Home Made Anthro Inspired Throw Pillows {DIY}

I am very happy that finally our home is in contract right now. Which means we are half way of selling our home. Since this is a coop; at this point there is no guarantee that we sold our home just yet.  Coop has board members that must approve new buyer. Since everything is going smoothly so far; I can honestly say that we are going to move out from our current home in a few months to come.

I am little bit sad leaving this home since I am very used to everything around this area. It is near the train station to go to Manhattan; 5 minutes walk to the train station and 35 minutes later I am in the middle of Manhattan. But we do need a slight larger home. 

As a token of 9 years happy times that we have been spending in this house; I am starting to photograph corners of our home. I thought it would be nice to look back in the future. 

At this point there is no reason to upgrade or do anything more in this house since we are going to move out. Still I need  to spruce up a little here and there and enjoy our last moment in our current home.

Today I started out with these throw pillows that I have been wanting to create and finally had time to do it. They were inspired by Anthropologie. They are very easy to make. I included tutorial; here.

Anthropologie Lanai Floor Pillow; here.

I think the tassels need to be larger in comparison to the size of pillows. So if you are going to create tassels for pillow; please consider the size of tassels and with the size of the pillow it self.

Hope you had a fantastic week end.

Happy Monday Everyone!!



 MONDAY
 Piggy in Polka Dots {Party In Polka Dots} by Shelley
Twelve O Eight {Inspiration Monday} by Tanya
Lines Across {Monday Funday} by Rachel
Sumo's Sweet Stuff by Sumo
It's So Very Chery
Homemaker On A Dime 
Creative Mondays
Colours Dekor
The Dedicated House {Make It Pretty Monday} by Kathryn

TUESDAY
My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia 
The Blackberry Vine 
Lady Bug Blessings
Not Just A Housewife
Cup Cakes And Crinoline 
Our Delightful Home 

WEDNESDAY
The Blissful Bee 
The NY Melrose Family
Savvy Southern Style
Raegun Ramblings
The Shady Porch
The Trendy Tree House 
Clean And Scentsible
Lil' Luna 
Green Willow Pond
Creations by Kara
The 36th Avenue

THURSDAY
52 Mantels 
2 Yellow Birds Decor 
The Charm of Home 
 Creating an Artful Home 
French Country Cottage 
My Romantic Home
Chic on a Shoe String Decorating 
Liz Marie Blog
One Artsy Mama 

FRIDAY
Dear Creatives
If It's Not Baroque
Anything Blue Friday 
A night Owl
Craftberry Bush 
Happy Hour Project 
Diana Rambles 
Truly Lovely 

SATURDAY

Suburbs Mama {Suburbs Mama Sunday} by Rita
Nifty Thrifty Things {Nifty Thrifty Sunday} by Vanessa
Flamingo Toes {Think Pink Sunday} by Bev
Pink When
I Heart Nap Time {Sundae Scoop}
Twigg Studios  {Sunday Show Off} by Aimee
Crafts A la Mode 

How To Make a Tassel {DIY & Tutorial}

  Here is an easy way on how to make a tassel.

What you need;

~ Scissor

~  Threads of your choice

1. Wrap around the thread  on 4 fingers of your hand. The thickness of the tassels is depending on how much is the amount of thread you wrap around your fingers. And the length of tassel depending on how wide you spread those fingers.

2. Then take the threads out of your hand. It should look like a bunch of threads in circular shape like this.

3. Squeeze them together so they look like one long shape of threads together.

4. Fold them in half.

5. Tie with a single thread on one end. Note: you can cut the threads loop on the other end if you like to make a fringe tassel.

Note; this is a simple way how I do mine. You can do  it your way but this just the basic idea.

Now you got yourself 'a tassel'!

My Favorite Friday

Every now and then a girl could dream. And as I browsing around my Pinterest boards; I came a cross these images that takes me somewhere and beyond. I call them My Favorite Friday. For now, at least.

I really love this gold coffee table. It makes me want to gold spray paint my current coffee table.

Source: Pinterest.

Love this black and white picture gallery against greyish blue wall. So pretty. Definitely will create this when we ever get to move into our new home.

Source; Pinterest

I have been ripping jeans lately. I bought a few from Goodwill in Florida. I was surprised by so many cool jeans I found at Goodwill in Delray Florida. For USD 4.99 I could rip them without worrying I will fail and ruin a costly jeans.  Can't wait to share some pictures with you.

