Lilac, flower-wines, lace and pearls. Now that is perfume to me.
It´s now 2014! How the years just fly by. I have great hopes for this year but first thing first... Here is my first card of the year. I was looking at the LLC blog and their January challenge is "perfume". That is what I call a challenge!
Lilac, flower-wines, lace and pearls. Now that is perfume to me.
Love Julia
Lilac, flower-wines, lace and pearls. Now that is perfume to me.
Just a cute Christmas card with a different color scheme.
This adorable Santa is from Magnolia and colored with distress re-inkers.
The ticket is stamped on thin craft paper and embossed twice with clear/ gold-glitter.
Flowers in blue-brown and cream.
White acrylic paint will get you that snow feeling.
In the challenges:
Tildas Town
Live and love crafts
Magnolia down under challenges
Stamp and create with magnolia
Love Julia
Tildas Town
Live and love crafts
Magnolia down under challenges
Stamp and create with magnolia
Love Julia
How is it that 24 days can go so fast? Trying to get all the presents, baking stuff and working... I think the only thing to do is to make December a red month.
Any how I have been working rather late, having riding lessons at the riding school so when I get home it´s pitch black. But with just a few lights the home goes from cold and dark to worm and inviting.
So here I my three tips.
have a pretty glass vase? Put some light in and at night it´s like firefly, so pretty!
So at the first of the advent we put up this stars for the first time and I just love it.
And speaking if love here are my lanterns that I just think is the prettiest. The more colors and and shapes you have the cozier the room gets. The shadows from the lanterns on the wall can change a room and even when you don´t have a candle in them they are still pretty.
So bring some light in now in the cold winter and sing some songs today to remember Lucia
Love Julia
Any how I have been working rather late, having riding lessons at the riding school so when I get home it´s pitch black. But with just a few lights the home goes from cold and dark to worm and inviting.
So here I my three tips.
have a pretty glass vase? Put some light in and at night it´s like firefly, so pretty!
Love Julia
The Christmas madness continues and it´s time for some DIY/ makeover! We all have tones of cheap plastic ornaments that are just... bhla. But with some book-pages and they´ll look really cute and will fit in perfectly with all of you how has shabby chic/ vintage decor. How ever I know I uselessly say how fun and easy my projects are... This is quite time consuming and requires allot of patients. Well worth it though.
So thin glue (I have wallpaper paste), ornaments, old brush and book pages in small pieces.
Start with glue add paper and then glue. The thing is that the old book page is it´s takes some time to lay down flat. So you´ll have to work with it...
In the end it´s all worth it, for me it took about 30 min to do one. Maybe if one starts of with new-paper , the book pages as something to grab on to. Of course I thought of this while I took the photos, if you´ll try it, please let me know. And if you want to add some extra, mix glue and glimmer/glitter/ crushed eye-shadow and paint away.
Love Julia
Ingredients:
100g Butter
3 dl sugar
2 dl cream
1 dl light syrup
1 tps vanilla sugar
Melt the butter in a heavy saucepan (with a thick bottom). When the butter has melted add the other ingredients and stir. Now this is to boil to it´s 122-125°C then poor it in a pan and let cool. Use a knife or succors to cut it up.
I sprinkled some sea salt or it while it was cooling down and it is delicious! I only hope there will be some left for Christmas...
Love Julia
We have had our first snowstorm for this winter and now the roads are so icy that you can use your ice-skates. So lets just say that I will stay in today, and why not making some Christmas stuff?
I found this necklace at H&M made out of this beads, I would never have used it so I took it apart and I´m going to use the beads for Christmas ornaments.
So some crystal-looking beads. pearls, wire and pliers.
Put the bead on the wire
Put a pearl on one end and bend the wire
Take the bead down over the bent wire and twist the other end till you get a shape like this.
Cut of the excess of and shape it.
Love Julia
I found this necklace at H&M made out of this beads, I would never have used it so I took it apart and I´m going to use the beads for Christmas ornaments.
Put the bead on the wire
Put a pearl on one end and bend the wire
Take the bead down over the bent wire and twist the other end till you get a shape like this.
Cut of the excess of and shape it.
Now make some more, I made 24... This are perfect for all of you shabby chic lovers and for you how love reusing things.
Remember my Halloween reef? Using the same Styrofoam reef I have made it winter teamed. It´s super easy and you can use thing you find in your garden.
So here are the basic materials, the reef, siccers, pins, fabric and twigs.
Make strips out of the fabric, about 10 cm, use the pins to keep them in place.
Wind the fabric strips around the reef in till it looks like this.
Make smaller fabric strips, like 2-3 cm and use them to wind around the twigs.
Decorated with rose-hip,paper roses and a little bird, it´s a cute winter teamed reef.
So here are the basic materials, the reef, siccers, pins, fabric and twigs.
Love Julia
