FUN CRAFTS FOR KIDDOS part 1

Viggo has a little mini kitchen like almost every kiddo and he loves to spend time makin' and bakin'. But - the thing is, I'd love for him to have some "food' to play with too and no plastic stuff but the real deal. So I thought of trolldeg! When I was little we made salty dough almost every weekend and I want Viggo to do the same. Esay peasy to make the dough and just bake it in the owen and paint! I'm planning on doing cinnamonrolls and raspberry cakes like below, total photocredit to the blog Lindas Rassel that I found on pinterest, it's exactly how I visioned it in my head! And why not donuts and pain au chocolat? And croissants?! Yaj! :D

I'm going to have more fun than Viggo!

Before baking

Like these but fake

Stay tuned tomorrow for more ideas, I found so much fun on Pinterest!

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DIY - ALPHA

Got some alphas you don't like anymore? Or that looked pretty on the web and not that pretty for real? It happend to me, I ordered a red one that I really like font-wise but the color is just too christmassy, red sparkles doesn't fit my spring mood. So I decided to try a new thing - spray paint them!

This is how I did:

1. Take alphas you wanna give a new look. You can't see the sparkles here but it sparkles!

2. Take spray paint, I chosed copper

3. Spray paint

4. Leave to dry at least 1 hour

Tadaa! A new alpha in copper that - sparkles! :D

Try it, it's fun and recycling is good!

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QUICK DIY WALL ART

I try to live life to the fullest and Carpe Diem is one of my favorite sayings. I wanted that on my wall but in a bit more cool style. When I saw this Carpe That Fucking Diem sweater I instantly knew how to do my wall art!

Just put some Helvetica on a black background in Photoshop...

Print it on thick paper and cut off the white...

And voilà! I made it really easy by just paste the whole thing directly on the cardboard that comes with the frame, easy peasy! :)

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CUSTOM SHELF ALMOST DONE!

We thought that the left wall in our living room/open space felt a bit empty. We surfed the web for a suiting furniture but didn’t find anything that both of us liked or that was big enough. So, the man with the master plan (Philippe) decided to do it himself! And he did! And the result is like… yeah, what’s the word again… FREAKIN‘ AMAZING!

Here is how it looks today, there is still missing a big wooden mirror in the middle, some lightning and of course A lot of decoration! The fun part is yet to come! :D

Working on the last details:

And this is the before, an empty wall... And a great thanks to our friend Cyril for helping out!

I'll show you more asap!

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ADVENT CALENDER FOR VIGGO

I decided to go simple, first of all because I didn't find enough little gifts in time and second because 4 is enough, one each sunday, for a little guy that prefers the gift wrapping more than the actual gift.

So this is the advent star, I made the wood star last year, and now it's being recycled for this. Simple wrapping and some wool thread + these printables = done! :)

And this is the reason why the "forest theme"! I got him a little beginning of something I'd like to be a tradition, a little collection from Schleich!

Tonight I'll begin my December Daily, I got a Becky Higgins album and lots of yum so I can't wait until tonight!

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FINALLY - THE WALL ART DIY

Tada! Here it is framed and all! I got a light oak one with a passe partout and first I wanted to leave it hanging on a hanger or something, but with the little person involved that idea was quickly rejected! :)

Finally I did it all on freehand, I didn’t sketch it up first, I just wrote it by using this pen and it turned out perfect!  

He really had fun with that tube!

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DOING THE DIY ART

Some weeks ago I saw a nice little painting on a blog. Or I thought it was a painting but it turned out to actually be a blackboard and just a doodle on the blackboard to make it pretty for sell. 

When I saw it I thought of a DIY immidately but since it's art I wouldn't go through with it. I'm not a copy cat of that point. But since it turned out to be just a doodle I think I can. So I went to the craft store for some black, thick, heavy paper and a really nice white pen. And today - tada! I started! AND I finished!

Here are the in progress pic and tomorrow I'll show you the final result. I made a little castle but finally decided to go simple so I turned the paper and did another one, but as I said, I'll show you tomorrow! :)

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PRETTY BOOKCASE

This would be perfect in Viggos room! But it's a biiit to expensive for my wallet so maybe this could be a future DIY?

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DIY TIP

I saw this on the pretty blog Bambula - a really easy DIY for turning IKEA storage into classy pieces for displaying! :)

Just spray paint the lid in gold or bronze or whatever and you change the look of your pasta jars!

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BANDANA SHIRT

Good morning!
Just a quick tip about this funny and easy DIY I saw over at a beautiful mess, use a bandana to make a shirt as new! 

Read here.

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