Tuesday, 9 September 2014

Loom Band Tutorial - Friendship Frill Bracelet

Hey guys!
I can't believe it has taken this long for me to put a tutorial on here! Sadly my video's don't work on here so I've done it in pictures. This is a cute as bracelet called the "Friendship Frill" bracelet. My BFF designed it and we both made it.It is really cool so please try! We had so much fun making the video tutorial for it so is was a pity that it didn't work! ): 



Anyway, enough chit chat, lets loom!

You will need:
 


48 bands in all. It is good to use 3 different colors, so 16 of each.
we used pink, yellow, and black.

12 black  4 for extension.                      1 loom

12 pink   4 for extension.                       1 S clip

12 yellow 4 for extension.                      1 hook

Have your loom in a straight configuration. The pins should be even at both ends. Have the arrows pointing away from you.

Taking the twelve pink, you will lay them on the outer edge of the loom, as if you were making an ordinary chain bracelet.


Lay it like this to the end of the loom.


It should then look like this.^


Then you will lay your yellow on the middle row, in the same way.



Lay it like this to the end of the loom



It should then look like this ^

You will now do the black bands. These should be placed in a square.
You should NOT MISS ANY PINS!
Like below..



You will lay them like this to the SECOND TO LAST PINS.


Like this ^


On the last pins a black band must be twisted round twice.
This is the cap band.

 Now it is time to hook!
Turn your loom around so that the open side of the pins faces you.


Go inside the black cap band and hook the yellow to the next pin up.
Do the same with the pink.


It should look like this ^


Hook the yellow all the way up the loom.


It should look like this.^



Do the same with the pink, right to the end of the loom.


It should look like this.^


Slip your hook inside the yellow and black bands and take the yellow over onto the pin with the pink.


Then pull through them a pink band.


Slip the pink band onto your hook and pull the bracelet of the loom.

  
Slip one side of the pink band over the other to make a loose slipknot.


It should now look like this!

At the other end is the cap band. Slip this on to your hook.


Then pull a pink band through it. This is going to be the extension. Just keep slipping the next band through. It should look like a normal chain.


Like this ^



I did my 4 pink then 4 black then four yellow, as above.


At the other end, undo the slipknot.




Attach it to your S clip.


It should look like this ^


And now you have a really cute little bracelet!


I hope you liked this tutorial and the bracelet and I hope to do another tutorial sometime!



From Me!




'you won't be needing those coats anymore...' hopefully!

SPRING IS  HERE!

(olaf happy dance)

after three months of cold and rain, and for some of you snow, spring has really arrived!
here are some pictures for you to enjoy and to see what spring is like in NZ!

















TO THE BARRICADE!



Sunday, 7 September 2014

Guest Post ~ Fan Fic Genre Mix-up


This post was inspired by Anne-girl's post here.

Hello! Ainsley here. My sister, Emily Blakeney, is here for a guest post!

Emily here! Thanks for letting me invade your blog, sis!
So we were playing around this afternoon - we got the idea from Anne-girl's post as linked above (read that post, guys, it's Hilarious with a capital H!) - and here is our result:

The Characters:
Marius Pontmercy - Les Miserables
Anne Shirley - Anne of Green Gables
Gavroche Thenardier - Les Miserables
Gale Hawthorne - The Hunger Games

Sonny-Bill Williams - NZ Rugby Player


Eden Park (Rugby Grounds), Auckland, New Zealand - 2014
Sonny-Bill is tossing a rugby ball around, practising. 

Gale is hiding behind a row of seats, creeping around, looking for Peacekeepers.

Gavroche strides in with a pistol.

Anne Shirley and Marius find each other at the entrance.
Anne is looking for the lake of shining waters; Marius is wondering where the barricade has gone.

Sonny-Bill (to Gale): Oi! What ya doin' up there, bro?

Gale: Are you a Peacekeeper?

S-B: Am I a what-what?

Marius (approaches): What are you doing? Where are we?

S-B: Eden Park! Wanna pass around?

Gale: Wanna what?

Gavroche plays around with his trigger-less pistol.

Anne: Have you seen the Lake of Shining Waters? I seem to have lost my way.

Marius: The Lake of What?

S-B: C'mon! (To Gale) Catch, bro!

Gale doesn't catch. Sonny Bill runs up the field. Soon he comes back.

S-B: Yeah! I got a try, man!

Gale: Well, that's okay; keep trying. What exactly are you trying to do?

Marius: You'll get there one day.

S-B: I got a try! I got the ball over the line! Try! Touch-down! Score! Get the picture?

Gale: Sort of. 

