DIY Floral Overalls/Romper

I decided to make some floral overalls the other day. It was a ridiculously easy thing to make, so I hope the following photos of the process will inspire someone to make some for themselves! Also I always pose with my torso kind of twisted to the side which has made the overalls look all lopsided in the photos. They're really not... but I conveniently didn't notice this until I'd already climbed into comfy pyjamas. I'll take more photos one day soon, and try not to pose so wonky.. haha. First, you just need to make some shorts like in this DIY. These are the easiest shorts to make in the world. But don't add any elastic yet. Also, make the waist a lot wider than you need (add a few inches to each side) - this will be fixed with elastic later. Make sure you can get them on and off before you continue! Then you need to simply cut out a rectangle as wide as your shorts and as high up as you want it to be. Now make the casing for the elastic on your shorts, but don't insert the elastic just yet. You make the casing by turning your shorts inside out, folding down the top of the shorts all the way around, and then sewing all the way around, making sure to leave a small gap. Now sew the rectangle you cut out to the front of the shorts... Then insert the elastic into the waistband of the shorts... (good tutorial here). And you should have something like this: I then also added darts to the bodice for shape, and sewed little buttons on as well. Then I just made two straps from the same fabric by cutting out 2 long strips much like I did in this tutorial on making suspenders. I attached them so that they were criss-crossed on the back. And that was it! I really haven't figured out exactly how to wear these floral overalls yet. I just threw on this blouse with it because I wanted to quickly take photos, but any suggestions of shirts people think would go really well with these overalls, I would be grateful to hear!

October already?

How is it October already?? I can't even believe that my uni exams are in a mere month! This year has flown by way too quickly. Anyway, I've got an outfit post for you guys. I really, really need to start convincing someone to talk pictures of me outside. This dress is completely marvellous, but unfortunately blends in too much with this fabric background set-up of mine for you guys to see it properly! Can an awesome photographer please move in next door and become my best friend? - particularly a photographer who has a compulsion to take photos all the time. Thank you so much Tieka and La La Magic for sending me a gift voucher for this dress! Isn't the fabric and the piping just so pretty? I love that blog giveaways are a thing. Best invention. I have benefited so much from them. Also, how damn cute is this ring? Thanks to Oasap for this ring! I love pretending my finger has a little animal on the end of it (I've actually taken to drawing a face on the end of my finger whenever I'm bored studying, moving my ring right to the tip of my finger and pretending it's Finn from Adventure Time - because he has the little cat ear hat? Yeah? Yeah? I'm so cool.) wearing dress - (won) Lalamagic ring - c/o Oasap hat - c/o Wholesale belt - Vintage bag - Vintage socks - Tutuanna shoes - Vintage I hope you're all super well!

Breathing Underwater

wearing blouse c/o Oasap, collar clips from Ebay, skirt from a friend, shoes from Rubi Shoes, cardigan from Forever 21. Yay, new hair! What do you think of it? I was blown away that you can get such quality wigs for $10. $10!! This one is probably the best quality one I've gotten so far because it looks so real! I think I may be becoming wig-obsessed, as I now have 4 in my collection and I keep ordering new ones... (this one is from here if you wanted to know!) Also, my collar clips. Ahhh, Ebay. You are amazing. They're little hands, and they're just about the best thing ever. (image from shutterstock) I've also been obsessed with bright yellow patterns with cartoon-y leaves and flowers on them for a while now, so I was so happy to find this blouse on Oasap - it was exactly what I was looking for. Apart from the sleeves... (click through to the product listing to see the sleeves on this baby. They're pretty hilarious) but I will be cutting those off and then it will be perfect. p.s. Metric - Breathing Underwater p.p.s. Please ignore my knee. It looks a bit gross (I fell over the other day and banged it up), but I felt really weird considering photoshopping it out. Like I'm saying "hey I'm never clumsy at all and never fall over while just walking..." (no, I wasn't wearing platforms either, haha).

