French Wall Art II

I thought that the last wall-art I did was a little bit too little, so I did another one. There have been complains about my weight lately, so I decided to make a french wall art gâteau. And then I hung all three of them above the stove. The light-blue color gave a nice sort of "theme" in the cake wallart and I am really happy, it took me a while to decide over what paper I was going to use without it looking too "cake" like. This is how it turned out:

Rustic wooden chest

A really really early project of mine. It's been standing in my parents basement for a long time but now I've brought it home. I got the inspiration from various pictures on the internet and now that my fiancee has got a airbrush, maybe I could add some embelishment / text on it. We'll see.

This crate was originally a stash for holding different types of firework, it had a warning-lable on one side and the kind of spray on letters that was kinda charming, but it lacked that extra "oomph" and that being the paint. So I removed the lable as much as I could and then sandpapered the whole thing. The problem being a small wooden stick sticking out from inside of it.

I used some leftover white paint my parents had and everytime I dipped the brush in the paint, I also dipped it in a little bit of water. Wanting to save muself some work, I tought I would only do one layer of paint but that did not look as good, So I ended up doing maybe 2 or 3, I can't really remeber. And I didn't know what to do with the wooden part sticking out, so I just kinda left it and didn't paint the insides.

I still don't know what to do. Any suggestions?

French Wall Art

Some French Wall Art. I got the idea from crafts by amanda. I used some left-over scrapbooking paper, just like she does, but however I did not use a wooden background since I did not have any at hand, I used a few pages from a old photo-album.

Latest project: Jewelry box makeover.

So. This little white box has been with me for forever, I got it when I was a very young girl (Probably when I still was in the phase where I wanted to be a princess. Or thereabouts) and I think it originally came with a mirror attatched, but I am not sure if I ever had a mirror too it, if it broke, or if I just didnt get any.

Anyway, It's been with me a long time and when I was younger (slightly older than the princess stage) I tried repairing it with color and nails, since the hinges were coming off, but as I didn't really see the difference between the whites, I repaired it with a white that had a slightly more yellow-tone to it. Hm.

I saw it and I thought that I needed to freshen it up a bit, since I still do wear and owe some jewelry and I do not want to keep them in a carton box where they currently are, seeing as it does not seem worthy for some of the heirloom jewlery.

So I started off to Sandpaper the white away and then two things hit me. 1) I need new hinges and 2) What to do with the pink velvet inside? It is really nice and it smells of nostalgia, but it is pretty discoloured by unidentifiable stains as well as some spots from pens and the like. So what to do? I could probably get over some cheap velvet at the local fabric-store anyway. And I think that would be best. Should I also keep the white-pink color scheme? I think I actually will. Since it is a nice piece of my childhood and instead of reconditioning it, I could restore it to what it somewhat used to look like. Yeah. Here are some pictures of what I've done so far (click if you wish to see a larger picture).