Here is a tutorial for a necklace I made some time last year. 

It looks pretty with a long sleeved black top, jeans and pink heels.

 I've been meaning to do this tutorial for a while, but to be honest I've just never been in the mood, but now that the sun has emerged I'm a lot happier and I'm getting a lot more work done.

-So here we go-

You will need:

Some gossy material

1.

 From your gossy material cut out 5 circles, these by no mean need to be perfect; mine were very rough.

2.

 Light a candle, don't use just a lighter or a match, because your material will be more likely to burn.

3.

 Hold your material not too close to the flame, it should start to contort, creating a little cup.

4. 

This is what your little "cup" should look like, they get better the more you practise and the more you get use to the process.

5.

 Do this to all 5 of your circles.

6.

 Pick a button, in the picture are two of my favourites.

7. 

Place your "cups" on top of one another, biggest at the bottom and getting smaller, push down the middle as much as possible.

8. 

Place your button in the middle of the smallest "cup" and sew it in to place, making sure you go through all the layers of material.

9.

 Your flowers should look something like the ones in the picture. Before this I had only done it with the grey material, but while I was looking for it I found the red material (previously used for a dance show), so thought I'd have a go at making a red one.

10.

 To create the necklace you simply need to spring your pearls on to a thread (I took mine from a necklace I previously had but never wore).

11.

 When you get to where you'd like to place your flower, thread the necklace thread on to a needle and pull it through one of the thread at the back of the flower that was used to sew the button on with. 

12. 

Then continue to thread on your pearls, once they are all threaded on, just tie a simple but sturdy knot in the thread so you have created a massive hoop necklace.

VOILA!

Okay, been a while since I've done a DIY, especially as this is only my second one, sacre blue! 

And not that this is particularly difficult, but I thought I'd share as not many people know about these awesome pens!

You will need:

A mug (or several)

Porcelain Pens!

An Oven

Tracing Paper (optional)

Sellotape (optional)

Pencil (optional)

1. Clean your mug and dry thoroughly.

2. Give your pens a good shake and test the ink on a piece of scrap paper. Then draw away! Optionally, if you aren't too sure about your design, you can trace it, sellotape the tracing paper on to your mug, draw over the lines on the tracing paper and when you remove it then pencil lines should be on your mug. The just draw way!

(Quick warning: These pens can be tricky and it may take a while to get your design perfect, or good enough in the time it takes you to give up, like in my cake.)

3. Allow the ink to dry for at least 4 hours (I didn't do this on some of mine and I may live to regret it.)

4. Place in a none pre heated oven at 200C for about an hour and a half (but this depends on your mug).

5. And VOILA, you should have a prettily decorated water and wash proof mug!

The first mug here was one I made for one of my Best Friend's 18th Birthday, this one was quite successful and he says he still uses it to this day and that the J is still there (Thank God). The Moustache Mug was the first one I did on Thursday morning, just because I really wanted a Moustache Mug! (However I didn't give this one 4 hours to dry as I was pretty rushed for time, and it didn't withstand the oven as well as the other one, see the black mark on the handle? That's the oven's fault!)

Now Mufasa's Mug is one of my Mother's many presents for Sunday (luckily she doesn't read my blog so she won't see it). On one side it says 'Mufasa's Mug' (obviously) - My wonderful Mum is obviously Mufasa- and on the other side was meant to be a pretty flower, however the yellow porcelain pen didn't work very well *sad face*, hopefully she'll like it anyway.

If anyone has a go at this, or has any tips, please let me know. And I hope everyone has a nice Mothers' Day.

So remember, each day, live a little, laugh a little and love a little. ♥

While wandering around the house aimlessly today (because the weather was being so indecisive, that I couldn't possibly go out) I found my sister in the kitchen, attempting to make some form of cake. What kind of cake she hadn't quite decided so was just throwing random ingredients into a bowl; from previous experience this isn't safe. Like a guardian angel I arrived in the kitchen hoping to salvage the situation. Luckily she had not added any flavourings yet, so we managed to create Honey and Nutmeg Cakes. Originally I wanted to add cinnamon, but we couldn't find any. It's always the way in our house, you want one spice you can't find it, until you need a different one; just infuriating.

2.

 Beat butter and sugar together in a bowl.

3. 

Add your beaten eggs to the sugar and butter a little at a time, mixing them together.

4. 

Sift the flour into the mixture.

5. 

Add the honey (as much as you like) and a large sprinkling of nutmeg (or cinnamon), combining all ingredients, so the mixture is creamy like proper cake mix.

6. 

Add to your cake cases and put in the oven for 15-20 minutes

7. 

Leave to cool for 15 mins, in the meantime you can make your icing. Put your icing sugar into a clean bowl, add water then the vanilla essence (as much as you like), then mix, adding more icing sugar or water depending on what consistency you want.

8. 

DECORATE!

These were pretty yummy, and if my Mother doesn't want hers later I plan on stuffing it in to my own mouth, because I'm fat! Although I think they would have been better if we had had more honey. I really really love honey, it's just so yummy; I would gladly just sit and eat teaspoon after teaspoon of honey (now I really do sound fat, deary me.). My youngest sister kept having tantrums because there wasn't anything for her to do, however we quickly shut her up, by promising her she would lick the whisk when we were finished. The best bit of cake making is obviously the batter, apart from the actual cake, maybe, just maybe. 

I hope everyone has done something nice this Saturday!

So remember, each day, live a little, laugh a little and love a little. ♥