Before and After: Denim Shorts With A Splash Of Color

I have always loved my staple pair of distressed denim shorts, to the point where I may have slightly overused. Overused to the point where ripped turned to torn. So I decided not to throw my beloved denims away, rather add a hint of pink.

I experimented with a few different variations:

This was my favorite, not too much or little and slightly wacky.

Photo Diary: Italy Part 3

Finally, I take you to a small town called Montepulciano followed by the beautiful city of Florence. My favorite thing about these two places would definitely have to be the views and the food. Both were absolutely amazing. Below are a couple of photos I took while I was there. This is the last Italian photo diary, so enjoy!

DIY Floral Circle Skirt

Recognize this fabric? Well if you do it is from this summery tutorial I did way back in August of last year, DIY floral printed shorts. Boy, did that year just whiz by. As the new year arrives I am busy clearing out last years things, when my friend and I bought this fabric I clearly remember the shop keeper desperately trying to sell us the entire roll, 3m extra than we needed. We stood there for about 20 minutes trying to say no thank you, we don't have enough money! We barely had any pocket money left. Luckily in the end he gave the rest of it to us for free, I am sooo happy for that. Linen is the perfect circle skirt material, and I still don't have enough pocket money to go out and buy more of it. Oh the problems with being a teenager. For this DIY adventure I was inspired my a present that my mum bought me for christmas, this gorgeous Topshop dress. It is so simple, but the circleness of skirt  is incredibly flattering on any body type. I've seen many people wear circle skirts around town, it usually looks stunning.

Stuff you need:
Zipper
2m of floral linen
Sewing machine

1. Measure you waist and calculate the radius of that (correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that is your waist length/2pi). Fold your fabric in half horizontally and then again vertically as can be seen below. The quarter-circle labeled w needs to have the radius of your waist. L should be length you would like your skirt to be + seam allowance. Cut along these 2 lines, once you open it all up it should look like a large donut.

2. Next cut a slit to open up the donut. Seam both the outer and inner circles.

3. Fold over the open edges and seam them up.

4. Bring the 2 edges together place the zipper face down on top, mark where it ends. Making sure both edges are touching and fronts of either side are facing each other sew from the bottom of the skirt up till the mark. Then attach the zipper. I found this tutorial really helpful.

 Spin and twirl around in this new artwork. Until next time!

Photo Diary: Italy Part 2

I'm back! With a treat of course, a tour through the beautiful Roma. Spelt backwards it's amor, Italian for love. This city definitely lives up to its name. On the left side of the river lies a whole other country within in Rome itself, behold Vatican City. From Trevi Fountain to the Colosseum, enjoy!

Photo Diary: Italy - Part 1

Just a few days ago I got back from an AMAZING holiday in Italy with my family. The food, the fashion, the everything was spectacular. After landing in Milan (the fashion capital) we took a suupppeer fast train east to Venice (a dreamy fantasy, if you ask me). Next we took an even faster train down to Rome (without question my favorite city EVER), then up through a small hill town known as Montepulciano (a cozy paradise) on the way to Florence (I don’t have any words to describe how amazing the art in this city was…just too beautiful). During the trip I overdosed on photography, taking 800+ photos. It was practically impossible to condense it down to just one post. Instead I have decided to split it up into 3 sections: Milan+Venice, Rome (Definitely deserving of its own post and I took majority of the photos here) and Montepulciano+Florence.

Milan

The perfect mix of history, fashion and food is Italy, and a great example of this is in Milan, probably the best example too.

Venice
I thought I was in a dream when I entered the city. The charming canals, mazed backstreets, truly extraordinary. The scenes from movies such as the Tourist (how I love Johnny Depp here) came to life, without out all the action though, which suited me just fine.