Must. Make. This. Now.

Meg has done it again with this beautiful handmade paper lampshade! I'm already thinking about modifying it to cover my ugly bathroom lights.

Images courtesy of Craftzine and Meg Allan Cole

Check out her youtube video for it here!

I have to admit that I had some reservations about paper being so close to a bare bulb, but she covered that in her bulb and lamp choices. I think with my lights, I may be okay too. Now, if only it wasn't Easter and everything wasn't shut for the day... curses.

Paper crafts, a recycled wreath!

I was bored. I needed to do something with my hands. I had a pile of magazines lying around. I was also perusing my big list of website links for crafts and projects. This, seemed a perfect solution!

Lisa over at the The Red Thread Blog gives a lovely tutorial for a paper wreath, using wrapping paper left over from her advent calender project. I started perusing through the fashion mags I had lying around, and came up with this!

Purses and earrings and shoes, oh my!

I had some pretty Gold ribbon lying around in my stash, so I used that to create the bow and loop to hang it! I am very pleased with the final product, spending an afternoon stapling away while watching TV was very satisfying. I also found a picture of Greta Garbo in one of the magazines, and she takes pride and place near the top. This is on my bedroom door now, a hint of femininity to disguise the disaster zone that lies within. My room's a bit of a disaster since class started again.

Time for a makeover!

Makeover!
I figured it was about time to bite the bullet and attempt to personalize the bog a wee bit. I'm not really tech oriented, so I figured this would take a fair amount of swearing to get right. I was right too. Half an hour and many tweaked filed later, I have a new picture to represent the blog! It's also another creative use for Christmas leftovers, since the picture is of a toasted turkey, panko broccoli and smoked Gruyere sandwich. Nice topper too. 

This is the slightly late picture of how I wrapped my family's presents this year. It kind of happened by accident to, I was watching a DVD of a TV program and decided to be slightly productive while I was watching it. What I didn't realize while I was cutting dozens of paper floraly bits was that the TV program was 5, 1 hour sections. I spent a lot of time in front of the television that night..

The presents look awesome though! This one is a CD for my Dad. Yay for double sided wrapping paper from Ikea!