FASHIONfriday ~ Time to DRESS up!

Summer is slowly but certainly coming, YAY!

Here are some gorgeous BATIK style dresses to consider for the next beach picnic or pool party!

click the pic to go to my WaNeLo and find out were to get these styles

http://wanelo.com/s/1209648

HUEsday

Here's just a quick color inspiration Pallette for you :)

colors of paradise

Trying out a new color generator app... ;)

qick HUEsday ...sketching CI colors

aaaannnd. . . it's tueHUEsday again!
Man, how fast this week faded away. So much do-tos for college.
But . . . take this quick titbit of palette making from today's REviving my Colourlovers.com account

Started a tumblr microblog last week. . .
rather a personal virtual refugium for visualizing my dream of a life (to be) . . .
Maybe the universe will start turning spirits towards removing the barriers on my path to reach that dream. . .if only I visualize it often and stern enough ;b

Anyways: these were my color choices for the layout. Liked them enough to make a palette. . .

What do you think of it?! =)

SketchingADream2 via Tiki-Tiki's pallettes

another version of the above

Colors of the palette ...more colors here

mondayMAKINGS #3 ~Tinkering with Paper~

Because of the tight schedule I had during the last week (4 family birthdays, college tasks, job and other organizational stuff) I'm still not able to show you some NEW "makings" here today. Sorry for that!!
But since no one knows my "old" stuff either,. . . (therefore wouldn't notice anyways) I suppose you won't mind when I post some crafty output from the last few years. ;b

Last week I showed a drawing, and the week before that there were also sketches and paintings. So I thought, why not go one dimension further and post 3D objects I (re-)designed. . .

I mentioned  my handmade goods shop on DaWanda.com before. . . And that I plan to build up on it in the near future . . .

SOOOooo looking forward to jump into that adventure!! =D

So, to let you get a hint of what it could - maybe . . . somehow - look like, what I'm going to offer there I'm posting some of the crafty designs I've made as presents for friends before. 

I don't like giving loved ones something unpersonalized,. . .simply bought in a shop kinda stuff. All of my friends have more money than I do anyways, so they can better buy things they want for themselves. But what they're not so likely to do is create or design things for themselves.
So I take a chance whenever I can. ;b

Here are some more or less kitschy examples.

I know, things like that are maybe not necessarily suitable for the masses... 
But for a handemade-business-to-be it's at least worth to work out...

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click to enlarge

decoupaged calendar diary book

customized Ikea wall clock design

Hawaiian surfer style customized Ikea mirror with keys hooks

fancy key holder board

So... what do you think?!

Would YOU have liked these as a present?

Do you see yourself falling in love with a tinker thingy like that enough to purchase it?!

It's HUEsday again!

According to the TinkerBar blogging plan . . .it's time for some color splashing!

I picked two of my favourite SHAG illustrations, and made a pallette . . .

. . .#1. . .

ShagTikiMagazineCover by TikiTiki on Coloulovers.com

via Tiki Magazine.com

and here's another one. . .

. . .#2. . .

ShagTikiGirlyPoster by TikiTiki on Colourlovers.com

by the splendid SHAG

What's your favourite?!

Happy Color HUEsday

Gave the posting schedule a further thought...
From now on, forget about Tuesdays...let's make it HUEsday!

Color inspiration galore!!!

Today I was sneaking about the web agein scouting some layout inspirations for portfolios.
(I'm hoping to have my portfolio and  application done soon, so I can go out and find a place to do an internship or jobbing.)
I'm still not totally sure about which colors I want to use for the layout theme.
I was shoving around some colored and textured paper bits to try finding a match.
Going to show you when I'm closer to a decision. ;)

Here are some finished and well worked out graphic designs by other artists and designers, which I immediately attract my attention. Wha do you think? lime? aqua? lemon? ^^

by Georgia Smith Textile Design; found via printpattern.blogspot.de

by Emma Dime

this on and following by PAM&JENNY

Todays Palette - FlowerPool

view Palette / flowerpool on COLOURlovers

from Pinterest via forgetmeknotweddingsblog.com

Grand opening of Tiki's DIYary!!! ^-^...today : ~~ Hand-painting a color lined Shirt ~~

So here's the first CRAFTY POST I'm sending out. =D
I'm really excited to publish this! ^-^

