Learn how to make everything you want! DIY stuff!

Hello there!

Today I wanna share with your some cool thing I found out! Everyone that knows me, knows that I looove love love to crochet, knitt, sew, and basically do all kinds of things by hand, I am very much into DIY! I think I even posted sometime about one of the amigurumi toys I've made for my Xmas tree!

I only wish I had more time for my hobby (I have a few projects that I am workin on at the moment)!! Anyways, I happened to find the amazing website called CRAFTSY, where you can find almost everything DIY explained clearly and very easy to follow and understand, in video online classes. Is alot easier than searching on YouTube or on Google and trying to gather the things you need from all that. You can really find everything here, from crochetting, quilting, to cooking (some aaaahmazing cakes!!) and clothes tayloring and all that good stuff! And guess what!! They have a Spring Sale!! All classes will be up to 75% off! Click on the banner below if you wanna find out which classes are on sale for today. And one more tip: I heared that on Saturday they will have the biggest discounts, so stay tuned for that!!

I am definitely gonna be online-crafting-classes shopping on Saturday! I will let you know what I got and what I did with it! :-p I only wish my toddler won't grab all my sewing and crochetting stuff and throw it all over the house when Im trying to do something, ha ha. Can't wait for him to go to college! ha!

I wish you all a beautiful weekend!

oxoxox

Roxana

DIY - how to make an earrings organizer

Sooo, yeah!I have WAY too many earrings! I have too many of all the annoying little things that always get lost, actually, but here I will talk about my earrings only (for now). I was always ending up loosing one earring of each pair or getting them tangled or broken when keeping them in the boxes or drawers, so I thought about putting them on display somehow! And as my 2 jewelery trees are already full with all kinds of things, I thought I should do something special for at least a part of my earrings! So I came up with this:

It's a corkboard, the kind people use to pin notes and post-its on! The cork is soft so I can easily push the earrings hooks in it, and for the ones that don't have hooks, I can use the pins that came with the cork board, to hang them on those pins! Also, I stuck the board with tape on the shelf to make sure it won't fall off, and that's it! My earrings are now organised, finally! Whew!
Hope this idea helped someone :)
oxoxox
Roxana

How to save on skincare products and makeup: recicle the annoying samples!

Cosmetics samples. You get them everytime you shop at the cosmetic counter, at the pharmacy, or you find them between the pages of the fashion magazines. Do you ever use them? I, myself, use the perfume ones, because I am curious how they smell, and also, I use any sample or face cream/serum/mask that comes in a little plastic tube, but I HATE the ones that come in little envelopes, creams or foundation samples, like the ones in the pic below:

First of all, I cant properly use any of them, because when I try taking out the product it usually spills al over, or if I use a bit, the rest has to be thrown away cuz it won't be good anyways after opening. And I hate wasting things! Besides, you can't even tell if a cream is good when using it only once! Its just... one more cream and thats all, all you can tell about it is the way it smells or the way it absorbs into the skin, but you definitely can't see an effect. So what I do with these guys, is I collect them for a while, and then put them in little empty containers, like this:

At times I have enough of one kind to fill a whole container, at other times I mix them, function of their kind. That is, dry skin creams to dry skin creams, tinted moisturizer to tinted moisturizer, foundation to foundation etc. Here I have a whole big pot of dry skin moisturizer, out of mixed samples, and a little pot of tinted moisturizer made of foundation samples and tinted moisturizers. I mixed them all together as they were not many, this time. Might sound weird but I usually get good mixes like that, because I make sure only to use the ones that are suited for my skin, of course. The dry skin cream I wont need for my face but I will use it on my hands and neck, and the tinted moisturizer that I obtained is really good, is more like a foundation, actually, been using it 3 times and woked great! Of course there is a risk of breakouts but I am being careful :)
So there, if you are into recicling and not throwing away things, like I am, I hope this gave you an idea of what to do with the little samples that you usually feel the urge to throw away cuz they are too hard and annoying to use.
oxoxox
Roxana

Snowman in March

I took pics of this little guy that I made, to post here, but I forgot, so I am posting now, is anyways still cold outside! lol
I followed the tutorials of amazing tjw1963 on YouTube (of course) and I learned how to make AMIGURUMI! I love it!! Always been wondering how these lil cute toys are made and now I finally could make one myself! I don't have too much time to dedicate to my hobbies but I am struggeling to make some time!
Here is the link of her amazing channel, if anyone liked crochet as much as I do, she is the best teacher ever! Or for me in case I ever forget the link... lol
http://www.youtube.com/user/tjw1963
I am hoping to make more toys like this before my baby girl arrives in July, and also, some little cute baby clothes and booties! Theresa has got tutorials for those too! I know I can always buy and I will buy a ton of lil clothes for my lil Princess, too, but well, is always sweeter when seeing her wear something I made, especially for her!
Here is the little amigurumi snowman that has been in my Christmas tree and now is in my book shelf, I couldn't toss him away in the Xmas ornaments box, in the basement! lol

Kisses,
Roxana