The scene changes. 

Paris, France - 1832

Marius: Ah! Here we are! TO THE BARRICADE!!

Gavroche: Who's there? French Revolution! Yeah! C'mon, boys!

S-B: To the what-what??

Gale (to Marius): Hey! Hey, is this a revolution?


Marius *lowers gun to look at Gale as if he is crazy*: Uh, YEAH!!!

Gale: Oh yeah!!!! At last; I've been waiting for this all my life! At last we can overthrow Snow and be free!

S-B: Dude, it's summer - and we don't get much snow here, anyways.

Anne: Have you seen-

Marius: -the Lake of Silly Waters? No!

Anne: I dropped Marilla's brooch in it - and if I don't find it, she won't let me go to the picnic!

Gale: Who cares? We're revolting here!!

Anne: Yes, you are revolting!

Marius: If you're quite finished - hurry up! We have only fifteen minutes to build the barricade!

Gale: A barricade! Ooh, yeah!! Aw, man! Furniture? That's not very stable; it should be concrete.

Marius: Just move! *begins building barricade, humming Building the Barricade soundtrack*

S-B (To Marius): Hey, dude! What is this, World War 3 or something?

Gavroche: WORLD war?

Marius: Barricade!!!

Gale: Yeah, what he said! Oh, by the way - d'ya have any bombs or anything? We'll need a lot to destroy Snow's Peacekeepers.

Marius: Bombs?

S-B: I told you; there's no snow!

Gale: Or a machine-gun?

Gavroche: Marius! My pistol 'asn't got a trigger!

Marius: Here - take this carbine!

Gavroche: I want a big gun!

Marius *gives Gale and Gav each a large gun*: Here, use these! Get behind the barricade. Save your gunpowder.

Gale: I think I see a Peacekeeper! 

S-B: A what?

Marius (To Anne): Hey, you! Stop picking daisies, and get behind the barricade! You'll get killed!

All are huddled behind the barricade. The scene shifts again.

Avonlea, Prince Edward Island - 18--

S-B: Hey, this dirt is red! Like blood!

Marius: RED! THE BLOOD OF ANGRY MEN! *continues singing Red and Black to himself*

Anne: The Lake!! *runs off*

Gale: What's happening? Have we won??

Marius: THE NIGHT THAT ENDS AT LAST!! 

Gale: Election time!

S-B: What for? It's not til the 20th! By the way, this soil looks volcanic! Mt Eden is a dormant volcano; it's gonna BLOW!!!

Gale: You are so dumb. Dormant volcanoes don't blow! And yet, it could be a trap. 

Gavroche: Volcanoes explode.

Marilla appears.

Marilla: Anne! There you are! *Anne and Marilla leave*

The scene changes again.

The Capitol, Panem - 3015 (or somewhere in the future)

Marius: Where are we now?

Gale: The Capitol! Come on!

S-B: The what??

Anne reappears: Here I am! 

Marius *sighs*: I thought we got rid of you.

Anne *grins*: Nope!

Gale: A hovercraft! Shoot!!!!!

*they shoot*

Marius: Hey, what are those things?

Gale: Bombs! We gotta detonate them! *they shoot and the bombs blow* That'll blow up the Justice Building!

S-B: Okay.......

Gavroche: It's this funny thing again! *finds a rugby ball*

Anne: Shall we go for a stroll to the Dryad's Bubble, and have a picnic!

Gavroche: To the WHAT?

S-B *spots the rugby ball*: MY BALL!!!

Marius: protective about his ball, isn't he?

Gale: Hmph. Unimportant.

They look around and discover that they're back where they started.

Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand - 2014

Gale: I'm hungry! Is that a rabbit? *races off*

Anne: The Dryad's Bubble! I can see my bosom friend Diana - she is waiting for me! She has something very important to tell me; I can tell by the way she is waving her arms around! *departs, followed by Gavroche.

Marius: The Rue Plumet! Cosette! *leaves*

Sonny-Bill shrugs, and plays around with his ball.

THE END!

























Monday, 1 September 2014

Birthday Party!

(my own)

 So, this past week has been ridiculously crazy,

trying out marshmallow fondant



So yummy!
just marshmallows, water and icing sugar!










having a great twelfth b'day......my sis Emily made this great cake smothered in chocolate!


watching TV with little bros while she made it <=


The cake my awesome sis beth made for my party  0 :


It was a joint party with my friend 
The party guests...


my friend's cake.  smarties inside!


The great view from the front door


 you can see the others on the trampoline in the backround.


On the balustraid



just for a laugh...



hehe!



from me!