Craft

Gingerbread Christmas tree decorations (the recipe included)

Are you in the Christmas mood already? We just bought our Christmas tree and I took out the last year decorations (hand made and hand sewn  of course! And this year I decided to continue making my own decorations. I am definitely not buying plastic decorations from the shops, maybe a few crafty additions to

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reupholstered armchair

Another renovated armchair – magic colors and quality fabrics.

I have finished this piece a while ago, but got quite busy over the summer months and  never published the any  photos. So here you go. This time I had a bit more work as instead of stapling everything, I decided to sew some elements of upholstered chair cover. Everything that you see on the

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Very productive weekend of renovating furniture and upholstering armchairs 

It was a rainy weekend. The weather and greyness made me feel quite lazy,  but it did not stop me from finishing a few projects.  It was nice and fulfilling to stay at home and bring a few things back to live. Re-upholstered armchair. Lovely mustard-yellow fabric and chalky finish waxed wooden frame in graphite.

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Stencil art on reclaimed wood – portrait of a woman in red ;)

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 🙂

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Upholstery DIY project – renovate an old stool

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

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