I HATE SEWING MACHINES!!

I've got so many things I want to make lately! but I can't do half of them until I can get this flipping sewing machine working!! AAHH!! its REALLY annoying me! Maple and I have decided that we will make scarfs together, and her gran is gona teach us :) Ha ha, once we spent the whole of lunch time talking about knitting, Harry Potter world (which we will one day go to!) and tea! I love my friends!

anywho, its Frankie Friday!! Yay!

and since I'm in such a generous mood, I'll throw in a quote for ya:

Interviewer: Okay, now onto to more unusual questions that I like to ask at all interviews. First off all, if you guys were stranded on a desert island, with no food and nothing to eat, which one of the band members would you eat to survive?

Frank: Wow. Oh man. It definitely wouldn’t be Mikey, because he’s got nothing. I don’t know. I wouldn’t eat Gerard or Bob because they are just great company, and I wouldn’t eat Toro because he’d probably be the one to figure out a way off the island. So I’d probably have to eat my own leg.

I'm so desperate to make something, I'm actually considering sewing a whole dress by hand!! No, I'm not gona sew something small until I get this stupid machine sorted out like a rational person, I'm gona sew a freaking dress. Logic's for losers.

Projects

Well I've finished quite a few of my projects. Besides the dolls, but I'm thinking of saving them for the holidays. Now I have lots of new projects. I'm hoping to make some more tutorials. I've decided that I want to learn to knit, you know, so I'll be prepared for when I'm 80 :) Just joking, I only wana knit because I want to make myself a harry Potter scarf, but I was trying to find a picture of one, and there are like three different kinds!

I'm thinking of making the one in the first picture, though I think it will be a bit more of a challenge.
Also, It happens to be my best friends (sorry Maple, I mean bro, bro is higher than best friend!) and my sisters birthday next Saturday. So I'm gona do some baking on the weekend so I can make them both cupcakes. I've got lots of cute pictures to base them off, Sarah wants ones that look like sushi! Ans I'm making Maple maple syrup flavour :)


aaaaand, I wanted to make some domo kun cookies.....and do my sose homework.....and procrastinate doing my sose homework....

damn, it's only tuesday! Three weeks left of school until the holiday!! :)

Kels xoxo

Harry Potter Last Trailer EVER!! :(

I'm really excited, but really sad at the same time!!

Frankie Friday!!

It's that time of the week again, this week went quick! Just got back from Amy's birthday party at Dark Zone, it was pretty fun! There was a vest thingy with the name Dracula, and Amy was like "Kelsey, take this one!" ha ha, she knows me too well :) It was her birthday yesterday, but happy birthday Amy!!

Funny photo I got of me and Amy today :)

Frank!! A lot of people are gona be away on my birthday because of a school trip, so I've decided I will have a Halloween/Franks birthday party on Halloween! sounds like a good plan to me!! although I'll have to decide between dressing up as a zombie, Frank of Frankenstein.... probably Frank!!

I decided to go with this picture, because all day my sister and I have been sending each other pictures of us pulling ridiculous faces on our phones. I also got my friends involved, my phone is full of hilarious photos, though they'd kill me if I posted them :(

Kels xoxo

Skeleton Kigurumi

I really want a skeleton kigurumi like Gerard has...and not just because he has one! You can buy them here but they cost $60. They look like this, they are the exact same as Gerard's

I was considering buying a cheaper plain black one, and then sewing on the white parts, but I think that might look a little bit tacky. But I dunno, still an option. I'm kind of putting off making the dolls, because it will be really fiddly and I can't really be bothered with that at the moment. I will eventually make them though.

Amy's birthday tomorrow, her peanut butter cupcakes are in the oven right now, they smell good :)

Well I've gota get back to my shit load of homework now. Fun for me...teachers just don't want us to have a life....

Kels xoxo

Bad Day :(

I am having an awful day today... when I got home from school, well, the following picture says it all....

Although this did make me feel quite a lot better!! :)



MWAH HA HA HA!!

Kels xoxo

My Panda is Complete!!

I got to finish my panda today! I was sewing last night, I can tell you now, do not sew when you are tired. Your fingers will pay for it :( I sewed this by hand, it took quite a while. But I am so excited, my Nanna gave me her sewing machine because she doesn't want it anymore, she got really frustrated because she forgot how to thread it and stuff. I can finally learn to sew properly!! I'm doing sewing in school next term too.

