Crochet Flip Flop Pinterest Tutorial

I'm a little late on my posts, well because I'm a normal mom who has no time for ANYTHING! So I finally had some time to post my Pinterest projects that I have attempted this summer. I love love love love flip flops, so when I saw a project for flip flops I literally flipped! :)

 

Here's a link to the instructions from the original post: http://www.petalstopicots.com/2012/07/crocheted-flip-flops-tutorial-with-flower-pattern/

The original one has a flower pattern too but I didn't do that part. Here's my results.

 

I really liked how they came out, but after the first time my daughter wore them the yarn became all fussy and it looked rather ugly. I thought maybe cause she ran and played, so I tried mine on. Same thing. It was rather frustrating because this was a project that took quite a while to make so for it to go bad so fast was not fun. I wonder if maybe I use a different material next time, that won't happen. But to me in the picture of the tutorial it looked like regular old yarn, but I think if I do try this again I will try to use embroidery floss. Even though I'm not sure if it'll still show as much since it's thinner and it might also take longer to finish it off. Let me know if you try this out and what were your results.

Biore Strips Dupe

 Well as some of you may know I'm a Pinterest addict and #1 fan!!! But like most other people I pin away but rarely actually do them. Well this year I have tried to actually do some of these pins and I'm happy to say I have been pretty successful with many pins.

So today I wanted to share another pin I tried, this time with my oldest daughter Natalie. She's hitting the pre-teen age and I've noticed a couple of black heads popping out already. So she was perfect for trying this one out with me. And me, well I love the Biore nose strips but they're expensive and only have a couple of them in the box. So when I saw this Pin I had to try it. You can find the original recipe and instructions at the following link to the original post How to make your own pore strips.

                                                   Here is what we looked like with it on.

 

So here's a recap on the experience. It was very easy to prepare and the ingredients were few and inexpensive. The mixture did have a rather nasty and annoying smell I can't really describe but it was not nice. I recommend making sure to spread it on quickly and in a thin layer because the thicker you put it on, the longer it takes to dry and it's really not necessary. We let it dry for about 15 minutes and it wasn't enough for the thick areas which made it hard to take off and it was sticky and didn't work good. But let me tell you, this really works super good at taking everything off!! And when I mean everything I mean everything, including facial hair! So let me warn you, don't make the mistakes we did of not being careful and getting it over our eyebrows and hair line. It will take those out too and it's pretty painful. We had to rinse some of it off and pull the rest of very carefully. So make sure you spread it out carefully and away from any facial hair you don't want ripped out. Here are my results. Sorry I forgot to take a before picture.

 

I feel I had really good results. It's a little painful at times to take off because it really does stick really good to your skin, so if your skin is sensitive it might get a little irritated. But as you can see in the pictures above (I had put face cream on already) I feel like my skin looks very clean and smooth. I'm not sure it took off as many black heads from my nose as the actual strips do, maybe cause I had too thick of layers on my nose that it didn't dry properly. But everywhere else I feel it cleaned it really well and my skin felt soft like a baby's bottom. Overall I liked it and I think I will be trying it again. Happy pinning.

Spaceship Nails

(Read with an alien voice) Earthlings I come again with another nail tutorial. Hahaha you'll soon know why I'm feeling alienish! Well I found this tutorial on Pinterest of course. It's very easy and pretty cool actually.

 

 

And well since I don't like to copy exactly from these tutorials I just used the method and turned it into my own. And here's the result.

 

 

Don't they look like alien nails or like an alien ship inspired look? I used a Mark nail polish that is so shiny and silvery and feels like a metal spaceship. I then followed the directions to make my own random shapes to stick to my nails. This is great to get those sharp clean edges. I had no set design, I just cut random shapes and did random designs. I added a top coat a done.

 

Until next time Earthlings.

Never too late for love-ly nails.

Yes I know it's May and Valentine's Day is far behind but I found this picture of my Valentine's Day Nails and I wanted to share it with you guys. Especially because it's not often that I actually like the results of my nail adventures. I used a pink nail color as a base, did one nail in a peach color and added sparkles on one. Than with a dotting tool I made a heart on one nail and top coat and tada. Nothing out of this world but I thought it was cute enough to share!

 

Simple Tribal Nails

It had been awhile since I blogged. I had been working full time and really had no time or energy to post. But here I am now, no longer working so I decided to finally post.

 

Like everyone else I love looking at nail tutorials on Pinterest but honestly once I try doing them most of the time they never ever look like the pictures. I don't have the ability or the tools most of the time.

 

I saw a lot of Tribal inspired nails and this is my dumb down version. So if you're like me these nails should be super easy.

 

I started by doing all my nails in a solid yellow color. I used Avon Nailwear Pro+ in Sunshine.  

One thing I have learned the hard way is to let the base coat dry completely. I'm so Impatient. But you have to if you want the designs to go on smoothly. I only choose to put designs on a couple of nails including my thumb. I used a dotting tool to draw a sort of chevron design with a Sally Hansen nail polish in White On, a Wet n Wild in Blazed and a Mark trend in Blue Bella. Pretty easy right.

 

I did the same on another nail and on another I did a different random design. Just did half white and added a pink stripe down the nail. I finished it off with some angled stripes.

That's it. Did the same with the other hand and added a top coat and finish. Sorry about the poor quality of pictures, doing it with my phone. Hope yours come out nice.