Quick beading

My niece (yes, it  must be my niece's week last week) had her BFF (yes, I'm using teeenager's talk too!) over for a couple of days. While waiting for her to arrive, I played with more seed beeds and made this:

There is actually one mistake: I have forgotten one bead somewhere. Who will find where?

Sunday interlude

It will be only my tonight guys. Madame L was busy so her nails shall be done later this week.

I bought a few new varnishes at Kiko during the week and here is the first one. It is almost nude (I applied 2 or 3 coats) but sparkly at the same time. I like the effect as I think it can match any clothes or accessories and it is quite elegant. I had to add something on my ring finger just for fun and because I had never tried to "cross" such lines before.

The colour is nº303 "Beige Chrome"

Hope you all had a great weekend. From all my posts, you can see that I certainly did!

Baby shower

As I am going to be an auntie (again) in a few days now, yesterday we organised a surprise baby shower for my twin. We invited her close friends, got some nice little cakes, drinks (non alcoholics, of course) and that was it! We had a great girly time.

Still as part of the Sneak Preview post from last week, you can now see what picture nº3 was about.
Ta-daaaaaa! Or Voilà! (because I am French after all)

I made a diaper cake. My first ever and I am (excuse my French here) damn proud of it. Especially the bows that I have made myself with ribbons, included the rose which was also a first.

With that amount of diapers, she should be covered for the first....few days or weeks I guess? Lol

It's so hard to say goodbye

Maybe some of you will remember this song from Boyz II Men. It was a long time ago...on their first album. I love this album!

Anyway, I am not saying goodbye to you but to my dear old Panasonic camera:

I finally got a "real" one (that's what my boyfriend calls it). I got all excited when I went to buy it but it was out of stock so had to wait two days to collect it. But it is finally mine. I now have the tedious task of reading the manual guide and learn how to use it. For someone who has always had little digital cameras....it is not easy!

Say hello to my Nikon Coolpix P510! Isn't it gorgeous? I love it :-)

My niece's birthday

My little baby turned 10 a few days ago and we celebrated it last weekend. For the occasion, her mum, Madame L, worked really hard on making her the cake she wanted. She didn't ask for the simplest thing no! She asked for nothing less than a Rainbow Cake!

For her first attempt, it was pretty good and looked very nice. It has to be the highest cake I have ever seen though lol

And if you remember the post I made last week with a Sneak Preview of what I am up to at the moment, well one of them was my niece's birthday present. So here it is!

She wanted some mittens with a flap, which I had never done before. Those babies took me forever to make. Seriously! I had to start them again 7 or 8 times. At one point, I even managed to knit the right hand twice! Unfortunately....it seems they are a bit too tight on her: that's what happens when you knit something as a surprise and can't try them on the person's hands as you knit along. But they were OK on my hands so I don't get it! So anyway, I got her a doll the next day lol But I am still proud of what I have knitted as this cable stitch was the trickiest I had done so far.

PS: Oh! you will have noticed that those pictures are quite...artistic. That is thanks to my wonderful nephew who spent his Sunday afternoon and evening with me to help me undertsand how to work on my pictures. One day you might see some good quality ones on here, yes!

That's all for today :-)

Sunday interlude

Simple design tonight. I improvised as I did not have time to try anything on my nails this week.

In soft light

 

More details in bright light

I have used Kiko "Steel Grey Holographic" ( nº400)

That's all for today :-)
Hope you had a nice weekend

Forgive me Fimo for I have been unfaithful...

I have been playing with seed beads for two weeks now...and I love it.

Actually, seed beads are what made me fall in love with Fimo, so I can't be such a bad person, can I?
I started making jewellery with those beads and one day was a bit annoyed at not always finding the designs I wanted so looked for a way of making my own. This is how Fimo came into my life. And we have been together since 2011.

I had forgotten seed beads for a long time and felt like using them again. So here is my first necklace of 2012 (two months away from 2013, it might be the last lol)

I have used tubular peyote stitch for it. For a first try, I am happy with the result. What do you think?

That's all for today :-)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

I do miss my Fimo...a lot! I think I might be in some sort of rehab at the moment which is why I try to find other things to do.
I have been seeing something called Cold Porcelain for a little while on the Internet and thought I could try it.

Just a little ghost (for now), who has not been careful enough and met the evil spider.

That's all for today :-)
I wish you all a Freaky Day!

Sneak preview

That's all for today :-)

(Belated) Sunday interlude

Oops! I prepared this post last night and clicked on "Publish" but just realised it was never published. Not sure what happened there :-(

So you have it this morning. It's ok though: just pretend it it Sunday night, your are in your PJs and reading this from your bed before falling asleep....

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As it is Halloween this week, Halloween nails are compulsory, but not the snow :-( Yes, we had snow over here yesterday. The temperature dropped just like that. It is freezing. And it is not even November...

Anyway, I've done a few trials last week and we went for this design: here are Madame L's nails

I have used the following colours:

Kiko Pearly Orange (235)



Kiko Lime Green (268)

And here is mine:

I have used the same Pearly Orange and Lime Green as above plus the Kiko Jungle Green (392) as main colour.



That's all for today :-)
Hope you all had a nice weekend!

A new button

Hi guys,

In case you hadn't noticed, I have added a new button on my blog: a Pinterest "Pin it" one (took me a while to figure out how to lol).

You will find it at the bottom of my signature at the end of each post.

If you have a Pinterest account and you find some of the things I do absolutely great, you can finally add it to your board. I know, I am just that nice!

That's (really) all for today :-)
See?! it's just below, I told you

A nice day out

I went to the park with my sister, my niece and her best friend. It started as a very cold day but in the end, we had a great time. I even discovered a race I had never heard about before: the Red Panda.
Isn't that the cutest thing you have ever seen?! You just feel like cuddling it. And it is just as big as your average dog I would say. So cute

 

Then there was this bear. Quite funny...and chilled by the look of it! He took the pose for some pictures, then climbed up the tree and stayed there, looking at us and smelling the air. We couldn't smell anything but it looks like there was something really yummy around as the other bear was smelling it too!

Of course, I couldn't post without a little something jewellery wise. You know me, huh?
If you follow the trend, you must have heard about Shamballa bracelets: they are everywhere at the moment. So thought I would give it a try as I had the thread, and also some beads and discs I made during the summer. What do you think? Do not be afraid to comment. That's what also helps bloggers like me to improve in their work....and to post as well :-)

This will not be my only attempt, for sure.

That's all for today :-)

What to do with this?

Oh boy! I have all those beads and (sort of) pendants I made in the last few months: they have been in my "let's save this for later, I have a more interesting project to start" box. You know what I am talking about!

I even have necklace I started but then kept on thinking that something was missing so I could not finish it. To this day, I still don't know what is missing!! But at least I have some jewellery to do I guess until I can take my pasta machine out again.

I did not put all the beads I have...or this post would have been much, much longer...

That's all for today :-)