Source: Pinterest

And, what a skinny ripped jeans without a pair of 'killer pumps" right? Our anniversary was just a week a go. Steven told me I could buy what ever I want with the budget he gave me. I have not bought anything yet. I am thinking.....yes,  you know what I am thinking!!

Source: Pinterest

From what I remember this Lavender Lemon Soda is to die for; Especially when it is hot out there. This is from my own blog post, posted about a year a go. I have been thinking about making this again lately. Hhhmmm.....!!!

Source;Lavender Lemon Soda

I am Asian. Can't help myself to have this drink. Must make this before summer ends. I can smell the fresh lemon grass on the tip of my nose right now.

Source; Pinterest

That's all Folks! What do you think? What are your favorites these days?

Have a great week end Everyone!

Open Heart Sandwich {with Flower Petals} + Home Made Place Mat

Have you ever feel like this; when you woke up feel like having a breakfast but none is good for your appetite?  Well today I felt just like that. It was almost lunch time anyway! So with what ever I still have in the fridge I created these delicious pretty meal for lunch, oh...for brunch! Usually I do not eat a lot for lunch so a couple of these just did good for a hungry stomach. And it was a complete lunch meal with a cup of hot tea.

This is actually an oat nut bread that I cut using a heart shape cutter. Then spread some fig jam followed by sprinkle of edible flower petals on  top. The white spread is petal flowers cream cheese spread. And oh...it was so delicious. Recipe; here! I think these open heart sandwiches are good for a fun tea party with friends. I can already imagined these heart sandwiches being displayed on a pretty cake stand with lots of flower petals.

I am very happy how the place mat that I created turned out to be. It's fun and pretty. Tutorial; here!

There is nothing new about eating flowers. It can be traced back thousand years a go. If you are interested in learning about the history of eating flowers, you can find out {here}.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Happy Wednesday Everyone!




MONDAY
 Piggy in Polka Dots {Party In Polka Dots} by Shelley
Twelve O Eight {Inspiration Monday} by Tanya
Lines Across {Monday Funday} by Rachel
Sumo's Sweet Stuff by Sumo
It's So Very Chery
Homemaker On A Dime 
Creative Mondays
Colours Dekor
The Dedicated House {Make It Pretty Monday} by Kathryn

TUESDAY
My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia 
The Blackberry Vine 
Lady Bug Blessings
Not Just A Housewife
Cup Cakes And Crinoline 
Our Delightful Home 

WEDNESDAY
The Blissful Bee 
The NY Melrose Family
Savvy Southern Style
Raegun Ramblings
The Shady Porch
The Trendy Tree House 
Clean And Scentsible
Lil' Luna 
Green Willow Pond
Creations by Kara
The 36th Avenue

THURSDAY
52 Mantels 
2 Yellow Birds Decor 
The Charm of Home 
 Creating an Artful Home 
French Country Cottage 
My Romantic Home
Chic on a Shoe String Decorating 
Liz Marie Blog
One Artsy Mama 

FRIDAY
Dear Creatives
If It's Not Baroque
Anything Blue Friday 
A night Owl
Craftberry Bush 
Happy Hour Project 
Diana Rambles 
Truly Lovely 

SATURDAY

Suburbs Mama {Suburbs Mama Sunday} by Rita
Nifty Thrifty Things {Nifty Thrifty Sunday} by Vanessa
Flamingo Toes {Think Pink Sunday} by Bev
Pink When
I Heart Nap Time {Sundae Scoop}
Twigg Studios  {Sunday Show Off} by Aimee
Crafts A la Mode 

Place Mat with Tassels {DIY & Tutorial}

This was an experiment that I wanted to do since a while a go. I had a remnants and pieces of fabric from when I created a give away decorative pillow cases a while back {here}. I thought why don't I make it a place mat out of these fabrics.  Then I thought why not attach the tassels on the 2 sides of the place mat? So here I created one place mat that I wanted. I am very happy with it. I am thinking to do it with many more with these fabrics {below} that I got from Calico Corners a while a go. It would be fun to use them for outdoor dining with different color of place mats.

What you need;

~ Cotton fabrics with different patterns and colors

~ Embroidery thread to match the color of fabrics

~ Sewing needle and thread

~ Sewing machine

1. Arrange the stripe of fabrics. (If you prefer to use different fabrics) This has to be a few inches larger than the actual size of place mat.

