Mini kitchen update with zero budget

One corner of our kitchen was a total mess with several different overflowing jars, cans and canisters. With some old glass jars, cans, tags and spray paint I created a bit more harmonic set.

1. This is an old (Bodyshop) shampoo bottle. I peeled the labels off, and rolled some twine around it. Then I filled it with dishwashing liquid. It looks much better at the kitchen table than that original big, ugly bottle.
2. My daughter loves to collect shells. Nearly every time we go to the beach, she brings a small bag of shells to home. I decided, that from now on, I will put them to glass jar, and decorate it with a tag where they were collected and when. Those jars will be a great centerpiece one day.
3. We try to remember to take our vitamins every day. I've noticed that if the vitamin cans are somewhere you can see them all the time, it's easier to remember to take them. But the cans are a bit ugly, so I had to do something for that. I painted the lids with white spray paint and printed the tags - now they look nice enough so you don't have to hide them.
4. We have kept a lot of plastic bottles because  we use them as drinking bottles when we go hiking or to the beach. It's handy to have one jar for the caps, and always take and return the caps there. Otherwise you can never find one when you need it. This tin can is spray painted with the same white as I used to paint the lids.
5. Kitchen scissors are also always lost when you need them. So I made a glass jar just for them -  and glued (with really good quality craft glue) some glass stone decorations to it (glass stones from Bunnings).

All this took only 30 minutes (+ drying time for the paint and glue) to make, and everything I used I already had. Hope this will give some ideas for you too!

Wall Decoration

Easter is now over, and when I took the "easter down" from the walls, there was some empty spots . They were screaming some wall decorations. I also had some leftover-cardboard on hand, so this is what came out from that.

I didn't use any glue to make this, the rolls and decorations are attached to each other with a mini stapler.
First I sliced the cardboard to stripes, making sure they were about the same widith. The length does not matter.

 

 

Then I made a lot of different sizes of rolls/cyliners by stapling the ends of the stripes together.

Then I stapled all of them toghether and formed a big round circle. 

 

 

Then I decorated it a bit by twisting the paper around a pen and stapled them inside of the cylinders. In the end I also stapled couple of the twisted decorations outside the cylinders.
 It does look really nice. I used different shades of blue and gray cardboard.
This is almost mess-free project and I can recommend it also for kids, around 8 years and up.

Easy Easter Bunny decoration

I  was supposed to do something completely different today(administrational tasks), but some kind of easter creativity burst hit me. You know when you'll get an idea, and it haunts you till you've tried it....so here's the outcome. Fast, cute and simple enough for the smallest crafters; Easter bunny wall decoration.

DIY Easy Easter Wreath tutorial

Easter is approaching with full speed, so it's time to start doing some Easter crafts. Here's a simple and quick easter wreath tutorial. It takes only about 20 to 30 minutes to make one, and this will look adorable hanging on your window or door.

You will need:
- Cardboard for the base of the wreath. Any kind of cardboard will do, I used an old cerial box.
- Around 40 or 50 Coloured paper squares. I bought a pastel-coloured paper block from Officeworks.
- Sticky tape
- Couple circle cut outs to be attached to the middle of the wreath. I have couple different circle punches which I used, but you can just cut out couple different sized circles using a coffee cup as a template.
- Some string to hang the wreath. Mine is just  gift wrapping sting.

1. Cut out a circle from the cardboard . I used a dinner plate as my template.
2. Roll the paper scones and use sticky tape to secure them. Then arrange them to the cardboard base, and attach with sticky tape. With the first layer, leave some space between the  cones.

 3. Make the second layer.

 

4. And then the third, and last layer. Glue or stick the circles to the middle of the wreath using glue (if you have any) or sticky tape.

 

 

HAPPY EASTER!

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DIY Napkin bunting

This bunting is easy, fast and really inexpencive way to decorate your party (or a craft market stall as I did :-D ). All you need is: napkins, some paper doilies, string or twine, scissors to cut the string and a stapler. It looks great, and it takes only 10 minutes to make one. Enjoy!

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ORNAMENT WREATH

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wreath, wreath and wreath

I made three wreaths last weekend - the first one was for my dear friends at Sabre Lou Products, Troy and Shane.  They make beautiful sentenced soy candles and waxes. This wreath was not actually Christmas themed, but it was a Christmas present for them. It was made using a styrofoam wreath-base, yarn, felt flowers (tried to copy the look they have in their logo) and their logo glued in the middle. I didn't take any picks while making it, but basically you just roll the yarn around the styrofoam base, glue the flowers (there's a tutorial HERE how to make them), print the picture and glue it to a slightly bigger cardboard and glue it to the backside of the wreath.

 

The second wreath was for my friend Paula, who invited us for a visit. This is made of Christmas ornaments glued to a cardboard base. I'll post the tutorial for this later today.

And while the glue gun was still hot, I decided to make one more wreath to our own door. Our color theme this year is blue and silver, and luckily our door is blue too. It fits perfectly!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!