Having lived in Dubai for 5 years I  am very familiar with the Arabic motif of the “evil eye” which is believed to ward off bad luck and intentions. The iconic symbol has now made its way onto rings, bags and shoes in mainstream fashion. These shoes are inspired by superblogger-turned designer Chiara Ferragni’s glittered winking eye ballet flats which cost Singapore $325. The eye motif we are making can be used on bags, cards, shirts, stationary and more, you just need to change up the gluing process. You can either freehand the project like I did or print an image of the shoes off the net to an A4 size and trace around.

What you will need:

Pleather fabric in blue, black and white (I got mine from Spotlight) $30

Sharp scissors

Glue gun

Glitter ballet flats (by Charles and Keith) $45

Permanent black marker

Optional: Double sided tape

Trace around the tip of the shoes to give you an idea of what size you’ll be working with.

Use your marker to free hand the shape of an eye on the white pleather fabric. This will be something like a semi-circle/almond shape. Leave some excess above the eye shape, this is where the eyelash will attach.

Cut around.

Use a cotton bud in nail polish remover to erase any stubborn fabric pencil marks

On the wrong side of the black pleather fabric face the white eye you have created right side down (this means the right side of the white eye will be the side touching the wrong side of the black pleather). Trace around the top of the eye to get the length of your lashes. Cut around it.

On the blue pleather trace a circle for the centre of the eye and cut around the eye ball. Using the black permanent marker colour the pupil black onto the eye ball

Using the black permanent marker colour the pupil black onto the eye ball.

You can either use the glue gun to permanently adhere your eyes to your shoes or if you just want to use the new design for a night out adhere them with double sided tape like I did and you can remove them easily later.

 

 

 

This is a DIY tutorial I created for my Youtube series for Class 95 TV and I have so say, it is one of my favourites. It was so lovely to receive an orchid recently and it didn’t come with a base so I bought a pot from the local florist and some gold leaf. It was so easy that I wanted to cover half of my room with gold leaf!

Hope you enjoy! Happy making!

Hi Guys, here’s the second of my DIYs for the festive season. I’ve teamed up with Singapore’s number expat lifestyle website The Honeycombers.

You can watch the full video here:

Be sure to share and subscribe to them for more. Happy Making and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

 

I am super sorry for the tardiness between my posts, it’s been busier than ever at work. I am super excited to reveal I am doing a DIY series for Singapore’s most-popular online expat-living guide The Honeycombers. I’ve come up with 3 easy and original Christmas ideas for the home.

The first of them is a gilded branch Christmas tree inspired by Scandinavian style. The branch was literally found on the side of the road!

You can watch the full video here and make sure you subscribe to The Honeycombers Youtube channel for more.

 

They are the “it” shoe of the moment and for my DIY column in 8 Days magazine recently I put together a quick hack of this shoe.

Enjoy the full tutorial here!

 

 

 

 

So it’s been a few weeks between posts and settling into life here in Singapore. I have launched my lifestyle Youtube channel and will be posting all manner of videos there but will still be posting the DIY ones up here.

This is so easy to do. Check out the tutorial here and make sure you subscribe to my channel! Youtube.com/simonehenglifestyle. 

I hope you like it. I’ll have another couple of DIYs coming up on here as traditional blogs but hopefully all of them will be video into the

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