geometry

i guess i'm a little bit crazy about every kind of geometric things, shapes, patterns, polyhedra.. so i did different kinds of geometric art i guess, one of my favourites is modular origami at the moment, it's crazy just check out my playlist on youtube, there are so many things to fold, i just do it while watching tv or while waiting for something.. practically everywhere.. well and the other things are just ramdom, some thread art on some of my black and white lomo phoos and something i had to do for uni, a completely white artwork.. i really had fun doing that, i folded those triangles and then spilled 6 small candles over it and sprayed it white - although i nearly burned my apartement..

DIY studded boots

inspired by these awesome boots i found on tumblr, i thought it would be time for another DIY! i stumbled across a pair of those gorgeous bordeaux red velvet boots at H&M, apparently the last pair in the whole store AND it happend to be my size AND they were on sale for 5€!! (instead of 30€!) i couldn't possibly pass, so i purchased them along with two scarfes, wich were on sale, too for 1€ each (insted of 7€ each!) - i think this was the craziest sale find ever, i payed 7€ instead of 42€! well at home i decided to stud them, wich turned out to be a little difficult because the fabric is very thick, so i recommend securing the studs with some hot glue or super glue, so you won't lose them.. under here you'll see how they turned out and my whole purchase.

gangnam-santa

 i found the most hilarious DIY paper folding tutorial ever: the gangnam-santa. this thing is just so much fun, i made it at the university last week and since then everyone walking by my desk plays with it, it's soo funny!  the tutorial can be found at KAMIBOX, it comes with a template, so you'd just print it, cut it out and fold it - i have to admit it's not that easy, it takes at least 30mins to fold and glue that thing - but it's soo much fun! and if you take a look at their website - you should definitely do! - you'll find a lot of other awesome things, like nyan cat, super mario, spongebob.. i plan to fold them all! 

DIY inspiration: folding paper

some beautiful folded geoballs - TUTORIAL at WEEKDAY CARNIVAL // folded paper gems - TUTORIALS & TEMPLATES at MINIECO (right side) // thousands of origami butterflies

DIY mini leather backpack

i used my last free days to do basically the last big DIY for a while: my own leather mini backpack. i've wanted one of these cute little bags for ages, but either they're too expensive - like the chanel or prada ones - or just inexistent.. so i decided to sew one myself. i had plenty of leather left, the rest of my leather-sleeve DIY, so this backpack is pretty much sewn out of one leather jacket! it took me nearly 3 days to handsew that thing but i think it was really worth it, i love my new bag! 

PS: university is starting tomorrow and i'm moving next weekend, so it'll be a little silent here maybe for short while, but after that i'll post more often again, a room tour, outfits and more DIY!

DIY tie dye stuff

after a massive tie-dye-day i'm really proud to present you a tutorial on how to tie dye shirts or sweaters and how to dye two-colour ombre shorts:

STEP ONE : PREPARE

to create a spiral pattern you have to take the shirt in the middle, then turn until the whole shirt has rolled up to a rather compact spiral. push the sleeves and loose fabric tighter around and secure everthing with some twine. a good video for how to do this you can find here.

this is what your spiral-pack should look like before dying.

for the 'crumple-pattern' i wanted to achive for the sweater, just crumple it together and wrap some twine around it to secure it.

STEP TWO: DYE

mix the bleach in a clean plastic bucket by following in the instructions on the package. completely dip the sweater into the dye, it should be completely covered with liquid, and leave it in there for some time (1h with my dye, might be different with yours!) the longer you leave it in the paint the darker and more intense the colour gets, so for a pastell colour just leave it in a bit shorter.. take it out afterwards and rinse it in the sink to get most of the leftover dye out. then put it into the washing machine, but be careful, do not wash it with other things, there's still a lot of dye in it, that could change the colour of the other clothes!

the first shirt i completely dipped into the paint..

