ombre ombre

While ‘ombre effect’ is still in let’s jump on that wagon, shall we? 🙂 I was contemplating if I should write this post or not. But let’s face it, not all projects come out the way you wanted to. On some you’re really proud and on some… hm.. not so much. 🙂 I wanted to do a …

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mr. rhino + tutorial

When family/friends birthdays come along I try always to give something handmade. My other passion, besides love of everything diy, is sewing. So that is how the little Mr. Rhino came to be. I was looking online for a tutorial or at least a pattern of a rhino, but I didn’t find anything I liked. I decided to …

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the fence (part 2)

It took a while, but it’s up. The fence is standing! 🙂 Please, please ignore the state of our garden. It is high on our to do list. 🙂 When the fence was first built the posts were just put in the ground and concrete poured around them. Of course, with the years gone by, …

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the fence (part 1)

This project was long overdue. We were probably just hoping for the last two years that the fence would miraculously fixed itself. Or just collapsed. Neither of those two things happened. Well, it was a miracle itself that it didn’t collapse the way it looked. It was leaning like the tower of Pisa. But the …

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the car key

Soooo…  we are sorry for a little delay with the posts. Our current project is restoring an old fence in the garden. We thought that the project would take us a weekend, maybe two and that we would have a post written by this weekend. Well, there was some bad weather and 16 m (52 …

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the table

For a couple of years we had in our kitchen a cheap Ikea table with 4 corresponding chairs. We always assumed that the table with those chairs would only be a solution for a short period of time.  The table was only 70 cm by 120 cm and it was quite crowded if all the …

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