It took me longer than I expected and planned. It felt wrong, incomplete .. something was missing.. I started in November and started adding layers.. in December I decided to go for something more than stencil, added some additional acrylic paint layers. Eventually some day in January I decided it is finished 🙂
What is necessary to start this little upholstery project? To renovate and uplift an old armchairs or stools you need: manual skills old armchairs, chairs, stools or some other furniture that you can practice your upholstery on tools and materials for renovating (The only tools I was using were a small hammer, upholstery stapler …
I love finding old pieces of furniture and bringing them to life. I have lots of ‘garbage’ at home that just waiting to be renovated. Tables, chairs, armchairs… wooden pallets waiting to be painted with the stencils. This time I had restored a small chest of drawers that I found on the local ads website. …
Another project finished . It took me through the 10 episodes of The Good Wife and 1500 meters of cotton rope used. Eventually I finished this beautiful cotton-cord crochet rug. If is for sale now. I also take order for custom mate to order rugs – any colour. It is brand new. Dimensions 143cm x …
December and January were was amazing as we really gave space to celebrating and enjoying Christmas together – with family and friends. We slowed down but we also said yes to many things. We finished out the year celebrating it in a glamorous glittery style. It was amazing! I am not a great believer of …
The weather was crap this weekend. Really bad. Look at the photo of my balcony if you don’t believe me. What to do, what to do I asked myself and decided to reuse the wood left from the disassembled cabinet. How? By painting it. Nice glass of wine and hazardous spray fumes made my weekend really …
I do not have the translation of the post in Polish about the upholestry of and renewing old armcahirs, but the below photos might give you a good idea as what can be done to old stuff with little bit of skills and wilingness 🙂 I hope I will translate it (or at least parts …
How to renovate an old armchair.
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Fire Show performed by the Dublin Circus Project at Trinity College
I mentioned a few days ago that I work on couple of new things. I started a new rug – crocheting it of cotton rope 5mm thick. It looks amazing. I love it an I already look for cheaper , wholesale cotton rug supplies. Let me know if you like it or if you would …
I was dying to test this. I bought few colors of this string and before doing something bigger (I really want a big rug) I decided to make a basket for my knitting and crochet projects. Here is what I ended up with. It looks great and it sturdy. I think the rug is going …
New year, new projects. This is what I did last this week . Order from Ania:)
When we moved to a new apartment, I had nowhere to put the bins. The only place they would fit was under the glass console table next to the balcony door. I didn’t really like how that side of my kitchen looked. I wanted to make it look bit more cozy. I decided to spray-paint …
Check out this project. A bathroom renovation renovation that I did for a friend couple of weeks ago. A great idea if you have tight budget. What is needed is time, old newspapers or printouts and diluted glue for wood, the kind that is used for decoupage.
I found this old foldable table on a bric-a-bra sale and decided to rejuvenate it. Her is what I ended up with 🙂 I used 150 sandpaper on a palm sander. It it could be done by hand with some elbow grease. Lightly sand the entire table and legs. You do not need to remove …
I was working hard over last few weeks to make sure that my newly born cousins will get nice gifts. I made two lovely blankets:) If you want I could share with you patterns that I made. Just let me know if there is any interest:)
I was very busy over the last few weeks. I traveled and had visitors for the last 2 weeks. Despite all of that I found some time to finish the batiks that I started last year. Eventually! I am really proud as they are made exactly, how my Indonesian teacher taught me. This includes the …
Brand new, hand made batiks are in my Etsy shop now! Read More »
Tomorrow’s Love Your Cat Day is a fundraising event in Lillies Bordello, Dublin to help all the cats & kittens in Cats’ Aid Dublin care. There will be live music, raffle with fantastic prizes, nibbles and special guests including Ann Doyle and Pete the Vet!!! If you want to find out more check out their facebook …
The weather is dreadful recently so I decided to have some nice warm colours for February 2014 Desktop calendar. As long as you are not afraid of birds this is something for you might like. Picture was taken in Howth, Ireland. You can download the Desktop Callendar from here. More pictures from my that trip …
I like having customised desktop and time to time changing the way it looks. I am sure many of you do like a little bit of variety too. Some time ago I started creating my own desktop calendars with photographies and drawings I made. From now on, every month I will try to share with you …
I just finished my first batch of batiks. All fabrics were dyed with the batik dyes I brought from my last trip to Indonesia, from Jogyakarta. I had a feeling, that some of these dyes ingredients have gone bad, as instead of powder, they turned to see through gel. I was afraid that becaose of …
Yesterday I eventually found some time to finish this stencil and use it to paint our multimedia cabinet. You can find the instructions on each of the images. They picture pretty much every step of stencil making and stencil painting process. In case you have difficulties to read (I know some of the inserts are …
If we have big wall space and you want to decorate it, it might be better idea to decorate the wall rather than hang some picture or painting. There are many options available on the market. Most big markets have special wall stickers available. They are usually pricey and it is much cheaper to …
Acrylic Paintings on Canvas. Most of them I made last year. There are few paintings inspired by iconic art that I made to order. [wpecards]
This is one of my first paintings on the glass. I will not be modest and say that I absolutely love it. I love it because it is copy of my favourite painter, Klimt. I also love it, because I never expected that my copy of it will look so amazing. The process of painting …
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I wanted to show you few more Christmas Tree Balls that I painted last week. Some of them will be given as Christmas Gifts and the rest of them will be available to by on the Christmas Fair ‘Jarmark Rzeczy Ładnych’ *
Today I would like to share with you few more christmas ornaments that I made this week. These colourful stars and hearts are made of glass. Each of the Christmas tree ornaments I’d individually painted with special high quality paints for glass. Most of them are completely, or partially transparent and they look amazing when …
There’s something about handmade ornaments that really make me smile. I often make ornaments with my family. Especially I like the traditional glass Christmas tree balls – colorful and shiny, as I remember from my grandparents Christmas tree. Beautiful radiant colors.. and the tension that we were all decorating the Christmas tree with. We …
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I have recently came back to painting on fabric. What I realised was that I have big collection of hand painted male t-shirts and many cool hand painted girl tops. What I was lacking is clothing for children. So I decided to do something about this gap. Here you can see the the limited collection …
Edgy, funky baby and toddler clothing – hand painted limited edition Read More »
