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I have a new blogging home at Jo Cavey Creates where I have moved a few of the posts from this site and will also be blogging about new and different things :)

Sequin Easter Eggs

This is a mega cheap idea for jazzy Easter decorations, and fun for kids too.

 

 

Bed-linen revamp

I had a beige set of bed linen passed on to me from my Grandma, which was really good quality, but didn't quite go with our bedroom interior.

So I dyed the whole set navy, fairly cheaply...

...and used some spare striped fabric I had lying around to liven up the plain navy...

 

...et voila - stripes are the future!

Ombre star canvas

My sister has recently moved into her first owned flat in Kent, and so with the new year upon us I thought it would be a perfect time to make her a new home house-warming present!

I sneakily collected a selection of paint swatches from various DIY shops:

And used a favourite gadget from my Mum's craft collection...

...to cut out a colour-themed array of tiny stars, which I grouped in varying shades of blue:

I then measured out equal spacings on a 50x50cm canvas and began PVA gluing the stars on in rows, from lightest blues to darkest...
 

 

...and waited for the glue to dry.

In the drying stage the stars' edges curled up slightly, but I like this as it gives the picture a nice 3D effect. I hope my sister does too!

Hallway transformation Part II

Hello and happy New Year!

So this is where we left off the transformation of our flat hallway just before Christmas:

 

I nailed together and then painted the halved table in the same colour as the mirror (see that transformation here):

 

With the stripes finished on the wall, I screwed in the bobbin hooks...

...and finally had a home for the stamped hangers!

 

 

 

First attempt at wedding decorations: The 'Js'

With only 15 weeks to go until Jim and I get married, I thought I would put some time, scraps and effort to use and come up with some sort of decoration that can feature at the wedding!

I love the fact that we both have names beginning with "J", and so, with this in mind, I drew and cut four of the letters out of sturdy cardboard along with two ampersand shapes.

I then cut up several old kitchen roll inner tubes into identical lengths to fit between two of each letter/shape to make them 3D.

Once I had securely sellotaped the 3D cardboard shapes in place I set about wrapping them with similarly coloured scraps of a few of Jim's old work shirts......

and this was the result!