DIY: Candy skull picture

So! Hello everyone!

About time I come up with some more for you, huh?

I'm sorry that I'm not one of those daily bloggers, at least not yet. I will when it becomes a paying job (which means never, haha).

I think I will just cut the crap and go straight to what I'm supposed to tell you.

Because yesterday I finally made something I've been thinking about making for a really long time! Namely a colorful head skull painting. I found some photos in a magazine a while ago, and cut them out and saved them, because I liked them so much. Before getting rid of fashion magazines etc. I go through them to see what is worth keeping. And then I save my fave pieces in a box for a special occasion:)

And yesterday was a special occasion for my candy skull (artistic head skull) photos. Finally I got to use them! Well, at least one of them. I still got two more. And actually I think I will try to make others myself, by using my creativity! (We'll see about that..)

Like usual, I will tell you step by step what you need to do. Of course, only if you, like me, fancy colorful head skulls like this.

1. Here are my three different candy skulls (found in a french magazine). I took a picture of them to copy them into my computer, so that I could enlarge it to the wanted size. Of course you can also use the internet to find a prefering photo. Or just draw it yourself by using your imagination! 

2. With help from light from the computer it was easy to draw the lines perfectly.

3. And when that's done; choose the prettiest of all the colors of the rainbow...

3. ...and now the fun part starts! Time to color it! What colors, how many colors, what you want to be in what color; it's all up to you. 

4. And some time later, it's finished! 

This is only to compare my colorful one with the original black one. 

Hope you liked it! 

ZOUBI ♥ 

Edit: 

If I had the guts, I would get myself a candy skull tattoo like this! 

But I don't..

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Street art of the day

Just wanted to share with you this photo that I took earlier this evening. Who needs real windows when you can just paint them!? And I also realized when I saw this, that you actually don't need to go to Paris or London to find cool street art like this. You can simply find it in your own home town (in my case, Bergen, Norway). That makes me glad:)

That would be all for now. 


ZOUBI ♥ 

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DIY: Birthday card

Earlier this week a friend of mine had her birthday. And like I've said before - I never buy birthday cards! I prefer to make them myself. This one is very simple, but still quite decorative, I think.

One fun fact about me - I love to match. Not too much (yes, it can be too much, even for me), but still I do match a lot, I admit it. Also when it comes to b-day cards. I often use the same paper as in the wrapping paper when I make cards, so that they kind of "belong" together.

This is what you do - step by step:

1. Find some letters in different styles and sizes (a smart thing to do is to use a word document and draw the letters directly from your computer - that's genius in my eyes!) 

2. Wrap the present in the gift wrap that you want, and remember to have some extra for the letters to the card. 

3. Cut out the letters. If you plan to make more cards, then you should keep the letters till next time (to use them as a template), that will save you some time (not this, but the next time you'll make a card). 

3. Then you must draw the letters on the gift wrap. Remember to do it mirrored, so that they will be the right way when you turn it around:)

4. The last thing you do is of course to paste the letters on the birthday card. And of course you must write the card - but I can't help you with that part!

And now you have a matching present and birthday card!  

How cool is that!

ZOUBI ♥ 

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DIY: Bookmark

So personal! So easy!

I don't lie when I say that I spent about five minutes in making this bookmark. All you need is paper (in the color you want, I used ordinary white), scissor, glue, and letters in different colors (from magazines, newspapers etc.). And a creative phrase you prefer to your special bookmark. I used "I love to read" as my phrase. Other ideas (if you don't have anyone yourself..) might be "I ♥ books", "My (or Kristine's etc.) book", "What I read ATM", "Mum's book", "Dad's book" and so on. This can also be a cute little present. It might of course take a little bit more than five minutes if you need to find the letters that you need before starting. I had plenty of different letters and happened to have all the letters that I needed already.

1. Find the letters you need for your phrase. 

2. Cut the book mark into the shape and size that you want (an advice is to make it double or use carton so that it becomes stiffer)

Paste the different letters the way you want them, and voilà - your personal bookmark is ready! 

Simple as that!

ZOUBI ♥ 

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Sneak peek

...to be continued


ZOUBI ♥ 

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Welcome

Okay. So. 

Here we go again. For the 4th time. I'm starting over from scratch once again. 

I bet you wonder why..? 

Well, my two first blogs where not really meant to last forever, due to the fact that they were made for the two times I was living in France. My first blog, kristineaparis was basically made for my family and friends back in Norway so that they could follow me and see how I was doing while I was living in Paris and worked as an au pair for one year. Then I stopped (of natural causes) when I moved back to Norway for my studies. But then, when I went on erasmus exchange in Lille (also in France), I started kind of the same concept with kristinealille. But while I was there (and got more and more english speaking friends) people told me that they wanted to read the blog, but it was a bit difficult for them due to the fact that I was writing in norwegian. So, I thought, why not start a new blog, a more general one, in english. A blog that I could also keep on having after my six months in Lille. And so I did, with kristineslittleworld. But for some reasons, I wasn't that satisfied with using tumblr, and barely wrote there during the summer. I also recently came up with a new idea, my project Zoubi. 

So I thought - why not start a blog where I can show things I make, different kinds of DIY's (means "Do it yourself") ect. You see, I got some creative sides I never get to use in my studies (I study economics). Believe me when I say that what I study and also will be working with in the future, is something that interests me a lot. I like what I do. But like I said; I got other parts of me as well. I use every opportunity to be creative. Like, I never buy birthday cards (it actually has become a principal thing for me), I make them myself instead. For my cousins wedding, I painted a picture as a part of my gift. And for masquerade parties I've always made my own masks. If I see a bracelet that I like, I try to think of ways of making it myself (as long as it's possible, of course) instead of buying it. 

More fun, more unique, in some cases maybe even nicer than the ones you can find in the stores. So, I figured out that I wanted to start an other blog, and this time I've come to stay. Just sayin'. 

Hope I can inspire. If you see something you like, feel free to copy it. Maybe one day I will take a further step and start my own brand for real. 

- Who knows.

ZOUBI ♥ 

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