DIY project: Black&white bowl

One has a lot of time on his/her hands while being without a job. (Quite a popular hobby lately, this job hunting thing, ha? Btw, if you know somebody who is hiring, I'm your (wo)man.) And once you have time, all you need is a simple white Ikea bowl, a black porcelain pen and some imagination.

We have had a plain white Ikea bowl, which we use mostly for salads. It is was nice but, you know, nothing special. So I used a porcelain pen (you can buy one in a crafty store) and followed my imagination.  

 

When I finished drawing I let it dry for 4 hours. In the end I put it in the oven for 90 minutes at 160 °C and let it cool after (just leave it in the oven). The information on the pen says that is dishwasher safe but since we don't have one, I can guarantee just for hand wash safe. :)

I liked salads before, now I LOVE them. :)

DIY project: Side table makeover

I have a really big crush on DIY (do-it-yourself) projects.
1. I always look for things that can be changed improved.
2. I could get some serious money if obsessive-reader-of-DIY-blogs would be a profession.
3. If you ask my dear M about the amount of (awesome) crafty stuff that I have in our tiny apartment he would just roll his eyes.
But why bother just him with my obsession I asked myself? And so I decided to post some of my projects here on my blog and hopefully inspire somebody else.

In the beginning of this year I was coming home from my French lessons and there she was. A little wooden table, left on the pavement for the garbage man to take it away. My heart jumped and  adopted her in a second. She was quite damaged from the rain (I guess she was an outside table in her previous life) and in a serious need of sanding.

And so it began. First a zillion hours of sanding (wave your flabby arms good bye!), followed by two coats of water-based varnish. 

I painted the legs in white and added another coat of varnish to the top part, just to be sure. 

Et voilà, I'm in love!

Cookies in a jar DIY

(Please scroll down for English version.)

Letos Lansko leto so bila vsa najina darila narejena doma. In z veliko ljubezni. In enim žuljem. Poleg že dokumentiranih piškotkov (ki sva jih zapakirala v lične vrečkice z napisom Homemade cookies) sva naredila še estetsko zloženo mešanico sestavin za piškote z receptom (brez skrbi, zavedam se, da to ni nabolj posrečen prevod besedne zveze Cookies in a jar).
Zadevco sem najprej opazila na strani revije Dom in Svet, ki jo je na svojem blogu objavila T. Jaz seveda ne bi bila jaz, če ne bi pogledala še vseh ostalih DIY reči na strani in kocka je padla. Našla sem perfektno darilo.Ne le da zgleda res fletno, je še uporabno. Win-win.

Sestavine: steklena posoda (na sliki 3 različne velikosti)
moka
pecilni prašek
vaniljev sladkor
žlička sode bikarbone
rjav sladkor
ovseni kosmiči
zdrobljena čokolada (mešanica navadne Milke, navadne Gorenjke in bele čokolade)
mleti orehi

Srečni dobitnik darila mora dodati le jajce in maslo. Ter seveda speči piškote. :)

Na vrhu je dekoracija iz islandske volne, ki drži recept (in vaniljev sladkor, ki se nama je izmuznil med prvim nakupovanjem).

Za natančne količine sestavin mi lahko pišete pod komentarje.

Srečno 2014! *

  

This Christmas we decided to make presents for our family members DIY style. One of the presents were Cookies in a jar, which are really simple to make and yet they look professional. All you need is a big glass jar (there are 3 different sizes of jars in the picture), flour, baking powder, vanilla sugar, baking soda, brown sugar, rolled oats, chocolate chips (We've mixed normal chocolate and white chocolate) and ground walnuts.

Recipient of the gift has to add an egg and butter. And bake the cookies of course. :)

On the top is a decoration made of Icelandic wool, which keeps the recipe (and the vanilla sugar we forgot to buy the first time).

For exact amount of ingredients please contact me or leave a message.

Happy 2014! *

DIY

Neskončno rada pregledujem različne do-it-yourself (DYI) objave na internetu. Nekatere potem tudi sama preizkusim, večine žal ne, nekatere pa metamorforiziram in iz njih nastane nekaj čisto tretjega. A bistveno je ustvarjanje. V mislih ali zares.
In tako danes objavljam svoj prvi DYI, ki je preveč preprost, metodo pa lahko uporabite na različnih materialih.

Pa začnimo. :)

Potrebuješ:

• telefon (sploh je fino, če je zadnja stran rahlo obdrgnjena in potrebna preobrazbe),
• škarje in
• washi tape.

 
(Ravno danes so po pošti prispeli moji prvi trije kolutki teh norih papirnatih selotejpkov, ki so mi ukradli srce že kar nekaj časa nazaj, a jih do zdaj nisem prisluhnila. Bomba so, res.)

 Odstrani pokrov mobitela na zadnji strani.

 
Odstriži tako dolžino selotejpka, kot jo potrebuješ, potem pa jo prilepi na pokrov.

Nadaljuj do višine, kot jo želiš, sama sem polepila celotno zadnjo stran. Paziti moraš le, da držiš lepe linije in paziš na nadaljevanje vzorčka. Skratka, kot rečeno, res je izi pizi.

Veselo preobrazbo starih stvari vam želim. :)