Decorating your home for Christmas

Hello everyone and Merry Christmas!!!

May the gloss of Christmas fill the hearts of your and your loved ones all year long.
Now I will show you a few steps how to easily decorate your house for Christmas. Some of the decorations are handmade some are nice combinations of handmade and ready ones, so if you don't have time to spend for creating your pieces of art, then just go shopping:)

1. Step

To get into the spirit put on some nice Christmas music like this:

Dean Martin - Let it snow

2. Step

To welcome your guests, put on some nice wreaths on your door. This year I chose a ready one, silver star shaped.

3. Step

Don't forget about bringing to your house the smell of holidays, so add as many candles as possible to your room/house, make some nice combinations of baubles, candles and garlands. I used empty boxes of Ferrero Rocher chocolates that I filled with baubles, tea lights, rainbow candles and beads and here you go a nice candle holder.

4. Step

Don't forget about one of the important Christmas decorations, a stocking filled with chocolates, candies and cookies.

5. Step

Finalize your Christmas decorating with a nice Christmas tree.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Everyone!

XO XO XO

Christmas Tree (Rustic style)

Hello everyone!

Hooray! Christmas is coming, my favourite season for home decorating. Of course the most important decoration for Christmas is the Christmas Tree! Even long after you stop believing in Santa Claus, a gorgeous Christmas tree remains the centrepiece of the holidays. Since 2011 I was making my own DIY trees (check my DIY Christmas trees (2011-2013), so this year I keep the same tradition. Besides saving the trees, a DIY Xmas tree project also strengthens the holiday spirit, and makes it more special. It also serves as a one of a kind interior decoration.

So check out my Rustic style Xmas tree for this year.

P.S. And once again, save the planet, don't cut trees, make your own Christmas trees:)

Supplies are: aluminium wire, decorative yarn, straw Christmas decorations, fairy lights  and some inspiration.

For making the skeleton I used an aluminium wire. The shape is absolutely obvious.

Then I wrapped the skeleton with some decorative yarn.

For decorating the tree I used some straw decorations in beige and red colour, all looking kinda rustic.

Add a nice bow to complete the look.

In the end, I added straw decorations and fairy lights and Voilà, my 2014 Christmas Tree is ready.

Halloween wreath

Hello everyone and Happy Halloween!!!

Today is Halloween also known as AllHalloween or All Hallows Eve, the time of the year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs and all the faithful departed believers.

This year I decided to make some special decoration for Halloween, and guess what, it is another wreath, my Warm summer wreath is in the closet, waiting for the next summer, so my new Halloween wreath is replacing it for this autumn.

All you need is: a skeleton for your wreath, glue, coloured paper, small Halloween decorations (spiders, bats and bugs), bandages or any kind of fabrics that will replace spider webs.

P.S. When witches go riding, 

        and black cats are seen, 

        the moon laughs and whispers,  

                           it's near Halloween.

Supplies you will need.

Your wreaths skeleton. The shape I prefer the most for wreath is a round one, which I wrapped in one of my old black knitted vests.

Your skeleton is ready.

Next step is decorating it. For spider web imitation I used some medical bandages and a decorative fluffy yarn.

Add some spiders...

And Boooooooooo!!!

Happy Halloween!:)

African style vase

Hello everyone!
Today I would like to show how to recycle a Pringles can into a vase. So I am continuing my African/Safari theme and the vase will be decorated in this style as well. Pringles can has actually a very good shape and it's pretty durable for using it as a storage box, vase for flowers, packaging for gifts or anything else you can fit inside, just make it unique and beautiful by decorating it the way you like. It costs you almost nothing, the only thing you need is some time and imagination and the result will please you and others.

P.S. I wish you a day as bright and warm as my African vase is.

Supplies are: Pringles can (tube), coloured paper or crafts paper, glue, decorative yarn, instead of flowers to put in I bought some decorative small branches with lights.
So this is how it looks like:)

Supplies and tools I needed to start creating.

Decorative branch with lights on.

