Wands wands wands...

 I didn't have enormously high hopes that this would work even if I did find it on pinterest, but I though it was kind of fun and worth a try!

For the wand for Lus Halloween costume we needed chopsticks, hot glue, paint and some random beads and buttons. I meant for us to do it together, Lus and I, but I soon realised that letting a 7 year old use the hot glue gun might be a form of child endangerment sooo he had to stick to supervising and directing. To make it fair I got one wand and he got the rest. 

So! I glued on the beads and button and went on to make a glue base and pattern on the chopstick. Turns out hot glue really doesn't want to stay still so we had to blow on and spin them until it cooled down. Some of them got sprinkled with nail art sprinkles because..why not.

I must say though, it did look promising.

After it had dried we painted them in a base colour, 2 black a brown and a green one, and left them to dry. You can clearly see where I wussed out and held the wand in one end while Lus went all the way with the paint!

So finally I painted some details in different colours. I'm not sure if I like them more or less with the details right now but it does make them look more magical! And as long as the child approves that's all that counts. 

Now all that remains is a coat of clear lacquer to make sure it all stays in place.

Magical.

Alohomora!

*creeek*

So yes. This year I'm making a Hogwarts costume for my Lus and in true Lus-style he sides with the dark side so it will be a Slytherin costume. Of course it will. He does have a slight resemblance to Draco Malfoy, but not enough for dementors to search him out in the toilet, just saying! It has been a long few days at Hogwarts.

First I'll finish up the scarf and make these chopsticks into wands..

..then I plan to make the long black robe and possibly a broomstick. 

To be continued.

Period.

We need a book like this to exists.I played around with it and made this picture for fun but how awsome wouldn't it be if there really was such a book that came in that package you get when you turn 12 with pads and that one condom you never use since you're 12 after all.. Because tracking your menstrual cycle is really fucking interesting and I can't believe no one ever told me that! Omg it's amazing how much there is to learn!

Seriously. My mind is blown.

Welcome to the borrowers!

It took a while from the time when my Lus asked me to build him a house until we actually finished it. Partly because I find it difficult to make things based on someone else's imagination..and partly because I made it together with a very distractable 7 year old. But we did it!

 We finally decided on making a house in the way it would be if borrowers lived there. Remember the borrowers? The little people that live under the floors and take things humans no longer need or wouldn't miss..but it's not stealing, its borrowing. 

So all of this is made from things we already had around the house, but this time it had to remain looking like what it originally was which turned out to actually be really tricky! The paper walls and shot glass chairs and scrap blankets still look like all of that but now it's useful for a little one as well..

 

It was, after a while, a lot of fun doing things as a mother-son-building team. I would have never painted it yellow but it totally works. The slide down from the bed..also his idea. The matchbox table and stick-ladder are my personal favourites. And to finish it off he made a little doorbell.

Finally the little Lus shaped borrower got to move into his new home. Who knows, there might be more of them coming...

But for now, it's just little Lus and his pet frog, having a feast.

 

It's growing on me

For weeks now I've been eyeing my Victorian stripy dress. I just couldn't bring my self to wear it, partly because it threw off my self perspective and partly because I don't actually like new things. I used to let my sister walk my shoes in and I kind of like the softness of used fabric.. and I knew this would have that "never been washed" feeling. Stiff and unyielding. 

But this morning I did it! 

After a day of relative comfortableness I don't really want to take it off.  I think the thing I found most uncomfortable is that these clothes come with a different movement pattern that I am now unused to. The fabric pulls in a way that one would normally think is because it doesn't fit and you kind of do want to use a chair instead of stretching..not to mention you swipe down everything low standing. Victorian clothes comes with a different restrictions but when you eventually sink into it..one can totally play hide and seek in a buttoned up bustle-skirt dress! and it becomes sort of..comforting.

I've heard the same said about corsets but I still haven't gotten that far.. Luckily today has been a colder than usual day so its been nice having my skirt layers around my legs. 

But! time to unbutton and go to bed. 

Lastly, I really want to try this: hat making. Late night excitement!

Taken by the school holiday monster

Me and Pintrest

Today's favourite interest picture. I love these fashion history time-lines. 

 Looove them!