Packing and stuff

I've been trying all day to get my act together and start packing my suitcase. Instead I have had my head buried in a book (Someplace to be flying - Charles de Lint, if your curious). As always I'm in last minute, since I'm flying out tomorrow to Lisbon. It's going to be the first vacation together with the boyfriend. Does anyone know some places I should go in Lisbon? Any good fashion museums, flea markets or streets filled with fabric stores? Maybe something else?

Jeg har brugt min dag på at (forsøge) at tage mig sammen til at pakke. I stedet for har jeg brugt min dag på at læse (someplace to be flying - Charles de Lint, hvis du er skulle være nysgerrig). Som altid er jeg i sidste øjeblik, eftersom at jeg flyver til Lissabon i morgen. Det bliver den første ferie kæresten og jeg tager sammen. Er der nogle der kender nogle steder jeg burde tage hen i Lissabon? Et modemuseum, et kendt loppemarked eller en gade fyldt med stof forretninger? Måske noget andet?

OOOH and now for a preview of my newest dress, I'll reveal the completely finished product in another post, but now for sneak peeks. / Smugkik på min seneste kjole!

It's my second go on this dress, or really 1.5 go, since the first time I only made the top part since I already had the skirt finished. I have really gotten into fifties dresses lately, and have now added a new thing to the of things I always look for in secondhand shops, vintage patterns. Maybe I should ask my grandma if she has any I could get/borrow.

Det er mit andet forsøg med det her mønster, eller egentlig mit halvandet forsøg, eftersom at jeg kun brugte overdelen i første omgang og kun har brugt skørtet her anden gang. Jeg er blevet virkelig glad for halvtredser kjoler her for tiden og har nu tilføjet endnu en ting til listen over ting jeg altid kigger efter i genbrugsbutikker, vintage mønstre. Måske skulle jeg spørge min farmor om hun har nogle mønstre liggende, som jeg må få/låne.

Well on account of future projects I passed about two hours Wednesday with washing fabrics by hand (we don't have a washing machine). I took a picture of my wet fabrics hanging in our courtyard. I loved the wonderful colour display.


Nåh, når det kommer til fremtidige projekter, så brugte jeg cirka to timer i onsdags, på at vaske stof i hånden (vi har ikke nogen vaskemaskine). Jeg tog et billede af mine våde stoffer der hang til tørre i vores gård. Jeg elskede den eksplosion af farver der var som de hang der.

Is there someone who can guess what one of my great fabric weaknesses are? It might be colourful printed cotton.

On a last note. Look what came to my door today, a new iron. A red iron none the less. Sewing will be even more fun from now on! / Se mit nye fantastiske RØDE strygejern, nu bliver det endnu sjovere at sy!

Summer vacation coming up.

This is going to be a long word filled post, so I'm going to start of with a picture, just to make sure that this isn't going to be a words only post, since those are boring. / Det her bliver en lang ord smøre, så jeg vil lige starte med et billede, bare så det ikke bliver alt for kedeligt.

This is a picture of me, at the beach, in december, and it was freezing cold. The picture is taken by Thomas.

So tomorrow (or later today really, since its past midnight) is the last day before the summer vacation starts for me, this does also mean that I have and exam. So why am I blogging instead of studying you might ask. Well, it's partly because I'm right now living in denial, simply, partly it's procrastination.

I've been thinking a lot about where I want this blog to go. How I want it to look and in general about the blog. I've thought about which types of blogs I like to follow and read and such things.

Things I want to change:

• I want this blog to look nicer, tidier and more eye pleasing. Right now it's neither. There are a lot of things that bothers me. The way images sort of jump around the posts and aren't equally spaced are a big one of these. 
• I would also like the opportunity to sort my post via a menu at the top of the page, my thought is I want people to be able to look at just diy's/tutorials and stuff like that. 
• I would like a decent banner.
• I want to take better pictures. I have already started a process for bettering photos by ordering a small tripod, this will help me a little. A second thing could be getting better at asking the boyfriend for help, getting him and his far superior camera into action.
• A huge load of other things that I have currently forgot.

The big problem is that I have a hard time figuring out how to do some of these things. When I google stuff I get more questions than answers and so on. I might solves this by just asking some of the kick ass bloggers I admire for help. I really hope that some of the things will get better during the summer.

To the second subject for this post. What do I want with this blog? Well I want to share and give back some of the awesomeness I enjoy from other blogs, I want to be part of this community and maybe give some inspiration to others like I get inspiration from awesome blogs.

I have made a list of some of the traits the blogs I follow and like have:

• Cool diy ideas and tutorials.
• Inspiring pictures and ideas, others as well as the blogger her/himself.
• Re/upcycling ideas.
• Home made clothing. 
• A edge of some sort, whether it being goth/retro/vintage/recycling/hippie/silly/childish or some other thing.
• Personality of the author shines through.

I will keep these in mind as I go along with my adventure here on Kill Me With Color.

/cheers Sofie

Danish version after the jump.

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