20 Min Zumba Mod!

Here's a quickie....

My very good friend Leanne asked me to add a bit of awesomeness to one of her Zumba tops




A few snips later...



And here is the super sexy lady herself modelling her new Lolafied Zumba top






Zumba!

Love Lola x

Dresses for my Sister!!

Well this is my first post for ages, had some connection issues but I have been dying to get this up here.



I finally got to make my super beautiful sister some dresses last month...I cut a pattern from one of her other dress that she really liked the style of...






My home made pattern :D





Some of the fabric we chose together...being watched over by Hurley!

And Ta Da!! Here are some of the dresses on my sister...






Polka Dotty!!!







Of course it helps when you get to make dresses for someone so lovely!

Still got a few dresses to go!!

Love Lola x

Zero to Hero

Gotta love things found on the side of the road!

This poor chair was found dying in the middle of the road in my old ends, Forest Fields in Nottingham.



I removed the old covering and cut a pattern from it. Meanwhile I sprayed the wood work using a Montana 94 spray can in fuschia pink with a fat cap from http://montanashopnottingham.com/ (but I went into the store to get it, lucky me living so close!!)

Then I stapled down my new covering and added a pearl edging to make this sexy hero, MEeeeeeoooooOOOW!!!


The structure of the chair is still damaged and I need to do a bit of repair work underneath but in the meantime he is a beautiful addition to our home and the kitties love to snuggle up together on him.

Love Lola x

Mexican Sugar Skull Picture

I have a mahoosive love of all things Mexican and I really really dig the colourful Mexican skulls. I have done loads of projects over the years which feature these, most notably my wedding shoes, but I shall blog about those soon.

This handsome man is HUGE and sits pride of place in our living room. He is actually a joint project between myself and Mr T, who draw the outlines and then I did all the colour work...we do this a lot actually and I will do another blog with some more of our collaborations


There are all sorts of things going off in this picture, embossing, gem stones, silk flowers, peacock feathers, an old fly curtain shaped with love hearts, black lace...the list goes on!




The face is just made of normal white card, in fact I think it's a cereal box! Painted white and then embossed over the teeth in gold and the hearts in red.




The hands are cheap halloween decorations from Asda a few years ago and the cherries and mini skull are made out of fimo that I baked myself.


Colourful fun, and here he is in situ!!

There's Mr T pretending to ignore me but failing!!

Love Lola x

Mitten Scarf

Seems a weird time of the year to be blogging about this but he is one of my projects and deserves a place up here!



I used super chunky wool from John Lewis (or Jessops as I still call it much to the annoyance of Mr T) and size 15 needles.



Its knitted as one long piece starting with knit one pearl one for about 6 rows, then basket knit until my hands ached and, once folded over, I could fit my hands in the pocket. Then I did knit a row pearl a row for the whole length of the scarf until I got to the other end, then I just did the same as the start but in reverse (This probably makes no sense, I'm very sorry!!! I'm new to this so feel free to shout me out for my bad descriptions)

I then folded over the hand bit, sewed the sides and voila! Scarf with mittens! What I have been meaning to do and will do before this winter is line the mittens with fleece to keep my hands extra warm.


Snug as a bug in a rug

Love Lola x

My First Ever Dress!!

My sister has asked me to make her a few dresses which I am really excited about, she is a very beautiful women and it will be a total pleasure to make clothes for her.

In order to get my head around what I would be doing for her, I made myself a version of what I think she is after. I finished it this morning and I proudly wore it around town all afternoon. I dropped in to see my sister who works for a big high street clothes shop in Nottingham town centre and she LOVED it, one of the other staff said it looked like one of their dresses so I was chuffed to bits.

I'm a bit nervous about this one as it is my first dress and I made it without a pattern....



Yay!!!!

Ah ha! Thanks to the wonderful Mr T here is another shot of the dress:







It's made from crepe fabric brought from Victoria centre market and has a Sabrina neckline, shirred waist and full skirt. It's lovely to wear and my sister is very excited to get her version of the dress now, we are going fabric shopping later on in the week :D

Love Lola x

Bed Sheet Curtains

I needed some curtains for the kitchen patio and I couldn't afford any fabric, so I used this old bedsheet that had been stuffed in a drawer for ages deemed to boring ( I like BRIGHT PATTERNS to wake me up in the morning)



I have to admit I have been really lazy and not ironed her hoping that the creases would drop out...but alas they haven't and now she looks like me after a late night, crumpled and tired! So I will do the decent thing and give her a good pressing.


You can see my poorly acer tree in the background :(



The Long shot.


Not bad really, cost me nothing and fits in well with the room, just need to sort out those creases before my mum comes for a visit!! I will be in trouble :D

Love Lola x