Tag: make

home: made [ basket ]

home: made [ basket ]

We’ve just discovered A Kailo Chic Life blog and already in love. Such great projects, DIYs, ideas and interiors.

Our favourite pick is this project to decorate a basic felt basket with a weave and tassle look. It’s creative, colourful and makes a eclectic boho look.

Try Made, Amazon, and other online homeware stores for felt woven baskets that can act as the base for this DIY.

Explore the blog for this and further great projects.

home: made [ copper shelving ]

home: made [ copper shelving ]

This is a gorgeous DIY from Hey Lila Hey to make a cool copper wall shelf great for any room in the house.

Copper is still very much on trend and the design can be adapted for the size and style you like.

Details, how to and all needed materials are in their blog

home: event [ Jesmonite workshop ]

home: event [ Jesmonite workshop ]

We love the growing popularity of working with Jesmonite and this workshop at The Barbican looks like another great one to book into.

August 13 – 16

Jesmonite Casting with Phil Cuttance £45

They say;

Learn how to cast your own Jesmonite stone vase with designer/maker Phil Cuttance.

Phil Cuttance leads this series of hands–on workshops, with his cool, contemporary take on an age old craft. Participants select the shape of their vase, assemble their own moulds and experiment with style and colour before casting their very own jesmonite vase.

home: made [ tie dye bedding ]

home: made [ tie dye bedding ]

With marble still being a strong trend, why not try tie dying at home in black and white to create a similar monochrome look.

It’s simple and effective and all you need is the dye and some cotton plain bedding.

Try John Lewis, Argos or Dunelm for great plain bedding.

We love this effective method from HonestlyWTF but also our favourite A Beautiful Mess has a great tutorial too.

home: made [ wall organiser ]

home: made [ wall organiser ]

This little project opens up so many options with colour and size, it’s the perfect make for a study or kids bedroom.

With some basic materials and tools you can create this great wall organiser for your home. We love the colour thelovelydrawer.com has used, but of course the choice is yours.

Head to thelovelydrawer.com for the full tutorial.

home: event [ candle making workshop ]

home: event [ candle making workshop ]

We found this great workshop with London Craft Club in central London. Enjoy 2 hours creating your own essential oil which you will then use to scent a candle & purfume.

‘Our guest expert teacher Alice Scott, from Scott’s Apothecary, trained as a nutritional therapist and is hugely passionate about creating natural, eco-friendly candles, beauty products, and cleaning products. She is incredibly knowledgable about the properties and benefits of the different essential oils, and full of tips on how to incorporate essential oils into your daily routine‘

Choose dates from July – October [ £49 ]

londoncraftclub.co.uk

home: made [ stencilled walls ]

home: made [ stencilled walls ]

If you love the look of modern patterned wallpapers – dots, arrows, paint daubs, triangles, or Victorian and Moroccan prints – but need a more affordable options, try stencilling.

There’s been a huge rise in modern style stencils available, especially on Etsy, that offer an affordable creative way to achieve great feature designs on a wall without having to use wallpaper.

The advantage is it’s easy to change as you can paint straight over the paint, as opposed to painting over wall paper or stripping the wallpaper!

We found some great options to buy online to create a unique look for any room

Geometric Nola Tile from £8.11

Honeycomb from £4.67

Dalmatian Spots £32.58

Medina from £14.99

Herringbone from £34.62

home: made [ clay hanging planter ]

home: made [ clay hanging planter ]

This diy project looks so good it’s hard to believe it’s handmade.

Spotted it on fallfordiy.com, create and make your own clay hanging planter that can go in any room.

Use Air Dry Clay for this make, along with some basic craft tools, some rope and of course a plant to put in it after.

For the full tutorial click here

home: made [ Jesmonite workshop ]

home: made [ Jesmonite class ]

In case you missed out last time, we’ve spotted another chance to catch the great ‘working with Jesmonite’ workshop with the London Craft Club.

There’s one tonight but there’s another on July 3rd!

They say;

Get ready to meet your new favourite material, Jesmonite. What is Jesmonite I hear you ask? Well it’s a cross between concrete and resin, that can be coloured and used to create awesome effects like terrazzo and marbling. Intrigued? Then read on…

In this introduction to working with Jesmonite you will learn all about this amazing material from our expert Haidee. She will discuss different applications for Jesmonite, and tell you about the different effects you can achieve. Then you’ll make a mould for your trinket dish – choose from a triangle, diamond, or hexagonal shape for your final piece.

Haidee will then show you how to mix your Jesmonite, how to colour it, and you will be able to cast your very own geometric trinket dish! It’s such an amazing material to work with, we know you are going to want to go home and make more pieces for everyone you know! You’ll leave with a finished Jesmonite trinket dish, plus all the knowledge and skills needed to make lots more.