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Showing posts with label decor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label decor. Show all posts

Saturday, January 31, 2015

Crafts: Valentine's Day goes DIY

Hello! This week I'm proud to bring you a post about crafting.
I have the best of times creating new things that I plan in my mind and bring to life with my own hands, it fills me with such joy.. Makes me feel like I can actually do something properly.
So, if this year you're short on money but still want to give your valentine a special present, this post is for you!

We're coming close to Valentine's day so I thought I would post this as a Valentine's day type post but really, this present is my mom's birthday present. It's something that goes for anyone, family, friends, lovers.
A handmade photography frame!

Let's get started.


Here's what you'll need:
A basic frame
Decorative elements according to your theme
Molding clay
Silicon glue
Spray paint


I chose shells, pearls and flowers because my mom loves the sea, the beach and the nature.

First you want to get started with the molding clay.



 I pushed some clay over some shells to get a shell texture.



 I also made a couple of roses.

Then you want to let them dry or bake them. I used Fimo so I had to bake it for 30 minuts at 110ºC.

Now you just wanna glue the multiple elements that will constitute your frame.


I use a silicon glue tube at first and then a glue gun.




And your frame should start to come together.




When you're satisfied with what you have and everything is dry and in its place, it's time to spray pain!


When you're choosing the color, make sure you know that some colors need more layers than others.
I chose a golden color that would match the rest of my mom's room.

Let it air dry for at least 12 hours after all the layers and you're done!





It will be a very detailed frame, that's for sure.


And here's what my final frame looks like!
I love how this DIY project turned out and I'll be making more of these in the future, that's for sure.

That's it for this week's post. I hope you enjoyed it and I hope it served as inspiration for some!
See you next week!

Love,
Anna

Saturday, November 15, 2014

Birthday Haul

After all the issues I had with my software, I realised that it reduced the video quality from 720p to 360p. I need to fix this before I do another video. Once again, it features my awkward self and my broken English.
Nevertheless, I hope you like it.



Cruelty Free and Vegan info, here.

MAC Dupes available at KIKO:
609 Cherry Red - Diva
914 Amaranth - Rebel

LOTS OF LOVE,
Tânia

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Inspiration No.1

Hello! Long time no see, but I'm excited to be back. This is going to be a slightly long intro, so I think I should apologize in advance, but please, read it.
Since my birthday was last week, I was planning on posting a Birthday Haul video. I did film it this afternoon, but when I was trying to edit it, the editing software that I usually use kept shuting my computer down. I've managed to find another program but even if I finished editing the video today, it wouldn't be up until tomorrow. The solution me and Anna found was that I was going to make a post today and post the video on Saturday; as Anna's going through some personal issues that wouldn't let her post on Saturday so it's in fact a better arrangement for the both of us.

For this post, I've decided to let you in my little inspiration pictures for this late Autumn. The coming of Winter makes my mind wander into the 50s for some reason, so I guess you'll be seeing a bit of that here.


I've been really in the mood for some red lipstick. Also, this reminds me that I should clean the little compact that I own, which resembles these lipsticks, and start using it. I've too been in the mood for nice underwear and loungewear, too bad I can't find anything that really fits me.


There's a place quite where I live that resembles this. I've found myself going there when I feel the need for some fresh air.


I've been thinking about changing a few bits of my room. Maybe preparing a vanity area or just adding a few decorational pieces.

Finally, here's a little update on something. This is the main image on my inspiration board for the month of November. I've been participating on NaNoWriMo and Neil Gaiman, one of my favorite authors, has said some of the most motivating things.

All the pictures presented on this post were taken from my tumblr page and their rights belong to the respective owners.
I hope you've enjoyed this small post. As I said before I'm going to post my Birthday Haul video on Saturday, until then I hope you have a wonderful Friday.

LOTS OF LOVE,
Tânia

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Room Tour: Anna's Room

Hello! First of all, I want to apologize for not posting on Saturday but in order to do this post, I needed my dad to put up a new shelf I bought and only an hour ago did I get him to do it.
I also want to apologize in advance if some of the photos do not have such good quality, I forgot the camera I usually use in my girlfriend's house, so I had to use one of my old ones.

This is my room, so here it goes.




These are the three walls of my room I will be showing. I won't be showing the other one cause the only thing it has is my wardrobe which occupies the whole wall so it's irrelevant.

