Animal Onesie Tutorial... kids, teens or adult...

 I was asked for a tutorial on the Jake onseie pj's I made for my daughter a while back. I don't really have enough pictures to do a full tutorial, as for some reason I didn't take photos while doing the head lol probably because I was winging it as I went and didnt plan on doing a tutorial as sometimes I take quick photos to remind me in the future of how to recreate ;)

Anyway here is what I have, hope this helps anyone making a animal or Jake onesie. 

Stache biscuits

Today was my daughters 9th birthday and she wanted to take moe biscuits to school instead of cupcakes etc  These are what we came out with :)

Adorable BOW nail art how to!!

Here is a quick and cute beauty DIY to brighten up your nails

Printed leggings

Find - FUN leggings!!!

seriously how fun are these? I know the printed legging trend has faded out a lot but I love that these ones are not over done in the print and can be wearable still... maybe not by me but by the young people ;) haha although I would wear the tetris ones!

You can find the tetris, pacman, marge and comic hero print at Romwe & all under $30!!

3D Crochet pillow art

A few months ago I shared a piece of artwork with you guys for breast cancer awareness, trying to encourage everyone to touch your boobies regularly to check for unusual lumps after I had a scare. The lovely Pamela from Crochet Parfait asked if she could turn the tattoo flash drawing into a 3D crochet piece, of course I said why not :)

Tattoo inspired gift wrapping

 On the 10th it was my Husbands birthday, I brought some plain black matt wrapping paper to wrap some dvd's up for him. Last minute I decided to pimp them out lol

DIY Tattoo heart with scroll flash Birthday cakes

 A few weeks ago I was asked to make a quick cake for some girls who were celebrating their birthday and bring it along to their Roller Derby fundraiser. I did'nt have much time as it was one of those busy weeks and crazy days, so I made a quick double heart scroll tatoo cake with some matching cupcakes which had the birthday girls names on them.

FIND - Retro gamer pattern graphic book

While shopping at the markets I came across this amazing retro Commodore 64 Graphic book! 

Ok it looks pretty crap from the front, like what would anyone want with this as the coding is ancient..... well I will tell you!! Vintage gamer patterns for all types of stitching, craft and knitting! *squeals*

 I have taken some pictures of the charts for you to use in your craft designs :) enjoy

Pretty tissue paper pom poms

Today I spent the day cooking for my Mums 60th Birthday Party tomorrow & then my daughter and I made some tissue paper pom poms to decorate the party with  :)

I think they turned out well and very pretty, they should look great hanging up at my sisters place.

I found a youtube tutorial HERE on how to make these...  very easy and cheap to make!

Happy Easter lovely people xx

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Bloglovin & Disqus

After reading all the stories and blog posts last week about Blogger's GFC going into extinction etc I have decided to use my bloglovin account more and transfer my blogger friends over there :)

Even though I don't know if GFC will actually disappear, I thought I might as well make the move now. Personally I think it will just be a new friend connection system to make people use google + more lol but we will see.

It was easier than I thought, I used this LINK and BAM!!! you are instantly following your friends over at BL.... The only problem I am finding is not all are being followed and not everyone is on there :( so maybe check a few of your favourite blogs to see if you are following them.

But I will say I am finding it easier to see everyone's new posts, a lot faster and I am enjoying it more, so that's a good thing!

I will still be using the blogger friend platform as I do like that and I can see who is following me and follow back, that's the only thing I dislike about BL is that you can not see your followers, which is sucky.

Are you on Bloglovin? 

If you are feel free to leave your BL link in the comment section below and I will follow you :)

You can follow me HERE

You can probably see I have also changed my comment section over to DISQUS, I have been thinking about doing it for a while, so I jumped in and just did it lol At the moment all my comments have been deleted but hopefully they said within 24 hours all will be fixed and all old  comments will be showing up :D *fingers crossed*

Brooke xx

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Skulls, bones, pin-ups, tattoos & more

Last week this cute little parcel came in the mail for me *squeals* & *does a happy dance*

My beautiful bad ass friend from London got a whole lot of goodies together to cheer me up... seriously how awesome and rock'in is she!!!

This is the inside of the card she drew for me, yep she is one talented smok'in bitch lol

If you look closely you can see some bone earrings... how could anyone not love these, they are my favourite thing by far at the moment :) I forgot to put my moustache earrings into the picture as I was wearing them lol but trust be they are cool too!

I have some nail art stickers to try out, a gorgeous day of the dead hair bow (mighty cute), mirror, bag, purse, ribbons, stickers, tattoos... the list goes on!!!

As you can see this kind gift cheered me up a lot and made me feel special and appreciated, which is what everyone wants sometimes, right?

Brooke xx

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DIY Easter Hat parade ideas

Easter is coming up too quickly, which means its easter hat parade time at schools across the land :) My kids are not having one this year, oldest in high school and youngest is in year 4, so her school does not do them for the older kids, which is a shame. I have noticed in a lot of shops there is pre made hats now, I know many parents are extremely busy to help make a hat but its still shitty to see.

Anyhoo I was going to do a tutorial for the hat above which was her year 2 hat but I have run out of time (I might still do one and convert for a derby horse race fascinator or something)
Below I have found some pictures of her hats we made over the years for some inspiration.

