Interior Design

I've recently been through some big personal changes, which has totally shifted my taste in art and therefore what I want to produce, and also the direction I want to take. and I'm feeling optimistic and excited for new possibilities! I'm moving away from the blogging arena and sharing craft tutorials, and very much focussing on purely creating art. I'm currently working on developing a new style, and I'm not quite sure what that will look like

To make these stamped curtains you will need: - piece of wood plank off cut for the stamp back (mine measures 14 x 33cm or 5.5 x 13") - scrap fabric, scrap paper, spatula to scoop paint, rags for clean up, glue stick & sticky tape After testing the print, I added a second layer of foam strips to the first one to be more spongey, it enabled me to get a better more uniform print than just one later of foam. Using block printing ink (add your fabric additive here if using) and a brayer roll out an even layer of ink, then use the brayer to roll the ink on your stamp. I went all the way down one side of one curtain with the pattern, then I started the next line by placing the stamp down and then measuring with measuring tape where the edge of the stamp was, then marked with masking tape all the way down the length of the curtain so that my pattern didn't go off track.

So here is the revolutionary change in installation method: You apply the wallpaper paste to the WALL instead of to the PAPER 🤯. Starting with the left side of the wall, use a straight edge (or long ruler) and the spirit level included in the tool kit, and draw a line one wallpaper-width from the edge (45cm in my case). It’s super important to get this first panel completely straight in order to keep it the easiest wallpaper installation on the rest of the wall. The installation kit of course helps – the paper cutting guide works a charm, and the brush easily works out any bubbles.

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Once you've marbled one rock, use a scrap piece of cardboard to lift any remaining paint out from the water surface ready to marble another rock. Easy Marble paints are waterproof and lightfast; which make them perfect to use for a project that will be outdoors in the elements.**Update: For my fellow Aussies it seems buying Easy Marble paints at this moment in time is quite difficult! and I would be pretty confident to try them!**You take a container large enough to fit your rocks in, fill with water and drop 2-3 of your chosen colours into it. Before you pull the rock back out, swish any extra paint still floating on the surface of the water away from the rock

You could also use paper and stick the tiles down using a glue stick if you wish. but for this project it doesn't matter too much as the tiles are just placed randomly, and the end product gives a nice flat surface. You could either use plain cement and sand and mix according to packet instructions, or just use some mortar mix which is premixed cement and sand. Mine had a few air bubble holes in them which I filled with a pale grout, or you could make up a little more concrete mix and use that to patch up any holes.

Using newspaper strips and a mix of PVA glue watered down slightly with water (approx 1:1) cover all over the base and lid, making sure you overlap the paper strips as you go. Using newspaper strips and a mix of PVA glue watered down slightly with water (approx 1:1) cover all over the base and lid, making sure you overlap the paper strips as you go. After decorating, I used water based gloss varnish everywhere except inside the box, and the inner rim of the lid, as my varnish can get a bit tacky when varnished pieces touch, as I discovered in my sketch book! After decorating, I used water based gloss varnish everywhere except inside the box, and the inner rim of the lid, as my varnish can get a bit tacky when varnished pieces touch, as I discovered in my sketch book!

Painting this thing would've looked terrible due to the worn away veneer revealing chipboard, so my solution was to cover it with oilcloth, which is essentially fabric covered in plastic, and nail it on with some upholstery tacks. I stretched the top piece on (after ironing on low) like a canvas, stretching it and tacking it from the middle one way then the other, and then working my way out to the edges of the table. New handles probably would've looked nicer, but once again, it had handles, and this challenge was after all about not sending bits of it to landfill. It seems like wasted money sometimes and if I can come up with a cheaper way of making things look good, well then, why not?And as much as I love interior design shows, it all seems very wasteful to throw away things and get new stuff, just because we like a different look or style.

We had some pretty tough wire that we used for reinforcing (which you can see in the bottom left hand corner above), which Jimmy cut with a grinder. You will need some sort of wire to reinforce the stepping stones, if you need to cut by hand just use the thickest wire you can manage to cut by hand. We have an electric cement mixer here (which I dubbed Jimmy's thermomix) and I decided to steal some of the mix so the kids could be outside alongside us working making stepping stones. We laid out some plastic sheeting on an outdoor table and the girls picked some large rhubarb leaves from the garden.

A look around your craft or fabric store will no doubt find you some interesting options & trims for creating your own faux weaving. I sewed down some random pom poms from my stash, and then made smaller little tufts by stitching loops in the fabric and then cutting them with scissors. I also included lots of running stitches, sewing down multiple strands of wool, and sewing down thick wool but leaving little loops protruding randomly (above photo). I found if I only looped over stitches it didn't look as neat, so I used a skewer to pull the loops tight and then sewed them to the bottom, then pulling the skewer out.