Update a tired lampshade to create your own quirky masterpiece with this easy DIY, and choose from 31 beautiful shades in the Rust-Oeum’s Chalky Finish Furniture Paint range to decorate. It’s perfect for upcycling and can be applied directly onto most surfaces, including wood, without any preparation! Step 1 - Remove all material from the… Continue reading How to upcycle a cheap lamsphade
There’s nothing like Christmas approaching to bring out our inner creative diva in you. I have created kitsch Christmas scenes that you’ll look forward to welcoming back every Christmas season. I gathered up a variety of novelties, sentimental scraps, cake decorations, broken costume jewellery of yesteryear and brought them all together to make scenes in… Continue reading Christmas Match Box Scenes
This table was very stained and sad looking when I spotted it in a seaside charity shop. In the same shop were some old sailing charts and that gave me an idea. Why not decoupage, that’s essentially gluing and sticking, some charts onto the table. You will need Sandpaper Tester pot dark grey paint Paint… Continue reading Up-cycled side table
A boring wooden chair can have new life breathed into it for very little money but lots of imagination, with a mixture of painting, some good photocopied images and a bit of sticking. You will need Wooden chair Paint brush Photocopy paper Pencil Tangerine Twist paint from Dulux 3 x £1 tester pots at B&Q… Continue reading Repaint and decoupage an old wooden chair
Valentina Karelina and Yury Karelin are the parents of a very creative friend of mine. She happened to mention that her parents had created a garden out of plastic bottles. As a lover of all things recycled, I asked if she would send me some images, and let me interview her. Where do your parents… Continue reading A Russian Garden created from recycled bottles.
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