SPOT the difference

(via ASOS.com)

Dress: Cotton On, $15
Shoes: ASOS.com
Bag: El-cheapo bag that came free with a magazine


Erm, I recently saw a leopard print dress on ASOS.com and I think I have a highly similar one from Cotton On. And I bought mine on a sale for just $15. Ok, I know, obviously the model wears it better... But when you try to be objective, you will find that both dresses are really similar!


The funny thing about this picture is that, coincidentally, my shoes are from ASOS.com.


P.S.: Please excuse my mum and my maternal grandma. This is the only picture that I have with me wearing the dress...it's not even taken recently!

DIY: Honey, I shrunk my ring!

My mum has always said that I have the hands of a child. It's true. I reckon my hands are the size of a 12 year old. My fingers aren't exactly slender, but they are definitely not the prescribed 'S' or 'XS' in most commercial accessory shops.


So what happens when I buy rings? Well, I either buy the ones that are adjustable or I clench my fist tightly when I wear the non-adjustable ones out. The latter doesn't always work because sometimes I forget about the ring I am wearing and they fall out as I wave goodbye to my friends after an outing. =_=


A few weeks ago, I bought this ring from Sportsgirl during a sale. It was an 'S' but it was still slightly loose on my finger. I couldn't take it anymore. So, I took a bit of my wire, pulled out my pliers, and began to wrap short lengths of wire around the ring. I guess this looks all right for this design of the ring because it's supposed to look.... grunge? I wouldn't use this method for more feminine designs. 


Now this ring fits really snugly on my finger and I LOVE IT! :D

I know there's something called the ring guard, but I'm not very sure if that would be a feasible idea for me. I'm sure I'd lose those tiny little pieces of plastic all the time. Do you guys have any other suggestions or advice? >_<

Must be the season of the witch

Cardigan (Beige Oversized Chunky Knitted Cardi): thrifted vintage
Dress ($5 Granny's Floral Dress): Ally, $4.99
Shoes: New Look, $19.90
Wishbone Necklace: Louisa, $3
Victorian-inspired Charm Bracelet: Diva, $5


Remember about the Mushroom Pickings bag that I made a short while ago? I said that I was making it for a friend. It was her birthday party last Friday and it was a birthday tea party! Yayy. I love tea parties.

The $5 dress + belt

Anyhoo, this is what I wore to the tea party. I don't usually wear dresses, but I have to confess that I have a couple of them lying in my wardrobe. Yes, I have a couple of dresses that I bought over a year ago which I have NOT worn at all. I'm just waiting for the right occasion to wear them. And guess what, this is a dress that I bought just a few days before the party. :P


As I have mentioned, I remix my wardrobe all the time. (Funny how I have new, unworn dresses in the wardrobe huh?) But I think I forgot to mention that I am also quite a frugal shopper. I love exploring shops with the big "SALE" signs plastered all over the glass windows. Seriously, you never really know what you're going to find. Take this dress for example. It was on sale for just $5 (or rather, $4.99). $5! $5! Can you believe it? I couldn't at all, especially after trying it out in the fitting room. How can such a lovely dress be reduced from $27.99 to $4.99? How can a dress of such incredible marked-down price still be available in my size!? All the forces of the Universe must have come together in an unprecedented event of the millennium on that magical day. Seriously, I don't reckon I'd score such a deal again in the near future.


I felt like a witch that day wearing my magical 'SALE' dress, wishbone necklace and charm bracelet. Come to think of it, I bought ALL of them when they were on sale. I try to be streetwise. :P

My wishbone necklace

1 <3 charm bracelets!

I didn't take a lot of pictures with the people there because I didn't know a lot of people there (at least at the start of the party), and I was stuffing my face with food the whole time. (Also, my hair was in a less-than-ideal state that day)

The birthday 'cake'

Macaroons in autumn colours

Come to think of it... I didn't try this! T_T

Little Teacup sets made from various sweets <3 boy, this was reaaaally sweet.

All right, stop staring at the sweets! (n_n)

IDEA: Assad Mounser's Rambler Long Necklace

(via)

Shake, rattle and roll

I attended a BBQ birthday lunch party thingy a week ago and this is what I wore. Erm, it's supposed to have a 50's rock 'n roll and rebel feel to it, which explains the title of my post. 

Shirt (Oversized gingham shirt): from Bangkok
T-shirt (READ T-shirt): random shop from Singapore, $10
Pants (Grey FOX pants): FOX Singapore, can't remember the price
Shoes (Doc Martens Wannabe): Rubi Shoes, $49.95

No idea why she's hugging my bag so tightly... but look, she's wearing the red beret I made! :D

Not sure if you guys remember, but I made a red beret for my friend as a present for her birthday. She really loves it! It was slightly small for her head initially, but I tugged the beret to make the opening bigger. It worked and the beret now fits her rather nicely!

And check out the awesome cake that she had! It's a giant cupcake! So I guess you can call it a cupcake-cake? Hah! Anyway, we didn't even bother to cut it and simple dug in with our forks. Double dip? Of course!

P.S.: Don't worry, I've already washed this READ t-shirt.

FO: Mushroom Pickings

Yes, so I've made another crochet item, for another friend of mine as a birthday present, once again. Three crochet FOs in a month! I don't think I'm going to crochet a while... and I think these birthdays are going to stop coming for a while... phew!

