Beautiful Rachel is wearing the 'Heart on my Sleeve' dress that I custom designed and sewed for her. I bought her head piece from Whichgoose on Etsy.
For enquires and pricing with this dress, feel free to contact me.
Happily Yours,
I recently had the privilege to design a dress for a beautiful little girl! It's the 'Heart on my Sleeve' dress. I started out with a plan, but as normal, I always seem to change it up as I go along!
My favourite parts of this dress are the sleeves. The idea just hit me out of no where, and since then I've had so many more ideas just flowing into my brain!
I'm a little sad this dress is finished now, but I've got another little victim lady lined up for me to make her something! Have a peek at the actual photo shoot of this dress.
I'm getting lots of great opportunities coming up with a few different clients. It's such a happy feeling to find yourself doing what you love.
Happily Yours,
Doing your nails can be so creative. It is quickly becoming my weekly art!
I challenge you to have some fun with your own nails, and do something creative with them each week for a month! Upload a photo on Instagram, or FB and tag me so I can see your creations.
This week, using the same method I did in Nail Pop, I simply painted all my nails the one colour, and then used the sticky tape to create a heart shape, and painted over it. So simple.
You can make endless shapes, patterns and layers, with endless colours!
If you find that your nail polish doesn't stay on long enough to last the week, get yourself some clear Shellac and finish it off with a coat of that! Get creative, and give it a go.
Have a beautiful day,
When you work in admin, you see your nails a lot. Unfortunately they have been looking quite sad and miserable of late, so I thought I should probably fix them up a little! It had been so long since I had done them, that I couldn't decide on a colour! Dilemma.
So I picked out four!
This was simply done with nail polish and sticky tape.
Firstly, make sure your nails are cleaned, shaped and filed.
Then paint the lightest colour all over the nails. Once it's completely dry, stick some sticky tape across your nails, wherever you want.
Tip - It's best for the sticky tape to not be super sticky. Just dab it against your skin a few times so that it won't take your nail polish off.
Then paint the next lightest colour onto the nail. Then peel off the sticky tape to reveal your creation! Let it dry well.
Repeat with as many colours as you like! And then finish it off with a clear coat of nail polish.
Get creative, and give it a go. Then send me pictures so I can see!
Upside? Every time I look down at my fingers, it makes me smile!
Downside? I am craving ice-cream at all hours of the day!
Have a beautiful day,
If you haven't designed something of your own before, I encourage you to give it a go! It's so good to really challenge yourself sometimes and just dive in! The end result can be so satisfying and rewarding!
I was recently doodling on some paper, when I came up with a new dress design. I was so excited about it, and thought it would be perfect to wear out to a Charity Ball that I was attending the following night! So I didn't have long to make the design go from sketch to reality! But it can still be done.
Firstly, I started out with a rough sketch. Keep in mind, it's completely fine for things to change here and there as you start making your pattern. That's all part of the design process.
Once I had a rough design, I got my dress form (Millie), and set her to basically my own measurements. The I started marking out my design on her. I simply used some ribbon I found in the cupboard and some pins to hold it in place.
Once I had marked out the bodice, I laid out pattern paper on top and drew my pattern onto it. You need to make sure you pull and pin the paper really well, creating darts where you need to so that it's firm. There are heaps of helpful YouTube videos on this.
Then I cut out my pattern pieces from the pattern paper, leaving enough room for a 1cm seam allowance. I found some material that I loved and thought would be perfect to make the dress out of. It also helped that I had quite a lot of it! So I cut my pattern pieces out of the pretty material.
Then I started sewing the pieces together. This was the first time I'd sewed any kind of dress without including lining, so it was super quick! For the armhole and neckline edges I just folded the seam allowance under and top stitched to hem it.
BOOM! Other than the zip, the bodice was already finished! Just like that.
For the skirt section, I wanted there to be a lot of material, so I decided on a maxi-circle-skirt! But instead of a skirt that is the same length all the way around, I wanted to make one that was short at the front but long at the back! I laid out my material on the floor and figured out a way to fit in all my pieces. It took me quite a while to do this, so Joe being the wonderful husband he is, brought me some knee pads! So thoughtful and they seriously helped! I recommend it.
A lot of pins later, I simply ended up cutting out a circle skirt, with the front side being shorter, and gradually getting longer for the back side! It looked a little like the following diagram. There were 2 layers of material, so it ended up being 4 pieces.
Then I overlocked and stitched my skirt seams together, leaving the back seam open for the zipper. Then I simply attached the skirt to the bodice, making sure the middles matched up.
And here you have my sketch turned into reality!
Unfortunately, although I love it, with my figure this isn't too flattering on me. So I made a quick decision to cut the bodice off from the skirt, and sew a new bodice onto the dress. One that I knew was flattering on me! This only took me about 30 minutes :)
Then I whipped in a zipper, and hemmed the bottom of the skirt!
I finished the dress literally just in time to head off to the amazing Thrift Shop Charity Ball hosted by Angeline of Lovethread!
Such a great night! And to top it off, I had so many comments about my dress! I even had people running up to me to ask where I got it from.
If that doesn't make you feel like you're on the right track.. I don't know what will :)
Happily Yours,
