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Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Room Tour

I thought I'd just show some pictures of my DIY projects in action or other important things in my room (like my books...)


Of course, blogger is not cooperating, so even though I rotated this photo in iPhoto, I guess blogger didn't like the way I did it. So just turn your head to get the idea. :) All the books on the top shelf (the double-wide one) and all the books on the shelves on the left side I have read. The ones on the right side are my "to be read" pile. 

Next, meet my plants:

If I had to pick favorites, this would probably be it. This plant is just voracious in its growth, and I love seeing the little vines crawling towards my computer. 

In the summer this had these gorgeous hot pink flowers. While it is surviving, I think the pot is too small, so I feel bad that it doesn't have room to grow. :(

On the right is a shoot I replanted from the plant in the top photo. On the left is  a cute little plant that has pink and green leaves and occasionally graces me with tiny, purple, trumpet-like flowers.


And yes, once again blogger did not cooperate. I will repost these pictures another time...the right way. But in the meantime, you get the idea. This is a Norway Pine that my parents gave me for Christmas. The crate is really old (vintage) and super-cool. The books are just random old books I've collected over the years. The little things on the bottom shelf are brass Christmas trees and snowman that my boss made at work from some of our scrap metal. Remember those circular/flower-like paper crafts I did? One was Christmas themed, and one was printed with a black and white pattern? I usually have the black and white one on the middle shelf, but I had removed it to take pictures.

 And like I said, I'll try to figure out how to rotate these soon. I was positive that blogger had an option to rotate pictures after you had uploaded them...but I guess I was thinking of something else.

DIY nightstand (you can see the old pillowcase on the left). And also please admire the lamp. It is an awesome color and style. It was a garage sale find for $2.

My long-awaited DIY curtains. So happy to have these done. :) 

General view of my desk, curtains, etc...

Birds. On a branch. What more do I need to say? 



And an awesome Hamlet shelf. 


Wind-blowing-leaves pillowcase

Adorable-birds-on-branch pillowcase

And I think that about sums it up... :)


Thursday, September 1, 2011

Circle Skirts!

Casey at Elegant Musings is doing a Circle Skirt Sew-Along that I'm excited about. While I can't commit to actually doing it, I will be interested to follow it. Earlier this year I made my first circle skirt. There are a lot of things I like about it, but I'm not happy with how the waistband turned out. I used a pretty heavy fabric and didn't really reinforce the waist and so it stretches and doesn't stay as high or tight as I'd like it to be. In other words, after a few hours the band ends up around what is now considered the waist (more technically the hips) instead of my true waist. I wanted it to have a definite vintage feel, so this is quite a drawback. I haven't figured out how to fix it yet without a lot of trouble. So I'm interested to watch how Casey does her skirt and what I can learn from it for mine.