New wardrobe - allmost a walkin

I've got a new closet, or in reality it's not new, I just rearranged it, getting more space with the ones I had already. The closets are about 20 years old and originates from my parents old apartment on Frederiksberg, later they moved with us to my parents house where they all so moved around. Finally they have moved with me to my apartment. Talk about reusing your stuff. They aren't the prettiest sight I've ever seen and actually not that roomy, since they are to deep to utilize reasonably. Next step is probably some white paint, since they have a yellowish glow over them. Right now though, I just feel like I'm in heaven with all the space that got created.

Here's the result in a Gif, more pictures and explanation (including Danish part of the post) to follow after the jump.

New light

I've been creative today (I was creative yesterday too).
Today I created a lampshade for the new living room/bedroom (we haven't decided yet, but what the hell). I must admit the idea wasn't my own, I followed the tutorial from The 3 R's blog. Though I chose to colour mine, I really need to choose between the British and the American way to write colour/color word soon, but it's not that obvious from neither the photo or in reality unfortunately. Well the colour/color of choice is green.
And here my version is, a little more messy than the original I think.

I really like it.
And in daylight:

It reminds me slightly of old sixties laps like Koglen by PH and the Pineapple by Frank Kerdils.

What did I make yesterday? Well, that must be for another post.

Tues-diy, dress

I bought this dress in a second-hand shop last year, the thing I fell for was the bold pattern. I started some serious remaking and came up with something wearable and cute!

First a couple of before photos:

Not something you would like to wear? Me neither.

Then the big cut and sew adventure started, it's not the first of this kind of dresses/cleaning smocks I have re-sown

 

I chose a baby-doll look, i measured myself from my shoulders and to right under my breast's, a couple of centimetres seam allowance and snip snip.  

How to cut off sleeves without losing to much fabric.

 You have to cut of the sleeves before fitting the top, it gets weird and clumsy if you don't.

Fitted, it can be a bit hard to fit stuff to yourself, if you can get help get it! 

I made the shoulders narrower with pleats, you can choose to just cut of excess fabric depends on what kind of look you're going for.

There is a big hole where I didn't take any pictures, but the finishing steps was:

1. Adding the sleeves again, pleating them at the shoulders (the armhole became smaller after the fitting) that gave them a puffy look.
2. Drawing and painting the anchor on the skirt (important, I did this before sewing the skirt and top part together, SO much easier)
3. Adding the skirt, making sure it started where I wanted (right under the boobies ^_^).
4. Making a belt  of the residue fabric.

DONE:

Who's pale? I don't know what my camera did, but I kinda like it!

In a more normal light.

Tues-diy, jar-dyeing

This is not my project, but I really like the outcome. Found it on BURDA-style through their newsletter:

Link to tutorial and more pictures

The shoes are what I like the most!
I'm defenately going to try this at a point, maybe with yarn!
Wow that was a lot of post's, you can really feel that I don't have any classes on Tuesdays (I know it's after 12 and not really Tuesday, but I'm in denial of that).

Wishes!!

I have a dangerous addiction, ASOS, like so many other girls!
When I checked my mail today I found one of the usual ASOS update mails and fell a little bit in love with this dress from reverse:

Link

I shouldn't even look at ASOS, I'm fixing my apartment and using money on that!! 

OH I fell for this as well:

Link

SO cute, the for the button corset belt thingie is amazing!

On the apartment front: I am almost at the point where I'm going to paint all the cabinets in my kitchen red! YAY

Outfit

I'm the biggest copycat ever, I'm going to start posting outfits from time to time, when I put something together that I'm particularly pleased about. Today it's this outfit:

Cap: H&M.   T-shirt: Monki.   Dress: unknown discount label (with new red buttons)

I know, I know, horrible mirror picture! I promise that when I move into my apartment I will come up with something better! And I will start saving money for a real camera! But for now It's all I have.

 Well admitted, a necklace would spiff up the outfit, and i really need to knit some red legvarmers, since It's to cold to wear a dress right now in Denmark without legwarmers.

Yep, no make-up, since I'm just going to spent the day fixing things in my new kitchen and make it ready for painting (and waiting for delivery of my oven) there's no reason for make-up. actually I often have whole weeks where I don't do make-up, mostly be-course I would rather sleep ten minutes more in the morning!

Tues-diy, sorry

I know, I'm horrible at this right now, my studies are taking a lot of my time, and even though Tuesday should be the day where I'm well rested and filled with energy, but after 8 hours at work and 6 hours of sleep that just not near the way I really feel. So, even though I want to share some great pictures of my home knitted socks I'm going to share some old picture one more time. Hopefully there will be nice colourful sock pictures!

It's mostly handmade, but some parts are sewn on machine. Anyone said steam punk pirate?
I got inspiration by searching on Tricorn on google, crafters, etsy and so on. It makes me happy every time i look at it, but I still need to find a really good way to keep it on the head, and some nice hairstyles to wear it with.