DIY earings.

How easy it can be! I purchased a jewelry making kit a couple days ago, it's so much fun! I have not been up to anything else lately, just been occupied with making jewelry! These earrings a made from an old necklace I just did not wear anymore, so I decided to just make some cute earrings of them instead. cute cute! 

Cosy-time

1. Rose made of hard glitter paper 2. glass jars, stenciled roses on 3. glass jars with rose stencils 4. Lampshade made of paper, cut into circles and glued on with a glue gun.

Best of all, I made them myself. :)

dull black!

I adore my black dress, it fits perfectly on me and it brings out my lovely curves, but it's just so darn dull! I'm thinking of giving it a total make over, but how or with what I don't know. I got total black out! Thinking of studs, but that again would not look so cool because the fabric is not "hard or steady" enough for the studs to look good, they would just look floppy (is that a word?). Let's see if my brain will come up with some amazing ideas, LET'S JUST WAIT AND SEE!

storage box

Storage box is what we all need. you can easily find them anywhere, but I think they look so dull! I made this one myself, from an old cardboard box I had lying around, some white paint, some rope, glue and paper. What I did was that I just glued my cardboard pieces together (with my glue gun), then I cut out some paper pieces in to squares. I found some in a magazine, i was aiming for green, white and gray colours. After I glued on all the paper pieces, I draw some rose and floral motives, and then cut them out for using as stencils. I used normal white paint (just random pain i found in the cellar) and used my stencil brush and dotted on some rose patterns on the box. after that I just randomly dotted on some white colour to make it look a bit more vintage and shabby. Then I wrapped some rope around it to make it look a bit more like a gift box, glued on a heart jewelry and thats it. Doesn't it look shabby chic. So simple! It really looks like the box is made of wood!

My name is Carla, and I'm a Craftaholic!

March came with lovely weather and it's more or less Spring in Stoke. I've been over hyperactive lately when it comes to crafts and being creative. Our garden has had a total make over, planted lots of flowers, my own herbs and in a couple of weeks I'm gonna plant some tomatoes and potatoes.

This whole Recycling/Organic/Eco/friendly style has really gotten to me, which is absolutely wonderful. I have saved so much money lately by really thinking trough before I buy something. Is it really necessarily for me to buy this? Maybe I can make it myself? often the answer is yes, I can make it myself, and is so much fun! And that feeling that you get after creating something is amazing.

The only thing I need now is a working space. I've been saving up so much fabric, papers, tiles, glue, paint and so on, so I defo need a work space, and that's gonna be a project as well. Try to squeeze in a work table in our little bedroom is gonna be challenging, but I'm defo up for a challenge! Let's see how it turn out shall we.

Here is some of my crafts;

Flowers made of paper, glued on spray painted branches. An easy but so pretty idea.

Don't know what to do with all your earrings? I decided to get some branches from our back yard and spray paint them white. Then just hang up earrings and it's gonna look stunning.

a rose made of plastic teaspoons, melted together and glued onto a vase. Pretty!

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Mosaic Mirror

A tip how to make that boring mirror look retro. All I used was white colored tape. I JUST CAN'T STOP MAKING STUFF. At the minute I'm making new handles to our cupboard, will show u some pics later when I'm finished. THIS IS FUN!

Decorate with Make-up

Wonder for how long it will stay like this before I mess it up again.

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Rose Garden

Made a cute little box where I can storage some of my make up brushes. Made of old fabric that I found in the cellar, some cardboard and some glue. Cute and Simple.

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Creativity.

I'm in a mood, in an extremely good mood, an extremely good creative mood! Bought a glue gun, some shoe boxes and tins, found some old curtains in the cupboard and voila'...New adorable storage tins and boxes. It's fun and easy, and cheap!!

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