I don't have a tutorial for it, I'm not really the best person to be learning from anyway!

It kind of looked like an egg when I was laying the material out. It reminded me of Humpty Dumpty! :)

And this is what it looks like finished. I'm not entirely happy with the way it turned out, but I have basically no sewing experience, so it's the best I could do. I think I started sewing in year 2, just for fun. I used to sew little bags, that was about all I could do so you were bound to find at least 2 little sewn bags in every draw in the house!!

Him/her (haven't quite figured out which yet!) in their new home :) It needs a name...

I'm considering giving it a bow tie, bow ties make things at least 10 time cuter, example:

As much as I'd love to say this is my cat...it's not. I don't have a cat, I have a dog though and he's just as adorable!! He's a bit fat though....

Kels xoxo

Project Progress

Well I've finished one of my projects, I went to the shops and bought the material for my MCR dolls, and some material for a panda pillow I'm gona make for my room. I was also gona get some material to make a bow tie, but I forgot, and the line was too long anyway :(

I did get some awesome vintage style dress patterns from the op shop today. Hopefully I can get my sewing skills up to scratch to make them, because they are far from it!! 

I got most of what I wanted to get done today done. Now I've got to start on my panda pillow and make a pare of Luna Lovegood earrings for Maple. Ahh!! So little time!!

Kels xoxo

Saddle Shoes Tutorial

I was able to get around to making my diy saddle shoes today. I am quite happy with how they turned out. They are really simple, but a little bit time consuming. Well, at least they were for me, probably because I'm so clumsy and didn't want to get any black on the parts I wanted white :)

you will need:
a pair of white canvas shoes
a black sharpie
black paint (I just used acrylic, I will water proof them after with water proofing spray)
some pain brushes, one fine and one larger

First, out line the holes and the border of the area you want to paint black with a sharpie.

Then paint around the border with a fine paint brush (the first photo was taken after this step)

Then just fill in the middle of the area with the larger pain brush.

Sorry about the lighting, I had to wait for then to dry so it was taken in the afternoon. I should point out that I used laces from another pair of shoes, I wasn't happy with the other ones, these one are thinner and rounded. I think they look better.

finished result

I'm wearing my new dress from hot topic :) So they're not exactly like saddle shoes, but good enough for school!

Kels xoxo

Frankie Friday!!

Yay! It's Friday! I've got lots of stuff I wana get done this weekend, like hitting the craft store...yes I am aware of how daggy that sounds. I'm itching to do some sewing lately, so hopefully I will be able to post some tutorials, not that I'm much of an expert myself!!

I'd like to see Maple say he's not hot now!  The writing at the top!! :) I only just noticed that he's wearing a stud in his nose, not a ring! ha ha, it looks kinda odd because I'm used to seeing the ring.  I really want my nose pierced with a ring like he used to have, I can't believe he took all his piercings out!! :( 

I'm really excited bout all the projects I'm planning :)

Kels xoxo

The Little Fox

I love the little fox, I have some of her artwork in my room that i bought off her etsy shop. It took me so long to pick which 2 I wanted, but I really like the ones I got.

Sorry, these photos aren't the best but the light was being annoying! :)
There's a give away on until the end of June, so if you want to win you can go to her site here.

Kels xoxo

Me Too MCR, Me Too!!

I bet Gerard wears his pink feather boa!! This makes me wish I had pink things :(

DIY Saddle Shoes

I love saddle shoes! They're so cute! I had this idea to make diy saddle shoes, they won't look like proper saddle shoes, but I  think they will look alright for school. I'm just gona use cheap canvas shoes, because then I don't have to worry bout messing them up and they will be comfy.

I found this old ad, I also found out that they were first used because you needed flat shoes for the jitterbug! :)

I'm going to make them this weekend, hopefully they work out OK!

Kels xoxo

Fun!! :)

Fortune cookies +  peach ice tea +  friends + a massive game of hide and seek in K-mart  = a freaking awesome afternoon! Now I'm just, ya know, sitting here in my MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE T-SHIRT THAT ARRIVED TODAY IN THE MAIL!! I literally only just stopped dancing a few minutes ago! :) I got it from hot topic with some other stuff, including my harry potter wallet :) I will post photos tomorrow.

