FRIENDSHIP BRACELET WATCH

Hello world!

Yes you read it right! Today I wanna show you my DIY - friendship bracelet watch. If you like the idea I suggest you to try make one on your own. It gives your old watch a totally new look. Take any hand watch you have at home and start knitting!

Here are some hints that will maybe help you:

- Number of strings you use (I used 16 strings). Depends on the size of your watch. You don't want to have too may of them or too little. 

- If you have done friendship bracelets before you will need to make strings a little bit longer for a watch. I cut my strings around 120 cm long. 

- I chose this pattern: http://friendship-bracelets.net/pattern.php?id=50105. Check out this website for other patterns. They have thousand and thousand different patterns. Also if you are new to this stuff you have tutorials and how-to instructions. 

Have fun with it and enjoy!

You can give me your thoughts on my DIY below in comments. Love to read them. :)

Kisses!

Kristi

BEANIES + DIY

Hello people! I must say it is snowing like crazy here in Slovenia. I guess since we didn't have a proper winter until now this last week the weather is trying too hard to redeem itself. Really too hard! In that fashion I decided to show you some of my favourite beanies I've been wearing lately and a little DIY I did. For me beanies became a must for colder days. I think they make a whole outfit a little bit more fun and edgier. Not to mention those bad hair days when they really come in handy. :)

Often I have noticed these OBEY beanies online. Since I already had a red beanie in my closet (and it wasn't my favourite) I decided to do a little DIY. I simply printed out the OBEY logo in italics. I cut out the letters and taped the whole thing on a beanie. Than I used my white colour for textiles and filled the letters. Now I had to use quite a lot of colour because the beanie is made out of polyester (or some similar material). So it basically sucked the colour quickly. But the end result wasn't so bad. Now I really like to wear it. Hope you like it and that you got some inspiration for your own beanies.

Thanks for reading,

Kristi xx

DIY: BALLIN PARIS SWEATER

Hey guys! This time I want to show you my DIY printed sweater. I made this print which I really like and I want to share it with you. So check out my new sweater.

Sweaters and beanies with this print caught my attention couple of times. I decided to check it out and found out they have so many of these in different colors. 

So let me explain what I did.

Things you will need:

- sweater (preferably cotton one; I used a black sweater)

- the paper print with logo 

- color for fabrics (I bought white one which costed 3 euros and you can get in any craft shop)

- brush

- scotch tape

- scissors (really small ones will do better...see the picture)

- old cloth

- iron

Step 1

Take an old sweater or buy a new one which should look as simple as possible. I bought mine for 10 euros in a store where they mostly sell groceries. Lol. But I saw this black sweater which was of a good quality (Fruit of the Loom) and was pretty cheap (10 euros). Bargain. Love it.

Step 2

The most important thing is the print. I printed the logo out on my computer and then started to cut out the letters. This part is a bit tricky and it will take some patience and precision. Try using the smallest and tiniest scissors you can find. Try to stick with lines as much as possible. A good advice I would give here is that I didn't cut out the whole letter, but I left a little bit of paper, so that letter doesn't fall out from the print (the letter stays connected with a little bridge).

This is how my looked after I finished cutting and painting.

Step 3

Once you have done this you tape the print on the sweater (with scotch tape). I positioned mine on the upper part of sweater. Be careful it is on the center of sweater. Use a ruler to measure where to tape the print exactly.

Step 4

Now it comes the good part. Take a brush and simply start applying the color. I used one of tiniest brushes because it made the whole process much easier. When you finish with all the letters you can take off the paper print. Now you should go over a couple more times with brush. Depends on your brush and desired intensity of color. I went over mine like 4 times :)

Step 5

When you get the desired intensity of color, let it dry for some minutes. Then take some old cloth you don't need and place it over your newly made print. Take an iron and go over the cloth for about 10 minutes. Check what does your color bottle say. But I think 10 minutes should do it. When you are done with ironing take off the cloth...and viola your sweater is done. Yay :D The color I was using is quite good and it doesn't go off with washing at all.

So I hope you guys try this DIY. It's really fun and you will love the end result. I will style this bad boy in one of my future posts so stay tuned. If you decide to do this diy let me know how it went. :)

Thanks for reading.

cheers,

Kristi

MIDI RINGS - DIY

So midi rings have been quite a fashion must for me lately. Besides ear cuffs!! You can find them now in many stores but the thing with midi rings is that I tend to lose them. Now don't get me wrong I always take care of my stuff and try not to lose them. But these little bastards can fly off your finger so easily and you don't even notice it. Right?!

Nevertheless I decided to try to make them on my own. First I checked on Google and YouTube and found some inspo for DIY midi rings. I went shopping and bought this gilded wire. It's 10 meters long and it costed around 3 euros...so pretty cheap considering the amount of rings you can make out of it.

I helped myself with pliers and started creating these babies. ;) I was quite satisfied with the end result so I didn't stop there. I also made some 'normal' rings for each of my finger. I made them simple because I didn't want them to stand out too much + I can wear them everyday. They are surprisingly comfy and I don't need to worry if I lose them. If it happens eventually ...well I'll just make new ones. Yippi :D

cheers,

Kristi