Tokyo Banana DIY

tokyo banana struck me as the cutest thing EVER when i first saw it.

so i decided to make a keychain of the tokyo banana giraffe!

my keychain without the ribbon.

Materials required:

Brown felt

Cream felt

Polyester filling

Ribbon

Sewing kit

1. Print and trace the pattern pieces onto the felt.

2. Cut and sew the individual brown spots onto one of the cream pieces.

3. Sew the 2 cream pieces together.

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DIY Elastic Body Harness

so i was on tumblr and chanced upon body harnesses. they are oh so gorgeous and can get crazy creative. although it does seem a little dramatic for singapore, i couldnt resist and made some myself.

materials:

elastic about 1" in width

studs

a hoop

needle and thread

as i dont have a body form, my method of making sure it fits consists of me putting it on and measuring the lengths of each strap multiple times. also, to reduce the hassle of numbering the straps, i simply cut them out only when i need them.

do take note that the elastic is facing the right side up and not twisted else it can get frustrating to unpick the stitches and re-sew.

also, make sure there is enough head space at the halter so you dont end up with a harness which cant be fitted over your head.

for this tutorial, im making a halter body harness with an inverted pentagram.

you can choose to add studs or leave them plain.

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Tattoo Choker DIY

Handmade Tattoo Chokers by me at:
Dust In Mouth

so recently i am obsessed with tattoo chokers. you now, those 90's kids accessories that EVERY cool kid had? yuppp. they are now making a come-back in a lot of harajuku looks.

but since they are not very mainstream these days, the prices on etsy, ebay etc are all jacked up to ridiculous amounts. and much as i was obsessed with it, i refuse to pay $35 for something that used to go for a dollar just cause of a fad.

so i decided to make my own. AND IT WORKED.

here is my take on the tattoo choker/bracelet/ring using fishing line. stuff that comes in 50m packs for $3.50.

 sadly, i could not find lines in black. this reel has 10m of 5 colors. blue, red, green, yellow and clear. quite an awesome steal at $3.50. got it at the hardware store near my house.

the end product!

note that for a bracelet, it does stretch quite abit so a knot chain length of 8cm was sufficient for me. getting consistent tension and knot length is very important. else it ends up looking very messy and bleh.

if you just feel like buying them instead, do support me at:

Dust In Mouth

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Cupcake-frosted Cookie Keychain

every year since forever, i would hand-make something for my aunt's christmas gift. each year it will be stitched, drawn, modelled or painted. and she would display all of it prettily in a cabinet. all of it filled with my stuff. hahaha. idea sourcing normally start in november for her present.

this year i made an assortment of felt cookies for her to hang on keys etc!

my pumpkin needle cushion. hehh.

all my felt these days are bakery colored.

done in 15mins!!! great time passer. great in the sense that my mom loves these too. so they are great for pacifying her in events when i piss her off. hahaha.

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Simple Christmas Cards DIY

IT'S DECEMBERRR. which means CHRISTMAS. yes yes. i'm one of those who celebrate christmas as a purely commercial festivity. an excuse to get all my supplies together to make cards for people i care about. sort of a mushy card to thank them for them being them. so if you get a mushy card and get goosebumps reading them, too bad. HAHAHA. (●￣(ｴ)￣●)/

scissors, glue and paper is all you need! kinda.

i've had this zigzag scissors since primary school. still working super well!

cut various stripes of zigzag and straight lines.

glue them all onto a different colored sheet.

hole punch some red paper for baubles.

cut the tree out!

i used glitter polish for this cause i ran out of craft glitter. not too bad since the shimmers are smaller.

there were other variations of colors but i thought green+red was the most festive! the rest looked like christmas on LSD though so i scrapped them. hahaha.

ah. my new hello kitty nails + pink + glitter. i kind of feel this saccharine overdose everytime i look at it. but not enough to regret. hahaha.

