Decorate Your CD Box

Referring to Jo's post about the washi tape box, I made my CD box a bit prettier. After having a pretty productive and creative day, I figured I could post at least a part of it.
It's not difficult, doesn't take a lot of time and makes a pretty decorative contribution to you room.

All you need is

the ugly CD box
washi tape / masking tape
scissors

done.


You pick out your colors you want to use and start sticking until you like the outcome. I started with the sides and then figured wash-ing the top would be cool too.
I like it and it made my shelf a tiny bit prettier!

               

DIY: Bracelets

I made some fun ice-cream-colored bracelets today...

Really easy.

Buy some leather strands in your favorite jewelry material store or other craft store.
Definitely take more than one color and take about 2m per color - that way you'll definitely have enough for more than one bracelet and some extra.

You'll also need specific clasps and jump rings that look like this before they are used:

Then you need to measure around your wrist. I just used the leather itself and took three strands at a time. Clasp them together at both ends, insert the jump rings and of course a closure and you're done! Fast and easy and perfect for summer!

Craft Stores

After posting my favorite fabric stores I will now post my favorite craft places and suppliers.

Before I came to Hamburg I always thought - "Wow, I think Hamburg is the most crafty place in Germany!" It is.

First of all: The place I went to three times in December: Porzellanfräulein.
Paint your own ceramics, have a great comfortable and realxing afternoon there. Read my post to see more!






Then the place where I've been twice in the last three weeks: Nuena.
Paradise for bead and color lovers. I'm telling you: They have every single bead you can think of. And you can also spend an afternoon in their little store. There's always good music and a calm environment you can work in really well.
This is what I made on a spontaneous trip to the store: Necklace.







idee. Craft store. They have pretty much everything one can need. A very little amount of expensive fabrics, washi tape, cardboard, paint, decoration, wood materials...told you so: everything. I love going there just to have a look...sometimes I even make it out without buying anything. Woohooo!






...and then I found another really cool craft store at a mall that's pretty far away from my house. I was like "well they couldn't have built it another place, huh?" Well..someone heard me. Because a month later I saw a sign in the mall next to my boyfriends house saying "Panduro. Opening in March" I was like "Ooooh yeeeeeeeah!"

Projects

I actually managed to fulfill some of my goals in sewing. I was productive. Can't believe it. Each time when I look at my best friends' blog I feel bad because she is so much better at the whole blogging thing. But this time a achieved something. Not everything but at least I started. (A little credit there, please)

Here are my outcomes. I might even get some tutorials done. (I case anyone reads it and is interested...)

Stuff to Make (June)

A whole lot of plans, one summer. Or should I say two months? Not quite sure I'll actually make all these but I really do want to try. Starting today! (haha.)

bra for backless tops

sequinned hot pants

laptop case from a scarf

beaded and stitched skirt

cut offs

polka dot pants

wrap dress (maybe yellow, not sure yet)

navy skirt with white stripes

coral fancy skirt

dress from two scarves

bikini (either like this one... 

...or this one..

...or 

the dark blue one I've been

wanting to make forever)

layered dress inspiration

just that I want to make a top in 

light blue

...kind of like this one ;)

and finally make a workout shirt!

DIY Beaded and Braided Necklace

....coming soon!

Inspiration: Lace

I love lace - has anyone noticed? There are so many great things you can do with lace and one of the best things: refashioning! It's amazing what a bit of lace can do to a dull and boring piece of clothing! See for yourself....

1- shirt with lace inserts in the sides 2 - lace shorts inserts 3 - lace back insert 4 - lace shirt stripes 5 - lace bust in a shirt 6 - lace elbow patches 7 - lace shorts pockets 8 - lace skirt

and then there's these, too:

lace shirt application

complete lace refashion

I do know I posted some of these before (some were projects I wanted to fulfill last summer, but this time I will actually try to make a lot more!! so looking forward to all these refashions!!!

Lace Shirt Addition

I'm totally into lace lately...like about a billion other people out there but who cares.

I repinned an inspiration on Pinterest a while ago and decided to tackle it in January. Well....now February is halfway over, but I did do it. I don't know...there seems to be something wrong with my "I'm going to do this  - now!" mode. 
But I'm proud of myself that I did do it after all.

I thought you might like it, too.

Here goes.

Pick a lace of your choice, measure the width of your sleeve you want to
attach it to.

You'll need pins to attach the lace to the sleeve before sewing

sew the lace right side on right side, then sew the two ends of the lace together

this is what mine turned out to look like

here is a closeup...

and this is what it looks like when I'm wearing it :)

Porzellanfräulein

We used to have this awesome place in the town we lived in where you can pick your piece of pottery, different colors of paint and design it yourself. They glaze and fire it for you and you can pick it up a couple of days later. It was called Color Me Mine. It was my favorite place for my birthday parties when I was little.

Now I'm not little anymore but I always remembered it an wanted to go there again. Guess what?! They have it here in Hamburg, too!! It's not quite as big and it's quite new, but it's perfect!! It's called Porzellanfräulein here and I've already been there twice.
Thr first time I went with my room-mate and we were lucky that we were there early. We stayed there for five hours and I still wasn't done with my one plate...so I took some paint and my plate home and finished it. Went there again a week later - alone - and sat there for about six (?) hours and enjoyed m the silence and just sitting there by myself with nobody who wanted to go home or anything. Just me, my pottery and peace and quiet....it was great!

phone photo

phone photo

Inspiration

Winter is coming... so I thought I should stop posting DIY Inspiration for summer and start on winter projects....