DIY: How to make a Bib Necklace

This was something I ended up making on a rather lazy afternoon, thought I'd share it with you guys.

I adore bib necklaces, and when I found some interesting patches and fabric at a local store, decided to try making one myself.

You will need:

-Fabric

-Scissors

-Fabric glue

-A needle and some thread

-Patches

-Interesting little trinkets to adorn the leftover space on the fabric

-Ribbon/Chain

 STEP 1:

It'll take a good few hours, and a reasonable amount of hard work and hunting in craft shops to accumulate all the pieces you would need for a DIY of this sort.

While buying the pieces, keep in mind the colour combination you want your neckpiece to comprise of and stick to it, too many colours will spoil the beauty of it. 

As you can see, I've opted for pieces in off-white and gold here.

STEP 2:

Put together all the pieces, and play around a little with the permutations and combinations, and see what design you would like best. There are clearly no hard and fast rules for this, it all depends on your creativity, and what seems appealing to you.

I placed my main patches to form a 'V' shape, as seen here. I used fabric glue to stick them on, and used two layers of fabric as base, to make the whole bib patch more sturdy.

I bought these pretty little things from a local market near my house.

STEP 3:

Fill in the empty spaces on the fabric, after you've stuck on your main patches. 

Play around with the designs, make it fun and quirky!

STEP 4:

Let it dry for about 20-30- minutes, then cut out your patchwork with scissors.

 STEP 5:

Cut out equal portions of the ribbon, and stitch them onto the backside of the patchwork.

This is how my final product turned out to be. Doesn't it look gorgeous?!

And the fact that I made it with almost negligible amount of money makes me so gleeful! ^_^ 

You can also make it in different colours and different patterns to go with various dresses and attires. :)

Drop in a comment here if you have any questions. 

Hope you enjoyed the DIY-

:)

Sheer

Photographs By Ajay.

Top, Pants: Forever New

Earrings: Lifestyle
Ring: Cleosara

On my lips: Rubylicious by Maybelline

This post was supposed to be up last night, and I sat at my desk trying to accomplish this task for almost an hour, but then eventually gave up around midnight. I just wasn't in the mood to write, and honestly don't like forcing myself to do it either, it feels wrong and dishonest.
I have been in an extremely cluttered space of mind off late. There are so many career options, so many things you want to do, so many places you want to travel to, and sometimes things just don't fall into place the way you'd want them to. I wanted to backpack in the Himalayas after graduation was over, and spent months trying to convince my parents to let me, unfortunately to no relent. I was disappointed, annoyed and went on ranting about how I was now '21 years of age' and still didn't have the freedom to choose. But they had a strong point too, you know. You can't let your daughter take off like a hippie, especially in a country like india, not to mention north India, which is definitely not one of the safest places around. They very willingly suggested I go abroad and visit a country where we had family friends or relatives, so they won't be as tensed about my safety. But I didn't want to take off from Bombay, which is an urban jungle, and land up in a place like Singapore or Kuala Lampur, which aren't very different either. I wanted to go on a nature trail, relax, reflect, write, click pictures and maybe shoot a documentary if an interesting subject came along. I've always believed travelling inspires you more than anything else. You meet different kinds of people, are exposed to different cultures, even though nobody really teaches you anything, you end up learning so much just by absorbing things from the environment. There are times I've wished instead of doing a 3 year graduation course, i should've just travelled the world for the 3 years. I believe I would've learned much more and would've grown into a different person altogether.
But yes, education is important, but you know what, so is travel, more than you realize.

Sometimes I wish more than anything else that this country was a little more safe. Safe enough for a woman to be travelling alone and her parents not having to worry about her safety every minute of the day.
Let's just be hopeful. Someday maybe my wish will come true.

An Afternoon

These were clicked on a rather lazy afternoon we(Aayushi, Syd and me) spent at my place. Not very meaningful pictures, but I'm in love with the way Syddharth captures things- people and objects alike. I'm a sucker for beautiful images and I can't help but notice how much he has evolved as a photographer and an artist through the years. I've been in love with his work since the first time I saw it, and with every new photograph of his, he only reinforces my opinion.

All pictures here are by Syddharth.

Love at the window.

Tiny colourful kandils adorning the balcony.

 Mundane little things that make you happy

 Aayushi

 No, I'm not always up for posing.

 Vanity is a mirror's best friend.

 We went ribbon shopping. The original plans we had with this didn't really fall into place though.

My camera got a colorful makeover by Aayushi.

Badges are fun.