Actually it's nothing special for you Readers, but since I'm new to the Blogworld, and still got a lot to learn, this Project - or more precisely: its documentation - took me a lot of work and time.
The making of the shirt itself, took only a few hours (plus drying time), but it was a long road to the point I'm writing this. Exams in college and the start of a new semester afterwards kinda got me stuck in a whole lot of other things to do than blogging. :/
But as I tried to introduce in the latest post on the whole idea of that DIYary section here, I'm gonna just try to go through the making of that crafty stuff here, documenting what happened, and maybe shouldn't have happened. You can re-craft this, or improve the idea for your own needs, learn from my mistakes, or just scroll through the pictures and think what a fool I am thinking this would be interesting at all...
whatever you like - hope you enjoy it.
And please feel free to leave critical comments...;)

BEFORE         -            AFTER

For the design I roughly played around on Photoshop to get an idea.
I saved pics of basic shirts from the H&M online shop before, so I can
digitally paint over them to try out how designs will look in the end  and how big I should make them.
This was the 5-minutes messy sketch I made for this graphical top.

Here's the raw materials I used. 

• a plain white cotton shirt from our favourite swedish fashion empire;)  
  (I love these, because they're incredibly cheap (about 5€), available in various colors and - which is crucial for me personally - long enough!)

Of course every other shirt will do. But be sure it is 100% cotton or linen or other natural fabric. I experienced that the paint doesn't stay well on synthetic fiber like polyester or something like that. That is true even for mixed textiles, that contain just about 5% spandex, like a lot of basic shirts unfortunately do. Another point is, that you need to iron the fabric with maximum heat to fixate. Some materials get ruined by that.
 So just check the label before you start.

• self-adhesive book foil        (it's my first try working with this foil as stencil material. It's simply that transparent stuff you can wrap around your study books or something, to protect them from dirt, liquid, scratches and co. You'll find it in any stationary store or supermarket)
• textile paint (I like Javana Tex or Marabu, which are both similar in prices and I never made bad experience with those. They're available in almost every arts or hobby supplies shop)
• two simple brushes - 1 bristle brush (for tapping the paint onto the stencil) and 1 thin brush (for the manual corrections afterwards)
• scissors & cutting knife (crafting scalpel)
• cutting mat
• triangle ruler (suggesting a big one - 30cm)
• big sheet of cardboard (cut to size, that fits inside the shirt - covering all the area you want to paint)
• ball-pen or pencil
• a sheet of backing paper
• flat iron

Color-Quest or: how blogger Holly Becker's book made my day brighter without even opening it

german

english

Today I got back from college, where I scavenged our uniquely well sorted library again and took a bite on the sunny balcony with my newest prey: the German version of Holly Becker's Interior Design book DECORATE! ^-^ Some of you might know Holly as the writer of decor8 - one of the most popular lifestyle & interior decoration blogs out there.



Since it's a library book, they removed the book wrapper and I was totally in love with the color of the naked hard-cover already when I saw it standing in the shelf.
Because the german edition's cover looks like this:

WHAAAAHH - OMG FUCHSIA!! =D ;P

Oh, and here's just a little sneak peek of the inside;)

BUT! Now to the clue!

What happend was this: I layed the book on our kitchen table while I was making some green tea and then just en passant I turned around and there it was!
 

A DREAM of Color-Combination!!!

Maybe it's just me, and maybe I'm crazy, but THIS must have been one of those "happy accidents" Bob Ross  (r.i.p. <3) used to talk about!

I had used a small mirror with a green frame before, that was still lying on the also green covered table, next to the package of my green tea bags, and one of these kitchen clips in pink as well as my only retro-rosé knife were also (fortunately) not put away yet.
All this together gave me an instant Kick of Joy!!! I just HAD to get my camera!

C'mon isn't it splendid?!!? =D

After being so unexpectedly and extremely inspired I decided to go on a COLOR-QUEST through our apartment! =) 
(that's just so much better to spend an afternoon than working on exam preparations.. ehem...*whistling innocently*)

Here's what I found....
(And pleeeease please excuse the bad photo quality on some pics...My camera's not of the newest technique and already has some errors and focus problems... If anyone has a DSLR camera for sale??...MAIL ME! ;)

my proudly presented ICONS book collection from beloved TASCHEN Verlag publishing ;)

Neon wool!