The one with the button brooch DIY

 

 

Lots of people think of brooches as old lady-accessories. I don't, I love them. In my opinion, brooches are awesome. Perfect to spice up a bag or to give some va-va-voom to a white tee. Oh, and don't get me started on brooches and blazers: a match made in heaven! Preferably a whole bunch of them, and the more bling, the better. And how about pinning one to a chunky chain necklace?

 

 

What you'll need

• buttons
• pins
• fast drying glue
• pliers or scissors, in case your buttons don't have flat backs

Use your pliers or a pair of scissors to remove the backs of the non-flat-back buttons, mine are made of plastic, so this was easy peasy.

Most of the time, I'm a pretty messy crafter, so I used a piece of paper to protect my workspace when I started with this part. Assemble the brooches before glueing away and see which combo works the best for you. After that, let the glueing begin!

Let the assembled buttons dry and after that, glue the pins to the backs.

What's your accessory of choice? Are you a brooch aficionado like me? Have you been doing some crafting lately? If you have a blog post with a cool project, feel free to share it in the comments section below, I'd love to read more about it! If you'd like to see some more tutorials, you can find them here, for example the sharpie plate in the last photo. 

The one with Allop Magazine

A couple of months ago I received a message from Gracia, asking me if I would liked to be featured in a new magazine named Allop. Yes please! The first edition was released last friday. The magazine is in Dutch, but even if you don't speak the language, you might like it, because it's full of gorgeous visuals. You can have a look at the online edition of Allop. It's also available as a real-old-fashioned-paper edition, and can be ordered online. I've added some of the pages to today's blog. Hope you'll enjoy it as much as I do.

 

The one where we visit Den Bosch

The weekend before last, I visited Den Bosch with my mother. I moved to this city when I was 18 and lived there for 1,5 year. It still feels a little bit like home. It's only half an hour away by train, but it's very different from where I live now. We had a little walk, a big lunch, visited the cathedral and spent some time at the renewed museum. My mom also blogged about it over here.

There are canals througout the city, if you like boats (which I don't 

because of an incident years ago) you can have a guided boat tour

A moustached house

Our big lunch

Saint John's cathedral

A gorgeous ceiling in the cathedral

Mother, in the museum

Super fun Schiaparelli sunnies

My favourite item of the jewelry collection, a big brooch

A necklace, not sure how this one works

The museumshop was one of the best I've seen, lots of books and 

other things (like these bears) that I wanted to take with me

The One Hundredth

I can not believe this is post number 100! Since starting out last january, my camera is coming with me (almost) everywhere (before, it spent most of it's time at home). Sometimes I feel people are staring at me, thinking 'why is she taking a picture of THAT?'. I like documenting things as they will remind me of things that happened in the past. 

Mostly, I would like to fill my blog with pictures, without any writing accompanying them, afraid of making mistakes. I am very insecure about my writing skills and I'm hoping that practice makes perfect (or at least less imperfect). I've reread this post about twenty times, hoping no big mistakes are being made.

I feel honoured and thankful that pretty amazing and creative people visit my blog and take the time to leave a comment. A smile appears when a message in my inbox pops up, telling me that someone posted a comment. 

To celebrate The One Hundredth, I am having a little giveaway: a set consisting of a bonjour notebook, a mini Karl Lagerfeld brooch, a moustache card and a hello card. All you need to do is to comment on this post. The giveaway will run through the 15th and the winner will be announced here on the blog, the friday after. 

The one with an aztec brooch

What you'll need:

• bright nailpolish, I used 4 different colours
• wooden oval, mine was 5 centimeters. I got it from this shop
• tape
• brooch pin
• hobby glue
• black marker, in the picture is a sharpie, but that one didn't really work as well as I hoped, so I used another one.
• varnish

 Add tape

 Paint, I also painted the sides. Each colour was applied three times.

 Remove tape

 Paint some more, I left one part uncoloured

 Glue the brooch pin to the back

 Make patterns with your marker. I finished it with a layer of varnish.

The one with the toy soldiers

Last weekend was a slow one. Between eating chocolate, watching CSI:NY and eating some more chocolate, I managed to do something a bit creative. A while ago I bought myself a big bag of vintage toy soldiers at the thrift shop. I had no clue what to do with them, but I needed to have them. Last weekend I came up with the idea to turn some of them into brooches. I painted them with nailpolish, sprayed them with varnish and glued the pins on the backs. Now I need to figure out what to do with the rest of these green men.