Projects

I need some new craft projects...that makes me sound like a granny!! I've decided that I'm gona make some my chem dolls like these ones

I'm not sure if I want to make Danger Days my chem, Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge is my favourite album, so maybe I'll do the revenge era.

and I also want to make Narutos sleeping hat, I've been wanting to make that for a while.

There are forty something volumes of Naruto so far, and I've only read 6! They're quite hard to get in aus though.

I'm probably gona have a go at the dolls first, should be fun!! :)

Kels xoxo

Gerard Ways Age

My friend Maple asked me how old Gerard is today. Well...

He says he's 34, but I'm pretty sure he's lying to us!!

Oh and by the way Maple, look at this!!

Curse the lucky people who live there! I wonder if there's Mikey Way, Linz Way and Bandit Way too?!

While I'm on the subject of the Gerard, this is god when he was making Gerard:

Oh Gerard, how I love you so! :)

Kels xoxo

Kitty Cats!! :)

Today I got up at 4:30 so I could go to the swap meet with my bro Maple. It was really fun, but it was freezing!! Afterwards we met my friend Amy at the shops, and we all got our faces painted! :) Cats turned out to be our 'theme of the day' according to Maple, so we all got different coloured cats!

Me, Maple and Amy :)

We look a bit like butterflies. I look kinda evil, but I still think it's a nice photo. Maple pointed out that we don't actually do much shopping, we just mainly eat!! We tried popcorn jelly beans today, they were yum!

Kels xoxo

Dirigible Plum Earrings

The release date for Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows part 2 is July 13th, which is still a while away :(
But I had nothing much to do today, so I made my radish (dirigible plum) earrings that Luna Lovegood wears. I've made them before but I think this time was a bit more successful.

I used this as a guide, although I made it smaller, used orange instead of pink, and used a large green bead instead of making them. Also this shows how to thread the wire, which is kinda confusing at first!
You just need some beading wire, some beads (the amount depends on the size) and some earring pieces. Pretty simple really.

These are the first ones I made. I gave them to one of my sisters friends.

And these are the ones I made today. Ok, so they're basically the same, but these ones were a bit stiffer, and basically just made better!! I'm quite happy with how they turned out. I also made the necklace, but I'll post that another time.

Kels xoxo

I Feel So Sick!

Yay! It's Friday, though it doesn't feel like it. Today after school I went with Amy and Maple to go and get pizza, hence me wanting to throw up now...maybe that's because we drank lots of ice coffee too :) I think that can also explain why we laughed our heads off!! We ordered the pizza under the name 'schnitzzail', the lady gave us a funny look and we said it was south Eurasian!



That's me on the left, looking like a spaz because I was laughing, Amy's head poking over the top, it was really hard to get three of us in :) Even though we crammed the three of us into one of those passport photo booths!! It must have looked hilarious! And that's my bro Maple (the bro thing is a loooong story), she wasn't sure about me posting pictures of her, but now she said yes, so I will bombard you with her beauty!

I've decided to start Frankie Friday! A little bit of Frank Iero to brighten up every Friday :) The very first Frankie Friday, how exciting!! enjoy :)

I know it's not the best photo, but I promise I'll have a better one next week! Today was really fun, I have the best friends, It's a shame that Amy (I have two friends named Amy, it gets really confusing!) and Milicia couldn't come though.

Happy Frankie Friday!!

Kels xoxo

Best. Quote. Ever.

We’d be in a truck stop bathroom, putting makeup on. We did it because we had one mission—to polarize, to irritate, to contaminate. It’s like, who’s the toughest guy in the club? Us, because we’re dressed like fucking cupcakes.

-Gerard Way

First Day Of Winter!! :)

Yay! I love winter!! We had a big science test today, and I was so freaked, then it started to bucket down with rain which made me feel heaps better! Also it drowned out everybody talking. I really wish it snowed here. When me and my family went to Japan we stayed in Hakuba, which I think the winter Olympics were held there one year. It snowed so much, even the people who lived there said it was really heavy.

That's my Mum, and my Dads in the background.

Geez, just sitting there minding your own business and BAM! snow ball in the back of your head while your Dad watches and laughs and your mum takes a photo!! That's my sister Sarah, the culprit.

Innocently playing with the snow, actually shaping snow balls for my revenge!!

When we first got there, we ran outside and started messing about with the snow, and there was a Japanese couple with a little boy, and the boy started crying because he wanted come outside and play with us!! Naw!:)

Kels xoxo