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Hi everyone! Today I'm over at Alyssa's at Live. Love. Craft., so go hop on over for a look! :{

Guest Post Alyssa from Live Love Craft: Mustache/Lips Mug Tutorial

Today we have my very first guest: Alyssa from Live Love Craft! Alyssa is funny, amazing, and all around talented! In the blogger world, she is my best friend (though I'm not sure if she knows that yet...). I'm so honored that she is my first guest blogger! Let's all welcome Alyssa!

Hi guys! It’s Alyssa from Live. Love. Craft.  Before I start my tutorial, I want to thank Naomi for letting me guest post! Naomi is such an awesome person, I just met her and I already feel like we’ve been friends for years. :D

Today I’m going to show you how to make a painted coffee cup/ mug. I made a lips and moustache set for my newly wed Uncle and Aunt.

For this project you are going to need:

Clear con-tact paper

X-acto knife

Marker

Coffee cups {any ceramic/ glass cup will do}

Printer

Foam paintbrush

Ceramic paint {I use FolkArt brand}

First you’re going to either print or draw your picture {‘stache or lips} Now you’re going to place the image under your con-tact paper and trace the outline with your marker.

Next, put the con-tact paper on your cutting board and cut over the line you drew with your X-acto knife.

 Peel the inside piece out.

You’re going to take the reverse image {stencil} and center it on your mug. Make sure you put it on the opposite side you drink out of.

Take your sponge brush and dip it in the paint {a little goes a long way!}. Using dabbing motions fill in your stencil completely.

{at this point, since it was for my Aunt and Uncle, I hand painted their names and wedding date on the back of each mug.}

While the paint is still wet, peel your stencil off and let the cup dry.

 In about 30 minutes you can follow the paint manufacturer’s directions and bake your mugs.

If you liked this tutorial you should check out my blog!

Thanks, Naomi for having me!

Xoxo,  

Alyssa

Things I've Made...

I've made a couple of things. I've made a couple of hats, a cardigan, and a beret. I'll upload pics later. Oh, and I'm going to be on vacation in a couple of days, so if you don't see me, you know why. Hopefully I'll have wifi in the hotel. Bon voyage! :{

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You Like?

Like my new header? Isn't it spectacular? Alyssa from Live Love Craft designed it for me! I looooove it! It's so cool! I need to ask her what program she uses! :{

Things I Want

1. Super powers

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2. To stay a kid as long as possible (but not to live/stay young forever, that would suck)

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3. To eventually open an Etsy shop
4. To eventually buy something from an Etsy shop
5. To knit a sweater (isn't the one below gorgeous?!)

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6. To sew my graduation dresses AND my prom dress (has anyone out there done that? it seems so hard, but usually much more interesting and unique)

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7. Visit Britex

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8. Make the years leading up to college looooooooong
9. Keep this blog up till I'm going into... college? maybe? hopefully? what's the oldest blog ever that's still written on?
10. Build a treehouse

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11. Make a climbing rope
12. Make a zipline
13. Make a cardboard box boat
14. Have an apple cider stand
15. Get a dog
16. To read Rick Riordan's Son of Neptune
17. To take hip hop classes and kung fu or any type of martial arts
18. To eventually watch a horror movie by Alfred Hitchcock (yeah, right, maybe when I'm 30...)
19. For life to slow down

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20. When life stops slowing down, I want a family that I'll always love

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21. Live a long time with people I love (i know i said to not live forever, but I do want to live a long time with other people. Then I won't be lonely.)

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Of course there are more things, but these are the ones that aren't personal and just came to mind. :)

Creating Smiles Week

Hey everyone! I am going to be participating in Creating Smiles Week with Hannah Handmade during August 7th-13th. It's a week where you do things for people in need. Be sure to drop by! I'm working on many projects right now so stay tuned!

Visit Hannah to see some cool projects!

This will probably be my 2nd guest post, as I'm planning on guest posting elsewhere first hopefully! I'll tell you about it later! Now, go visit Hannah! (sorry. i meant please.)

T-shirt Scrap Flower

 Here's my new flower! Made from Alyssa's (Live Love Craft) mum clip tutorial. Mine's made of some white t-shirt scraps and a small teal button. I plan to add it to a hair pin or a safety pin.

My New Blue Headband (Braided Headband Version 2)

Here's my new headband! It's slightly different from the first one. For one thing, it's blue. For another, I didn't use any elastic because the material was so stretchy that all I had to do was sew the ends together. I love it! It doesn't slip nearly as much as the first one! Basically I just braided 3 1" strips of scrap knit jersey together and sewed the ends together. The material is some sort of spandexy lycra thing. Oh sorry for the last pic. It's kind of unattractive. But quite charming don't you think? Even though my hair seems to be reaching towards the camera. What a camera hogger. It loves all the spotlight.

