Zoom in on our Handmade Recycled Paper Baubles - Metallic hand-painted Christmas bauble pack
🎄 Our hand-painted paper baubles are a fantastic way to celebrate in an eco conscious way this festive season! We create each of our hand-painted baubles by painting gold, silver and copper onto a thin 100% recycled cardstock (made from old coffee cups! ♻️) which has a great twinkle in the light. We have created three complementary designs which look great together and with other decor - one is a striped design, one with zigzags and one with texture.
Check out our shop for more handmade, eco-friendly decor
I managed to do a bit of nonbinary flag motif decorative mending on one of my ankle supports.
It wasn’t the easiest to do as this is of course very tough elasticated fabric and it didn’t really fit in any of my embroidery frames so I had to mend as is, but I’m actually quite pleased with how it came out!
Update on 48 hour apartment purge: so it's extending for the rest of the long weekend at this rate and I managed to snap a hole in the bathroom sink pipe while trying to get the accursed pop-up drain aligned so it would actually, maybe, stop the sink 🙃
I love having to frantically empty a wet cabinet at 2am (why did I start fussing with it thennnn)
Spent about an hour cleaning and painting over cracks of $25 thrifted ceramic Christmas tree. Also spent many frustrating nights painstakingly creating a miniature library.
In the 1930s in the United States, sacks containing flour and grain were made of cloth, primarily cotton. The Kansas Wheat company, in the midst of the Great Depression, realized that the poorest families were reusing them to sew dresses for women and girls, so to make them more captivating they decided to print them with floral and colorful motifs.
The initiative was a huge success: they made sure that the ink used for the logos would fade after a simple wash, and some bags even had the patterns already drawn on the fabric, ready to be cut and sewn.
A marketing tactic that helped American families get through a particularly difficult period, also useful as a source of income for women who would later sell their recycled models.
I had to change the lightbulb in my lamp and the old bulb had been laying around for a while without any use. Today I finally realized what I wanted to do with it.
I posted this couple’s unique home before, but I came across it again, and it’s just so unique, I posted it again in case you missed it. This is made from shipping containers and the windows were installed upside down on purpose. (In the early days of the blog, when I posted, everyone hated it.)
Preparing the land and picking out the containers.
So, from the front, it looks like 8 containers.
It seems a little odd that they put brick on the façade and then painted over it, anyway.
And, now the finished product. The swirls and stripes continue into the entrance and up the stairs. Notice the recycled salvaged wood on the stair walls.
This couple is artsy. Look at the living room. Notice the recycled things like the old mantle and that worn recliner. (Kind of looks so dirty, though.)
Very shabby chic/salvaged look.
I like how they incorporated the industrial salvage- a lot of these homes just reuse the containers and everything else is new.
The kitchen has an elaborately done nautical theme.
I would say that this art was made by them.
Giant ice holder functions as a bar.
This is pretty.
They used salvage in creative and unique ways.
I like the variety of railing posts.
They made the bed like a deck chair so they can look out the window.
Handmade Recycled Paper Baubles - Metallic hand-painted Christmas bauble pack
🎄 Our hand-painted paper baubles are a fantastic way to celebrate in an eco conscious way this festive season!
We create each of our hand-painted baubles by painting gold, silver and copper onto a thin 100% recycled cardstock (made from old coffee cups! ♻️) which has a great twinkle in the light.
We have created three complementary designs which look great together and with other decor - one is a striped design, one with zigzags and one with texture.
Check out our shop for more handmade, eco-friendly decor like our HOLLY large tassel garland, gold circle garland and DIY Christmas star garland kit pictured here!
I made this really cool whale shark sculpture! It was super fun and pretty easy. Since moving, we have had SO MUCH CARDBOARD. I have been finding creative ways of using it in art projects instead of just throwing it away. Here is one of them! I love it.
Here is a summary of what I did
Cut out a base shape in cardboard, added spines and filled gaps with tape, completely covered it in paper mache then a layer of gesso. I painted a base coat of acrylic paint then white spots and then mod podge at the very end. Screwed in little screws with hooks and attached a wire to hang on the back.