DIY ~ Coachella Flowered Purse

Hi lovelies!  As promised, here's my second Coachella DIY for you!  This is a fun flowered purse.  It's over the top, but a total attention getter, and is incredibly fun!  Besides, it's super easy to make and inexpensive as well :)  {Click for the how-to}

DIY ~ Coachella Flower Bracelet

Hi lovelies!  Ahhh spring is upon us and that can only mean one thing... music festivals!  Now while I am not into those (I'm the crazy punk girl that only does small venue shows), I know many of you are.  And with Coachella this weekend (I'm actually wishing I could go, only because the Descendents are playing and they are my fave band and put on a killer show!), I wanted to give you a quick and cute DIY!  This will go super cute with your flower crown, and I've got another DIY for you this afternoon that will go with it too!  {Click to read more and get the how-to!}

30 Days of DIY: Day 20 ~ Whimsical Wire Flowers

 

I spied these multicolored floral wires at the dollar store, and immediately thought of using them to make flowers!

One coil will make one flower's petals...

And another coil will make the center of the flower.  2 coils = 1 flower.  Here's how.

Take a wire and twist it into a figure eight, these are the petals, so make them the desired size.  Mine are about 3 inches apiece.

Keep making more figure eights along side the previous ones.

After 5 figure eights, take the end of the wire and wrap it around the center to hold it in place.

Take the ends of each petal and fold them up a little, to make the flower more 3-D.

Take another color and using pliers, begin to coil it around itself very tightly.  I only used the pliers for the initial coil and used my hands for the rest of it.

Partially done center coil.

Use the end of the coil around the edges and begin threading it through some of the petals.

It will look like this.  Then push that last part of the coil and push it closer to the center portion.  Tuck the end under.

A finished flower!

Repeat for as many flowers as you want to make.  I made a total of five.

I used some clear beading thread to hang these up with clear pushpins.

Now I *finally* have sonmething covering the hideous back of cabinets in my dining room.  I think I need to hang some white fabric there too.  Thoughts? 

xxooxoxo
Lia

30 Days of DIY: Day 17 ~ Springy Punchy Flowery Placemats

My dining room table has seen better days.  There's paint from Bella's paint-your-own-teaset that she had, which unfortunately doesn't come off.  Alas, I've just learned to pretend it's not there.  I suppose that there's a sort of zen-ish look with the bamboo placemats and the organic decorations.  But it's not really fun. 

I found these great woven placemats at Dollar Tree yesterday, and decided to spruce them up too! 
Materials:

• 4 different colored placemats
• 1 bunch of faux daisies
• 1 bunch of faux gerbera daisies
• Scissors or wire cutters
• Glue gun and extra glue sticks

If the stems right under each flower are wired, use the wire cutters.  Else use scissors and snip them off.

Then snip the stem down as far as possible to the flower base.

This was as good as I could get, and it worked perfectly.

After doing the same for the large daisies, here's what I had.

Lay out the flowers on each placemat how you like them.  I decided on this, since there would still be space for the placemat to still be functional.

Apply hot glue to the plastic area of each daisy and press them down in their place.

Remove the plastic from the bottom of the larger daisies, and then snip the excess stem.  Apply glue to the center area, where the plastic that you removed would be, then press the daisy in place.

And here's the final result!  I added a vase of faux brightly colored daisies to the center of the table, and for aesthetics, added these hibiscus flower plates.  I clearly need to get some fun summery place settings now!

What do you think of the easy transformation?  I love it, and think it adds a major impact to my dining room.  (Please ignore the mess that is my kitchen)  It's great how a simple accessory can make an outfit, the same way one can make a room! 

xxooxoxo
Lia