Back To Cool Campaign Remix #2

Hola everybody! So I was originally intending on making this three separate posts like my last Back to School Remix (see it here if you missed it!), but my boyfriend's sister has just gone into labour with her second baby girl, and I am going to be on call to look after the first little one (which I love doing anyway because she's probably the cutest little lady ever.) So I'm going to have to post all these in one go as I may not be around too much in blogland for the next few days.  For this second back to school style remix, I have remixed this super, super cute heart printed dress from the Chictopia Shop's sale (and the dress is still available here). Here's the details of each outfit! Remix 2.1: A simple satchel, a boater hat, lace socks and some oxfords. My go-to look whenever I'm dressing casually. For anyone who knows me, this is kind of my "default" look, haha. I usually just switch up the dress and bag but the rest stays the same. wearing dress - Awwdore c/o Chictopia Shop, bag - Vintage, shoes - Raben footwear, ring - gift from Awwdore Remix 2.2: I threw a cropped crochet sweater on over the dress and donned these incredible tights from oasap. For authenticity, I am carrying a folder - and that's my real school folder as well, full of all my chemistry work from this semester, woo! wearing dress - Awwdore c/o Chictopia shop, sweater - Forever 21, belt - vintage, tights - c/o Oasap, shoes - Label Shoes c/o Chictopia Shop Remix 2.3: When you have a dress with such a lightweight chiffon skirt, it's really easy to hide it up in some high-waisted shorts and turn it into a cute little romper outfit. This is what I did for my third remix. I also threw on those gorgeous gradient tights to match my pink hair, and added a bow to my plait for some over-the-top near-pukeworthy kitchyness.  wearing dress - Awwdore c/o Chictopia shop, shorts - Cotton On, tights - Choies c/o Chictopia shop, bag - c/o Oasap, bow - DIY Chictopia, you're basically the best ever for letting me work with you on your Back to Cool Campaign!! Thank you so much. Go and check out the sale, it's in its last few days! I hope you're all having a lovely day! I am so excited to see this new little baby girl!! Hopefully everything is going to go fine. I'm probably going to be a bit baby crazy over my next few posts, so please excuse me.

Trust me, I am a Scientist

Hello! Just dropping in real quickly today to tell you that I started a science blog. I've been playing with the idea for months and yesterday felt like the right time to start it (probably because I have 4 assignments due next week. Yeah that'd be the right time to start a whole new blog). Go and check it out if you're interested - I'm trying to put a wide variety of funny, interesting, beautiful or weird science stuff on it, like this microbiologist who creates artworks on agar plates using bacteria: this amazingly nerdy periodic table (get it??): and this photo, probably the best selfie ever taken: I named it "Trust me, I am a Scientist" because my friends and family, whenever asking me a question, or my stance on an issue, often like to start with "Annika, you're a scientist..." So that title seemed appropriate, even though I'm really not (yet) a scientist. Anyway, you can find "Trust me, I am a Scientist" here. I hope you like it :3

DIY Pastel Windowsill Bunting (using paint)

I came up with this quick painting project the other day when I was meant to be studying (that's always the way with my DIYs. If I wasn't procrastinating on more important things, there's no way I'd have all these creative inspirations). Rather than hanging up bunting underneath my windowsill, I decided to paint it on instead. Unfortunately the lighting in my bedroom is awful, so this was the best photo I could get of it. I was also thinking of adding stripes/spots to some of the bunting in contrasting colours, but now I'm not sure if I just like it how it is. What do you guys think? I also took some photos of the steps involved, so you can try it out if you want!  1. Cut out a triangle from cardboard. This is going to be your stencil. 2. Place the top left edge of your triangle right under the bottom corner of your window sill. Trace with lead pencil. 2. Trace triangles all along underneath your window sill until you reach the other end. Join all the triangles up like in the picture above (sorry it's really hard to see the pencil lines in this photo)  3. On a palette (ie... a bit of cardboard or equivalent), place a teeny amount of a few different colours. I used yellow, blue, red (to make pink), green and red + blue (to make purple). Then add a much larger quantity of white paint to the colour. This is how you will make your pretty pastel colours! Of course, if you already have pastel paint then feel free to use that.  4. Mix the colour with the white... and you now have a few pretty pastel colours. 5. Paint your colours into the triangles you drew up! You will need quite a thin brush for the corners of the triangles. After waiting for it to dry (for at least a few hours), rub out the pencil lines with an eraser. And you are done!