A little bit of green

Hi Y'all,

here's my little contribution for St. Patricks day decoration

The Luck of the Irish sign was one of the first creations I made with my Silhouette back in 2015. The little Puppet was made the same year. I call these oldies but goldies.

This year I have 2 easy peasy new decoration items:

1.  A green candle in an with gold ornamental gravel filled glas bowl.
   
   
   
   
   
2. An irish blessing I found over at pinterest. I printed it out and put it in a golden frame I had on hand.
   
   
   
   
   

Finish is the decoration. Thanks for visting my little blog.

Happy to be home again

Yoo-Hoo!

Today I have you some big news *drum-roll*: I finished our entrance (for now). Can you believe it? It only took half a year.

Back in August last year we started the renovation of our entrance and there was only one thing left on the to-do-list:

• find/make new wall arts

A few weeks ago we installed these little nightlights with motion detector, so we don't have to switch on the ceiling lights at night, to avoid stepping on the cats.

Finally I found a Floral-Ornamental Border that Hubby and I like, both. I didn't paint the border, as usual. I cutted it out from vinyl with the silhouette and sticked it on. Because we used non-woven wallpaper it is sooo easy to remove the stickers without residue.

And a symbolic picture for all of our beloved cats.

What do you think? How do you like it?

Thanks for stoppin' by and hope to see you next time

Flames of Valentine

Hi Y'all!

Sorry for letting you without a life sign the last 2 weeks but I wasn't able to do anything. I had a massive virus infection and felt sick like never before. So today I have only a little but nevertheless cute project. If everybody in blogland is sharing their Valentines decor. How could I miss this season?

So I picked up 2 little jars, putted on a few hearts that I cutted with my silhouette. After this I colored the glasses with spray paint in pink color shades. When they were dry I pulled off the hearts and attached some nice ribbons.

For the darker jar I cutted some extra hearts from double-sided adhesive and sprinkled on some gold glitter.

Hope to see ya next week.

Christmas Decoration 2016

Welcome back!

Because I'm really busy with doing christmas presents there was no post last week. And so that I didn't leave you 2 weeks in a row without a post. Here is a short one with many pictures. I want to show you our this years Christmas decorations.

Outside:

Inside:

Two weeks ago I showed you some illuminated decorations. Here are some more:

Hope to see you next week.

Red, white and green

Hey there!

Hope y'all had a nice 1st Advent yesterday. Today I want to show you some of our christmas decorations.
Let's start with the lights outside. Hubby installed the icicles and bows on Saturday. - Thank you Hubby!

Now come on. Let's go inside, because

Our halloween lights and that pin brought me to one of todays idea. I have to admit that it don't look very nice in the daylight. But look at it at night.

Another illuminated item is this hurricane glass.

I had a similar one last year with other colors. You might have noticed that it's all about red, white and green this year.

You're certainly asking yourself if there is nothing new crocheted? Of course there is... Here's Gingy the new guy in town

I made him from the free pattern of Fiber Doodles by K4TT

And there are some other old buddies too that visited us for the fa-la-la-la-season again.

The Grinch

Santas little Helper

The Elf on the shelf

Thank you for stopping by.

Lego Storage Heads

Hi Y'all!

I hope you Halloween was very spooky ;)

This year my nephew and niece got lego for big kids for their birthdays. Until now they played with lego duplo and loved it. Now my brother and sister-in-law decided that it's time to change to the smaller pieces. To store the legos my mum and I decided that it would be funny to have a lego storage head for both kids.

Unfortunately I only found that boy's head for fair price.

The girl's head was twice as much. Therefore I bought 2 of the boy's heads and thought of bringing my silhouette to the game. So fresh to the work and plotting a few eyelashes, lips and a pink bow. Storage head for girls, here we go ...

Both kids liked their new lego AND the storage heads :)

Hope to see ya next week.         

                   

Halloween 2016

Happy Halloween!

This year's halloween is inspired by Pinterest. Am I addicted? Yes! So let's see what I found.

• Illuminated Jars 
  I got the idea, as often, while searching trough Pinterest when I saw this and that.

   

• Halloween Birthday cake
  (For my little niece, - she turned 4 on Friday - because my mum told me that I had to bring a cake especially for the kids. OK, nothing easier than that!) I was inspired by this cake

• Halloween Cookies
  I found these and these cookies that I wanted to try. But to be honest, they were a total fail so I haven't got photos from this desaster.