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Eye bag Makeup

FINALS HAVE ENDED. this semester was insane. yet it is the first semester which i felt i actually learnt anything of use. so that's good i guess. (●´∀｀●)

one thing from it was also eye bags. insane eye bags and dark rings.

so about eye bags, there is a new(?) trend in japan where makeup is actually used to enhance eye bags rather than conceal. and i was wondering why. how could eye bags possibly be great? so i tried it out.

Eye-bag Tutorial:

add off-white highlighter across eye-bag, creamy ones are better.

using a brown shadow that is about 2 shades darker than skin tone, swipe it on the crease. blend a bit but not too much else it just looks like eye rings.

since i already have eye bags, not that much of a difference. though strangely the eye bags which make a person look more tired does create the illusion of bigger eyes? (●￣(ｴ)￣●) since eye bags are part of the natural eye area, so extending/emphasizing the eye bags does make the eye proportionately bigger compared to the other features.

one side with one without. the left side of the picture is the side without, but uhm. i naturally have bad ones from the past month so yea.

with the lines drawn, it is quite significant! (」゜ロ゜)」

ok, end of post. hahaha. was just bored and curious about the trend. as strange as it sounds, it does make the eyes look bigggerrrr.

can't wait to read the books i just borrowed from the library. do you know the loan quota now is 12 books?! i went insane. lugged back 10 super heavy books with my groceries but so happy. hehh.

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Black Nails

pastel nails got boring after awhile so i went and got some black polish! downside of black nails for me is that i look like a emo/goth kid since i wear black mostly to begin with. hahaha.

from black french which got boring in a day. so i added the zebra stripes. it was from a nail sticker, kind of an instant manicure with art. then the bling joined.

when the previous nails started chipping, i painted them full black. which looked dreary so i added some gold stripes. ahhh. i miss long nails!

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Learning Blender in a crunch

while taking cs4342, to be honest i learnt everything about Blender from Youtube to complete my assignments. perhaps the teaching styles didn't match, but i didn't feel that labs were helpful at all.

get Blender here: http://www.blender.org/

so after prowling Youtube for hours to learn from scratch what Blender is and such, I have compiled a list of Youtube tutorials for Blender which i found were succinct and great! i can be impatient so these videos are mostly shorter than 20mins.

first up, cgboorman is awesome to the max! ♥ he has a series of tutorials covering various topics and they are all clear and easy to follow.

check out his channel here: http://www.youtube.com/user/cgboorman

Character UV mapping by cgboorman:

Simple Animation by TheMrGoman:

Modelling a human by RivenPhoenix:

Animating paths by ianscott888:

Export animation by Daniel Kreuter:

Blender also has a video editing function which is very easy to use with it's drag and drop function.

and this is how i survived my 3d modelling module assignments. with the power of Youtube! i'm not good at it but at least i could scrape pass i guess. (T▽T)

nice songs always help make modelling less tedious:

she is ♥

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Hello Kitty Pastel Dots Nails Tutorial

if you want these nails, follow this super easy tutorial!

 

i used a gold glitter for kitty's nose cause i've no yellow. For black, i used a Sharpie. not ideal since it bleeds so use black polish if you have it!

i like straighter squarish nails cause they look more neat.

repeat this step if your polish is sheer/thinner.

toothpicks are inexpensive and perfect for dotting, especially those with a flat end.

when it all dried, i applied about 2-3 coats of Canmake's Gel Top coat. My nails are quite thin and normal top coats are fine but this gel top coat is awesome! it gives the semi-illusion of gel nails. of course it wont be as thick(maybe if you applied like 10 coats...) but there is visible thickness after 3 and i love the shine! normal top coats do seal everything in but with this, your nails get "evened out" since it is thick and i only painted the tips. yupp. awesome awesome. plus it dries rather fast. do make sure everything is dried before applying your top coat to prevent any smudging. mine did a bit.

ps. i got these washi tape etc in my resource folder for a very long time so i'm not too sure where i got them from. if you made them and want credits etc please email me thanks!

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