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Sew: Yellow Fever
I’m still in the sewing mood. I found a couple of cute projects and I want to use the color of the summer, yellow! The first project is a simple makeup pochet, the second one is supposed to be a tissue holder, but I think it works pretty well as a phone case. Here are […]
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Sew: Summer bag
Summer is here, I really just want to spend some time with my sewing machine and some happy fabric creating useful little object for my summer 2012. I will start with a reversible bag. I purchased this 2 different fabrics from my local store, they match in the color but not in the design, and […]
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Makeover: new dining/kitchen area curtains
We’ve been looking for more than 1 year for the right curtains for our dining/kitchen area, but we never found anything we really like. Finally thanks to a living social deal I had the opportunity to afford this set of two curtains from 3 day blinds! We love them. You see outside, the light passes […]
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MFA: printmaking progress
I just opened a new blog called my mfa (you can watch my progress here). Yes, I started a Master in Fine Arts this Spring, here a taste of my printmaking class works. This is a Woodcut Reduction, called “Soffocare” (choke in english) I still miss my last reduction and my last color to print, […]
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Makeover: Ikea hacker for my studio
I have this great space on top of our garage that we call studio, but for a long time it was just and empty room, then a very busy room, but with no order at all. Now that I started my MFA I need a space to keep my works and with Daniele we decided […]
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Paint: dining room accent wall
It’s been a while that Daniele pushes me to paint some accent walls. I actually love accent walls, plus, we had some leftover grey paint from our master bedroom remodeling project, so why not? Basically our main floor is one big space with living room, dining room and kitchen. So in order to define better […]
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Makeover: Patio (part #2)
Here is the finished Patio (this is makeover #1) by the end of summer 2011. Colorful and happy, we really enjoyed it with this incredible weather on Colorado (almost october and still 82F…!) Great additions for this make over: pillows I made from this incredible fabric, Outside Oslo (dusk) found on howaboutorange.com, and some super […]
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Sew: my new wallet
I purchased this Outside Oslo fabric ( Dusk Colorway), for some pillows to use in the patio (post to come…) and I had some left overs. In howaboutorange.blogspot.com in the DIY section I found a tutorial for a little sew project. Since I decided that my old wallet was way to big and not original at […]
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Designed: corks mania!
It’s been 6 months that I’ve been collecting wine corks. For some reason I find them very interesting objects, plus the smell…. I decided to do a couple of projects with them. The first one is..a cork ball, completely useless, but beautiful to watch. I bought a small ball and I just glued the corks The […]
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Paint: master bedroom remodeling (part #1)
We finally decided to toggle the master bedroom, but for real this time. I started painting our pello chair, but for the next project I needed some extra help from my husband Daniele. Here is a picture of our master bedroom, when we moved to our new house this past July (with of course our cat […]