I see stars...

I love head pieces and accessories.
Hardly anybody uses them in the casual life. It reminds me of the stories that my grandma used to tell me... She graduated from an academy for girl's where she learned how to sew. She knows all about the different fabrics, the exquisite cuts and the tips that makes an outfit look elegant. She would dress up in sequin dresses with an open back paired with sky high stilettos and went to Republic Day Balls with my grandpa, dancing all night long...  


I believe the headpieces are making a comeback. This year Rodarte used these star hair accessories in their 2012 fall collection and as I was going through my fave. blogs their authors fell in love with the pieces too. After collecting some info about the very DIY-able hair pieces, I decided to make my own...

I believe the headpieces are making a comeback.This year Rodarte used these star hair accessories in their 2012 fall collection and as I was going through my fave. blogs their authors fell in love with the pieces too. After collecting some info about the very DIY-able hair pieces, I decided to make my own...

I went to a hardware store and bought some wire, some stars in different sizes, some gold spray paint and to make them come together I used hot glue.

The result is very pleasing .

I haven't wore it yet but I'm sure I will rock it soon somewhere... 

I'll let you know ;)

Fall and croissants....

Hi!
It's fall again... The warm balmy days of summer are almost gone and every morning seems to get darker and darker at the early hour I wake up. (6:00am*sigh*) I've always been a summer kind of girl so whenever days get shorter and storks start to travel, my heart sinks and falls to my stomach like a shed leaf of a branch... Oh well... Nowadays I try to pick my self up by making stuff... As I was going through "what to wear this fall" pages, I came across with the season's trend: Slippers!
They are everywhere and I think I want every color there is...

Can they get any cuter? They are here by the way...

 About trends, I have this psychotic thing that if everybody starts wearing literally the same thing, I feel nauseous... To avoid this crisis this winter I've decided to create my own...

There's just something about fall and warm pastry, so I took a pair of croissants and a pair of black loafers (which I found in Zara) and combined the two fall hits!

 I've never tried embroidery before but I can assure you it's nothing to be scared of... I had gold and orange beads laying around the house so I got busy... The adorable croissant shape and idea of the croissant came from  here by the way....

As doubt might have guessed the croissants on the right are my croissants... 

 

  I've been thinking  about other cool shapes too... any ideas? Where else can these fun patches could be used??

Ta taaa..

My Crayons

I have a new obsession: Pinterest!!!!

Some of you might say "Good Morning!" to me but somehow I just got a hold of the craze! I can spend hours hanging out in pinterest!

Being a bachelor of fine arts, I love drawing with crayons. The texture, the smell,the names, the colors everything... While hanging out in Pinterest I saw these DIY crayons and just had to try them.  The ones I made are not in specific color codes but I think they still look pretty! In the website the maker is preparing them for Valentine's Day which is a cute idea but I am not very big on those kind of dates.
They are super easy to make,
I got the the crayons from a stationary and the heart shaped silicone baking molds from Tantitoni.

 

Wax crayons melt very easily in the oven so any silicone mold shape would work for this.

PS: Next week I will be in Singapore - Bali so I won't be able to post anything, however, the week after I will be writing about my very exciting trip. So stay tuned foxies.

I'll be back!

Monsters On My Desk...

Oh how I love Meredith Dittmar's art...
The doughy feeling of polymer clay and the pastel colors...

I always liked playing with clay and making stuff out of it. I really can't  get enough. So getting the inspiration from Meredith Dittmar I had to at least try making my own monsters. I got some Fimo from the stationary near by and started... There are other brands of polymer clay in Istanbul too but Fimo had all the good colors. Here are some of the monsters I made....

 

After creating a few monsters I've decided to make id cards for them. The ID cards have their names, birth dates, likes, dislikes and their special powers.

Sorry the name tags are in Turkish...

When I was creating these characters I was thinking about friends and family. Some of these were birthday presents, some of them were sold and some of them are still sitting on my desk helping me write this very post :))

Well Hello There 2012!

I hope everybody had a great New Year's. Starting from last month I had such a great excitement for this coming year. I was pumped to decorate my home, make close friends and family presents and even organize a small party at home. Usually I am not this excited for the coming years but this year something feels different so, I did all the things that came to my mind.

To make the house look New Yearsy I need a tree. Last year I wanted to make a tree from balsa wood (which I saw @ Design*Sponge) but never had the energy and the spirit to do so. Since I had every material I needed form last year I made it this year.

Now that I had a tree, I could start thinking about the presents... Yet again I took Grace Bonney's (Design*Sponge)  advice and decided to make all the girls balms for the rough areas and scrubs for the face & body. I got the cute jars from Pasabahce and the small balm jars from Tahtakale. It's very easy to make your own scrub and you get marvelous results. 

I've decided on 3 kinds:

Honey & Lemon which I named Honey Zesty Bunny

A spicy one : Sizzling Spice Shock 

and a minty lavender kind : Lavender Frosting

For the scrub you basically need an oil base ( could be olive oil or almond oil), essential oils ( lavander oil, mint oil etc...) which can easily be found in the drug stores or in a spice shop, brown sugar or sea salt and you are good.

And for the balm you need;

honey wax (which can be found in spice shops)

vaseline 

essential oils

and spices 

I experimented with lots of kinds for the balm and came up with the names;

cinnahon, chillander, frozen honey, buzzing almond and sp.ice

After gathering all the materials I had to design labels for them, and the result was victorious!

Of course I didn't forget about the gents. For the gentlemen I prepared a hot chocolate mixture put in a mug which I got from IKEA. The mixture contains cocoa, sugar, spices and grated chocolate. when I was making the mixture the smell in house was irresistible! 

After giving everybody their presents and hopefully making everybody happy, we had a great start of the year.

 
   Have a great year folks!