Photo frame

During the film there appears 3 picture frames. A larger one with a Ringo Starr drawing. A medium-sized double frame. And a little one, which to be honest I do not know if it's a picture frame at all. :-P

Well, as I found no picture frame like that, I commissioned one at a frame shop. They were great!

Blue fairylight - Part 1

Since we're close to Christmas, I will talk about the lights Summer's bedroom!

In the scene you can see in the background the lights on the headboard. I tried to buy one, but damn, it was VERY blue! I felt inside of a spaceship! Look at it! :-P

The lights of the movie were much softer, kind of a light blue ... I looked in many shops, but unfortunately I couldn't find this blue shade (seriously why is it so hard to find light blue fairylights??) XP

I thought about buying colorful cellophane paper and wrap every lamp with it, but I also did not find cellophane in this color, argh! It tried to paint it with glaze, but also failed. Since I am stubborn, I remembered about paint used for stained glass. And then it worked!

I bought some white lights, and I painted one by one with blue stained glass paint (gave two color coats to show up). I put the lights on the clothesline to dry from one day to another.

Look the final result after it was done! Better right? ;-)

The dressing

This scene passes quickly, and to be honest barely enough to see what's on the dressing table. Summer is there, sitting, playing with some necklaces and thinking about life.

I did not find any frames with these four spaces, so I bought a simple frame at a handicraft shop and asked them to make the divisions, afterwards I painted everything with pale beige. It was not perfect, but I liked it.

I bought the keys at the Elo7 site. The keys that are not really old, they're replicas.

As they were golden brown, I decided to aged them, sprinkling a little paint black spray. This is the final effect. Good right?

And here's my own version of the dressing!

Tsuru Tree

Finding this tree branch was very difficult! I simply could not find a good enough branch. Either they were too thin or were too ugly ... To give you idea on my madness level: one day I left home with a broom, in the case I found a beautiful branch near here which I could not reach. 8-P

One day I got tired of being the crazy tree girl on the street, and turned into the crazy tree girl on the internet (even though searching the web for sites selling branches, and sending them through the post mail, doesn't sound a good idea) . Then, in one of those moments of inspiration I thought, "Why not make a tree branch myself??" Then the ideas flowed like butter on a warm bread!

I searched for a tutorial about making wire trees, and found one teaching how to make small trees. It was basically what I had to do, only bigger.

It is made of twisted wire to form the branches, masking tape, and colorful spray. I confess that when I came across that big wire roll I almost regretted the idea. But after a lot of pain in the back, pierced hands and twisted wires, the result was nice! The good thing is that I could do almost the same shape of the tree from the movie! X-D

Then came the origami tsurus. Note, I also did not find any store that sold origami paper in my town. And even after ordering origami paper, I still had to learn to make the tsurus! :-P

After losing almost a whole bag of origami paper trying to make the foldings, I made it! The sacrifice was worth it, the result was great! \o/

Ceramic pots

In the movie, there are two chinese pots on the sideboard. There's a big one near the little tree, and a smaller one with flowers. While discrete, they are essential to complement all the visuals.

I went to some florists looking for something with the same color and shape, but as usual I couldn't find anything. Eventually I bought ceramic vases and painted them by myself.

The challenge was to get a similar color. Because of the movie lighting, the colors of the pots varied between a beige, a dark green and a greyish blue.

I opted for the color that appears in the last scene, where it's at its brightest. It is a light blue, halfway between turquoise.

After painting, I drew some swallows on the side, and applied some varnish. The flowers I bought at a local market. I liked the result! I had already created a vase in art classes, but I had never painted one!

Butterfly Brooch

Some people were curious about butterfly brooch I made for the first look, so I decided to make a tutorial for those who want to make a similar.

First I created a butterfly template on the computer, and printed it in the size I wanted. I used the template to mark and cut a plastic bottle.

To paint, I used 3 shades of blue enamel. I started with the lightest metallic, then the medium shade, and finished with dark blue to be the basis. It is important to paint on the back of the butterfly, so the metallic ink will be on the front!

Finally I drew some details using a projector pen and a silver pen. After that I glued a pin on the back, using hot glue, and voila! To make it easier to understand, I made a photo walkthrough!

Day ( 1 )

Now lets get down to the creation of the costumes! First things first, because today is January 8, the day that Tom meets Summer! (I will recreate the costumes of the movie in real-time!).

So, these are the clothes that Summer uses the first day, during a meeting in the office. Basically a gray slacks pantaloons, a white shirt and a blue butterfly brooch.

Although basic, this first look was difficult to recreate for two reasons: The brooch and the pants. The shirt I already had (and you could find it on any clothing store).

The brooch was a challenge. It is a butterfly. And it's blue. I found some on Etsy, but they were overpriced and very small. I had to play the artisan and invent a way to make one. I tested with various materials, but what gave me a better result was with PET plastic from a soft drink bottle!

To paint, I used nail polish in various shades of blue and metallic blue to give the shimmering effect of butterfly wings. I finished off with a silver pen and a pin pasted on the back.

It was not easy to find gray pantaloons in the summer of Brazil. The only pants I found had colorful stamps.

I managed to find similar trousers in beige. I thought "Oh, I can just paint it". Then I bought the gray paint. First try: it got all spotted. In the second try, more spotted. I decided to return it to the original color, but the pants shrunk! Argh! :-P

Luckily I found similar pants on Ebay!

And the final look was like that! It seems that the pants made me even higher! hehe. I thought it was good looking, what did you think?