Now wrap your vase with some coloured papers, wrapping papers or newspapers, add some nice patterns and ornaments, elephants and yarn and your vase is ready:)

Add your flowers, which in my case are branches.

In the end, choose a good place for your decoration in your house and light it on!!!

Giraffe wall art

Hello everyone!
Today I would like to show how I made my masterpiece. I have never been a good painter, but this project of mine showed me that I am not too bad at it. White walls are so boring and depressive so to make them more attractive we use some paintings, photos in frames or maybe wall clocks and so on. So this time I decided to try myself in painting an African inspired Giraffe wall art. Of course the painting took me about 5-6 days and the easiest way was to buy a wall sticker but.. let me show you how much my art costs me and how much a wall sticker of the same size costs so you can see the difference.

P.S. Sorry for the bad quality of images and for my bad english:) Hope you will enjoy it.

So, yes, I copied in some way the image from internet, because it is really impossible for me to draw it without any help or hint. 

The sticker of the same dimensions, if I would buy it on internet, would cost me about 49.99$ or 36.50€.
For my painting I spent 1.99€ for Tempera paint (or poster paint) brown colour, and 0.99€ for paint brush.

So the difference between costs is huge, of course it might not be as perfect as it is on the image that's on your right, but it is my masterpiece and it almost cost me nothing to make it.

Now I will show you step by step the whole process.

So again supplies are: a pencil, tempera paint (or poster paint) of brown (chocolate) colour and a paint brush.

The reason I chose this paint is because it has a nice matte finish, it is non toxic and you can wash it away easily from your wall using a soapy water and a sponge, so if you are tired of your painting you can remove it easily.

So the first and the hardest part is drawing the contour (silhouette) of your wall art. When it's all done you can start paint it.

Because the poster paint is initially designed for paper and posters, one layer isn't enough for a wall, so I used 2 layers of paint for each detail of my painting.

When my little giraffes were ready, the next step was the tree.

When the first layer was absolutely dry, I continued with the second layer.

And this is the final result. Now you can see how big (or small) my painting is in comparison with the bed.

Now my bedroom has a nice safari atmosphere.

Warm summer wreath

Hello everyone!!!
Long time no post:) Summer is very close but on those rainy spring days all we need is some warmth in our houses. So I would like to show you how I made my Warm Summer Wreath to cheer me up on one of those cold days. Use your imagination on what colours and materials you use, the final result worth all time you spent for making it. 
All you need is: crepe paper for flowers and butterflies, a cardboard or styrofoam sheet or anything else you can use as a skeleton for your wreath (the shape can be round, square or heart shape), decorative yarn, sellotape, scissors, thread and glue.

P.S. Let the summer begin and warm your hearts.

Start with your wreath skeleton, make it's shape. I preferred to do the classic round shape made of one sheet of styrofoam which I wrapped in sellotape to keep those foam bubbles together.

The next step is wrapping the skeleton in it's final clothes, I used some decorative yarn to wrap it all around.

Using crepe paper of warm colours: brown, beige, red, orange and white, I made some flowers and butterflies to complete the look of my summer wreath.

Using glue I added all components together and this is the final result.

Now my door looks much festive and I am ready for summer :)

Wrapping a Towel

Hello everyone!
Today I will show you how to wrap a big bath towel as a gift. You know it is very hard to decide with gifts for people you don't know much, without knowing their hobbies, preferences and favourite things. So this year I decided to offer a very useful thing, a new bath towel, because you can always throw away your old one and enjoy your after baths with your new fluffy towel. The hardest part was wrapping the towel but I got it sorted. I am a big fan of wrapping presents in some special way with all it's tags and ribbons. First of all I tried to Google it, but I wasn't satisfied with the results so I used my imagination and that's what I got for my friends on Christmas: "A bottle of wine", "A parcel", "A bow" and "A candy".
All you need is: the towel, yarn to shape your towels, gift tags, gift ribbons, wrapping paper and some Christmas candies.

P.S. I wish that all your gift ideas will come to you easily.

 

"A bottle of wine" towel

"A parcel" towel

"A bow" towel

"A candy" towel