2. Using sewing machine; join them together.

3. Iron out the back of joining fabrics and draw the actual size of your place mat.

4. Folded the in seam. Iron out again and stitch them up.

1. It should look like this. And this is the actual place mat.

2. Mean time; create the tassels. You need about 12 or 13 tassels on each side.

Note: I am using the palm of my 4 finger to wrap thread around for about 13 times. When slipped it out of your 4 fingers it will look like a bunch of loop. Squeeze the loop so that they will be long in shape then fold it in half.  Then close to the end of the tassel is where you secure with a single embroidery thread a few times and tie a knot. Mine is the one with  black thread. The tip of the tassel is still in loop, you need to cut them to make it a fringe single thread. Or you can make a tassels from this site; (here).

3. Then attached the tassels by sewing it with hand to the back on each side one by one. Note: I do not know how to better attach these tassels. I was thinking to cover it with a piece of fabric but then it is to thick to run through a sewing machine. If you know how to do it please let me know because I am planning to make more of this place mat in the future. Thank you so much!

What do you think? I think it looks adorable. Imagine a few of these place mats with different colors of pattern and tassels. I think it would be fun to use out door.

These are the remnants fabric I bought from Calico Corners in Delray Florida last winter. They are huge too! And enough to create a big size decorative pillow case although it has to be good for only one side and use different pattern or fabric on the other side. Still the remainder I could use for above place mat.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Journal/Collage {August 2013}

For this month's journal/collage; I wanted  more of an expression journal/collage. Playing with words, emotion and whimsical images are the key to this journal/collage page. I love the look of feeling of poetry, soft and hard glued side by side together. An old book I found from a flea market is binding these journal/collage pages together.

This is my first page, hopefully it will turn out into something that I enjoy doing and be a part of me for a long time to come.

 

 

 Thank you so much for stopping by!

Happy Monday!

Piggy in Polka Dots 
Lines Across 
Sumo's Sweet Stuff
It's So Very Chery
Homemaker On A Dime 
Creative Mondays
Colours Dekor
The Dedicated House 
My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia 
The Blackberry Vine 
Lady Bug Blessings
Not Just A Housewife 
If It's Not Baroque 
Cup Cakes And Crinoline 
Our Delightful Home 
The Blissful Bee 
The NY Melrose Family
Savvy Southern Style
Raegun Ramblings
The Shady Porch
The Trendy Tree House 
Clean And Scentsible
Lil' Luna 
Green Willow Pond
Creations by Kara
The 36th Avenue
The Charm of Home 
 Creating an Artful Home 
French Country Cottage 
My Romantic Home
Chic on a Shoe String Decorating 
One Artsy Mama
Dear Creatives
A night Owl
Craftberry Bush 
Suburbs Mama
Nifty Thrifty Things
Flamingo Toes 
Pink When
Sundae Scoop
Twigg Studios 
Crafts A la Mode 

Jewelled Vintage Clutch {DIY}

I have been owning this simple vintage black silk clutch for as long as I can remember. I think I bought it at a flea market in Manhattan, New York when I just arrived  about 17 years a go.

But when I saw a page from a magazine showing jeweled clutches recently; I immediately thought about dressing up the clutch to a similar style. For a long time I did not know what to put on the simple black clutch until I saw a seller selling the most amazing varieties sizes and colors of vintage glass beads on Ebay.

Now the clutch is fun, elegant and rich looking clutch to wear to any party at any time. I love how it looks with the colorful vintage beaded glass on. It is like a real ruby, emerald, saphhire, amber, turqoise and opal decorated this simple clutch.

You can see how I attached the beads on this video {here}
Also seen {here}

Thank you for stopping by!
Have a great week end Everyone! 

Piggy in Polka Dots 
Lines Across 
Sumo's Sweet Stuff
It's So Very Chery
Homemaker On A Dime 
Creative Mondays
Colours Dekor
The Dedicated House 
My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia 
The Blackberry Vine 
Lady Bug Blessings
Not Just A Housewife 
If It's Not Baroque 
Cup Cakes And Crinoline 
Our Delightful Home 
The Blissful Bee 
The NY Melrose Family
Savvy Southern Style
Raegun Ramblings
The Shady Porch
The Trendy Tree House 
Clean And Scentsible
Lil' Luna 
Green Willow Pond
Creations by Kara
The 36th Avenue
The Charm of Home 
 Creating an Artful Home 
French Country Cottage 
My Romantic Home
Chic on a Shoe String Decorating 
Liz Marie Blog
One Artsy Mama
Dear Creatives
A night Owl
Craftberry Bush 
Suburbs Mama
Nifty Thrifty Things
Flamingo Toes 
Pink When
Sundae Scoop
Twigg Studios 
Crafts A la Mode