..the second one i dipped in just half, it'll create two different patterns!

to create the ombre effect on your shorts, dip them halfway into the dye, then step by step take it out, the top part should sit in the paint for the longest time. take it out, rinse it, then put the other half into another colour. to make a nice transition dip the pants a little bit more into the dye, after some time take it a bit out, so that the first colour is completely out of the paint. some good tutorials here and here on youtube!

STEP THREE: THE RESULT

the fabric of the sweater soaked up the paint very well, so there's just a very light tie dye pattern, you might not even see on the photo, maybe it'll change a bit after washing..

..completely dipped in and halfway dipped in!the colours went out very dark and intense, i hope it'll fade a bit when i put it into the washing machine.. but all in all i think the stuff looks really cool, especially the shirts came out really awesome, dying is so much fun, try it!

DIY pocket shirt

a small saturday morning DIY: pocket shirts! after i've seen a lot of them on tumblr i decided to quickly sew myself two of them.. all you'll need is a plain shirt, whatever colour you like, some leftover fabric, maybe a square of 20cm x 20cm, and sewing stuff, like pins, a needle and some thread. now you cut out the shape of your pocket, leave some more fabric around, flap the edges and sew it onto your shirt! if you actually want to use your pocket, make sure to first sew the seam on the top and then sew the rest of the pocket onto your shirt, but not the top part! that way you can put some little things, maybe your mobile, a pocket mirror, some pens or whatever you like, in it. quick, easy and super cool! - btw, the brain fabric i mady myself by simply paiting some white fabric with pink fabric paint and then adding the lines with a black fabric marker! make sure to fixate the paint, follow the instructions printed on it, to prevent the paint from fading with every wash!

i'm a skeleton

in the end i thought 'just go for it!' and finally painted my holga.. i love how it came out, the film's loaded, ready to shoot! the neckstrap i made from an old necklace and some plastic bones, in wich my dad made some additional holes so i could link them. those bones look like holga's arms now and everytime i carry her around my neck, it'll look like she's waving - so cute! :D

skele-holga

i've been thinking about some design for my plain white holga since the moment i unboxed it, i originally had ordered it white so i could customize it.. now that i own a diana mini, customized as a donut, her big sister holga looks both boring and sad next to her.. so i decided to get a little bit creative today, tried some things out that circled around in my brain and finally i came up with the skeleton idea.. the most awesome thing: i'm gonna do a bone-neckstrap -wich is actually why i like the idea so much and i could use those leftover plastic bones i ordered for my bone hairclips but didn't fully use.. so tell me what you think, should i do it?  other ideas would be galaxy-holga, brainslush, nyan-holga.. what's you favourite?

DIY leather sleeve denim jacket

so here's the secret DIY project: a leather sleeve denim jacket! contrast sleeves are definitely one of the big trends for fall/winterand since i 1) had a denim jacket at home, that i wanted to customize 2) wanted a long sleeve denim jacket, but didn't like the sleeves of mine -too big! 3) really wanted to have a contrast sleeve jacket because i think they look pretty cool 4) but didn't want to spend 670€ for the ALEXANDER WANG jacket (left) or $495 for the RAG&BONE jacket, i decided to simply DIY such a leather sleeve denim jacket! -there were cheaper alternatives at urban outfitters or zara, but currently sold out everywhere!

all you need is a denim jacket -mine's a vintage levis from ebay, DIY bleached for ~7€ and a leather jacket -got mine from the flea market for 3€ (makes a total of awesome 10€!!) 

FIRST STEP: cut off the sleeves of your denim jacket right outside the seams, it won't fray too much but that'll give the jacket a bit more edgy look! cut off the sleeves of the leather jacket, make sure to leave 2cm of fabric inside the seams to be able to sew them onto the denim jacket! -don't throw away the rest of the jackets, you can always use a bit of leather and denim for further projects!