• Halloween wreath
  This one it totally inspired by myself (thrilling!) and a tip from hubby
  

Have a spooky evening
                             

Cat-TV

Welcome back!

Since we first bought our house 5 years ago we had an old TV as a"barn find". We often talked about what to do with it. We tried to find another good home for this buddy, but no one was interested in adopting this sweetie. So we decided that we will keep it and give it the chance for a totally other kind of life - as a cat tv.

This is what it looked like when we found it at the barn.

After hubby had removed all the electronic components I did a hard but successful job with sanding.

Then I painted everything new in dark brown and white.

Unfortunately we couldn't save the adjustment buttons. So we will have a look at the flea markets in the area, next time.

For the bottom I upholstered a chipboard with volume fleece and cord fabric.

To make it easier for the cats to adopt the new furniture, we laid in a blanket that has already been accepted by them.

Hope you all have an as compfy place as our cats to stay warm and cozy when autumn starts.

xo

Entrance finished

Hi Y'all!

Today I can report that there were 3 things from our Entrance-to-do-List are already done:

• find and install new coat hooks
• find/make new wall arts
• find a new mailboxslit
• install a lot of trimming

We found this coat rack at the flea market last week

It was only 7 Euro. We also bought a smal can of paint for 3 Euro. I sanded the rack and repainted it matching the new hardware.

Finally we found a soloution for our mailboxslit too. We bought a VALJE cupboard at IKEA. We shortened it in depth and I decorated the door like I did at the hall stand a few years ago.

The stability has also been tested by Baghira. He loves all thing boxes.

So there is only one thing left on the List: 

• find/make new wall arts

Hope to see ya soon

          

Entrance renovation - Update

Hi Folks,

last week I told you about our entrance renovation and that there were still some things that needed to be done.

Today I can report that 2 things are already done:

• Update the hardware
• find and install new coat hooks
• find a matching curtain rod 
• find/make new wall arts
• find a new mailboxslit
• install a lot of trimming

We will see, what comes next.I still have the goal that everything's done until Christmas.

Although we had 36°C, we had a nice day on Saturday. We went to a unique western town in the Harz. It's called Pullman City. 

I think next week you'll have to do without me, because we have an invitation for my cousins wedding this weekend. So it's time for party and not for crafting, sorry! 

Entrance renovation

Hi Y'all!

For some time I have blogged nearly every week regularly, I've now exploited that I only wanted to blog if there is something really interesting here. I currently have some demands for the dragon, which I crocheted and so I'm still busy crocheting dragons. In order not to go gaga, I have to do something else in between every now and then. Last weekend we had a bigger project on the go.

It's been nearly 2 1/2 years since we last change something at our entrance. So it was time to change something. I hated the walls, simple white ingrain wallpaper, since a while. I decided that I wanted something totally different. I bought non-woven wallpaper for the first time and now I'm totally in love with this kind of wallpaper. It's super easy to put them onto the walls. I was able to do this all by myself. But step by step.

Friday evening we decided that is was time to pull down the old wallpapers. It was really a mess. Although we had applied a primer on the wall, the wallpaper went down pretty bad. But after 2 hours it was finally done.

Saturday I spend about 20 minutes to smooth the walls with sandpaper, to get rid of the last wooden spots from the ingrain wallpaper. Then I started paperhanging. In the afternoon I had papered, as far as I could because Hubby hasn't take down the wardrobe. So I had to stop for the day until Hubby came home. (Fine excuse to break because my arm was really hurting).

On Saturday evening he took down the wardrobe and on Sunday he helped papering the rest of the room. In twos, we went even faster. And after an hour or so we were able to build up the wardrobe again. 

Yesterday I started painting the white walls. I wanted to paint the walls in an light grey or beige. Hubby picked out the color (velvet gray) and I was not a fan of the color he had choosen. When I opened the bucket I found out that the color is really thick (not the thin broth you often get when you don't buy the expensive color). It was really easy to process and I was totally surprised about the product. After a short drying time I realized that the color has a very nice matt look and matches the brick wallpaper really good. Our entrance starts to look really nice. Sorry, for being grumpy, about your color choice, Hubby!

There are a few things to go for

• update the hardware
• find and install new coat hooks
• find a matching curtain rod 
• find/make new wall arts
• find a new mailboxslit
• install a lot of trimming

I know, i know it sounds a lot but I'm convinced that we'll have all managed until Christmas (I don't say what year).