Frankenstein Green Nails & Yellow Skirt

The title of the post sums it up fairy well, I think. Yes, this is my new favourite nail colour at the moment. Total hideous shocking green - I love it! I also got a yellow skirt because it was very cheaply on sale. It's sort of mustard colour with black lace and has a cute black elastic waistband at the top. I couldn't resist it. Also, yes, I'm wearing a belt in my hair because I couldn't find any scarves. I must have chucked them out or something when I moved out of my parents' house.

Luisma T-shirt & Freshly Purple Hair

Finally got round to altering this t-shirt from Galeria de Muerte. I got it for designing another shirt for them. This one was designed by Luisma from the band Hemorrhage and it's awesome! I love the tombstones, skulls and grim-reaper.

I also re-purpled my hair the other day so I stuck some photos of that in too.

Pink Eyeshadow

Just some simple pink eyeshadow. Pink and red are definitely my favourite eyeshadow colours to wear.

Ice-cream In The Park

Yay! Scottish summer's back! Well, for a few days anyway. It was so nice today that, after church, we decided to get a takeaway lunch from the cafe nearby and go to the park to eat it. So lovely! We even managed to find and ice-cream van. 

Follow Me With Bloglovin

So it seems that, as of Monday, google reader will no longer be available. If you want to keep following this blog and are a google reader user, I would suggest following via Bloglovin. Recently, I've been using Bloglovin as a way of keeping up with the blogs that I follow and I've found it very reliable so far.

Anyway, here's a direct link to the page for following this blog. For some reason, it's registered as alisonlisahorn.blogspot.de rather than any other country's extension, but I'm half German anyway so I think it's well cool. Yay!

And now, a pastel-coloured photo montage for no reason other than to make this post a bit prettier:

Reds: ♥ felt mermaid doll I'm working on at the moment ♥ Tried making some velvet cake with cream cheese icing ♥ Yellows: ♥ Spicy hot chocolate on a stick ♥ Black and white washi tape I ordered from modes4u.com ♥ Blues: ♥ Fancy nails with silver rings ♥ Galaxy style cake bites ♥ Pinks: ♥ Lavender flavoured cupcakes I made for my mum's birthday ♥ Awesome sheep skull my cousin gave to me

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Making a Spiked Black Metal Lamp

For a long time now, I've been very inspired by the idea of a black lamp with metal spikes. 

My 'home decor' board on pinterest has, for a while, been home to both this image of a piece by artist Rebecca Johnson from Bughouse and this piece by Andrea Maestri. Unfortunately though, lamps like this are pieces of art rather than house products so, as a result, are either not for sale or waaaay out of my price range. 

For that reason, I had a go at making a spiky lamp myself, diy-style. Hopefully it's different enough from any existing pieces so as not to be copying them (I've not seen any others with a plain black shade and spikes on a matte black base yet. Besides, I'm not selling it - it's just for me!).

The finished lamp

I used an old yellow second-hand lamp. First I scrubbed it to death with some sandpaper (very important), wrapped masking tape over the bulb and cord and then painted it outside with a matte black spray-paint. I ordered the spikes online from a shop on ebay. I think they're meant for decorating mobile phones, haha.

Then I set up a ridiculous contraption to keep the lamp horizontal while I glues the spikes on, abandoned that when it didn't work and drove myself half mad trying to hold it like a club and stick them on without the glue slipping off before it dried. Yay.

I guess it worked though: here's the finished cactusy looking lamp. There are a few faults and you can see some of the scuff marks where I sanded it, but I think it came out ok.

And here it is with the light plugged in and switched. The shade's a bit thin and cheap so I'll probably get a better one to replace it, but it'll do for now.

Pvc Collars

Although I'm loving the collars necklaces that in the shops these days, I haven't managed to find exactly what I want in a collar. That's why I decided to make some myself!

It took a few attempts to get the right thickness and size, but, in the end, I think I worked out a way of making them that works well so I'm making up some more. I might sell them online if people are interested, although right now I'm making them with the view to selling a bunch of things at upcoming craft fairs. These black and pink ones are made of pvc, hand-sewn with a chain and metal fastenings.

You can see me wearing my own little black one here.