DIY Halloween Collar

Hello everyone!
I'm back with another tutorial, easy and cheap as usual.

It's Halloween inspired, cause Halloween it's coming...

A quick DIY gothic collar!

What do you need?

• Black lace
• Black ribbon
• some gems
• Glue for fabric or Attack glue
• Black sewing thread
• Lighter
• Pins
• Meter
• Scissors
• 
  

Some easy steps to follow!

1. Measure your neck circumference
2. Cut the black lace as long as the measure (I cut two pieces of lace)
3. Fix the two pieces of lace in the middle with some pins
4. Sew them together
5. Leave some black ribbon on one edge and fix it on the centre of the lace with a pin
6. Fix all the ribbon to the lace, leave some more ribbon at the end and cut it
7. Sew the ribbon to the lace with a sewing machine or by hands, you can also glue it! I sew it twice on the edes of the ribbon
8. Measure the centre of the collar and glue the gems
9. With a lighter, burn the final parts of the ribbon

And there you go!
A simple and cool collar to wear for Halloween or wherever you like!
Check out my vlog and my channel :)

Love G.

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GALAXY COLLAR - feeltheleef

Hellohellohello! It's G!

Welcome back to my blog, hope everyone is ok!

Today I want to show you our first ever accessory on sale on our online shop feeltheleef.

It's called GALAXY COLLAR and it's 100% handmade with lots of love. 

Black fabric is faded with bleach to get this "space look". 

A couple of star metal studs, a black ribbon and it's done!

I enjoy this kind of things a lot, because my wardrobe is full with basic stuff and this collar gets on really well with almost everything and adds that particular edge to your look. 

As we said in the product description: 

"Feel the Galaxy power around your neck with our Collar! 

Feel like a real Galaxy Hipster!"

I leave you the link and you can check it out

http://feeltheleef.bigcartel.com/product/galaxy-collar

Thank you so much, hope you like it!

Love G.

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The New Fokka - SPACE DESIGN

Hello there! 

Last month I painted another tshirt (how strange ahah)

It was again for my friends band called The New Fokka.

They came up with this new idea, a space/Star Wars print and I think the result was pretty amazing. I quite prefer this version! What do you guys think?

They are also starting their own Facebook page soon. 

Last weekend they played a small gig in a local bar which was super cool, really enjoyed it!

I vlogged that evening but the video will be uploaded in the next few days. 

At the moment I'm editing a cover me and some friends did, Somebody to you by The Vamps, and I hope it'll be ready soon!

I'm sorry this blog post is really short, but in these days I'm busy also with my fashion project. If you want to follow me and my friend Benny fashion label, it's called "Leef" and I give you all the social networks links here below!

LEEF shop

LEEF twitter

LEEF instagram

LEEF youtube

Love G.

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MISFITS T-Shirts

Hello everyone! First of all: I have a new camera :)
My pics are going to be great now on and also my videos! I fanyone is interested, subscribe to my channel and you'll watch some cool stuff soon!

Second big news is: my YouTube Boyband t-shirts will be on sale soon, in June :)

If you follow me, you know what I'm talking about. If not, go and check my blog post about that! 

Let's talk about this new painted t-shirt now! Ahah

It's about Misfits, my favourite TV show ever I think! 

It's funny, genious and english of course, what can you ask more? 

Maybe it's on copyright... but who cares! I painted it for a friend of mine and I like it so much, simple black on grey that fits perfectly! 

Hopefully next time I'll post something about fashion/outfits :)

Love G.

xx

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Floral Crown - DIY

In this period I really love flowers, I think it's because spring is actually arrived :)

So I decided to make a floral crown by myself with white, pink and violet flowers! 

This tutorial is the easiest thing to do ever, trust me! 

WHAT YOU NEED:

• fake flowers, I found them in a chinese shop and they are really cheap! Choose the colors you prefer!
• a rubber band, I picked a white one in a haberdashery, you shouldn't spend a lot because you need just a small lenght of it!
• sewing thread in the same color of your rubber band
• a needle
• a tape measure
• hot glue (or another type of glue)

HOW TO DO:

• measure with a tape measure the circumference of your head
• cut the rubber band 10 cm less than the circumference (this depends on how elastic is your rubber band, try a few times and then decide your perfect measure!)
• sew the rubber band to the two ends overlapping them slightly
• start stitching the flowers on your rubber band with the hot glue or any other glue you have
• when you are satisfied with the result, wear it :)

Wasn't it easy? :) 
It took me about half an hour to make this cute floral crown and I think I'm going to make some other ones in different colors! Feel free to ask me all the questions you want and send me your pics with your handmade floran crowns :)

Love G.

xx

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TYLER OAKLEY T-Shirt!

