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| Snowman with clay hat and brush hands. |
Till next years guys. Thanks for being a part of my Christmas this year.
Christmas Ornament with old paint brushes
I didn't make these. I bought them at Michaels. They are inspiring DIY craft next Christmas, aren't they?
Why haven't I thought of this?
Till next years guys. Thanks for being a part of my Christmas this year.
Till next years guys. Thanks for being a part of my Christmas this year.
{Christmas Decor}: Chandelier makeover
This chandelier has gone through many transformations. The original color was gold and I painted bronze. Then I added string of crystal beads, which looked OK. I have been meaning to take the beads down and Christmas is the best time.
The struggle with this chandelier is to find the right garland. I want it to look airy with some thought of vintage. I came across one at Joann for $24.99 with 50% off. The garland has vintage decoration on it already, such as small gift boxes, berries, pine cones and old mittens with snow man face on it.
The struggle with this chandelier is to find the right garland. I want it to look airy with some thought of vintage. I came across one at Joann for $24.99 with 50% off. The garland has vintage decoration on it already, such as small gift boxes, berries, pine cones and old mittens with snow man face on it.
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| The $ 12.50 garland from JoAnn |
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| Felt Poinsettia with wooden buttons. Try to stay away from plastic products when decorating vintage. |
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| Pine cone with berries and leaf you can make yourself. I bought mine, removed the golden string and replaced it with jute. |
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| Lantern from Ikea |
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| This is the best lighting I can capture that represent best what I see above me while having dinner every night. Very magical. I don't know who started the Christmas color with red and green, but it is Brilliant. Just totally changed my mood and feeling. I wanna have Christmas all year long. |
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| This is my Christmas Chandelier. |
{Christmas Decor}: Wreath journey from Trash to Treasure
You've heard the 'Happily Ever After' story about child adoption. Kudos to those people who has a big heart to open up their house to the needy kids. My version of adoption is getting stuff from consignment store and transform it into a master piece in my house. Due to super excitement I had to finish this project, I didn't take pictures of before and during transformation.
It was my lucky day to find all cone wreath with vines at Goodwill store. I am not sure what I was gonna do with it but I bought it anyway. Then one thing lead to another...
From $ 2.92 old looking wreath,
To trendy yet cozy looking wreath.
I've added only one berry branch that I cut into pieces $ 0.99, 1 branch of wooden buttons $ 4.99, 3 Snowmen that I purchased from Michael's a while ago $ 1.29 each and 2 Poinsettias at $2.20 each.
I am still working on this wreath so come back again to see the final master piece.
It was my lucky day to find all cone wreath with vines at Goodwill store. I am not sure what I was gonna do with it but I bought it anyway. Then one thing lead to another...
From $ 2.92 old looking wreath,
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| These vines was on the wreath. I removed them. |
I've added only one berry branch that I cut into pieces $ 0.99, 1 branch of wooden buttons $ 4.99, 3 Snowmen that I purchased from Michael's a while ago $ 1.29 each and 2 Poinsettias at $2.20 each.
I am still working on this wreath so come back again to see the final master piece.
The story under my Christmas Tree
These pictures will let your imagination meandering of what has been and is till going on under my Christmas Tree.
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| Three little snowmen climbed up the ladder. Hmmm what were they up to? |
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| Someone caught them in action. Were they trying to get on the tree? |
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| Aha....they wanted a piece of Santa's cookie and milk. |
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| The cookies and milk for Santa are not there yet until the Christmas Eve so up to disappointment, they climbed back down. |
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| Happy Holidays everyone. We are on the 21th day till Christmas. have a safe and joyful Holidays. |
What is the story under your Christmas Tree?
Old {broken} window in lieu of picture frame
I am so excited to finally finish my mantel decoration. After visiting garage sales, consignment stores and my favorite flower supply vendors....
Here is my mantel :) I want it to have a little vintage touch, but on the cleaner side. Also something that I can add on to reflect the occasions.
The wrought iron basket on right is a place to put TV remote control etc.
I re-painted an old broken window since I saw inspiration from a local store. They put different printed card stock paper behind the glass window but I am planning to put my daughter's picture instead. The original design didn't have the ducks, instead it was a black and red picture frame. Now the frame is on the table underneath the mantel. That table will be my next project :)
Books from Goodwill store for $ 1.25.
Hope you are inspired with my design.
Here is my mantel :) I want it to have a little vintage touch, but on the cleaner side. Also something that I can add on to reflect the occasions.
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| Need to put family picture behind the window frame |
I re-painted an old broken window since I saw inspiration from a local store. They put different printed card stock paper behind the glass window but I am planning to put my daughter's picture instead. The original design didn't have the ducks, instead it was a black and red picture frame. Now the frame is on the table underneath the mantel. That table will be my next project :)
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| Still have the missing red candle to put inside the candlestick. We can add little decorations on the topiary too to reflect the Holidays. |
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| This pine cone can be replaced with stack of mini pumpkins for Halloween and Thanksgiving |
Bringing {Vintage} to your home
All furniture in my house were bought from IKEA so there's no vintage looking to it. We just hang on to it until we find a perfect house we call home. Then, I will do my yard the way it supposed to be, decorate the house with vintage and shabby chic style, have a real working studio etc etc. For now I just create and adding vintage stuff to my house.
The best place to find 'vintage' stuff is Goodwill and other consignment stores, also garage sale.
This is what I plan to add in the dining room: Burlap place mats and a rattan basket to store the place mats. If I make my own place mats, it will cost me less than $ 10 for 10 place mats. The rattan basket will range from $ 10-20. I suggest to invest a good one, not the cheap looking one.
