DIY: Pixel Bling

I often go through really weird creative phases the involve making stuff - Pinterest is slightly responsible for this. My current making buzz is the whole digital, pixel, cartoony motif with squares and colours. Here's a little DIY for a fun little necklace i made with Perler beads! You can get them for $10 a container at IKEA and if comes with literally thousands of beads.

YOU'LL NEED

• Perler beads of different colours
• Perler bead pegboard
• iron
• baking paper

WHAT TO DO

So pretty much, you can find heaps of peeler bead templates online on sites like Pinterest or kandipatterns.com and there are thousands of cute characters, foods, crazy things you can make! Its super simple, almost simple enough to not require instructions! You just match the beads with the squares and continue til you've completed the pattern. The ironing part is probably the trickiest - You have to make sure that you heat it up enough for the beads to fuse together, but not too long that it melts way too much. Let it cool for a few seconds then you can take the paper off and there you have it! You can also attach jumper rings or key rings to make them into pendants or bling (like what i did hehehe).

Up and Down

 Every Friday and Sunday, I am always back on the coast for church and youth. It can be a pain sometimes with all the travelling, but spending that $20 on petrol is so worth it when I get to see my friends again and spend some quality time in paradise. I've become quite accustomed to this weekly ritual and I gradually learning to figure out what I need to bring, in order to make sure that I get the most out of the few hours I am down there. These are a few of the things I don't leave home without when I hit the road! Yes, random, but hey, I haven't really blogged in a while and I hope it gives you a little insight on what my days look like!

1. My Camera

Well it's actually my brother's camera, but I have found that he doesn't really use it as much, since he's schooling so I figured that taking advantage of it is probably one of my best ideas yet! I make sure that I capture a few beautiful moments either with my buddies or just on my own. Sometimes I even take a bit of Video footage and make a short movie of our adventures! 

Golden Hour on a Sunday Afternoon from Lola Irwanto on Vimeo.

2. My Skateboard

I reckon Gold Coast beaches have some of the best ever footpaths ever made by city-council-kind. Skating is probably the most exercise I get every week, so I always make sure that my board is in my car! It practically lives in my car anyway so that's not so much of a problem haha.

3. Cool Hat

I don't really know why I have this on the list, but I seem to always have a hat with my when I come down, and it does serve some purposes in a way, so eh, why not.

4. A coconut*

Well, I haven't actually brought a coconut down with me on my trips down, but it's something that I really want to do someday, as random as that sounds! It's my favourite fruit and I kinda have always thought how great it would be to drink and eat a coconut whilst chilling in the boot of my car on Burleigh hill hahahahahaha. I might do this next week

5. AN UMBRELLA

We have had pretty unpredictable weather recently, and yesterday I found myself stranded at a set of pedestrian lights in the middle of a short shower with no umbrella AND I happened to be wearing a grey t-shirt. Everyone knows that you never wear grey if you know you are going to sweat or get wet because it changes to a whole few shades darker once it comes into contact with a drop of liquid! It wasn't pleasant, but I had an umbrella in the car (which i didn't take with me whilst getting food because I didn't think it would rain yet). Silly willy me.