MAKE YOUR OWN DECO BOOKS

In This pile of magazines are most of my favorite decoration mags. This is one of my passion to buy these type of magazines, reading them but I do something more with them and it's fun.

Few times a year I take all my magazines, go them through and take everything out that interest me... It can an atmosphere, scenery, colour, image of the room, accessories, paint effects or even articles about DIY, etc...Sometimes it takes half of the day to do all these but it can be fun on the rainy day...

So to make your deco books you need a pair of scissors, plenty glue and visual diary books, the big ones are better than the A4 size, you can have a really nice collage on your pages...

Buy several visual diaries and make you books by theme, I have made for example a book for any kind of paint effects and colours, rustic chic, country style, then you can just assemble on one or two pages different bath rooms, bed rooms, kitchens etc and add different pictures of accessories that goes with these pictures.

This is really fun, creative and it is also relaxing...Collect your own dream house or houses...

HOW A BICYCLE CAN CHANGE ONE PERSONS LIFE...

Today in Nairobi, the Tour d'Afrique gave away bicycles as donations, which is part of the cycle race that my husband is doing at the moment. Have a look on http://www.africanride.blogspot.com/

WALL DECORATION

This is in our lounge in Andorra, the high wall needed some decoration, so I made this big frame with Marimekko's fabric and the red accessories added some colour. The 3 african ornaments comes from South Africa but I think the origin of the must be Malawi, they were made with this really heavy dark wood, so to modernise them I painted them with a metallic pearl paint.

DECORATE WITH STICKERS

Here you can see how few stickers can change a wall. We have a stone wall behing the sink. The stickers are easy and cheap way to change quickly some wall or window surface. Stickers can be found in hardware stores, online shops, IKEA etc.

KITCHEN WALL

Some colour to our kitchen, I repainted the narrow wall, the previous paint was not good quality and I couldn't get the stains off.  The two berry photos give a nice colour to the black and white kitchen. On the stone walls I add some stickers. The huge box next to the wall is the gas heater system, not really the nicest place to have it, but it was there when we bought this house. It was white so I turned to black and I think, if I will find some blackboard paint I will turned to a kitchen blackboard...