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!
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Outdoor rug makeover
Outdoor rug makeover – how do you paint outdoor rug and create a pattern using a masking tape
DIY dining room lamp
A nice lamp ant the type of light can make a difference. This is what I designed and made for our dining room. A bit of research and online shopping, and I sourced all elements exactly how I imagine them. Links are below: Wood: recycled from the house we renovated. Try to recycle, but if …
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 …
IKEA coffee table hack – reclaimed pallet wood cover
When you rent a apartment and you sometimes don’t want to rely on the furniture that is there. You can’t give the furniture back as it came with the flat and the landlord would not agree to that but you want it to look different, be more in your style. Over years of living in …
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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.
Trellis for your climbing plants – DIY
When I rented an apartment with a huge roof terrace I was really excited about organising there my garden. The terrace was completely empty – just bare grey concrete wall. It is also rather windy up there, so my plan to have a green flowery corner there proved to be challenging. Nonetheless, I made it. …
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 …
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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*SOLD* Upcycled white vintage dresser €200
I found this lovely item on adverts and immediately had this idea of repainting it white. I decided not to get rid of the mirror part as I simply liked it better without the mirror. And this is how the dresser looked like before.
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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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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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. …
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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DIY painted garbage bins
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 …
Newspaper walpapered bathroom
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.
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 …
Patchwork and quilt – baby blanket
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:)
Love Your Cat Day
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 …
Painting from Stencils – renovating a cabinet
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 …
Beautiful glass Christmas tree ornaments
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 …
Jewelry – earrings, necklace, and display
As you know I am getting ready to some craft fairs taking place this November and December. I have created some nice earrings and necklace of natural and artificial stones, beads and feather. What is more important, I have figured out how I am going to display all my treasures. What do you think?
Batik. Fabric, wax and madness of colours
Recently I spent some time in Yogyakarta, the batik capital of the world. While being there, I could not miss the fantastic opportunity of learning more about batik and its history. I also decided to put my hands on some batik tools and learn myself how to make it. After going through some research, I …
Painted Wine Glass Set
I have recently received an order for 13 pieces wine glasses set. I had a very short deadline to paint it, but I made it in time 🙂 It is going to be an important decorative element at the First Communion function. I mean for the function table 🙂 I painted many pieces of decorative …
Hand Painted T-shirts
T-shirts with the unique manually painted motifs are sagnificant element of my artistic portfolio. All motifs on the t-shirts are with hands, brushes or sponges. Special paints for textiles and fabric are used for creating the original motifs. After drying, the painting is hardened by heating and cooling it a few times. As a result it is …