Queen of Hearts Tights

Ahoy there! Bringing back the hand-painted tights! I was actually commissioned to paint these for a burlesque Tim Burton show happening this weekend, for a Queen of Hearts Costume. I took these photos "to show" the person who asked me to paint them, to make sure they were alright. I may have gotten a little carried away though... and taken a whole bunch of outfit photos with them as well. But, I managed not to rip them... so no harm done! (Unless they read my blog. Let's hope they don't read my blog.) Wearing: Shirt - Vintage Skirt - Wholesaledress Tights - DIY'd (originally vintage sheers) Bag - c/o Oasap Boots - Rubi Shoes Necklace - Stolen from boyfriend Cameo Brooch - Ebay Here's a little DIY... How to make "Queen of Hearts" tights What you will need: Sheer white tights Black fabric/acrylic paint (*Important: The paint must be fairly thick, ie not runny*) A stencil A pair of legs to paint on A paintbrush What you do: Making your stencil: Get a long length of cardboard and fold it in half. Draw half-lovehearts on the folded edge of one side of the cardboard, larger at the top and getting smaller gradually as you go down. Like this: Cut these out and unfold the cardboard. You should now have a nice stencil with some pretty love hearts. Use these stencils for painting your tights. Follow instructions on how to do this here. Don't forget to let them dry for a loooooong time on your legs! Wear them around for a few hours. I'm serious!! Love, Annika xxx

Sneak peek of my next DIY and a future outfit post...

Just finished painting these babies!
As seen on my new blog banner...
Stay tuned for an outfit post and DIY.

Tights - DIY

Skirt - Wholesale-dress

Shoes - Rubi Shoes

xxx

Cheap stuff!!! Coupon Codes!

Cheap stuff! I bring you all a knowledgeable little list of coupon and discount codes for you to use on online stores. Because I've just hit 500 followers which is absolutely incredible, and I can't thank you all enough! I love you guys! So here's some coupon codes that you can use on various online stores to get some cheap stuff as some thanks! Mochi Beaucoup Just whack AVPNMB20 in at the checkout and get 20% off Wholesale Dress o5crljy8lm9 at the checkout for some $$$ off your order (until the end of April) My Name Necklace for 8% a pretty necklace with your name on it, use "pineneed" at the checkout Sheinside 20% when you enter "Annika20" at the checkout It's far too bizarre to do a post without photos, so here's a pretty photo of a nebula. (source: howtogeek) Thank you all for your amazing and continued support of my blog! Annika xxx

Just a sweet vintage skirt

The purpose of this post today is to show off this sweet white linen pleated skirt I thrifted last week. This skirt makes me feel like a 1920s tennis star. Much like this lovely lady: (Source: The Painted Woman) Wearing (me, not the 1920s lady... although I do wonder): Skirt - Vintage Blouse - Vintage Bag - c/o Oasap Shoes - Wholesaledress Socks - Vintage Collar doo-dad - DIY Cameo Brooch - Ebay Hat - Wholesaledress Belt - Vintage Have a beautiful day, all! Love, Annika xxx

Fairy Floss

I am having the best luck vintage shopping lately - someone's amazingly well dressed grandma with an incredible pastel dress collection is going around getting rid of her clothes (I speculate). This beautiful dress was $2. And I found it just hanging there, all lonely and unloved, outside on the street on the cheap rack of my favourite op shop! I was near hyperventilation, believe me. I'm wearing: Dress - Vintage Tights - c/o Oasap Cameo Brooch - Ebay Sweater - Vintage (from Tokyo) Bag - Vintage Belt - Vintage Hat - Wholesaledress Ring - Ebay Pocketwatch Necklace - Markets in Sydney Shoes - Forever 21 And here is a picture of me from yesterday when I was on a date at Luna Park (an amusement park in Sydney), eating some Fairy Floss in a real ladylike way. Aw yeah, I have fairy floss hair. Annika xxx

Annika made a dress

I really like the style of dress with a high waist, a 60s style bodice and a poofy circle skirt. They go for $100 + on websites like Jones & Jones, but really they are so simple and easy to make yourself. All you need to do is find a cheap pattern from a charity store/op shop that you like the look of (any kind of basic dress is fine) and use this as the pattern for your bodice. As for the skirt, you can follow my circle skirt tutorial here (sans velvet), and then all you have to do is join the two together! And basically any combination of prints and colours will look nice as well, particularly if you work with a patterned/plain combination, I think. Or you could do the dress all the one colour. There's loads of possibilities! Wearing: Dress - DIY Bag - c/o Oasap Shoes - Yesstyle Tights - c/o Oasap Collar embellishment - DIY Cameo Brooch - Ebay Belt - Vintage Hat - Wholesale Hope you're all having a creative day, Annika xxx