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.
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Hand Painted Glass Christmas Tree Bulbs
Hand painted glass christmas tree decor is an amazing alternative for everywhere available cheap plastic christmas tree bulb
*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.
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.
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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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. …
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 …
Bobiny knitted grey hat
New year, new projects. This is what I did last this week . Order from Ania:)
Brand new, hand made batiks are in my Etsy shop now!
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 …
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Edgy, funky baby and toddler clothing – hand painted limited edition
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 …
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New cool motifs on hand painted womens t-shirts by ArtCave
I am back from my travels. For the last couple of months, ever since I did this batik course in Java I couldnt wait to do something creative. I had so many ideas, so many concepts but I started with my old passion – painting on fabrics. As I decided to participate in one or …
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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 …
Hand made toys, teddy bears and hand sewn sheeps
Easter time, as any onter holiday time is ideal for thinking about giving gifts to all the children around. I have plenty of nephews and nieces and I decided to make for them hand made toys. Thse creatures are so unique that for sure, they would make a wonderful surprise for someone special. Te handmade …
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Our shop on Etsy is back!
I am back form my holidays so the hop is open too. You can buy all the items listed – earrings, hand painted t-shirts, paintings and home decor. You can also order other items listed in various sections of my website. If you see something interesting, please let me know and I can organise for …
Pastels and Mixed Techniques on Canvas
When I immerse myself in something that I want to paint, the idea for the painting becomes clear to me. Because quite often I start painting without knowing exactly how it will turn out, as I put those first colors on the support, I am always nervous about what I am doing, because I do …
Silver Jewelry
I have recently came back to working on the silver jewelry. I learnt all my silversmith skills from Cormac Cuffe who runs his small workshop in Monkstown. He is a great teacher and I really look forward to make some new items. In the meantime I wanted to share with you few pictures of …
Hand painted t-shirt, made to order
For a long time I was studying various painting techniques. One of my favourite ones is painting on Fabric. And this is for a couple of reasns. Firstly, it is practical and secondly it is creative. With little bit of imagination and manual skills any sort of fabric (top, t-shirt, handbag, coat etc) can be …
Tikul with the joint
My latest creation. I felt like a cigarette this night and ended up with two paintings where the cigarette was a main motiff. This is one of them – Tikul with the joint. Green pastel paper, black , white, blue, red and white pastel. You can check if it is still listed on Art Cave shop …
Betty with the split
My latest creation. I felt like a cigarette this night and ended up with two paintings where the cigarette was a main motiff. This is one of them – betty with the split. Red pastel paper, black and white pastel. You can check if it is still listed on Art Cave shop on Etsy.