Seller spotlight: Tiny Kiwi

I am LOVING these prints from Tiny Kiwi. Yolandas geometric animal prints are so unique and beautiful! These are some of my favourites. Click the pretty pics to go to the etsy listing.

This little guy is my fav! Think I found my next Etsy purchase. ;)

Well what do you think? Amazing right?

I totally have to get one of the Kingfishers. He's so beautiful. :)

Wooden panel desk makeover

The boy and I were getting pretty sick of our current (or lack of) work space in our little town house. We chose a place with two bedrooms specifically so we would have somewhere to be creative and get our work done. Lucus is a graphic designer. He wanted a space that would inspire him to come home after work and want to design more and work on his skills. The space we had before this actually only had one desk. Yup. One little desk for TWO creative workers. Needless to say we ended up doing most of our work on the couch down stairs. The other day we FINALLY got a second desk. We managed to get another one exactly the same as the one we already had so we could make one super long desk. But it still wasn't "us" It felt cold and uninspiring.

So off we went to Bunnings. We knew we wanted a wooden top for the desk but thought we were going to have to make something or cut pieces to size BUT we got super lucky and found these wooden planks that were exactly the length of out tables! We put four of these together (two on each desk) and it was a new awesome wooden desk. 

I was SUPER happy to find these lamps! I was being very picky. I knew I wanted one of this kind of style but all the lamps I looked at were the wrong colour, to big, to small or the wrong shape. These ones, just right. ;)

With the white rim pots I made and my little River Luna print I feel quite comfortable in my new little space. :)

My side

His side

I love the wooden planks. Such a simple and easy way to give your desk a new life. 

Well, what do you think?

DIY white rim pots

Did you see the little DIY project I did for the third Crafted Mag issue? If you missed it, don't worry! You can still download your copy now. Click here to download the crafty goodness.

I was really excited to make these simple little pots. I wanted something to go into my new studio space (which I will show you soon!) I wanted something a bit more special than just a terracotta pot for my new little succulent babies. I still like the idea of colour dipping (kind of like what I did with this project) but wanted something a little more subtle. I used a gloss white acrylic enamel paint. It's important to choose the right paint when working with surfaces that are going to come into regular contact with water.

Click here to download the mag and check out the tutorial.

DIY collection: Gold and Glamorous

Gold is everywhere in the DIY world right now. It makes anything looks so glamorous and expensive.
Take number 7 on the in this collection for example. They are simply brown paper bags sprayed with gold paint but they look like the ones you can pay big bucks for! So many great projects here. I think my favourite is the baby shoes! So awesome! :)

1. Gold glam tray from A bubbly life

2. Glamourous gold draft horse from Suburble

3. Vintage purse make-over from The thinking closet

4. Chunky chain necklace from Creme de la craft

5. Suede and gold polka dot mouse pad from Lovely Indeed

6. Gold tip baby Mary Janes from Le zoe musings

7. Metallic sack from A daily something

8. Leather and gold bag from Between the lines

Have you glamed anything with gold recently? 

BH&G live - My big crafty week

I haven't been blogging as much as I would like to recently, It's really been bugging me! But I'm very happy to say I am back at my computer and very happy!

Here is a summery of my last 8 days...

30th April - CRAFTED MAG WENT LIVE! WHOOOO!!! click here to download your copy

1st May Work - Last minute prep for BHG live Melbourne. Home - More table number making...

For those of you who I haven't bragged majorly too, I'm lucky enough to work for Tara Dennis. She is the decorating/craft host on Better Homes and Gardens here in Australia. This week we flew to Melbourne for BH&G live. It's a great live show where the hosts do live demonstrations as well as heaps stalls selling things for home reno etc...

2nd May Flew to Melbourne for BHG live set up. 

That night we did a bit of exploring around Melbourne. Bought a HUGE pile of magazines from Magnation, enjoyed wine and cheese in a lane way bar, and dinner in a cute little Italian restaurant. (Felt like I was back in Venice eating Italian food in a beautiful lane way.)

3rd May Day one at BHG live. 

Today I was lucky enough to meet the amazing Amy Tan! She was so lovely. I hung out at the side of one of her demos for about 40 minutes hoping I could catch her at the end to grab a photo before I had to run off to set up the deco stage for Tara's next demo. I did this successfully as you can see... ;) Felt like such a crazy stalker lady...

Alas, that stalking effort wasn't necessary, when I went into the green room for lunch she was of course there too! But this did mean I was able to chat to her for a while. Made my day. Still feel like I'm a bit of a weirdo though... he he.

4th May Day two at BHG live and flew back to Sydney

This was slightly stressful because we finished Tara's last demo at 2pm and our flight back to Sydney was at 3pm! Needless to say, we missed out flight and had to wait an hour for the next one...

5th May Well today wasn't sooo busy but I did go to Bondi to check out the new West Elm and Pottery Barn stores. (Totally in love with West Elm now!)

6th May Work RIDICULOUSLY hard to get these table numbers finished! 

The table numbers have a cool story too! But I will leave that for another day... I'm sure you have heard quite enough from me for now...

7th May Back to work in the Tara Dennis studio and got my lovely mum to send off table numbers. 

And that brings us to NOW! I am super happy to be on my laptop catching up on some blog reading and post writing! 

Have you had a big crafting week? Made anything interesting? 

Planning on making something cool..?