Had a picnic with Arissa and a few friends today. Perfect excuse to dress all idyllic and act all summer-like. Times like these make me want to buy a hat with a huge, floppy brim, although I do not actually have any practical use for them.
Also, I realized that Gladiator sandals are extremely 2008, if not earlier, but I do not have the heart to retire this pair of wedges.
I received this in the mail about 2 weeks ago. A T-shirt with illustration by Danny Roberts from Igor+Andre. His “Blogger series” illustrations are beautiful, featuring the most awesome fashion bloggers around.
It is a little bigger than my usual T-shirts but I do enjoy the comfort of rolling around in big T-shirts occasionally.
And I love this boyfriend blazer which I bought yesterday from Mphosis.
Outfit rundown:
As promised, this is our first DIY tutorial for the Ann Demeulemeester feather headband which I was wearing in this post.
You will need:
The wires I have selected are a 20 gauge and a 18 gauge as I find them malleable but yet strong enough to maintain the shape.
Dawn has done an awesome job of classifying my feathers, they either curve right or curve left.
First you need to measure your head circumference. My head is pretty small (I’m not kidding, I can wear kid sized hats) so I’m not going to give you an estimate length. Just wind the wire around your head, leave some allowance, then cut the wire.
After you have done so, wind the wires around each other. How nice or how ghetto the end product will look depends on you. Being sort of OCD, I have made sure they look pretty decent.
You should end up with something that looks pretty much like this.
It could’ve looked better, let’s just pretend we didn’t have the time to clean up the work.
Moving on, cut a piece of the thinner wire (about 10-15cm long) to make the framework for the feathers to go on. They can be longer or shorter depending on how you’d like them to look. The best bet is both estimation and experimentation. I would go with a longer length so in case of mistakes, I could just cut the excess away.
Wind it around the base like so.
The aim is to create a triangle, sorta like a Shark’s fin.
Do the same to the other side and you should end up with something that looks like this.
Next we arrange the feather onto the framework and adjust and trim it accordingly since no 2 feathers are alike. We would aim to make the both sides of the headband look symmetrical.
There will be 2 feathers on each side so it kinda sandwiches the wire frame. It also looks neater this way. Once you’re happy with the 2 feathers, pile on the glue on one of them.
And stick the other feather on top of it, making sure that the wire frame is sandwiched nicely in between.
Some parts of the glue may be showing. If you’re using a glue like mine that dries clear, do not panic. Otherwise, there’s always a marker you could use to colour over it.
Trim off the excess.
And it should end up looking like this right now.
Rinse and repeat.
Your end product should look like this.
Somewhat looking like the pic I nicked from Luisaviaroma.
Much love and thanks to Dawn who has been the one documenting this tutorial. Her photos are awesome aren’t they
We were lucky to have nice lighting yesterday when taking pictures; I really love this set.
To echo Arissa’s sentiments, we are really sorry for the lack of updates. Work/school has been unkind to us lately, but be assured that we will make up for the lack of updates with more posts in the near future. Hopefully.
I scored the flocked chiffon dress for dirt cheap from a little store sometime back, and I wished I have gotten the inversed colourway as well.
Hi everyone,
sorry for the lack of posts. I’ve been accumulating stuff I wanna post but I guess I’m too much of a procrasinator.
FEAR NOT for it has been a productive day today. Dawn and I snapped some pictures while we were out.
I’m loving these Ann Demeulemeester lookalike laced up boots from Jeffrey Campbell for LF stores. And then there are these awesome Rodarte inspired stockings I scored from MisoPervy from Etsy. I’m also wearing these Ann Demeulemeester A/W 2009 inspired feather headbands which was featured in my last post which I will be posting a tutorial on once Dawn hands over the photos. I’m also wearing an Ann Demeulemeester vest which I got from Ebay. It’s been an awesome online shopping aura I have.
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