Showing posts with label Making. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Making. Show all posts

Friday, November 12, 2010

Making a Plain Ballet Tutu Become Fabulous!

Do you want to take your plain tutu for your little girl and bring if from drab to fab? It is really much easier than you think. Hopefully you will find some good ideas here that will make you want to make a one of a kind tutu for your little ballerina.

First, you are going to start off with a basic tutu. You can make a basic tutu pretty easily or purchase one for super cheap. Lets assume you buy a basic tutu. Now, pick your girls favorite color to wear to dance class. Maybe light pink is the color you would choose. Now, the fun starts.

What does your little girl like? Flowers, pompoms? Some favorite decorated tutus have flowers with acrylic crystals in the middle of them attached to the tutu. First, you are going to remove the bow, if any at the front of the tutu.

Step 2 is to get the flower petals you want to use. Arrange them in the order you like to make a flower. Then, you are going to glue or sew all of the petals together in this step. Lastly, put an acrylic rhinestone in the center to give it some bling. Now, the flower is ready. You can put this right in the middle of the tutu where the bow went to give the tutus some pizzaz. You are done with this modification of a tutu if you want. Or, you can keep going. If you want to add more flowers to the bottom of the tutu, it is suggested that you get some smaller flowers than the pretty original one you put in the center of the tutu. Then, glue the small flowers all around the tutu bottom staggering them so they don't quite look too uniform.

If you want to use pompoms you would go about it exactly the same way. Gluing a pompon where the bow went, and then throughout the actual base of the tutu to get the look you desire.

Now that you have learned the basic steps to decorating a ballet tutu, you can take it a bit further. If your child is in dance class, each month make a new tutu. This can be done relatively cheap too! You can make a tutu to match the seasons. Get an orange tutu for Halloween and go to the dollar store and look for some spiders, etc. Glue those on and that tutu is sure to be a huge hit. Keep the same idea going for other holidays and watch, the moms will want to start making cute, themed tutus with you!

Monday, November 1, 2010

French Bead Flower Making - Rule number one is like the ballet

French Bead Flower might have nothing in common with the ballet?

If he wanted to be a tap dancer, jazz dance, Irish step-dancers, gymnasts, or a dancer of modern dance - you must learn to technical excellence above all else. For all these types of dance, the best place to develop technology to consider is a dance lesson. You will learn to show your feet, stretch your back as long and as soft as can be the right way to wear the head and how to make yourArms move as graceful as a swan's neck. After learning this, you can change a ballet move in a jumping jazz wild - because now he knows how to do it right.

For the construction of French bead flower, you must also learn the technique excellent. And in my opinion, is what a leading technology for this art?

Rule # 1 - Keep a thread, even basic.

It seems so simple. Of course, you maintain a straight line basis, you say. SimpleWhat in the world, is not it? For someone who has never done before French bead flower, this can be an obstacle.

How do you stop a string of base go wrong in the first place? Here are some tips. 1 - Do you have a turn or a nail attached to a cutting area of work. Wrap the tip of a very long wire base, dass keep the tension up a leaf or petal, like the wire coil around the head of the upper edge of the base. 2 - How do you wrap the wire coil around the top is crucialWire, wire base on top of the tractor. Wrap the wire coil, and pull the thread up again. Turn the piece over to see if the wire is bent in any direction. 3 - learning, with beads and wire work a bit 'in their favor. If you are not in pearl form another line that wraps around the top edge fold on one side a bit 'on the series as long as six straight until the next time you get to the top edge of the base and if the overall impression of petal or leafstraight.

Once you've finished a few lines of your piece, turn over and see if the wire looking for. If not, is the best way to get them out and try again. Give it a few times to try without too much pressure. Do not worry about making a misstep, this is the best way to learn. There is little glass beads and metal wire - teachers are nice. This is a brand new project for the mind, heart and hands.

Take a chance and a lottime, and before you know it, you set of perfectly straight base. After that - if you have a flower with petals that curve they want to do in unusual directions, you can control and achieve the desired result.

Happy beading!