Potato Printing Watermelons

Heey (yes I'm back)

Oh my goodness I'm so sorry I have been gone for over a week now and on my blogging fest week! I am now six days into the holidays already, time flies so quickly especially when your in bed with tissues and movies. Yes that's right I'm still sick, ew.

Anyway on with the post!

Today I thought I would show you one of my favourite DIYs, potato printing / spud stamping hehe. If you haven't heard of potato printing before its pretty much where you carve your spud to be whatever shape you want and use it as a stamp! You can make wrapping paper, cushions, tee shirts and much more. Today I'm just doing a simple watermelon design because it's really easy, pretty and I just love watermelons!

You will need:
~ Pink paint
~ Green paint
~ A paint brush (preferably quite thin)
~ A knife
~ Paper, fabric, card or whatever you want to do your design on
~ I actually didn't include this in the photo but you'll also need a vivid / black pen
~ A uhm potato...

Step one
Cut your potato in half like this ^

Step two
Cut your potato again as shown in photo.

Step three
Cover the thickest side of your potato in pink paint so that no part of the spud is showing on that surface.

Step four
Press your painted potato down on the paper / fabric of your choice so that it looks like the picture above.

Step five
Once the pink has dried paint a curved green line around your watermelon shape.

Step six
Tidy up your green line so that it looks like a watermelon!

Step seven
Finally, to complete your watermelon, in a thin tip black pen like the one I used or a vivid draw little seeds on your finished watermelon!

Step eight
Now just repeat the pattern as many times as you want depending on what you'll be using it for. I'm not really sure what I'll do with my little watermelons but I might try and make them into a garland, I think that would look really cute!

I ended up cutting mine out, idek why aha.

And here's what they look like!

I hope you enjoyed this little DIY and hopefully I'll be back with more posts later on this week! Do you think you'll try potato printing? What kind of crafty things do you like to do?

Bella x

What I've been up to lately

Heey,

Ahh, I'm really sick now so as soon as I got home from school I pretty much just went to sleep haha :p so I apologise as this post isn't very interesting. But don't worry because I am planning something very special for Saturdays post, ooh it's very exciting!

Anywayzz I thought I would tell you what I've been up to lately because...idk you might like to know??

soo,

enjoy x

Just a cute picture I found...

Lately I've been listening to...

~ Radical face - omg they're actually amazing, please go listen to some of their music it's so cool, I'm obsessed with their song always gold!! (YOU MUST LISTEN TO THEIR SONGS IMEDIATELY)
~ The Middle East // Blood
~ Rudimental // uh everything by Rudimental, they're A M A Z I N G!
~ The Little Miss Sunshine soundtrack // the movie is so cute but the soundtrack is even cuter!
~ Peter Bjorn and John // Young Folks
~ MGMT // all their songs aha :3

Lately I've been reading...

P.S I'm sorry for the bad lighting (again!!) I took these photos in the horrible yellowey (if that's a word??) lighting of my room.

Just the usual's...

These fabulous mags, Frankie and Yen :))

No words aha...

I received this book 'I Capture The Castle' by Dodie Smith for Christmas last year and I've only just started reading it but I am already hooked! It is such a good read, highly recommended!

Lately I've been pinning...

If somebody made me one of these right now I would love them forever!

 

I see a future DIY project in this photo...

Just thought this was really cuute <3

 Ahh I need this dress !!

Fruit tattoos wuut!!??

 I just love pinterest so much! If you have a pinterest you think I'd like, comment your username bellow and I'll go check it out and maybe give you a follow ;)

Lately I've been uhm doing...

Today, being the second to last day of school Term we had a 'fun day' at school which pretty much consists of movies and quizzes and videos etc. Anyway me and my friends won the fun day (horray!) and we were rewarded with three bags of popcorn that we could eat while watching Frozen!!

Last night I was planning a rather exciting DIY post that I will be uploading on either Saturday or Sunday, so stay tuned! If you haven't read my recant posts I am planning on posting a lot on this little blog over the school holidays. So if you have any ideas or suggestions for me I would love it if you could comment your ideas below because after my secret special DIY post this weekend I'm sort of at a loss of what to post!

Lately I've been on my ipod doing...

Unlike most people my age with ipads and iphone 5's I still have my little ipod touch 4 hehe! Even though my mum is soon passing over her iphone  to me as she wants a new phone I will always love my little ipod touch aha.

Lately I've been using these apps:
~ Flappy bird // it's just really addictive omg!
~ Polyvore // love love love this app I do all of my edits and collages on this fabulous app and it's even good for just browsing through cute clothes or nice home ware thingggs.
~ Instagram // follow me @bellaa_foster
~ Pinterest // of course...
~ Tumblr // I got a tumblr early last year and I was obsessed with it until I discovered pinterest haha. But lately I've been into it again, it's just a lot harder to use than pinterest :))

Soo yeah! I hope I didn't bore you too much with this post aha but I hopefully you will enjoy my next DIY a bit more (coming soon)

Bella x

DIY colourful circle garland

Heey,

As promised I am back for day two of my blogging fest...yaay! Today I thought I would show you one of my fave DIY projects that I've been working on just for you :3

Today I'm going to show you how to make a colourful, circle garland!

