What I call Home

Dec 12

More use for christmas lights after the holidays, paper doilies and lights.

Dec 11

I have a decent sized camera collection and always looking to add more to it, since they aren’t all everyday use cameras I’d love to display them. Something like this shelf from Ikea would be amazing, using the cubbies to store them and the top of the shelf too.

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50176271

Dec 10

Customize your own lampshades;

Plain lampshades can be made over with some fabric, ribbons, lace, paints, beading, sequence, embroidery thread, anything you can think of to personalize them to fit your space.

Colorful handmade paper cranes on a dead tree, thank you 500 Days of Summer for being some of my constant inspiration in daily life.

Dec 5

Dresser handles shown above.

I love the eclectic look of a dresser or even a kitchen with nice ceramic or glass handles that don’t exactly match but go well together. A plain color dresser with some of these knobs would be adorable.

Dec 2

A use for Christmas lights after the holidays?! Who knew.

What’s nice is you can even take this in other direction, using old glass vases or other things around the house and create a nice lighting piece to add some character to a room.

Nov 29

I want a craft corner;

or wall, or room, really I’ll take what I can get.

I love the idea of having a lot of space and storage to organize everything though, and include a little work bench and good lighting. Perfect.

Nov 28

Once Jess Lee and I went to a Starbucks near the Tower of London and we got to put tacks on the places we were from.

I want to get a big map like this when I get my apartment and slowly start marking off all the places I’ve been.

Cute, Cheap and Crafty.

Cutting out little birds from old magazine, papers, gift wraps &etc and posting them to fly up your wall. I really do love this.

Nov 27

I love throw pillows and everytime I go hunting for them they seem to be overpriced and tacky.

They’re a good way to accent cozy areas of a place, and easy to make on your own too. That way you have more of a varity of fabrics to choose from and they actually fit/compliment the space you already have

Here’s a link that gives you a step-by-step on how to do it yourself:

http://hubpages.com/hub/Make-your-own-throw-pillows