Basically you need burlap, stencil, acrylic paint, brush and blue painter tape to make these burlap place mats.
For the kitchen, I made a mason jar soap dispenser and threw away all the plastic dispense.
You'll need mason jar, spray paints, soap dispenser, drill and nose pliers.
I am making these Wall Terrarium too, but with artificial plants :) and paint the jars white and the clams black.
I am hoping to post my creation soon, hopefully by next week. Till then....
The best place to find 'vintage' stuff is Goodwill and other consignment stores, also garage sale.
This is what I plan to add in the dining room: Burlap place mats and a rattan basket to store the place mats. If I make my own place mats, it will cost me less than $ 10 for 10 place mats. The rattan basket will range from $ 10-20. I suggest to invest a good one, not the cheap looking one.
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| Tutorial |
For the kitchen, I made a mason jar soap dispenser and threw away all the plastic dispense.
You'll need mason jar, spray paints, soap dispenser, drill and nose pliers.
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| Tutorial |
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| Tutorial click here |
I am hoping to post my creation soon, hopefully by next week. Till then....
{DIY} Hermes bag you call your own
Here's another version of Hermes bag. Hope you have fun making your own Hermes bag. If you can't buy it, you make it yourself, right?
source: Hermes
another {Hermes} bag to call your own
Here's another version of Hermes bag. Hope you have fun making your own Hermes bag. If you can't buy it, you make it yourself, right?
source: Hermes
{Hermes} Kelly bag to call our own
What can I say about Hermes. It is a girl's best friend, just like a diamond, I guess. I, myself love the simplicity of Hermes design.
Out of curiosity, I went to Hermes site and found a fun DIY project that allows you to download, cut out and glue together a paper version of their famous Kelly Bag in several different artist variations and a plain one you can decorate yourself.
It made my day. What a nice surprise for me. I hope it's for you too.
Out of curiosity, I went to Hermes site and found a fun DIY project that allows you to download, cut out and glue together a paper version of their famous Kelly Bag in several different artist variations and a plain one you can decorate yourself.
It made my day. What a nice surprise for me. I hope it's for you too.
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| You can add this logo on your bag |
All about {FLOWERS}
In 8 days, we are going to start the Spring season. All about flowers is my post today where you can see different flowers you can make out of tissue papers or old papers.
I tried making these flowers. Very easy to make and the sizes are varies depending on your tissue paper size.
Here are flowers from old yellow pages or school books.
Paper Medallion
Vintage Paper Wreath
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| Click here for tutorial |
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| source |
Here are flowers from old yellow pages or school books.
Paper Medallion
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| Click here for tutorial |
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| Click here for tutorial |
Chanel Inspired Cake on a dime
I have been admired a quilted cake, aka pillow cake. Some made it 3D just like an upholstered pillow, some made it flat. Last week I was challenged to make one. After long search on the web, I discovered my own way to make this cake. See tutorial in my other blog TWIST n Swirl: Chanel Inspired Cake on a dime.
See you at TWIST n Swirl.
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| Pearl necklace adds the drama on the cake |
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| Customized rhinestone # 16 |
{DIY}: Chandelier cake and cupcake stand
Aside from my busy schedule making a castle cake, 50 cake pops and a quilted cake for this weekend, I was so enlighten seeing this cupcake stand. I have been in search for a unique cupcake stand lately and this one definitely won my heart. Who would ever thought an old chandelier can be a cake stand....kudos to Jaimie Nye who thought of this idea,
Do you agree with me that this cake / cupcake stand is just gorgeous?
Materials:
First snip off all the wires with wire cutters and unscrew the top.
Next, super glue wooden circles onto the legs. Then glue a curvy plate to the top.
Once the glue is set, take the chandelier outside and give it a good coat of primer. Yes, coating it with primer is very important to get a perfect and true color paint later on. Then spray paint it with your choice of color...The pink in the picture used a dusty light pink. Once it is all dry, decorate the circle plate with pearls or ribbon.
and now you can show off this stand in your next party. I know I will.
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| This chandelier stand was an artwork of Jaimie Nye |
Materials:
- Old chandelier
- Wire cutters
- Super glue
- Wooden craft circles
- Curvy plate
- Primer
- Spray paint
- Pearl trim or ribbon
First snip off all the wires with wire cutters and unscrew the top.
Next, super glue wooden circles onto the legs. Then glue a curvy plate to the top.
Once the glue is set, take the chandelier outside and give it a good coat of primer. Yes, coating it with primer is very important to get a perfect and true color paint later on. Then spray paint it with your choice of color...The pink in the picture used a dusty light pink. Once it is all dry, decorate the circle plate with pearls or ribbon.
{Valentine's day} Last minute
It's Valentine's day today but you don't have anything prepared for your valentine's? Perhaps, these simple ideas will give you some brownie points.
Say you love them with fruit
from Babyology
Those ticker printables are not free to download anymore, here is my version. Each tag is about 1.5" in diameter. If you have 1" whole puncher, print it to 1" diameter. Since this might be a last minute gift to prepare, you may not have sticker paper. So, print it on regular paper, then double tape each tag to the fruits.
Say you love them with fruit
from Babyology
Those ticker printables are not free to download anymore, here is my version. Each tag is about 1.5" in diameter. If you have 1" whole puncher, print it to 1" diameter. Since this might be a last minute gift to prepare, you may not have sticker paper. So, print it on regular paper, then double tape each tag to the fruits.
~Happy valentine's day. Hope your fruity friends made your Valentine day~
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