Sweet 16th Jukebox cake DIY

I finally found the photos of the jukebox cake I did to match the hamburger cupcakes for a friends daughters 16th birthday party. I forgot my camera battery had died that day and I used a different camera... derrr haha

Below is a quick basic photo tutorial of how I made the cake (image heavy)

Day of the Dead half face make-up

Today I woke up early to do my niece & friends make-up for FUTURE music festival that was in Sydney today. Apparently it was the 'Day Of The Dead-Set Awesome'   theme, so people were getting in the spirit and going all fancy, dressing up, doing costumes and stuff lol

I think their half faces turned out better than I thought they would, its hard to achieve a sugar skull death face and still look adorable haha

Touch your boobies!!!!

Today I was thinking that I should do a post explaining my absence from the blogging world/social media/internet lately and I didnt know what to post as its sort of a poor excuse but I guess a valid one haha so I drew a picture.

In mid December I found a largish lump on my boobie, I do get cysts all the time so I didn't worry too much but there was something just not right about this lump. My doctor had already left for his Christmas break so I had to wait until mid January to see him. Long story short he sent me for a ultrasound and although they found lots of cysts, there was a small mass above one of them and they recommended I get a further test.

My doctor has looked at the ultrasound results and thinks it looks fine but has sent me to a specialist to get a the tests, I go next Thursday :) I swear this is dragging on forever lol

So basically although I am feeling fine that the results will be okay (positive thinking) the wait is killing me and I just am not in the right mood to do anything let along get online. Which is probably the opposite to what I should be doing, I think people say keep busy but fuck that LOL I am just really tired and want to sleep, which isn't unusual for me haha but normally I can push though it and get shit done.

Above is the quick silly sketch I drew today, I still need to colour it in... Hands are bloody hard to draw btw!!! lol Hopefully this will just inspire one girl to go and check her own breasts. Over the last few months I am amazed that none of my friends check themselves, its so easy and can save your life. I am 35 and have had two friends under 40 pass away from breast cancer, it can happen to young people. We all think we are invincible but sadly we are not but the good news is you can catch these things early if you keep alert and get to know your body :)

For further information on breast cancer you can visit you counties breast awareness website. 

There is a great guide HERE on how to do your own self examinations

Thanks so much everyone who has commented on my blog, I have been reading them tonight and they have made me smile a lot <3 *big hugs and smiles to you all*

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Hamburger cupcake making

Today I baked pretty much all day, making lots of hamburger cupcakes for a friends daughters 16th birthday party. Nothing was going right for me and I had to re make the chocolate patties as I stuffed them up, I wasn't happy about that but what can you do but keep going and swear a lot haha

You can find my burger cupcake tutorial HERE on how to make these. I wanted to take updated photos today of the steps but I didn't get time and couldn't be bothered because of my mood lol

Tomorrow I'm attempting to make a Jukebox cake for the party, wish me luck because I need it haha 

I better get to bed, have a great weekend everyone xx

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Infectious Love nail art design

I have had a packet of shiny sequin craft hearts for a while and have had no exciting projects to use them on, today I thought I would try to see if they work on my nails.

The plan started off well but the hearts do not bend much so I had to hold them down to set them to my nails which was annoying. I painted my nails with a clear polish first and then used the clear to stick the hearts, I guess not the correct way to do it but who cares lol

Once I did the hearts it looked to plain and lame so I added the red spots, which then made my nails look like they had an Infectious disease haha which i quite like :-) 

So here is my Valentines nail art design as love is very infectious and will make you love sick hehe

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Puppy update

 I thought it was time to post some new photos of Crumpet, mostly because I have had no time to organise a creative post and I am desperate haha Puppies fix everything right?

Crumpet finally got her last lot of needles so she can go for a walk, she is loving it, us not so much as she is obsessed with chasing birds around the walking path and there is a LOT of birds!!! I don't cope well with running haha

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FIND - Box of Chocolates Crochet Pattern

I was going through my Pinterest Romance board and remembered how much I adore this cute crochet box of chocolates.. You can find the FREE pattern here and make a love one squeal with delight when then receive it.

I really wish I could crochet awesomely so I could make this haha Maybe I could do this as part of my crochet practice or just con someone who can crochet to make it for me for Valentines Day.... okay Okay, I can dream ;)

 

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Austrlaia Day's Hottest 100 countdown

Today may be Australia day but it's also Triple J's Hottest 100 countdown for 2012!

Every Austrlaia day I pretty much do the same thing, no parties, no drinking at BBQ's, just lazing around on my bed listening to music all day, really that's all you need in life :)

 Above are the songs I voted for, you can listen to all the songs here

I doubt many of my songs will make it, they rarely do, I give it a 50% rate of getting in there haha but I swear Bands of Skulls better make it or I may lose my shit!!! Yes this is serious business!!!!

You can see the countdown the above widget or for the final results they can be found on the Triple J website. There is also a lot of Australia day Hottest 100 party pictures people are uploading to keep you entertained lol

Enjoy your weekend everyone & to all my Aussie friends have a safe and wonderful long weekend!!!

 

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