The Clay work

I was lucky to attend the clay workshop last week on my Pday day, and I fell in love to play with it! It was fun and I am looking forward to learn the following up technique called "glaze", so I can finish my products !

Halloween Decoration

It was a gorgeous day last Sunday, and at 10am I was already sitting on my couch , sipping my home made latte and looking around my Halloween decoration in my living room. It just made me smile.

I am Chinese, and we usually don't celebrate Halloween, the "Ghost" things were kind of scary and we thought it was a bad thing, but since I am in Canada for almost over 14 years, and I am an educator  in the school, for me its more like a fun thing to do, especially I like home decoration, so who cares about "ghost", and "witch"? just have fun! Boo!

Summer Finds and DIY Projects

 Hello, it is such a gorgeous day in Vancouver , and it's been a year i haven't come back to write my blog, time goes by so quick and I am really busy between work and mom with two toddlers. It's fall here, we are so lucky didn't get a hot summer this year, and so far the weather is pretty good, I can't complain too much. I would like to share some DIY Projects and some treasures I found in the summer. ( actually some DIY I just finished this afternoon )

1. Little wooden rocky chair - I paid this one from the garage sale and only paid $5.00, it was originally brown color, I painted with Vintage White chalk paint long time ago, and just added "SIT" with the stencil this afternoon.

  2. Ipad Holder - I spent $2.99 at the value village for the cutting board, and got idea from my friend Katheryn 's sharing information from Facebook, I sanded it and repainted ,then put stencil "Welcome" on it, now it's perfect sitting on my kitchen counter top , its good to check recipes while I am cooking.

3. The French Style wooden frame - I found in a little vintage boutique store, there were lots little cute accessories  there, it took a while to place and glued them inside, then I glued an lace on the outside surface, because the original frame was light brown color, and I am a Vintage White fan, so of course I repaint white as well, and thinking it will be hung on the wall of my girl's bedroom.

4. The Key Holder - same, I picked from the garage sale, and repainted , inside the frame I painted black chalk paint, I like it a lot, will be hung on the wall of our garage .

5. Mason Jar project I also got idea from my friend as well, and I love them, they are in my bathroom now.

here are also some finds I found during the summer, are they cute?!

jewelry holder frame

Mr.Honey's opa passed away in October, so we made a trip to Vernon for the funeral. I found a wooden frame at the thrift store, it was in good shape, my first thought was for Rocky's mom, although I didn't have exactly idea but thought I could make something for her as Birthday gift. I like to find "gift" for someone special, it is not necessary has to be some special event, as long as something makes me to thinking of somebody...

Because life is so busy with work and two young kids, the frame has been sitting in our garage for a long time, I thought about to make chalkboard frame, then the idea of jewelry holder popped in my mind, and probably even better for his mom, because she likes fashion too! I wanted to make it on my own, but after i started to paint, i was getting nervous, especially this  would be a gift to his mom, so i started to "bossy" Mr.Honey to finish my project. I didn't like the original wood color, kind of 'yellowish", we picked the "vintage white", then brush the stencil on it, Mr.Honey bought the hooks from the dollar store, he is a very handy man, he first used the rubber band to put the line on it, make sure where the hooks would be, drilled the hole after, now  you can see what  the final product looks like, I hope his mom will like it!

Antique Rustic Trunk

I have been looking for an Antique Rustic Trunk for a long time, either sometimes the price was too high I couldn't afford to pay or there were no special character on it...I found this little rustic trunk at one of my favorite consignment store in my neighborhood on Saturday, i just love it, although the size was little smaller then I thought it could be used as Nyha's doll collection. I love the fact it was wooden but outside covered by fabric, if I have time in the future, I would like to redo it, use my own fabric with some meaningful graphic on it.So I brought this little treasure piece home.
I first cleaned the inside and outside, it was not too bad, but I don't like the inside sheet , and I remembered months ago I bought some " music sheet" wrapping paper from Home Sense, and it was cream and brown color, it would be perfect for this little trunk!

It didn't take me long to finish the project, and voila! Here is Nyha's little doll treasure trunk! I love it!