SECOND STEP: put the leather sleeve into the armhole of the denim jacket, this is a little bit complicated and takes some time, but as soon as it fits good, fix it with some pins

THIRD STEP: sew right over the seams of the denim jacket, use a thread in the same colour and try to sew very carefully, so the new seam stays invisible. i sewed two times each sleeves to make it hold better and longer! - and you're done!

10€ and about 4h of work is a very good alternative to hundreds of euros, isn't it? i really like the result, this jacket's definitely going to be my everyday piece for fall! 

DIY spiked shorts

guess i'm obsessed with levi's shorts and spikes, so here's an obviously fabulous small DIY i did today in the morning.. i had this plain dark blue pair of levi's high waisted cut offs in my creativity drawer for a while and didn't know what to do with it.. until today! i spiked it, then cut some slits into the fabric, put it into the washing machine and this is how it came out! easiest thing to do..! coming up: i'm pretty excited about the flea market i'm visiting tomorrow, it should be huuge! let's see if i find some stuff for my new appartement and some cool vintage clothes..

interior inspiration

since i'm moving out from home in less than a month i've collected a lot of ideas on the web for my new appartement in munich, concerning interior and decoration. i've been living in a very brown room for nearly my whole life now, with a wooden wall, wooden ceiling, wooden floor and wooden interior - now i'm pretty sick of that, so my new room's going to be mostly WHITE...

BOOK STORAGE

IKEA's EXPEDIT shelf is one of my favorites for book storage, what's even more awesome: it doesn't have a back, so you can easily use it for dividing a room! i love book shelves, i'm already planning to sort my books after colours - i'm gonna have a NYAN-shelf :3

CLOTHES

i'm really in love with clothes rails, especially the wooden one in the middle looks super awesome! sadly my room's too small for such a rail, i'd have to go with a boring and normal cupboard..

WORK SPACE

i'm going to study interior design, so there'll be a lot of drawing, this means i need a giant desk.. i'm also planning to do a big 'inspiration wall', some kind of  pinboard where i put all my ideas, inspiration and more if i'm working on a project next to my desk, and one of those picture and frame walls above my couch or something.. i really love those butterfly frames, sadly they're very expensive to get..

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if you're searching for some inspiration, also DIY-tips, check out DESIGN SPONGE, for inspiring appartements check out FREUNDE VON FREUNDEN and especially for people from munich: DESIGNCHEN

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also be excited about my newest DIY project: moooi random light ($605-$2140 O:) for a fragment of the price! - let's see if it works out..

and: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR 400 FOLLOWERS! i still can't belive so many people are interested in the stuff i do.. lot's of LOVE! ♥ ♥ ♥

DIY-DAY

one project isn't enogh, so i started FOUR today. to start off i bleached a denim vest - further project coming up - while the jacket was in the washing machine i sprayed the first layer of white paint onto those balls - they've been green once, then awfully bleached by the sun, so i decided they needed a makeover - and the first layer of black paint onto the picture frame - wich was long ago a gift from a friend, but sadly in the wrong colour for my new appartement - and in the meantime, while the paint dryed and the jacket got washed i went on knitting my super huge and chunky scarf - actually i wanted to have it for last winter already, but i didn't manage to finish it.. it's about 1,80m now and still needs to be looonger! (as you see i also have plenty of wool left..) i'm pretty excited about the denim jacket DIY, but i won't give anything away, so stay tuned for another awesome DIY coming soon!

DIY studded sweater

after i bought this sweater some months ago at a flea market it pretty much lay around in my DIY-drawer, waiting to get customized. the sweater is originally an american apparel size m, and since their clothes are always very tight i thought it would fit perfectly.. it didn't. so first of all i had to sew it a little bit tighter - never let a big size be a reason not to buy something cool, you can always make it tighter by yourself! - and then i studded it.. i did some kind of star or circle pattern on the shoulders, using cone spikes in the center and smaller round studs around.. so this is pretty easy and i'm thinking of doing this to more of my sweaters, on a denim shirt or jacket or even a blouse. you could also sew on some leather patches on the schoulders or elbows of a sweater, cardigan, jacket... or knees of a leggings or pants and stud them, looks awesome, too! (definitely one of my next projects since i found some leftover black and white leather!)

spikes spikes spikes

finally i finished my totally DIY bleached and spiked converse shoes by adding some spikes to the heel, now they're perfect! my internships going to be over after this week by the way so i'm gonna have a lot of time for DIY projects in the next weeks! stay tuned for tie dye, bleach, lace and more spikes!

