DIY Fairy Kei Winged Sneakers ❤

Hi guys! First things first...
 I feel like this blog is really impersonal =/
Soooo I'd like some suggestions on the kinds of posts you guys would like to see from me ^^. I have plenty of tutorial ideas, but you can suggest those as well. Do you guys want to see me play with makeup? Clothing? Food? I just feel like I'm stuck in a rut ><. I'm not sure that I want this to be a blog of tutorials exclusively. It's not interesting to everyone xD


I'm pretty excited about this tutorial, because I've been getting lots off compliments on these shoes :)

I nabbed this idea from this original tumblr post. 
I've seen a lot of fairy kei girls wearing winged sneakers in their OOTDs on Tumblr, and they always look awesome. So I made some ^^

You will need:

• sneakers
• a piece of foam
• a hole punch
• scissors

This tutorial is so easy x)

It'll probably end up being like 3 sentences max xD

Draw a rough draft of your wing shape. You probably don't want this to be too much longer than the side of your shoe~

Cut it out ^^

Take out your shoe laces, and place your shoe wing against the side.

Use a pen to mark the piece of foam through each of the shoe lace holes. This is to ensure that you know were to use the hole punch~

Use your hole punch in the areas that you designated with marks.

Lace them up, and you're done ^^.

I reeeallly want to make a pair of super awesomely awesome high top fairy kei sneakers like this:

I could totally DIY these~

But the shoes that I would need to start with are so expensive T_T

Maybe someday =3



P.S....
Did you guys notice my new snowflake cursor trail? I love it! When I first set it, I spent like an hour just dragging my cursor around x)

DIY Candy Jewelry Tutorial

In my last post, I shared a photo of some "candy" jewelry pieces that I had recently made. Candy themed jewelry seems to be popular among people that subscribe to the fairy kei or pastel goth styles, both of which I find very pretty :) This is two tutorials in one, so just bear with me on the length x)

Okay!

Tutorial #1: Lollipop Charms

You will need:

• Oven bake colored clay
• Eye pins
• "Lollipop sticks"

Separate 3 similarly sized lumps of clay.

Roll out each lump separately into a cylindrical form and lay them side by side.

Ummm...do this ^

I'm not sure how to explain this step, but I don't believe that it really needs an explanation, right?

Roll out the attached pieces of clay to your desired thickness.

Carefully twist the formation until it appears similar to the above image.

I apologize for the gross yellow lighting =/ I moved to the kitchen in order to make use of the granite countertops. Choose one end of your clay formation as the center. Fold over the very tip~

Roll the twisted formation into a circular pattern. Insert an eye pin through the side of your lollipop. This will be the top of your lollipop. Insert your "lollipop stem" through the opposite side of the lollipop.

Skip to the end to learn about "baking" the jewelry pieces. No, I didn't necessarily think this out very well as I took photos.

Tutorial #2: Marshmallow Pole Charms

You will need:

• Oven bake clay
• Eye pins
• an ID card or credit card

Separate two similarly sized lumps of clay.

Roll them into a cylindrical shape.

Twist the cylinders together until it looks like this ^.

Comparing my clay marshmallow pole to a real marshmallow pole.

Using an ID card, slice through the clay pole.

Insert an eye pin through the center of your charm~

Repeat this for each of the clay pieces.

Tutorial #3: Baking the pieces

Cover a baking sheet with aluminum foil.

Arrange each piece on the foil so that none of them are touching.

Bake according to the instructions on your clay.

After your pieces have been baked, you are free to decorate them in whichever way that you'd like.

To use your lollipop charms on a necklace, just attach a small jump ring and slip it onto a chain ^^. I feel think this tutorial may have seemed confusing, but it's actually verrry simple once you begin! Have fun everyone!