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.

Tutorial

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. 

Tutorial

Tutorial click here

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....

{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.

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.

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source

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 

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Vintage Paper Wreath

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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.

Pearl necklace adds the drama on the cake

Customized rhinestone # 16

See you at TWIST n Swirl.

{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,

This chandelier stand was an artwork of Jaimie Nye

Do you agree with me that this cake / cupcake stand is just gorgeous?

Materials:

• Old chandelier
• Wire cutters
• Super glue
• Wooden craft circles
• Curvy plate
• Primer
• Spray paint
• Pearl trim or ribbon
   

Instructions:
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.