The Oscar goes to...

Hey Everyone!

The Oscars! What a night! ^^ First, a HUGE congrats to the Danish Film maker, Susanne Bier, for winning the Best Foreign Language Film, "A better world" :D Yay! And she looks so pretty, but not as pretty when she won a Golden Globe! ;)



But I really enjoy looking at the dresses on the Red Carpet, and here are some of my favourites ;)

Natalie Portman - Pregnant and gorgeous! <3 Love her!


Halle Barry - I really love her dress, so pretty!


Hilary Swank - Pretty as always ;)


Helena Bonham Carter - I'm a HUGE fan, and she always looks different and sassy, and so freakin' AWESOME! :D


Scarlett Johansson - I really like the dress, I'm a sucker for laces! ^^ And I like her short hair, looks great!


Mila Kunis - She is SO beautiful! :D I've never seen her looking ugly!


Okay.. And now to your worst nightmare! Sharon Stone does it again.. Not only the dress is ugly, but the hair.. She looks like Frankensteins bride! OMG! Hahah!



And for a quick little update here from my world ;)

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I'VE GOT NEW SHOES! ^^ YAY!
I wanted them for Christmas, but did'nt get them, and now they were on sale, so I bought them! :D



They are great to walk in, and I already got an occasion to wear them! ^^ Even better! :D Hahha

But that's all for now.. I'm thinking about working on my Nahui Ollin bag.. I'm never gonna finish it..

Have a great night!

HUGS Heidi

How to make a purse out of paper (Nahui Ollin)

Hi Guys!

Here's how you make a purse or bag out of paper.. Enjoy! ^^
(Sorry this post is probably gonna be long)

So start with you need some paper (newspaper, candy paper, gift wrap etc.), a pair of sissors, some clear tape and a ruler.


Afterwards you need to measure the pieces you want. The peaces need to be like 5x10cm, or 7x14cm or 10x20cm long. The long side has to be twice as long as the short side. If you want, you can make the long side 1cm longer, just to make it easier to put the pieces together.


When you have your pieces, you need to put clear tape on them, to make them waterproof and more robust. Then you fold it in half, like this:


After you fold it in half, you open it again, and fold the side 1/3, so it meets the line in the middle.


Then fold the other side the same way, so it looks like this:


Then you fold it on the middle again, so the two folded sides meets each other and the piece closes.


Then you fold it on the long side. You fold it in half, like this:


Then you open it again, like before, and fold the sides in half, to the middle line.


Now you have a "V" shaped piece, that should look like this: (It's important that the pieces are correctly folded, that makes it easier to put them together.)


Now you need to make a lot of these! Then you put them together like this: (there'll always be that one long piece when you braid them together, and it'll hold just fine ;) )










It's a bit hard to show and explain, but when you have the pieces, you need to braid them together, so they "lock" in each other.

But now you just have to make it the size you want. I'm making a small summer handbag. So I'm using 80 pieces! And I probably need to make 10 of them! ^^

But now you need to sew them together! (this is my 3'rd line I'm sewing on)


I'm using fishing line to sew with, because it's pretty much invisible and it's strong. I'm sewing in Zik-Zak. (Just tie a knob when you start, you can't really see it)






And that's pretty much it. Then you just have to sew the buttom together and maybe a zipper in the top ;) And then it's done! :D

Here's some examples of different materials I've tried out ;)


And the the final result could look something like this:






That was a small look into what I'm spending a lot of my time on atm ^^
Hope it'll inspire you to make your own bags! :D

Have an awesome night and happy wrapping! xD

HUGS Heidi

Relaxing day

Hi everyone!

Today I'm not doing much, I'm having two days off from my internship in the after-school-care, so I'm just enjoying having the apartment to my self! Hahah ^^

But I'm doing a project atm, I'm making bags out of wrapping paper :D Just like the Ecoist bags! ^^ It's really fun and easy, but it takes a freakin long time to do! ;)

Picture of the Confetti-collection

http://www.ecoist.com/

I'm doing a bag with about 800 pieces I need to fold and put together ^^ But I'm sure the result will be awesome! :D I'll promise to post pictures when I'm done! ;)

Oh yeah, it have been snowing again.. But the sun have been shining the last couple of days :D Yay!

But besides makeing these bags and doing my intership, I'm not doing much.. ^^ Just waiting to end this internship and get back to school, waiting for the weather to change and for it to be Summer! :D

Have a great wonderful day!
HUGS Heidi

Spring/Summer Collections

Hey everyone!

I'm very much in love with the Spring/Summer collections this year!

Some of the themes so far are: Denim, White blondes and brown leather!

And as you know, I love H&M, but I also like Gina Tricot and Bianco a lot! So here's some examples from their collections! :D

H&M:


Gina Tricot:


Bianco Shoes:


I personally really like the second H&M outfit, the first Gina Tricot dress and the First pair of Bianco shoes <3 :D

I'm going on vacation in Bulgaria this Summer, and these outfits would look great with a tan :D Haha

Wich outfits or collections do YOU like? :D



I'm gonna watch "Gullivers Tale" in a moment.. I already watched it once, but gonna watch it again with some friends ^^ It's quite awesome, and Jack Black does a brilliant job in this movie! :D

Have a great night!! :D

HUGS Heidi