My Lame, lame, lame Attempt at Translating French: Twisted and Wavy Look

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I'm bored cuz i can't move around a lot... so i did this instead...
I love this style so much that I typed it all up on Google translate and attempted to translate it. Granted it didn't work so well, but i tried and kind of understand it... maybe...
french


1. Formez de jolies boucles à laide du fer et de laque aux pointes.
2. ramassez une couche de cheveux devant et l'attacher
formez un chignon négligé à laide d'un élastique fin
3. prendre 2 mèches individuelles du haut et de devant à ramasser sur les cotès en torsades loose
4. attacher ces 2 torsades dans le chignon négligé au milieu
5. Répéter l'étape 4 plusiers fois jusqu'à ce qu'il ne reste qu'une longue mèches comme une frange devant
6. Crepez l'arrière de la frange pourobtenir un volume subtil & sexy
7. Rattachez ces mèchès restantes à larrière en torsades & détachez quelques méchés devant pour adoucir & encadrer votre visag

French to English translation

1.) Form pretty ugly loops of iron and lacquer to tip.
Translation: duh, form pretty ugly loops with an iron bar. Just kidding, i think it means curl your hair with an iron...? Then put lacquer on your hair? Oh poo, what's lacquer? Be right back to look up lacquer... Okay, lacquer I guess would be some sort of paint... so like hairspray? My best guess...
2.) pick up a layer of hair in front and tie
form a bun neglected ugly end of an elastic
Translation: take a layer of hair from the front and, judging by the pic, pin or tie it up? Then form a bun with the hair that you always ignore and don't like because it's so ugly and tie into a bun. I don't know, I'm bored and confused; what do they mean by neglected? Your lonely hair?
3.) take two individual strands from the top and front to pick up on the sides loose coils
Translation: take some strands from the top part you pinned up and a strand from the side and loosely twist them together.
4.) attach these two coils in the middle bun neglected
Translation: pin the coils into the middle of your lonely neglected bun.
5.) Repeat step 4 several times until it remains only as long strands in front of bangs
Translation: repeat with both sides (judging from the pic) till your bangs are regular and are only long strands.
6.) Crepe back of the fringe volume pourobtenirsubtle (i'm guessing there are spaces between those words, making it 'pour obtenir subtle') & sexy
Translation: Judging from the picture, somehow make your bangs voluminous to obtain the traits of subtle and sexy... oh gosh, really? Like this isn't hard enough...
7.) Attach the wick stays at the back & in hanks to detach a few strands to frame your face smooth &
Translation: attach loose strands from the back to the bun and loosen/detach strands in the front to frame your face... smoothly?
Hope this helps... or not... woohoo for google translate! o(^__^o)
 edit: as Alyssa mentioned in the comments section, there's also an english translation. i found it right after i made this... oh well, i was bored, what can you do? :p
http://pinterest.com/pin/37033166/ link to english version

My New Boo-Boo

I pulled my hip playing soccer in tryouts. I tried to kick a goal and kicked forward too hard and felt it pop. (well at least i don't have to finish my swimming lessons... heh heh) I may not be able to do many crafts for a little bit. Or post. Or maybe I'll be posting a lot because I won't be able to run around and make mischief (like making my mother's birthday present behind her back, heh heh, i'm so bad...) Anyways, if you don't see me for a while (or see me a lot), you know why. See ya later! :)

Oh, and if you're wondering if i scored the goal, i did. Was it a great shot?

Yes.

Was it worth it?

No.

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Anthropologie Knockoff: Curtain Call Top Tutorial

Edit: I've decided to repost this because I didn't have any pics of me wearing it. These pics are ways to wear it. The 2nd option is how I wore it to the play.

You can wear it as a casual tee...

Or with a cardigan...

Or belted.

Original Post:

Remember the Anthropologie Curtain Call top that I posted about? Well I finally got around to hand-sewing it, and I think it was worth it. I plan on wearing it to a play we're going to on Wednesday. We're supposed to wear sort of fancy clothes. My inspiration:

The result:

So, tutorial:

Materials: one t-shirt that fits you, one XL t-shirt, scissors, needle and thread/sewing machine, tape measure, pencil

1. Cut off sleeve hems, hem, and neckband.

2. Mark the front of the neck evenly, making six sections and five marks. With your tape measure, measure between the marks. This will be x.

3. Take your XL t-shirt and cut six strips, x" wide.

4. Use a basting stitch and baste each side of the strip. Pull it to gather the strip.

5. Place your gathered strip, matching it up with the lines, and backstitch it to the shirt on both sides.

6. Repeat with remaining strips.

7. Wear proudly. I added ties to the sides so it could tie in the back, because the shirt was wide, and I also added a band to the bottom so it was longer.

Cupcakes!

Today, we went to

To get

There were lots of

If you're in the bay area, i suggest stopping by. The view is amazing! Though it left me huffing and puffing back up the hill where our car was parked. Oh, and look! I'm trying to make myself a button.

And I have a new header!