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Museum Canvas bags
I’ve been collecting museum banners from the University Museum in the last year, I thought I could start a small production of totem bags or messenger bags to sell in FoCo. Here is the first prototipe
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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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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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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 […]
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Paint: diy makeover dresser
When we moved to Fort Collins, Daniele bought a dresser from American Furniture Warehouse…yes…he found a decent file cabinet at AFW…, that we used as a clothing dresser. The color was kind of flat…a light fake maple, and it didn’t really fit in our white walking closet. So I just bought some white paint and […]
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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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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 […]