Archive for January, 2011
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LADYFReAKDeSIGN: my home office
I finally finished my home office. I love it, I love working looking outside of the 2 windows, I love how full light and spacious it is! Here is a couple of old shots, few days before we moved it: And here some new shots from today:
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Sew: fabric mania
Here is a series of pillows, curtains and similar I sewed with the (big) help of my mother for my new house. Let’s start with the basement, here is a series of two pillows and …a cat! Then our bedroom, a series of black/white/red pillows on my (just painted white) bench On the other side […]
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DIY: wallpaper #2
I bought this very nice wall paper, Cole&Sons wood b/w. I used some in my bath project, but I has some left overs, and I decided to install it in my guests room that is really coming together.
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DIY: wallpaper
I completely felt in love with this wall paper (like probably other millions people), Cole&Sons wood b/w, and I was just waiting to find the right spot to install it in my house, and I finally found it…the powder room. I purchased only one roll from the anthropologie website (I have an anthro card the shipping […]
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DIY: WC Upgrade
I bought and moved to a new house in July, everything is new, so appraently there is not really a lot of upgrade to do, but one thing is actually improvable, the bathroom. I’m from Rome, Italy, and yes we do use bidet! And yes I want one! So I ordered this great tool, a […]
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Recycle&Sew: #2 and #3
As I already described in this post, I had a big amount of t-shirts to use for some project. This time I started from a grey no shape long sleeves shirt and a black t-shirt I reshaped neck, body and sleeves to fit myself Ruffled the leftovers (Gather-Fabric-into-Ruffles), and here is the first one and […]
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Paint: guestroom projects
My italian friend Gabriela left Fort Collins at the end of 2010 after 9 years. She is going to Africa (Good luck dear!!) and she left us some goodies. This Little blue table lamp was probably my favorite and I wanted to use it as soon as possible. It was already very cute but I […]
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Recycle&sew: t-shirt mania
Daniele, my husband, was throwing away some old, but in pretty good shape, t-shirts. I really love some of those, the colors were still ok and the cotton…well it was 100% cotton…So I took an inspiration from the ruffled shirt at Anthropologie and I came out with some original design. Here is the first transformation: […]