The desk wall





In this wall I have my desk that is just a very standard desk in a light shade of wood.
This is usually the messier part of my room. I put everything on top of this desk, everything.
In the two "boxes" above the desk I keep, in one, my perfumes and ,in the other, my books that are written in Portuguese and my CDs and some DVDs.
On top of my desk I have, on the right side, my Lady Gaga x Terry Richardson book and my limited edition full size English Vogue magazines. In the middle I keep my other Lady Gaga books and some more books that are written in English.
I also have some photos of me when I was a baby, a couple of glitter jars and Mr. Creeple, the skeleton.

In this wall I also have a mirror I personalized for my taste in which I may do a post soon.

If you know me, you know that writing on wall is my thing, so, since I had so much free space above my desk I wrote the quote "Nothing can shine left in the dark." from Tarja's song In For A Kill. 

In the space between the "table part" of my desk and those two top "boxes" I have a board that has some of my drawings, a drawing that a friend did for me and some photos.

The aquarium wall







This is the wall where I have my tv, my aquariums and posters.
I have a tall shelf on the right and another shelf that is the same as the one standing, but, so that it could support the weight of the big aquarium, it is on it's side. In these shelves I have all of my school books, jewelry in boxes, more CDs, shoes, nail polishes in boxes, some boxes with makeup and all the materials to maintain the aquarium.

On the right side of this wall I have an Epica poster that I got in Vagos Open Air and on the left side of the wall I have a Lady Gaga post I bought a long time ago in Fnac. 

Again, I decided to write in the walls and this time it was a John Green quote, "My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations" that I have to do a little alteration to because I forgot to put one L.

In this wall I also have a board where I put concert tickets, museum tickets, photos and I also have there the tickets of when I went to the Eiffel tower and Disneyland.

The bed wall





My room is fairly small, as you can see, so having the bed against a wall is a great way to save space and it also makes for a good improvised sofa. 
On the wall that I have my bed I have loads of paper sheets with a big image printed in black and white. It's actually made by dots in many shades and sizes to create this image of a city inside of a birdcage. 

On the left side I have my bedside table and a shelf. In this shelf I have my lamp. I put in this shelf the books that I'm currently reading as well as a candle and I also have there my mineral collection. I love stones so this collection is always growing. Some of these stones I bough in medieval fairs, some I got from mineral collections, some were given to me and some bought in shops that sell all sorts of healing stones.

A little bit above this shelf I have yet another quote, a very important one. Hopefully this Christmas I will have this quote tattooed on me and it says "One day we won't feel this pain anymore.". This is an Evanescence quote from the song Lost in Paradise. This is, to me, that one sentence that gets me through, so it's very special and it was the first thing I wrote ever in my walls. My parents got really mad but the second time they didn't even ask what it meant.

I couldn't get a good photo of my window but my window in sort of inside of an "arc" where I have a big old wood box that my godmother made me. I have transformed that wood box into a little sofa where I put some pillows to make it more comfortable, sort of to create a little chilled area. On my window I only have my cactus inside mason jars cause I'm hipster like that and seashells that my dad found in the beach when I was still very young. 

So this is it! This is what my tiny room looks like. It's small but it is very comfortable because of that exactly.
You may have noticed a bit of contrast between me and my room since I only wear black and my room is mostly in pastel colors. That is because, since it is such a small room, light colors make it appear bigger by reflecting the light. I also like to believe that I am fairy or some sort of magical delicate creature that lives in the clouds or something so yeah.

This post became a bit too long and I apologize for that as well.
I hope you have enjoyed, see you in a week!

Love,
Anna

Thursday, September 11, 2014

IKEA Mini-Haul


I'm not sure if I can call this post a haul, but a few days ago I picked up some new stuff for my room, and that's what this post will be about.

I was needing a new desk for quite sometime; the one I used to have was more than ten years old and it wasn't doing its job right since I started studying Visual Arts because it wasn't ample enough. And as you may know, IKEA is a huge store wherever it's located, so I had so many models to choose from but the HEMNES secretary caught my eye instantly because it was more compact than my (at the time) current desk and yet it would provide me so much more working space.


Besides the wonderful item I've mentioned, I also got two more things. On the first picture, besides my grumpy old self, you can see the most beautiful mirror I've set my eyes on so far. The UNG DRILL mirror was also available as a simple frame and believe me when I tell you that it took me forever to choose which I was going to bring home.
It's a shame that I don't have better pictures of the GNEDBY shelf unit to show you. It's the same color as the secretary and it's 202cm tall. (My height is 155cm so I do feel incredibly little next to it.) In it I have some of my paperbacks and CDs.

Sadly, I don't have a lot more to say but I hope you enjoyed this post!

LOTS OF LOVE,
Tânia