What do you guys think of this bag? I gave it to my friend at her birthday party today and I think she likes it! :D I was thinking of using a bright yellow for the bag initially, but then I thought my friend would prefer this colour. The pattern is from here. But if you compare my bag to the original version, it's slightly different because I used 8ply yarn instead of the prescribed 10ply. I also worked in rounds and didn't turn my work, except when I was almost finishing at the top. My handles are definitely different too because by the time I got to the handles, I was like, "pattern? schmattern!" and worked it out myself. 


Nevertheless, I really like how the bag turned out! It's really surprising to see that it turned out to be sooooo mori-esque! Mori is a japanese style of dressing that I am actually rather into. But I haven't really dressed in that manner... yet... Anyway, I named the bag "Mushroom Pickings" because I imagined that is a bag someone might carry when s/he goes into the forest to pick mushrooms. Heh.


Well, my rambling will stop here. Sorry that I have only have one pathetic picture of the bag to show you guys. It isn't even the actual end product because I haven't weaved the ends in yet when I took this picture. I do have a couple of other WIP pictures, but I decided that they were too awful... >_<

Oh, what the hell (The same coat over and over again)

Coat on!

Jacket (ICE blue jacket): ICE, $20
Blouse (Grey blouse with pearl and lace accent): from Bangkok

Skirt (Black and white floral skirt with peplum): random shop in Sydney, $7.50

Shoes: New Look, $19.90 (after wearing them for a year, they still give me blisters)

As you guys will come to realise, I remix my wardrobe a lot. By a lot, I mean, really, A LOT. So, why? Well, firstly, I don't have time to do laundry every weekend, so I wear the same coat several times over a span of a few weeks. I guess I probably shouldn't be washing my dirty laundry in public (no, not literally). But hey, it's so cold that I don't even secrete a single bead of sweat and I always smell so good. I think I should start tagging each individual clothing item so that people can see how I try to mix and match the same item over and over and over again. (And over again)


Another reason why I'm wearing this coat again and again is because ... I hate it. I know that doesn't make sense at all. I hate it and I'm wearing it again and again!? Well, I hate it, but I just wanna get all my money's worth before I dump it into one of those donation bins out there. I'm stingy like that. For anyone who's interested, I hate it because it is made of fleece and it looks so cheap. I must have been drunk when I bought it.

Last but not least, I'm a poor student who can't afford to spend my lunch money on materialistic goods all the time. So, I have to remix my wardrobe all the time. It's not a bad thing, really. It's fun.


All right, so that's all for now. Check out my new tags at the bottom of this post. 

NEW DIRECTION FOR CRAFT BLOG

As of today, this blog has become a style and craft blog. I have begun this revolution with a mini outfit post. I will continue to post other outfit posts that I usually post on my personal blog. I know I have been posting 'I WEAR DIY' posts, and some followers have told me that they like them a lot. (>_< thank you!), but the new outfit posts may or may not include clothing items that are DIY.


Perhaps I will also begin to post other more personal posts. I am getting sick and tired of managing 2 blogs. If I lose followers on this blog, then so be it.


I'm sorry that I didn't give any advance notice. This is a decision that I made just this morning. Erm... Does anyone have any comments?

Just the other day...

My friend said I looked "mature and all grown-up" with the shirt and coat ensemble paired with jeans and boots, and with those tiny sparkly ear studs. My hair was tied up in a bun and topped with a hearts barrette.


Jacket: ICE, $20
T-shirt: random shop in Singapore, $10

FO: The Pur-bo Bag and The Be-red

For the past 2 weeks, I have been working my crochet hook like MAD because 2 of my friends' birthday are coming up this week and I planned on making something for them as presents. Actually, one of them is celebrating her birthday tonight (Friday) and the other one is having a BBQ lunch tomorrow. I'm only going for the one tomorrow. 


Ok, you're probably not interested in that much details. Enough of all that jabber. Now, photos! 


First up, the purple hobo bag, aka The Pur-bo bag:

I made a few changes to the original pattern by Stephanie Gage because I was running out of the purple yarn and there was no way that I could get a ball of this yarn from the same colour lot, since I bought the yarn ages ago. So I made a few changes to the pattern in order to accommodate my yarn shortage: 

Close-up

• 18 rows of the dc instead of the 20 in the pattern 
• 4 rows of sc at the top of the bag instead of the 5 in the pattern 
• 1 strap with the width of 7 sc instead of the 2 straps made using 4 sc each as stated in the pattern 

I thought it would look ugly with all the changes I have made. But it did not! I even feel like making one for myself now! But I shall not and must not, lest I end up with too many knitted/crochet hobo bags.

WIP

Next up, the red beret aka The Be-red:

This is the first time that I made a crochet hat. All my previous hats were knitted. When I completed this pattern by creativeyarn, I thought, "what!? that's it!?" I was quite disappointed as the opening was really too big and the beret did not have the slouch that I expected from the photos. Am I missing something about crochet hats here? Nevertheless, I continued with 1 more round to make the opening smaller:

• Round 19: sc 1, sc2tog, rep to end

Unfortunately, that did not help and I ended up with something that is slightly tight. It's either too loose or too tight... I decided to go with the latter. I guess it's cuter to see a little hat perching on a head? I might be wrong... >_<


So, I'm really not quite sure what I feel about this crochet beret. I have a feeling that it might not fit my friend's head because the crochet ends are quite tight. Maybe it's better to knit hats to give them the ability to stretch rather than to crochet...


But that said, I might still make one for myself...Might...

WIP