Colourful Velvet Bed Spread for Boho Bedroom
I don’t let a piece of fabric waste. These colourful velvet fabric scraps made a perfect colourful bed throw combined together.
Craft
DIY fabric-covered buttons
Making fabric-covered buttons for upholstery or sewing projects is easy! You don’t need expensive tools to do it. There are pre-made buttons that you can upholster yourself and this tutorial I will show you how to do that!
Outdoor rug makeover
Outdoor rug makeover – how do you paint outdoor rug and create a pattern using a masking tape
DIY pallet seat with wheels
When I planned to visit my sister in law and she asked me for help with upcycling a small pallet she had. Upcycling? No problem! I ordered all necessary materials beforehand and with everything ready, within three hours built this small seat on wheels. It even fits under the coffee table so if it is …
Hand Painted Glass Christmas Tree Bulbs
Hand painted glass christmas tree decor is an amazing alternative for everywhere available cheap plastic christmas tree bulb
Christmas tree diy sewn decorations
I think my Christmas tree is a bit different, more traditional. I like thinking that it looks more like hundreds years ago when the tradition of decorating trees started and our great, great- grandmothers were making decorations themselves.
Decoupage Candles – a Quick Video Tutorial
I recently made som candles and recorded the process of making on the video that I would like to share with you. Watch that video if you want to quickly learn how to make a candle with a lovely decoupage. It is easy enough and you don’t need ant special equipment or tools. For that …
Repurposed coffe and tea cans – stencil painted
I had many empty coffee cans and quite a mess in my tea and coffee cabinet, so I decided to paint them and have them labelled. Here is how you can repurpose old coffee cans by turning them into tea and coffee containers and keep the shelves organised. You can make your own stencils or download …
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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*SOLD* Stencil on Reclaimed Wood – €50
This is one of the first stencil paintings i have ever made. I upcycled the old cabinet that we put apart. Sold just recently – I believe i went for some kind of charity auction.
Ikea lampshade hack – knitted lampshade cover
Another way of making your rented apartment with random furniture a nit more like your own. I had this ikea lamp with akredytacji quite worn lampshade. I decided to knitt this orange cover and have to say it werkend out really well. Looks great with the light on and also during the day. rented …
Stencils on reclaimed wood – Kate
Finished a long time ago but never published. so I am sharing them today. The painting is already gifted.
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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Hand Sewn Sheep – a free toy pattern
Have you ever tried sewing? I love various sewing projects – this is an amazing way of creating truly unique items – gifts for example. The photos below are of the sheep that I have sewn some time ago as a gift for a friends daughter. I wanted to share this project with you and …
Necklace made of Reclaimed Cotton or old T-shirts
This necklace is a very easy to make. Can be no-sew if you want to use a hot glue only, but I would say, that supporting the strips of cotton with a little bit of thread make them more durable. I, to make these two recycled cotton necklaces, used hot glue on the edges where …
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Cotton rope basket – crochet – FOR SALE
Cotton crochet basket for sale. Natural soft cotton rope was used to create it. The crochet stitch used made is sturdy enough so sides are not collapsing. It is lively sunflower yellow with a vibrant navy blue trim The dimensions are: Height: apx 21 Diameter: apx 40cm
Hand knitted cotton rope blanket or a rug – FOR SALE
Another rug. This one is in calm colours – smokey grey, khaki and a dark grey cotton rope was used to produce it. It is knitted, entirely hand-made by myself. All together around 650 meters of that rope was used. The dimensions are apx 110cm x 140cm. The rug is stretchy, so the exact dimensions depend …
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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 🙂
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 …
Renovated retro chest of drawers – SOLD
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. …
Cotton-rope Crochet Rug – perfect for nursery
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 …
Rainy weekend stencils
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 …
How to renovate an old armchair.
Upholstery for beginners
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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Cotton-rope crochet rug
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 …
Basket – green rope-yarn crochet
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 …
Bobiny knitted grey hat
New year, new projects. This is what I did last this week . Order from Ania:)
Rejuvenated Old Table with Bird Stencils
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 …