How to: Personalized cabochon rings

These were for my Mum for Christmas - a personal gift with pictures of the flowers from her garden! This is based on the Cabochon Picture Ring project by me.

How to:

Print out the flowers in an appropriate shape and size

Glue the cabochons on them (I recommend you do that before cutting the pics out)

.Let them dry and make sure you push out all the bubbles (in this case it works better than with frames around them)

Before glueing the ring base on (with hot glue), varnish the paper so it won't be damaged in case it gets wet!

And done :)

Christmas Special Part 1: Christmas & Winter Inspirations

This is part 1 of my Christmas Special. I divided this huuuge post into parts because it was... like really huge. (Guess what)
There are two more parts to come: Christmas DIY links in which I will show you some holiday DIYs from other websites and an important part - DIY ideas for Christmas presents. Don't miss them, maybe you could use them! ;)

Are you feeling christmassy yet? I do! Especially when looking at these pictures. I've collected them for you over the past few weeks and be sure, they're the prettiest I could find to get you in the mood. Enjoy! <3

Second hand clothing

This is a post I've prepared for a longer time, an important part of it was to get my clothes shot by Kimmy (her blog: http://kiamisu.blogspot.de/ , you can also like her photography on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Kiamisu ). Because I still don't have a new camera and because she just does it better than my Mama :D
So the thing is that I decided to visit a new second hand store on my way home a few months ago, and I found a red oversize jumper for 2 €! Considering this was a rather big amount of fabric for 2 €, it was worth it and I knew I could either use the fabric, or the pattern of the garment, or just sew it tighter. Plus, I love long shirts that go over my hip because they're perfect for winter.
So the end of the story was that I kept the shape of the jumper and used a belt to stress my waist, trying not to get lost in the big piece of fabric.

I got obsessed soon and went to other second hand stores, the fact that it was SO cheap and there were so many possibilities to change the clothes, I was thrilled by it. I bought sweaters, coats, shirts... even skirts, I turned one big pleated skirt into a cape. And these are the garments I got photographed:

A black cardigan for 4 € which was bigger before and had golden buttons. I bought new black ones and tightened the cardigan.

Sweater with a pattern I love! Was oversized before too, maybe owned by an old man. 2 €

Cosy grey oversize jumper, didn't change it, 3€

Black sweater, size M, had an ugly satin collar which I removed.1 €

I can only recommend to visit second hand stores. Those were only a tiny bit of the stuff I bought, actually now I have brand new (well, you know what I mean...) clothes for the whole autumn & winter and spent at most 50 € for all of them.

Of course I also still go to stores like H&M, and recently I bought a lovely jumper that I wanted to show you.

Oh, and I bought it in size XL. Soooo cosy. Way too big. I don't care!