As you guys now, I went to ITAtube last week and painted some t-shirts for my favourite youtubers. Tyler Oakley is one of them, if you don't know him... well, what the hell is wrong with you? He is the most awesome, lovely, amazing and sweet guy on the entire planet!
Check him out on his YouTube channel and you will fall in love in just one second, trust me :)
I wanted to represent him with his typical glasses and most important with his adorable floral crown! He is so charming that he managed to give one to each member of One Direction and interview them with this spring girly look! Lovely. 

"Forever me" is the main topic in his latest video "I had a vision of love" and i found it so powerful and true that i wanted to write it on the t-shirt. 

So that's it! Funny fact is that I don't really know if Tyler saw it. We literally run towards him when we were supposed to go down the stage, and we hug him really quickly saying "this is a present for you!" And then we ran away ahahah

So many people are asking me about my tshirts right now, I'm so overwhelmed! I want to thank every single one of you so so much! You are all lovely!
I want to say that I'm planning to actually print them at the moment, and then sell the t-shirts online as soon as possible! So stay tuned!

Love G.

xx

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YOUTUBE BOYBAND T-Shirts

This is my latest project: YouTube BoyBand T-shirts! Last week I went to Milan for ITAtube, the first ever italian conference about the YouTube world and I thought it would be nice to give the guys we were meeting some presents.
If you don't know who they are, check out their channels!

From the left: PointlessBlog (Alfie), Jim Chapman, TatcherJoe (Joe Sugg), Marcus Butler and Caspar Lee. I have to say I would never expect them to actually wear it, but it happened on the main stage of the convention during their BoyBand Challenge. I was so happy and shocked, I probably screamed a little bit too much :)

As usual, this t-shirts are handmade printed. I keep telling you this because so many people don't believe it and think they are printed, but they aren't!
It's all made by my little hands! 

I hope the guys will see this post one day, there were too many people at the meets with them and I completely understand it's impossible to remember every single face.
But anyway, I'm so happy they wore and enjoy them! 

At the moment I'm editing my blog post about the whole experience, it might take a while... Hopefully this week I'm also starting my YouTube channel too :)

Keep your eyes open! 

Love G.

xx

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ZOELLA & TANYA BURR inspired T-Shirts

Hello everyone! In the last week I was busy painting these new T-shirts and finally today I was able to take a couple of pictures to show you my work!

If you don't know, I'm a massive YouTube addicted and next week I'm going to ITAtube, first ever Italian YouTube Convention, so excited! My friend and I came up with this cute idea to give to our fave youtubers some handmade T-shirts inspired by them, so these were the ones for Zoella and Tanya. If you don't know who they are, I'll leave you some links down below to check them out because they are amazing!

Zoella, or Zoe Sugg, paint was inspired by her pets, two lovely guinea pigs that you can see in some of her vlogs and videos on her channel. Their names are Pippin and Percy and they are the cutest animals ever! I added some dots in the frame and in the top there's this large ribbon which I think looked nice. 

Tanya T-shirt is similar, but I wanted to draw some make up inside the frame. Tanya is a make up blogger/vlogger/youtuber and she recently started her own makeup collection, so I thought it would be nice to paint this cute products and obviously the girly ribbon on the top. 

Hope you like my new paintings! Leave me a comment down below and contact me on the links I'll leave at the end of this post! 

Zoella: zoella.co.uk

             youtube.com/zoella

Tanya: tanyaburr.co.uk

             youtube.com/tanyaburr

Love G.

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THE NEW FOKKA: first gig and t-shirts

On sunday night I went to see a couple of friends playing in a local bar, "The New Fokka". It was their first ever gig, but it was really impressive. They asked me to design and paint their t-shirts, so I came up with this idea of a draw that reminded the old-vintage circus posters. 
Very proud of the result!
I think their Facebook page will be available soon to check out, so keep your eyes open!
Meanwhile, this t-shirts are available to buy! All you need to do is contact me on twitter/facebook down below, or by mail here: ginineko@gmail.com
Also, thanks to Angelica Lazzaro for the pictures!
Feel free to comment and share this blog to who you want :) 

I leave you with this amazing song by Mumford and Sons, Little Lion Man,  which the band played on their gig, enjoy!

Love G.

xx

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