We’re starting a little early with December things. Some find it very unpleasant having December pushed into earlier months, myself included. I mean, let the autumn be. But better to be prepared early than late, so we’re making an exception this year. A useful tip can’t be one too many, even if a bit early. …
Category: Art & DIY
DIY October decoration: pumpkins
Made of old cloths of textile. But you can use whatever materials you have which can be used for this. Necessities: Prepare larger pieces of fabric, sew the fabric (inside out) to make a cylindrical shape. In case of using old trouser pieces, the cylindrical shape is already made. Sew one side of the cylinder …
Fairy symbols
Have you ever heard of these? They are also known as attraction symbols as they are meant to attract the prosperity which they are named after. There is over 200 of them, each symbolising a good prospect of life, each with a different name and shape. Attraction symbols are somewhat keys to energy, values, abilities, skills, …
DIY cotton facial cleaning pads
There is already a post about such DIY pads on this blog, but these are different as they don’t require a sewing machine. Granted, their apperance isn’t as pleasant as the properly sewn ones, you can’t really gift them, but for personal use are just as useful. Unless, of course, you are very good at …
Lace jewellery
We’ll be talking about a specific brand that goes by the name Klekljančki. We all like pretty things and jewellery definitely belongs in this category. It’s very important to know where the materials come from, since the precious metal and stone industry are large environmental issues. Thus I prefer to buy, I rarely do, but …
Make your own yearly planner
This is only a partial DIY, as we will be using an existing notebook or binding planner, just adding our own created calendar of mothly and daily sheets. Making the monthly calendar Design-wise there are a lot of options (Canva, One note, Powerpoint, printables from Pinterest, etc.). I tried all of the listed and learned …
Drawing mandalas
The word “mandala” originates from sanskrit, meaning circle. Do you ever doodle? When thinking of nothing but also everything at the same time, or when talking on the phone? What kind of patterns do you draw? It seems that a lot of people draw circular and rectangular patterns, filling them with other geometrical shapes. It’s …
DIY cotton pads
Take a piece of fabric, best if it’s 100 % cotton, no elasthane or other materials. Just recycle a shirt or maybe bedsheets that you’ve worn out and don’t intend to use for what it’s originally meant for anymore. Cut out the shape you want, mine are circle, but you can go out of the …
DIY coasters from old CDs
Do you have any old CDs lying around that you’re not using anymore, wondering what to do with them? Here’s a useful idea about how not to throw them away just yet. I was decluttering the other day, which included testing if some CDs I had stored, still worked. It turned out most of them …
DIY gift idea – quote notebooks
One night at the beginnig of December I went to bed thinking what I could give as new year presents to my closest friends. Some of them are really hard to find the right kind of gifts for. So this idea jumped to my mind – a very personal gift. A notebook containing hand written …