Easy DIY Chain Armour

As you maybe able to tell, i have a love for fantasy looks and I love if i can incorporate that element in my everyday style.

I am a warrior at heart as I am always pushing myself and keeping strong through the tough times I encounter.

I love adding accessories to a basic outfits too,  just to add some detail or point of difference and personality.

This is a easy DIY to add to any outfit.

All you need is an old necklace, jewellery pilers and some extra chain.

I found a couple of necklaces in the sale section of my favourite costume jewellery store.

I cut some extra chain and attach it to the top middle of the necklace and that it was a good size to thread through the tab on my jacket so it would hold up on the shoulder. 

I then took off the excess chain that would go around your neck to fit around my arm.

And this is how it turned out, super easy!

I was lucky that my jacket had a shoulder tab that i could attach some chain around to hold it up.  if you don't have a tab like this on your jacket you could make the chain longer and attach at the neckline under the collar. You can add some extra beading to it also and extra chains too and attach to any jacket you have or top.  You can get quite creative with this look.

I tried this with another necklace too but didn't quite sit how I would have liked so I'm still working on that but this is how it is at the moment.

 Hope you enjoyed this and thanks for reading :)

x the girl backstage

Evil Queen

 

Evil Queen Coat

Due to my obsession with Once Upon A Time, I decided to make something inspired by one of my favourite characters on the show; The Evil Queen.

This was another project of trial and error so a couple of things didn't work out as I imagined but overall i'm happy with the outcome.  I did realised what I did wrong and how I should have done certain things but it was too late and I didn't have the extra money to start over but was able to make do and you can't notice so nobody would know haha.

And just for fun...

Thanks for reading :)

x The Girl Backstage

Leibster Award - For a Newbie

Leibster Awards

How it works...

  1) Make sure you mention the lovely person that nominated you 

2) List 10 facts about yourself if you so wish 

3) Answer the questions that you were bestowed by that lovely person who nominated you

4) Nominate some lovely bloggers for the award

5) Create 10 questions for those love bloggers mentioned above

6) Make sure that you let those lovely nominees know about it so that they can tag along if they want to! No pressure at all to get involved, but you are definitely worth a mention for one reason or another.  :)

I was nominated by my best friend of 13 years at Button Up Cakes who is totally into her cake decorating and she is so amazing at it.

10 Facts about ME!

1) Im an artist

2) When I finally settle down in my own home I will own a pig

3) I have never broken a bone

4) I have lived in 3 time zones 

5) I love being creative, it what keeps me happy

6) I love going on road trips either with my besties or on my own and sing really loud along to the music

7) My favourite actress is Rachel Bilson and favourite actor is Jared Padalecki

8) I collect sunglasses 

9) I maybe tiny but I'm really strong

10) Because very few can pronounce my name (even my middle name people get wrong) so when my name is asked for a food order etc I use the name Jay.

Amy's Questions

1.Sunshine or Rain? Why?

Sunshine as I love how the warmth feels on my skin

2.Who is your favourite Disney "Prince" Why?

Flynn Ryder from Tangled coz he is totally funny, down to earth and bit of a bad ass

3.PC or Mac

Mac

4. Favourite cake flavour?

Mud with raspberries

5. Do you really like Vegetable? I mean really? Come on?

oh yea I do, I even crave them sometimes

6. If you could meet anyone who would you meet and why? (Living or gone)

My Pop (my mum's dad).  He died before I was born and I always hear great stories of him

7.If your life was a TV show which would it be?

Project Runway; coz I'm always making something

8.Whats brings you peace? Chills you out?

Listening to music or watching my favourite tv show

9.Which Spice girl were you? You know you were one.

I was always Sporty Spice

10. Favourite 90s Song?

I don't know why but the Barbie song from Aqua come to my mind first haha, but Learn to Fly buy the Foo Fighters and Time of Your Life by Green Day

My Questions 

1) What are you wearing right now?

2) What is your luxury item?

3) Most expensive thing you have brought?

4) What is something that your parents taught you that you will carry on with your children?

5) First pet?

6) What is your next travel destination?

7) Favourite story/movie character ever and why?

8) While in primary school/elementary school, what did you want to be?

9) What is your most wanted item?

10) What is the last book you read?

Nominees

@costume carousel

Linear Dance Video

Heres another dance I worked on...

This one was based around order, staying in line, appliance to rules.

Once again the dancers where the directors of how they wanted to have this portrayed and we all worked together on making their vision/idea come across to the audience.

The photo stills I had taken throughout filming didn't come out very well (the camera i had at the time  didn't work well in darkness and the images came out blurry).

Thanks for watching.

x The Girl Backstage :)

NowHere/NoWhere Dance Video

I was lucky enough to be chosen to work as the costume designer for a couple of dance videos at uni. This wasn't part of my course requirements where I would be assessed so it was something I did outside of uni hours.  I was so happy to have the chance to work on a project which would offer me new challenges.  The principal of the work is the same with any project with from designing to production meetings etc but this was a new format (i know there is a word for this but my mind has gone blank on this).

I collaborated with the dances (this was their project that they were being assessed on) with the look and feel of the costumes that they wanted to portray with there dance piece.  We then had production meetings with other HOD's and discussed how each of our departments can come together to make the dancers vision of the project come to life.  

Here is how the video came out...

Here are some stills...

Thanks for reading and watching.

x The Girl Backstage :)