Learning from mistakes, because if you are not wrong you don’t learn. Days ago I was thinking how using colored tinfoils and wanted to decorate a glass bottle with them. I thought of using hot glue but, instead to stick the paper on the bottle, left its color on the glue, creating an interesting effect …
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Multipurpose Nutella Jars
My son is crazy about Nutella and we consume a lot of it. I, of course, save the jars to reuse according to my needs. I use them to decorate especially, but also for the kitchen or as candle holders. You will see a few, which one will you like the most? Nutella jar painted …
A tree on the wooden slats
Recycling is giving life back to an object that has lost its usefulness. The wooden slats, those of the beds, lose their usefulness when you have to change the bed for both functional and aesthetic reasons. Now how to give new life to the wooden slats? I made a picture with shells, twigs and stones …
Paintings with shrimp boxes
Do you know the wooden shrimp boxes? I had the idea of turning them into pictures, of different colors and styles. Let’s see how I were made them. The first one I painted it black with spray paint and then I attached lots of colorful butterfly-shaped glitter with liquid glue. The second consists of two …
Decorative lamp shades
The lamp shade is the part that wears the most of a lamp. Regardless of the material with which it was made, after a few years of use, it must be changed. Or not? Not necessarily. Here are two lampshades I made for my home. For this one I used a jute, wool belt and …
Recycle to create
I don’t like this picture anymore… So I turned it into this! I used spray paint, tempera, liquid glue, glittered stones and a lot of imagination. And I have a lot of fun. The idea was to create a sort of abstract universe … what do you think did I do it? Recycle, create and …
Learning with Pinterest
When I’m looking for some ideas, the first app I use is Pinterest. I find it very useful, especially the many tutorials from which I learned some drawning techniques. One of my first “shell paintings” was inspired by an image found on Pinterest. I started it during the spring 2020 lock-down, using the shells and …
Seafaring bedroom
I like furniture magazines from which I get a lot of tips and ideas. In particular, I love the houses decorated in a seafaring style. So I decided to decorate my bedroom in this style. For the paintings I used recycled plywood, repainted and adorned with shells. I painted the bottles and turned some jars …
Wall jewelery holder
Over the years between purchases and gifts, I have accumulated many earrings, necklaces, bracelets, pendants and rings. I kept them in wooden boxes and the necklaces were presented with many knots, moreover, I spent a lot of time pairing the earrings. So I thought of creating wall jewelry boxes with pieces of polystyrene, painted and …
Long live the Mozzarella!
I love mozzarella, that Bufala Campana DoC, but I live in Spain and I can hardly enjoy its flavor. But when friends or relatives come to visit me, they know perfectly that without the package of mozzarella from Campania, I will not receive them. The package consists of a polystirene box that allows the product …