pinterest love: DIY for home

I have been periodically sharing some of my favorite images and links from my pinterest boards.  Previously I've shared Art: Stripes, Art: Circles, Art: Floral, Art: Dimensional, and Art: Figures.  I'm going to shake it up this time and NOT share an art board.......how about some DIY ideas for around the home?

From my DIY for the Home board:


A clever idea to store wrapping paper in the dead space of a closet.  The post has 10 more excellent holiday storage ideas.


No credit on this one - it's from Tumbler.  You can spray paint coffee beans any color to use a vase or candle holder filler and match your decor (and smell good).



Life Without Expectations:  Use a 12x12 piece of tile from the home improvement store, back with felt and enjoy an unusual placemat.

I love simple, graphic pillow designs; use felt to make the design and hand or machine stitch to a cover.....go whimsical (Corinne, your new home surely needs one of these funky pillows) or classic.

   Felt & stitching (no link)

  Quilted pillow cover, but would be super easy in felt.  SewKateyDid pillow


Bird on a Wire pillow by Sweet C's Designs - simple felt bird shape (or whatever shape you like - how about a leaf or pod shape?)

  Stamped, stitched, painted?  On linen, burlap?  And, unfortunately, no link.



Just look at this fun chair!  A makeover with spray paint and a stencil or lace.  RoadKillRescue

  A fun, bring-the-outside-in art project.  No link.

  Make a jewelry holder with door hardware.  The Berry



A great way to add pizzazz to a stool top - who doesn't love a good collage?!  Tumbler



Frame an enlarged photo of an old envelope (maybe your mom or grandma's handwriting?)  no link

I have 140 more projects pinned.  I noticed that a lot more of these DIY pins don't have live links or lead to blocked links.  Hmmmm.  Visit me on Pinterest to see what else I've found around the web.

woyww #9

This week for WOYWW I have some progress from things started last week.

You may remember I'd gessoed (?) over a canvas I didn't like and was going to go a different direction....direction started:

Liking the layers of red and orange and texture...not sure where next.  Also started a little box 'canvas' covered with music (it's actually the box my soap comes in).

Then, I was working on trying to make my own decorative tape using masking tape. (I used it in my lettering journal which I'll share later in the week)  I made some more and found that using the expensive stuff from Home Depot didn't work as well as the $1 store stuff.  HD was too sticky and wouldn't peel off the freezer paper - it might work better on waxed paper but I don't have any right now.  Plus the dollar store tape is whiter - here are some new experimental strips:

I found that acrylic paints and Inktense watercolor pencils work well, oil pastels (the green/yellow stripe) don't blend or smoosh at all, rubber stamps work great!  I'm playing with my new alpha stamp set.

I found my projects overflowing my work table this week (I'm sure that never happens to any of you) so behind me on the ironing board (great table height :)) I have my AB (altered book) project waiting to get going and some great tissue paper pieces I'll be adding to a collage (project from Jane Davies Collage Journeys book).

The tissue paper project is to choose 2 colors of paper and sandwich something in between, sealing the papers together with matte medium.

The top one I stamped with a lady bug on yellow and glued it to a light blue tissue paper; on the right I drew spirals with oil pastels and used yellow and lime green tissues; on the bottom I used yellow and white and sandwiched cut out leaf shapes.  Using the 2 layers of tissue paper gives the paper more substance and the two colors blend to form a nice third color with a stronger tint depending on which side you place up.  An easy and fun project - thanks Jane!
Lots of other desks to explore over at Julia's Stamping Ground.....