or you could use a collar off any shirt as a pattern), I traced around the collar onto my golden fabric, (adding about an inch on each side), then cut it out.

So, the collar looked like this...

 So the pattern that I drew onto the fabric looked like this...

and I added those little bits to the bottom to give the collar a nicer look. You don't have to do this though, it'll look fine either way :)

Cut the collar out from the fabric!

Then I folded the rectangle part of the collar together like this

and hemmed along the middle of this, sewing the rectangle to itself. I then added hidden button on the tabs there, on the inside of the collar, so it can do up around my neck but you can't see the button.

And that's how I made myself a lovely golden collar from an old golden poncho!

Have a lovely day, everyone!

Annika xxx