DIY denim bag

here's another bag i sewed out of the excess fabric of my cut off denim legs, inspired by the upcycled bags of thevintageshop i read about in the german CUT magazine (check it out, it's awesome!) i used about 4-5 denim legs and on the inside i used an old scarf to cover the seams a little bit, basically the bag is just a big cuboid, made out of square parts! you see there are a lot of possibilities what to do with your excess denim legs, so don't simply throw them away - actually you should never throw away any excess fabric!

DIY denim backpack

recently i made a lot of levis cut off shorts and since i didn't want to waste all the legs of the pants, wich are made of a lot of denim fabric, so i decided to sew some bags out of them.. the drawstring backpacks are very easy to sew, you only need two legs for one and in the end they're really cute to wear - a lot of stuff fits in there, too! a really nice tutorial can be found here, you don't need too much sewing skills to do it, so get started!

do you know what's the most awesome thing? out of one vintage jeans (wich looks really strange on me if i wear them long..) you'll get two things, a very fashionable pair of shorts and the suiting backpack! let's take a look at the total price: pants around 4€; rope around 5€ per 5m; eventually eyelets 1€ per 2 pieces = 10€ for shorts + backpack! nice, and not only cheap but also a very good idea for recycling leftover fabric instead of throwing it away!

DIY neon bracelets

another one of my friDIYs - neon bracelets. stackable bracelets are definitely a must have for this summer and i also love the neon-trend so i surfed around a little bit and found some awesome tutorials, bought some neon thread on ebay here and started braiding. what you need: some neon thread, scissors and super-glue, for variations you'll also need spikes, beads, etc... so for the basic knot you should just follow the tutorial of secretlifeofabionerd, it's really good and actually super easy!

THE SPIKE BRACELET

1) start your bracelet just like the basic one, after a few knots you'll braid the first stud in..

2) take your screwback-studs and screw them together, leaving just as much space to fit in the thread..

3) losely do another knot, put your stud in place..

4) tighten, the thread should fit exactly in the space between the spike-part and the screw-part..

5) screw the stud a little bit more until it's very tight, go on knotting, then put in the next stud, repeat until you've reached you wrist measurement..

6) finish the bracelet like the basic one!

so this is how my bracelets look like, i love them, they're easy to put on and of course, because they're custom made, fit perfectly around my wrist! so have fun knotting and don't hesitate to try some variations, there are plenty of tutorials on youtube and other sites!

DIY bone hair clips

it's friday 13th today and i thought it's appropriate to finally do my bone hair clip project, something i'd seen on tumblr and instantly wanted to do myself, it's so easy, you just need some carnival plastic bones, some plain alligator hair clips, superglue and some sandpaper. roughen the surface of the bones and the hair clips with the sandpaper, then glue them together, let them dry and you're done!

i love friday 13th, i'm going to a horror movie night today, it's going to be awesome! what are you doing?

DIY union jack flag denim jacket

finally i got to finish my DIY acid wash denim jacket, since i got my screwback studs i ordered on ebay, today! to make the jacket even more unique i sewed a union jack flag on the back of it, it's pretty easy, you just need the flag (or any other cloth, like animal print ones or an american flag or anything you like..), a needle, some pins and twine. simply cut fit the fabric to your jacket and cut it, fold the edges to prevent them from fraying, pin the cloth onto the jacket and sew around, by hand or if you're skilled, with the sewing machine -done! then add some spikes or studs if you want and the jacket is ready to wear! 

be careful -spikes can hurt people when you hug them!