TGIF everyone!:) This week has been hectic all around and i'm glad we have the weekend to catch up with each other and our families. Tomorrow it's my brothers 22nd(!) birthday and Sunday it's market time in Nijmegen with a new Bazaar opening up, exciting! If the market is any good our shop (Pleased as Punch) will be there in the near future selling our beautiful vintage items:)
This past week the weather hasn't been great and it's the perfect time for me to start changing up the house. This is what I have been up to the past week:
A few posts ago I showed you how to make a flower garland. I made an entire basket of goodies for my parents' anniversary and decided I needed one for our kitchen:) It took some time to make it as my cat kept eating the paper.. But I managed to make it in the end:) See my post DIY gifts for the instructions on how to make one of these lovelies for your house:)
This week is the week of re-making old DIY's I guess because I made another one of these flags for my home. Last week I posted a DIY for magazine flags which I hung in the bedroom. I had some more magazines so I thought 'what the heck!' I'll make some more:) I still don't know where to hang them but I might change it up in the kitchen every once in a while switching the flowers and the flags:) See my post DIY Magazine Flags on how to make these.
We have this frame inbetween the kitchen and the livingroom. There used to be doors here but the former owners removed them. It's a shame really 'cause it would have given us just that little bit more privacy:) Now don't get me wrong but when I am reading or DIY'ing I just don't need the sounds of games emanating so loudly in my ear;)
Anyway this frame was a boring white and it was long overdue for a spice up! I just love giving small pieces of furniture and wall a splash of colour, it makes the room liven up which is much needed in the cold and dreary days to come!
Try adding some colour to the frames in the house, give the doors a splash of colour and leave the walls white, paint dressers and chairs anything is possible! My motto is that you can always paint it again if you don't like it! You can get good paint for a good price these days and as long as you like it, anything goes:)
Painting chairs and dressers to add colour to your home is also a good option for renters:)
Anyway this frame was a boring white and it was long overdue for a spice up! I just love giving small pieces of furniture and wall a splash of colour, it makes the room liven up which is much needed in the cold and dreary days to come!
Try adding some colour to the frames in the house, give the doors a splash of colour and leave the walls white, paint dressers and chairs anything is possible! My motto is that you can always paint it again if you don't like it! You can get good paint for a good price these days and as long as you like it, anything goes:)
Painting chairs and dressers to add colour to your home is also a good option for renters:)
To bring some of those lovely autumn colours inside I made a wreath a few weeks ago, see post Autumn Wreath DIY. I decided to add some lovely glitter leaves to the collection to give it a more complete look:)
I seriously have almost everything lying around the house, I even surprise myself sometimes! I found a few tubes of glitter lying around and decided to re-create some autumn leaves I saw on Pinterest a few weeks ago.
The post in Pinterest used fake leaves but since I couldn't find any and recycling is 'It', I used real leaves. I let them dry and flatten out in a book overnight. When the leaves are dry you simply add some glue to the leaves and sprinkle the glitter onto them. You may need to repeat this step a few times until the glitter sticks completely. When they have dried, Tie a piece of nylon string around the stem and hang them on the door under/above/around the wreath. The colours are still natural despite the glitter and it looks super nice on the door:) Try it!
I seriously have almost everything lying around the house, I even surprise myself sometimes! I found a few tubes of glitter lying around and decided to re-create some autumn leaves I saw on Pinterest a few weeks ago.
The post in Pinterest used fake leaves but since I couldn't find any and recycling is 'It', I used real leaves. I let them dry and flatten out in a book overnight. When the leaves are dry you simply add some glue to the leaves and sprinkle the glitter onto them. You may need to repeat this step a few times until the glitter sticks completely. When they have dried, Tie a piece of nylon string around the stem and hang them on the door under/above/around the wreath. The colours are still natural despite the glitter and it looks super nice on the door:) Try it!
Last but not least is the bedroom. This room needed some serious tlc and I've been working on it ever since we painted it at the beginning of the summer. My scrabble picture, my magazine flags and my instagram picture are all hanging in the room but it needed that little something more above the bed. Artwork is expensive and we are still in the process of choosing and agreeing on a piece!
My all time favourite story is Alice in Wonderland. The rabbit, the twins, the Cheshire cat what's not to love! I recently saw the picture and quote of Alice and the Mad Hatter in a magazine and the idea of printing and framing the pictures and quotes from the book seemed a brilliant idea:)
I printed the pictures out on photo printing paper and voila! The pictures look even better than I would have hoped and it's something we both like so that's always a plus:)
My all time favourite story is Alice in Wonderland. The rabbit, the twins, the Cheshire cat what's not to love! I recently saw the picture and quote of Alice and the Mad Hatter in a magazine and the idea of printing and framing the pictures and quotes from the book seemed a brilliant idea:)
I printed the pictures out on photo printing paper and voila! The pictures look even better than I would have hoped and it's something we both like so that's always a plus:)
I'm super happy with the changes I've made in the house and I'm sure I can find even more to do next week:)
For now though have a great weekend and thanks for letting me share!
For now though have a great weekend and thanks for letting me share!
Xox Elena
