A new adventure

Starting a new journey!

Alright so I recently got a new camera (Canon EOS 40D)! I got the camera mainly to shoot photos of my daughters and tattoos that my husband and myself do! This is my first Digital SLR, so I've been reading up on tips and tricks, bought a basic lens that I can already tell I will grow out of quickly but as with anything else I did not want to jump in head first into something I do not know, I'd rather learn the proper way. I LOVE the camera and am very excited to get started with my photography adventures. As I get better and obtain more knowledge I plan to eventually pursue shooting weddings and children. I absolutely love the two subjects for photography. Especially being that I make things for weddings and for children as well. So that being said here are a few photos I went out and took today. 

And an update on the daily DIY craft!

My niece turned 3 this week and she has just about every toy known already so I wanted to do something different. I decided to make her a hair accessory holder/ hair accessories. This DIY project was extremely inexpensive and simple to make.
Materials used:

1. Oatmeal Can- I used a basic Acrylic paint and painted the outside, I did about 3 coats to make sure all logos were no longer visible.
2. Candlestick Holder- I found a clear candlestick holder at the Dollar Tree
3. Glue- I went with Epoxy because I wanted to make sure it was sturdy.
4. Paint/Brush- Acrylic Paint and an old brush
5. Elastic- Two Elastic Strips ran down the sides, used to clip all the hair clips on to.
6. Hair Accessories- You can choose to make them or buy them.

Here's the final Product, and I chose to make my hair accessories.

I used my girls as models for some of the accessories.

Unfinished Business

A little behind with my blog, sorry.

The trip to Arizona went great. Got to do some fun tattoos, spend personal time with my family, see old friends, and ordered myself a new lens, and the hubby a bishop rotary. I'm very anxious to get my camera up and running and start messing around with it, as well as be able to take much nicer photos of my tattoos. I also got the chance to try out a rotary yesterday and I must say I did love it, the color just went in so smoothly, it's gentle on the skin, and boy was the thing damn near silent! Anyways here's a few pictures of the piece I used the rotary on. It is half healed/half fresh. I was very excited to finish this piece I started on my husband almost a year ago, so here it is!

Wipe Case Tutorial

Baby Wipes Case

Alright so I spent the day working on a few DIY reusable wipes cases. They're super easy to make, save space in your bag, still look cute, and get the job done. This is one of my first tutorials so excuse the horrid picture taking skills.

Things you will need:

1. Your choice of material
2. Hot glue and hot glue gun
3. Your choice of a 3/8 inch ribbon
4. A huggies wipes case (I prefer this case because it isn't flimsy)
5. Scissors

Step One: You want to cut out two pieces of material. It does not need to be precise because you will be coming back and trimming excess material off anyway. The easiest way to do it is just set the case on top of the material and roughly cut around it.

Step Two: Make sure your material doesn't have a bunch of creases in it or it will not look as clean. I take the creases out of my with my flat iron. You can use a regular iron as well but I find this easier with such a small piece of material and you don't have to pull out an ironing board.

 

 Step Three: Once you have your two pieces of material cut out it's time to glue them down. You're going to apply the hot glue in the crease of the case where I am pointing to. If you go much lower it will make it difficult to trim the material later. You want to start applying the hot glue on one of the smaller sides first. You will apply the glue and immediately place your material to it. Then you want to go with the side directly across from it and apply the glue again and then stretch the material lightly pulling it nice and tight and place the material down. Then you will proceed to do the same process with the other sides.

 Step Four: Once you have the material placed you will have excess material hanging. You can take your scissors and trim the material off. You want to cut it enough that it does not hang of the edge but don't worry about it looking perfect because its going to be covered with more glue and then your 3/8 inch ribbon anyways.

 Once you trim the material off it will look similar to this. As you can see it isn't perfect but it will be covered with ribbon so no need to be a perfectionist.

 Step Five: Once your material is glued down you are going to take out your ribbon and measure it around your case carefully to get it the exact size you are going to need it. You will cut two pieces of the same size ribbon to use for your trimming. Then you will glue them down. It doesn't matter if you start with top or bottom but you want to start gluing the ribbon down on the back in the middle so when you finish gluing the ribbon it finishes in the back as well and you don't see any seams in the front.

 Once you are finished your case should look something like this. Sorry for my rough tutorial Haha!