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Okay, I have absolutely no idea why I'm doing some beauty stuff on my blog, but here we go.

Inspired by my last visit to Lush store I thought why I couldn't make all those natural beauty products by myself.

I decided to start with the easiest one - coffee body scrub.

 Take some fresh coffee grounds, 2-3 spoonfuls will do. Add some olive oil and little bit honey and mix it all up. You can also add some salt or raw sugar and some essential oil for good aroma.

I know, it looks quite disgusting but believe me, it the most effective body scrub you've ever used. And probably the cheapest as well.

DIY Acne sweater

Finished that one while ago. It was actually quite easy to make. Didn't even use any patterns, though that's probably the reason it turned out too big but I'm still satisfied. Use two different (mohair) yarns to achieve the effect;)

and the original one

DIY bracelet tutorial.

As many of you asked I decided to write a tutorial for making DIY plumbing supplies bracelets you saw in the last post. It's not the best but i hope can you understand;  ) It's actually quite easy to make them.

You need:

a leather belt with buckle, brass plumbing supplies (compression nuts, fittings etc.), scissors.

      *Take a old leather belt which is narrow enough to go through the nuts.

      *Mix and match some different compression nuts and brass fittings.

      *Make a extra hole in the belt to fasten it around your hand.

          *Cut away the longer part of belt or leave it and wrap around your hand like I did.

DIY plumbing supplies bracelets

I did a little DIY for the december issue of MOOD magazine which has already came out. My obsession over wearing many rings at once is definitely over, guess braceletes are my new love.
I got the idea when I was in Copenhagen for fashion week and saw Hanneli wearing similar bracelets by Danish designer Yvonne Koné. I thought they would make a good and cheap DIY project;)
You just need some brass fittings and compression nuts from the plumbing section and a old leather belt for making this one. 

/Tuuli did the illustrations/

triangle walks

Finally restocked the ear cuffs with blue feather and/or silver crosses you were all asking about. Check them out - here.
Oh and I also wanted to give you a hint of my upcoming DIY project. I know I haven't done any in a while but now you can be sure that least one is coming. That's the awesome Acne sweater and I even have couple of first rows already knitted.
Something from the fashion bloggers' flea market I told you about in the last post. The event was very successful and many thanks to Lisa Mai who organised all this and to everyone who came.


PS! Kas te olete omale ikka juba Tallinn Fashion Weekile pileti(d) muretsenud? Kui ei, siis selleks on teil veel üks võimalus. Nimelt ostes kuni 1.novembrini Rahva Raamatust või Apollost raamatu "Moepiibel 2010" ja saates ostutšeki numbri aadressile: pilet@estonianfashion.eu saate pileti ühele showle täiesti tasuta;) Rohkem infot TFW kohta leiad - siit.

DIY Rodarte fall 2010 shoes

I still can't get over how amazing are these Nicholas Kirkwood shoes for Rodarte fall 2010 (1145€ at LuisaViaRoma). Heel looking like covered with melted candle wax is stunning and also pretty DIYable! I decided to try this candle wax thing... though my version isn't definitely that cool and I'm still craving for original version.

But let's start from very beginning. Last week I received huge trash bag full of shoe samples from Vagabond/Bronx/Blink dealer here in Estonia. They thought maybe I want to use shoes as material (leather, chains, zippers, studs and so on) to create something new or try redesigning them. Otherwise these would have been burnt, because shoe samples are actually totally useless. So now.. I have loads of shoes in my room.. and it smells like a shoe store (yuck!). Some of them are from fall 2010 collection and aren't even available for sale yet.
For my luck I got one white shoe by Bronx which was perfect for this Rodarte DIY.


Here it is: (unfortunately I have only one shoe from each pair, as I said - these are just samples)


Start with dripping candle wax. It's easy, just hold a candle and the shoe horizontally.

Actually you can leave it like that but I added some ribbons to make it look more like Rodarte's.

DIY Celine spring/summer 2010 dress

After seeing Karmen wearing this lovely dress at Celine SS 2010 show

and after trying on this Celine inspired dress at Mango I decided to DIY.

For that one I grabbed a potato sack looking dress from a thrift store for 1$. I sewed black edges and add a black cord. Eeeeeeeeasy But actually quite time-consuming.



Seems like I'm in a DIY mood, at the moment I'm working on a Rodarte DIY project. And no, it's not a knitting, can you guess what is that?

DIY Miu miu collar

This time I stole my DIY idea from Crushable.com . But who doesn't love Miu Miu?
I share some photos of the work-in-process with you though it's probably not very hard to figure out how to make that collar yourself.

*print out or draw yourself some swallows (or cats, daisys, naked lady) and use those as stencil. 

*cut the collar off a old men's shirt


*draw swallows on the collar, first with pencil and the with fabric marker (follow the instruction written on the marker's package).


*and you're done! well, my swallows don't look the most perfect ones but who cares;) 

YSL wannabe

Last night magic happend to me. Okay, not really. I was going through the box I got from ReUse Republic to make new jewelry. And then I saw this weird old broken cuff. I was like wait, wait, isn't it looking like a Yves Saint Laurent Oval ring. Okay, not exactly but anyway.. I have my own wannabe YSL ring now. I wouldn't call it a DIY project - just a ridiculously lucky coincidence;)

here's the original ysl oval ring - my dream ring. I've been wanting it since..forever. Well actully I would take turquoise version if I had to choose


and here's mine

DIY - ALEXANDER WANGx LINDA FARROW sunglasses

I got a idea to DIY Alexander Wang zipper shades while ago. Last weekend I found a perfect pair of sunnies just for 2$. It was really simple - glasses + zipper + glue;)

Here's the Wang's version (by the way the price of this pair is about 3200$)

and here's mine:

DIY Prada spring summer 2010 shoes

Lately I have been working on a new DIY project - Prada Spring/Summer 2010 shoes.

In the beginning of this week I found a pair extremely ugly plastic transparent shoes from thrift store. Even the shopkeeper stared at me weirdly - "are you really going to wear.. these?". By the way it's impossible to wear them now, because they make really annoying sound like jingle bells when you're walking.
Luckily I had a bag full of chandelier crystals which I bought from a flea market last spring. That's how I turned the ugly shoes into tacky shoes.
I thought that tacky shoes need tacky pictures ! so I went bit crazy with photoshop.

DIY Givenchy headband tutorial

Do you remember that while ago I showed you a Givenchy inspired studded headband I made? Now you finally can see the tutorial. Actually I did this DIY project for the FOAM magazine - fashion and lifestyle magazine for women who surf and love the beach. Though I'm not sure how practical it is at the beach...
But it's definitely eye-catching and super easy to make yourself.

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE TUTORIAL
(picture below by Tuuli)

Good luck;)

GOLD DUST

You'll see the DIY Givenchy inspired studded headband tutorial (and more detailed photos) by the end of the month. Stay tuned!

(photos by me, model: T)



And soon I'm going to have giveaway with giveaway with CSN stores to celebrate 700 blog followers;). CSN is wonderful place, where you can find everything from the bar stools to the jewelry boxes.