Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts

Friday, 18 December 2009

Step T(h)ree



'Ambiencing' the house. Getting you in the mood. Decking the halls. Whatever you want to call it. Dressing up your house. Be bold, be bright, be generous, be merry.
Now, don't go putting the flashy reindeers and their far too bright red neck ribbons because I said so. Don't inflate those ugly and costly Santas. My point is (though I am not the best lesson giver) to stick to one material, one theme or one predominant colour.
In my case, you've seen on the Xmas tree : white, silver and pink. not very original, I agree, but I like it!

My first soft tree...and the whole story behind it (in case you have some time to kill) :
the first time I ever read a 'blog' was by accident.
While browsing the internet couple of years ago, I bumped into Two straight lines if I remember well. It was her version of the famous soft trees, following Stephanie's pattern from little birds's blog. Voilà, there I stept into the amazing and at times abyssal of craft blogs....
Few months later, a fabric store was closing (story far to common) not far from my place. I got several yards of beige felt and hadn't tried the soft tree pattern yet. Now it's done! Circle completed!

thanks you ladies (why not dreaming they'll read this one day)!

Monday, 14 December 2009

Project no Pink


I can't take a picture to save my life but this is evidence.
No pink this year!! Quite an achievement for me.
This looks much better in real life if I may say so.
Roll on Xmas!!


Love the plaid stars. Step 2 complete on both side of the Atlantic...yeah!!!

Thursday, 3 December 2009

Step Two The Christmas Tree


You are all guessing from the font colour that the Step 1 was mine (Béa) and so is Step 2! hopefully we'll get to see Réré minimalist style in action...okay, maybe...alright, one day...fine. back to our subject.

Meet Mr 'I want to be a Christmas tree' fungus tree.

Yes, its real name is Mr. fungus tree only because this branch was cut off by one of our garden trees itself (whose name I don't know) for having fungus (typical behaviour of the species I was told). It is happily standing in 36kg of concrete all year long in our living room.
The picture does not render its beauty and the pride with which it shows its Texan identity. Yes, people outside of Texas decorate their Xmas tree with stars too.....maybe just somewhat smaller...and even I'm not sure.



Beautiful tree.
I'll try my best to show you mine.
The plan is a white and red colour scheme this year.
I have a sneaky feeling some pink will creep in. Watch this space.

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Step One, The Advent wreath


Grödby candles on sale for 1.99$ at IKEA....
Metallic painted pebbles brought back form SoCal.
Various bulbs from past years among which the fake brushed metal one from OBI (French equiv. of Home Depot).
Cactus decal on the wall from Gali Art.

ps : pourquoi ça pixellise tellement ces photos?? si vous avez un tip, je suis preneuse...


PPS : another Advent wreath I simply adore.

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Let them know it's Christmas time....

A little bit of recycling....while preparing the 09 trend.
from Bea's world famous 08 Xmas collection... in case you missed it. note : you = approx. the whole mankind minus a handful of persons who received a gift from me...

metallic flowers from punched champagne bottle collars. -easy peasy.

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

one year already!


Some inspiration from last year*...while packing for few days out of town.

Pour les Frenchies qui ne peuvent participer au concours Michaels, pas d'excuses pour ce concours de déco de Noël...Marie Claire Maison!


*polka dot heart made by/gift from Réré

Thursday, 12 November 2009

Shiner, TX

Feeling adventurous this year?
Try this :

Because it is too hard not to promote a good design (love the moss grey-green against the cherry red) and always makes you feel good to shop local....
The above link to the article on Shiner Cheer is from the Die Line that I have to mention.
Even if you don't fancy beer but often shop (especially wine in the US) just for the package, rush to their website.


Pour les amateurs de Krony (eh oui, ça date!) qui sont aux US....'flavored with peaches and roasted pecans'