Showing posts with label household. Show all posts
Showing posts with label household. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

quick furniture project

One project down, one to go...well, at least of the two things on my CURRENT to do list!

I have a cabinet in my living room that houses some of my very special things, but you couldn't see these very special things as they faded into a background of brownness--brown couch, brown cabinet, brown things in cabinet, brown mask on the wall, brown tray on side table, brown wall with more brown things hanging on it adjacent to all that I've just mentioned. I think you get the picture. Well, I'm SLOWLY working on the brownness issue, this project being the first step.

Using this MOST adorable owl collage wrapping paper from Papaya! that I picked up at my local art center, I covered the back "wall" of the cabinet.

To hang the paper, I just used regular scrapbooking adhesive like..

...this

I forgot to take a "before" picture, so you probably won't be as impressed as you should, but I think you get the idea...

...now my luminary from Zihuatanejo and Coqui figurine from Puerto Rico will shine as they should...

...basket from Jamaica, clay beads from Africa, vase I painted in Ixtapa, and shell box from Hawaii won't be lost down at the bottom.
If you are really looking at these pictures--Yes, my Anthro catalog is so special to me that it gets a place in my "very special things" cabinet! Um, not really, but that shelf is just the right size for the basket of my most recently purchased magazines and catalogs that are too much fun to just throw away. Also in a photo up above, "tres hermanas", a luminary I made in my ceramics class in Puerto Rico and behind it sits a framed picture of my sisters and I.

Monday, February 23, 2009

planning

So, I KNOW I've mentioned Scrapblog before, and maybe you're sick of it, but I just LOVE it! And every time I use it, I love it even more. I just feel kinda bad cuz I've never actually made a scrapblog, per say. If you look at my scrapblogs, you'll see that all I've made are blog banners and other stuff like this PLANNER you see here. SO excited about this planner!

I really wanted to get this one from PapaYa! but it's a bit bigger than I'd like. I have a small planner that I keep in my purse to write my work schedule and important dates in, but I needed something that I could plan things in advance and have room to write on.
2009 weekly planner

So, I decided to see what I could come up with over at Scrapblog and the result is something totally my style, in colors that match my kitchen, and with plenty of room to WRITE. I made it to hang on the front of the refrigerator, out in the open, so that I will actually LOOK at it and USE it. Here's a closer look at a couple of the pages:


I've ALSO been busy organizing my Flickr photos. There is SO much inspiration on there, whatever kind of photo you might be looking for, you'll find it on Flickr. They even have an easy to use photo editing tool to help you out. I tend to just upload and leave em. But after today, NO MORE! Ya, well, we'll see...but anyway, these are my favorites that I uploaded today.

lThey are pictures I took when letterboxing, which I TOTALLY want to get back into!

Lately, I've been spying some delicious PRETTIES..

fabric by Anna Maria Horner

Portabellopixie

Sis Boom

this COULD be the year that I become a seamstress....we'll see!

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