This is my new cupboard! I didn’t make this one myself. My dad made it for me…♥

One day I saw a beautiful cupboard at Butlers but the dimensions weren’t quite right for my dinning room. So I showed my dad the picture of the original cupboard (click) and asked him if he could make it, if I make some adjustments… He smiled and that was it. :)

In a couple of weeks he brought it to my house. He made it from scraps of wood and leftovers from his other projects. I must point out that he is not a carpenter. Nor is he an interior designer :) By profession he is an electrician but works in his firm, which deals with heating systems. So yeah, that’s an accomplishment! :)

All I have to do now is paint it white, buy some Ikea baskets an fill it withe tea, wine and cookery books. It is going to be amazing! :D

Our Easter Eggs: grass + flower petals + stockings + onion peels :)

Our dearest friend Valerij (we all call him Vasko) had a birthday. And we had to give him something special. And this wine holder is special.

My boyfriend did the wood work and I did the typographic work. :) I think it turned up pretty amazing. And it works too!
What have we learned from this? Oak is an amazing material, beautiful and elegant, but wasn’t meant for this kind of details, especially without proper tools.

This (last) year’s Christmas presents - homemade delight.

I made chocolate with all sorts of nuts, chocolate chips, rice, dried fruits,… I packed it nicely and labeled it with my homemade paper. I also baked coconut cookies (we call them coconut kisses, I don’t know how are they internationally known, sorry…) and put them in a jar. Finally - hot chocolate mixture. This was tough. Me and my boyfriend both made two different mixtures of hot chocolate, tasted them, rated them and the winner was put into the last jar.
It was fun making those. But it was A LOT of work! We have to many friends… :D 

This is my new bird house. Again, my boyfriend put it together and I painted it. We put it on the balcony fence, where I can always see it from the kitchen.

There is a little sad story behind the making of this bird house. The past summer was very hot. And every time me and my boyfriend drove home from work, we were driving with our car windows down. One lovely afternoon three little sparrow birds flew inches above our car, while we were driving it and one little fellow got sucked in the car through my open window. He crashed directly into my right shoulder and fell on the back seats… When we stopped the car, we found the little sparrow dead. The speed of our crash was too much for him.
We felt bad. After all it was us invading their space. So as we buried him in the woods we swore to build another bird house this winter, which will be always rich with bird seeds. And so we did.

I loved this Boot Box from the moment I saw it. And then I made it.
Well, my boyfriend made it. He made a wooden frame and attached it to our wooden wall. I picked the stones. :)

This is our new logo for diy workshops: sillyThings - ‘cause they are :)

So the NEW YEAR, huh…? And a leap one too! One whole day more to achieve this year’s goals… Sounds awesome… What? This isn’t a popular topic anymore? Really? But… I… erm… I… I’ve been sleeping… under a rock…? ._.

Oh well… Let’s roll. It’s gonna be an amazing year. If I am very lucky, this will be the year when I’ll learn, that:

1. Hard work beats raw talent. Hands down. Every time.
2. Discipline. Courage. Repeat.

In other news, I am starting my own diy workshops with my (girl)friends soon. So excited! The point will be to hang out, make amazing diy stuff to enrich our lives with, talk a lot and blog about our success. :)
I’ll post our new logo in just a little while along with other diy stuff I’ve been working on for the past month… enjoy :)

For the past few days I have been making paper. :)
I am adding spices, leafs, herbs and colouring them with cocoa, cinnamon, turmeric,… Here are some examples.

What do you think?

DIY ludo board game!

I used DAS modelling material to make the board and different pens to carve in the ornaments and the holes. I painted the board with water colours and leave it to dry for about a day. To make it a little bit more permanent (and shiny), I used varnish. (Which is mostly used for wooden surfaces, but it also works great on modelling material as well.)