There are probably better ways to do this but this is my way aha.

Also, sorry about the bad lighting I took these photos last night so it's not very good quality but hopefully that won't matter :))

enjoy x

You will need:
~ Scissors
~ Glue stick
~ Pencil / rubber, if you're like me and you make heaps of mistakes...
~ String
~ Coloured paper of your choice

Step one
Cut your string at whatever length you want it, depending on where you're going to hang your bunting. I did mine quite short because I'm just going to hang it above my desk.

Step two
Next, draw your circle, this will be the size of your bunting so cut it to whatever size you want. I just traced around my wheel of string to get my circle (wheel of string?!)

Step three
Repeat step two so that you have two even circles.

Step four
Take one of your circles and glue one side right to the edges.

Step five
Now stick your circle underneath the string as shown in the picture. Remember not to stick it on right at the edge of your string as you'll want some room to stick your pin in to hang it up!

Step six
Now place your second circle over top to create your first piece of bunting! I actually glued the second circle as well when I stuck it over the string, just to make sure it would stay down. Also, when you are sticking your second circle down press around the outside but not the middle because otherwise you'll see the place where the string is :p

Step seven
Repeat step six until you have covered your string in cute little circles, you can change the colours around like what I did, choose a different patterned paper or just keep it the same, there are endless possibilities so try and get creative with it! Depending on how long your string is our how small your circles are it could take you up to half an hour so recommend you do not do this late at night when you are sick and tired, because it can be quite frustrating and time consuming!

This was my end product and I think it looks quite cute! Remember I did make mine quite small given the space I have to work with but you can make it as long and colourful as you want!

 I hope you liked my first DIY post! I'm thinking of doing an art or OOTD post tomorrow, but sadly on Thursday I won't be able to post as it's the last day of school for the term (ahh omg yaaay!!) and I will be staying the night at my friends house so I might do two posts on either Saturday or Sunday! Please stay tuned for more posts this week!

Bella x

 

 

 

 

My New Room Inspiration

Heey,

In spirit of my new blogging spree (if you haven't read my latest post, it means I will be posting every day for an entire week!) I've decided to show you some of my inspiration for my blog!

Little update:
I'm actually sick right now with some sort of bug that's going around (ughh) so luckily for you that means more posts!
So today I thought I would share with you some of my inspiration and things I use for this blog!

enjoy x

Pictures I use for my pinspiration
Source // pinterest // tumblr

This photo from pinterest which I think is a parfait?? (French breakfast/dessert food) I would really like to try making one of these because they look amazing!

I just thought this picture was really cute and it has inspired my to do more drawing and water colour painting! (drawing blog post up some time this week)

I'm not really sure why I like this photo so much, weather it's the beautiful things in the picture or the lovely way it has been taken but it makes me want to organise everything in my room to look like this hah.

I don't know how you'd go about making one of these but I think it's really cute and it would be a super fun DIY project (if I find out how I will show you)

Inspirational people
Source // unknown

One of my most favourite actresses and maybe even people!
Drew Barrymore is amazing and I've loved her since I saw Charlie's Angels when I was about 9!

Alexa Chung, you would have probably seen in my lately loving post (if you've read it) that I'm utterly obsessed with her book IT. It is such a great read and I highly recommend it.

I was looking through pinterest the other day (as per usual) and I discovered one of my now most favourite artists, Ohara Hale ^^

Flora Waycott is amazing!!

Inspirational books // magazines
Source // my home, not my photos though because the computer was being stupid and it wouldn't load up the photos from my camera }:<

I've just ordered these fabulous books off Amazon and they should be arriving some time soon, I'm very excited because I LOVE Beci Orpin!!

One of my favourite books (as you all know aha)

Frankie is the best, I buy every issue, it is amazing, I definitely recommend it if you like arty crafty magazines!

Yen, another fabulous magazine I purchase every month (despite it's outrageous price)

Inspirational blogs // bloggers
Source // pinterest

A little birdy blog:

I am obsessed with this blog right now, it is amazing and if you haven't already seen it you should definitely go check it out! A lot of my inspiration for my blog comes from this blog, it is honestly so cute!!

Audrey Jeanne blog

I loveeee this blog it is really cute and if you're like me and you like cats (a lot) you should definitely go read her blog! Her art and photos have inspired me a lot, and made me want a cat so much more hah.

And finally, I just really like this drawing because of the use of the black and white and then the dash of pink which makes it so pretty! I'm not actually sure who drew this but I love it so much.

I hope you enjoyed this post and if you did please, please leave a comment bellow on what you liked or disliked about it and what you would like me to post this week for my blog fest!

What or who inspires you?

Bella x