Answers

Hey guys,

My exams are finally over and now I get a short break before starting my next (and hopefully last) semester. Yey! 

There were a couple of questions from the last two posts. Max asked which fabric paints I used to paint Jon's undies. I used these Jones Tones Glossy tube paints, they were the only fabric paints I could find at the store lol.  

They worked really well tho. I squeezed a bit out onto some cardboard and used a paintbrush to stencil them on. Cause it was dark fabric it had to have a few coats (with just a little drying time in between cause I'm impatient). This stuff is kinda stretchy when it dries so it's good for doing on knit/jersey and it seems to hold up to washing so yeah. 

Sam asked where I got the black shatter OPI nail enamel and how much it is usually. I bought it from www.savedirect.co.nz and it's usually NZ$24 but I got it when they had a half price sale so it was only $12. You can buy OPI enamels from pharmacies too and I think they're about the same price.

Looking forward to Star Wars month in August over at Max's blog!

San xx

Black Shatter

Hey guys,

 I just got some of the OPI black shatter nail polish (it was half price, yey!) and I gave it a go over top of this green enamel I already had.

 
I'm normally pretty lazy with nail polish, I never do anything elaborate cause I either smudge it in the first five minutes or it chips off the day after I do it and it looks all scraggly and yuck for months (like I said, I'm lazy. Even too lazy to remove it heh.). Anyway, this was the result (after a couple days wear too!).

Maybe I was just lucky this time with the not-chipping-off-straight-away thing (either that or the green polish is amazingly good.. this was the first time I used it so maybe it is?). I did my nails with the green enamel and and left them overnight cause it says on the black shatter instructions to apply it to completely dry nail polish, maybe overnight is excessive but I was just being safe lol.

The black shatter goes on looking just like a plain black enamel but it cracks pretty quick, maybe 30secs to a minute. It was reasonably dry after a minute or two aswell. I put a top coat over a couple of the nails then got distracted and didn't finish the rest but it didn't seem to make a difference looks-wise or lasting-wise.

I like that this makes your nails look like you spend hours doing intricate little liney things on them, but really it only takes a couple minutes.

Overall, I like this polish. I would recommend it. It's pretty dang cool. =]

San xx

Birthday undies

Hey guys,

It's been over a month since the BF's birthday so it's probly about time I showed you guys the undies I made awesome for him.

I got a 5 pack of undies and freezer paper stenciled some things onto them in fabric paint that matched the waistband colour.

Silhouette of Bender from Futurama

=D

This one's a quote from Venture Bros. about french toast lol

The Monarch symbol (also from Venture Bros.)

Another Venture Bros. one (one of the characters has an obsession with Batman)

This was the first time I'd done freezer paper stenciling and I think it worked out pretty well. I figured doing it on undies was a safe option cause if it didn't turn out well, they'd be hidden from view when he wears them, heh. It was super easy tho and they turned out awesomely and the main thing is, he liked them. =]

That's all from me today.

San xx

Guest blog

Wooo! I guest blogged over at Max California's yesterday! (I'm a bit behind, haha). Go check it out. =]

Yay!

San xx

I'm back!

Hey guys,

It's been a hectic couple of weeks and I've been lacking the motivation to post anything but here's an update.

About 3 weeks ago I flew down to Wellington for a few days for Homegrown, the NZ music festival. This was the third year we've gone down and I had a really good time but it was pretty exhausting (considering I was expected to organise all the flights and accommodation haha)! I got back on the Monday night, had a few days at uni then had to go on a 3 day field trip for the entomology course I'm doing so that swallowed the next weekend. Unfortunately the day we left was my birthday so I didn't get to spend it with my family or Jon, instead I spent it about an hour south at a council reserve with really patchy cell phone reception and 45 people I didn't really know! But I'm not complaining, it ended up being really fun and I learnt heaps and made a couple of friends so it was a good experience. 

Last Friday Jon threw me a surprise party at his place to make up for me being away on my birthday. It was awesome, everyone leaped out from behind the trees with streamers as I drove down the driveway (he lured me there under the premise of "having a couple beers and watching Venture Bros."). I wasn't expecting him to do that for me so it was a really nice surprise. I'm super lucky, heh. x) Thanks babe! <3

I don't have photos yet but I'll post a few when I get a hold of them.

San xx

Christchurch Earthquake

My love goes out to everyone involved.
Stay strong and be safe.

San xx

Bikini

Hey guys,

I made myself a bikini top using this tutorial found at ThreadBanger.
I only made the top because I was using a small t-shirt and didn't have enough matching fabric. This is the t-shirt I used (excuse the triangle cut out of it already, I forgot to take a photo before I started cutting!):

It was a bit longer than the pic shows. Anyway, the design's like metallic rainbow shimmery stuff. Here's the finished product!

The lighting in the photos is terrible! I only just realised how bad it actually is, lol. So I liked the tutorial, it was pretty easy. I did have a couple things to note tho:

• the measurements they give for the triangles seems pretty big but when you take into account all the allowances and such, the triangles turn out pretty small (I'm really small busted and they only just fit me).

• the triangles could do with a bit of shaping. Like curving on the outer sides. When I tried the top on the outsides kinda stuck out a bit in the direction of my arm pits. Hard to describe but if you make one you might get what I'm trying to say heh. 

I also spruced up an old white bikini I had that was a bit too boring. I added some purple mesh with holographic dots just onto the triangles. I hand stitched them on so there wouldn't be any stitching showing on the front:

I only did the top because I wear shorts when I swim anyway so I figured there wasn't much point doing the bottoms just yet. I might upgrade them some time in the future tho.

So that's all I've done recently. I'm half way through making a bubble skirt so will post pics when I eventually finish that. Today I have my last exam for summer school and then I'm off to the boyfriend's bach tonight for a few days of relaxing!

Thanks for reading!
San xx