DIY: Fabric Notice Boards

  I have been pretty busy lately and once again my blog is missing some updates! i did a few DIY around the house, but did not have any time to take a few pictures so I would post about these recent projects.

However, today I took the time to take a few pictures and show a fabric Notice Board that I made. I hope you like it!

I first saw this notice board on Ikea, and wanted one, but once again, I found it pretty expensive, besides, I was not particularly taken by the fabric... So I decided to make one myself!

It is pretty easy to do, and all you need is a stapler gun, cute fabric, some wadding, glue, scissors, one canvas and ribbon!

Here is a a picture of the final product:

So here is a small visual tutorial:

Step 1: Gather the materials required

Step 2: Cut the wadding and glue it to the canvas

Step 3: Cut the fabric and staple it to the canvas

Step 4: Cut several stripes of ribbon and display it to your taste in the canvas

Step 5: Staple the ribbons 

Step 6: Add a few buttons to the ribbons

And finally, enjoy your Notice Board!

 

DIY: Butterfly white framed

 

I have been  eye shopping for some time now this beautiful butterfly picture  but it is so expensive that I had to work out how to reproduce it... in less expensive ways...!

You can find the  original butterfly white picture here.

It is beautiful, but so out of our budget...
So I worked out a way to do a similar one... It just requires a lot of patience! Basically, you have to cut around 100 white butterflies, and glue them to a large white card board in a way that reproduces a heart shape. Then, just cut a single red butterfly and glue it as well. The final step, just frame the final collage! I simply bought an Ikea Ribba Frame 50x50 that allowed this 3D collage.
And here is the final product:

 Now it is just waiting to be hanged in our living room wall!

 

Another Fabric box!

I need several fabric boxes to storage....all the little things that keep piling up and appearing from  nowhere...!Particularly all these plushs....

So, with my brand new fabrics, I started sewing one:

I followed a tutorial by make it and love it, I did a few changes, so I didn´t follow the tutorial completely to the letter... Since I will be making more boxes, I will later on post about every step I followed and the changes... But you can find the tutorial from make it and love here.
And here are a few snapshots from my first rectangular fabric box!

More boxes soon to come....

 

More fabrics to play!

Today I had the most lovely day!

I  went to Salisbury, and even though it was really cold today (yes, winter time finnaly arrived) the sun showed up throughout most of the day. But for me, the most fun part was... fabric shopping!

Salisbury has several fabric shops.... and each one with the most lovely and cute fabrics! 

So I couldn´t resist, a bought several fabrics today. I already have several projects to start, and so these fabrics are coming in really handy....:

   I am also getting ready for Christmas time... My decorations these years are mostly white and silver, and when I found these christmas theme fabric, I just had to have it... 

I can´t wait to start these new projects!

 

DIY: Fabric Pouch

Again it has been a while since my last post, but I have been so busy that time flies by and so it is really difficult to keep posting!

I have been doing so much simultaneously that I simply can´t manage to post all of my experiences... work plus hobbies plus all the other things that run your life and... Its hard to keep it all! But for this little one experience I had to find the time to post.... It´s not that is an amasing  one, but is a little project of mine that I wanted to try for a while now, and it did seem hard to begin with, but at the end is really easy.... Just litlle ol me is a bit clumsly, so my little experience does show some minor errors, but stil I am really proud of it! It was a first experience so, bear with me!

It is common to find around the internet this cute pouches... And, as I mentioned earlier, I really wanted to make one. So, a quick google search and I found myself an easy tutorial to follow, this one, from Pretty Prudent.

The tutorial is pretty self explanatory, and I follow almost every step, I just added some wadding between the linen and the out fabric.... And here is the end result:

 

Note to self, buy a zipper foot! I believe it will make it easier to sew later on a zipper... But this little acessories have to be purchased in time...

And some more extras pictures of my cute little fabric pouch...:

 Really, can´t wait to use with the regular daily toiletries....!