Christmas mini vignettes on cards and tags

Christmas trees are everywhere decked in all kinds and manner of ornaments. I decided to put up some "crafty" mini vignettes in keeping with the spirit of the season.. these are my first set... Here is my first vignette with my favourite stone string and below is my next with twigs i found around Makes a great card or gift tag... what say? Here is my glass pebble vignette......

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Brilliant beadwork

 This is simply some of the best bead work I have come across; I just had to share this! These acorns could have been real but for the colour and shine of the beads! This work is by Mixed media artist Meredith Dada. Do check out her fabulous birds and other decor objects at her store all of which are hand beaded! And she has an online shop with the most amazing beaded things you ever...

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A fun DIY accent for the table

This is one of the many coaster crafts I have done since I am now an established coaster freak. Few people who like craft can resist a crocheted coaster and I simply had to have these - they looked so vintage and pretty. Here is how I used two of them. I got two of the pretty coasters together with a bamboo skewer. Aren't  they pretty? Using fabric glue I stuck the skewer to the...

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DIY tealight holder

I bought this set of bangles a few years ago and have never really worn it. Can't explain that because I use all bangles I buy. Every time I saw it I felt guilty so finally I decided to do something about it. This project is really simple and super fast. I am not one to spend an entire day working on a project - just too impatient! It's got to get done in under an hour tops and this one just fits...

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DIY brush holder

I did this in about half an hour one fine afternoon. You know I am a sort of coaster collector so hubby got me this set from Vietnam. Soon after, I was itching to do something with one set since he got me two. So I spread them out for a good look..  Pretty! I stared for a while went about my evening chores and went to bed. The next morning I knew what to do, so I commissioned my daughter...

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Three funky bookend ideas

Maybe it is the era of the internet and all that but most of us will agree that at some point or the other the idea of sitting by the window sipping hot tea and reading the a magazine or latest best-seller or an old classic has a charm or romance which is unparalleled. Anyway point is that we own books and we store them maybe in a book shelf maybe in a display shelf.. so we have bookends.. no? maybe?...

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Reusing everyday objects as lamp holders this Karthigai

Hi all! Tomorrow (this Sunday) all over South India we celebrate a festival of lights called Karthigai Deepam. This is when we light lamps all around our homes like we do during Deepavali. Very very simply put, it is a celebration of the inner strength of the woman.   Well this time I have decided that in addition to the beautiful lamp I bought for Deepavali I thought I would reuse some things...

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Make something interesting with a basket

I confess to being a basket addict and I am especially partial to little baskets, so I do have a few of them lying around... and since I am now in a mood to put things together or throw them out, I decided to do something about this little black basket because I could not bring myself to fling it out.   So here is a look at the said basket I had just bought a set of red and black...

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Amazing wire art

I am constantly amazed at people who can make wire into a picture like Miro at Fold has. Do take a look at some of her amazing creations.  Just look at the poppies here. They look almost real and seem to be dancing to her tunes.  But my favourite is Rudolph with his red nose. And then there are her descriptives... it is refreshing to read them.  I am not going to say any more...

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From trash to treasure in a snap

Last afternoon while I was sitting out waiting for my son to come back from school I found this piece of bark from a young coconut tree. I picked it and thought what a lovely texture it had... looked rather like the expensive but rustically beautiful Micheal Aram creations. I brought it home and set to work on it. The whole bark is rather unstable and would not sit flat so I trimmed the edges. Even...

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Repurposing coasters

Yeah I know this has been done to death but trust me this one is good...if you, like me,  have the habit of collecting coasters because they are cute and different you are likely to be left wondering if there is another nice way of using them.. well me too. I bought this set of translucent coasters in Sydney because I loved them very funky and what can I say I had to have them. I used the as...

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Rustic DIY garden wind chime

Hi there friends! hope you all had a happy Diwali! I had an absolute blast!  It is good to be back after a break and I was anyway dying to share this with you all.  I have already featured a plant pot wind chime in one of my earlier posts but wanted to do something that did justice to the one I saw while browsing through one of my favourite blogs Funkyjunk interiors. So here is the inspired...

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