Femmeldehyde Magazine DIY Feature

Femmeldehyde Magazine's Issue 07 - Craft is out now!! Check out my DIY feature on how to make easy no-glue 3D paper ball ornaments, as well as the rest of this wicked issue and others on the Femmeldehyde website.

Another big thank you to the Femmeldehyde Magazine dream team for having my contribution to this great local magazine!

DIY Ceiling Lampshade

So I have a ton of randomly shaped/sized boxes left over from a previous installation, which are made from Eska board and wrapped in rice paper, and since the paper lantern I had been using as a ceiling shade all these years was starting to look pretty shabby, I decided to use one of the boxes to make a new shade!

I started by using one of my Crayola metallic gel Spider Writer pens to repeat a simple swirl pattern on a piece of frosted Mylar which had been traced to shape. Once the design was completely dry I scored and folded the traced edged inwards towards the designed side. I lined up the Mylar with the inner edge of the box and used an archival PVA glue to adhere it. Tiny eyelets screwed into the upper inside will allow me to suspend the box from the light fixture. And then voila!

The Painted House - Patterned Paint Rollers

Flipping through Style At Home magazine over the holidays there was one product that definately caught my craft eye! The Painted House, started by UK based upcycler Clare Bosanquet, supplies DIY connaseurs with an ingenious little invention that makes it easy to bring new life to old walls or plain fabrics; patterned paint rollers! Now while patterned paint rollers are not a completely new idea, having been around in some parts of Europe for over a century, they are not an apparatus that is easily come by or readily made...until now.

The Painted House has an Etsy store where it sells these applicators and interchangeable patterned rollers. At just $25/patterned roller, and $16-$32 for applicators it's a good buy for a product that will last decades and replace tricky-to-install and expensive wallpaper. Not to mention all the pillows, tote bags, home decor and clothing you can print on. You could also get creative and use these rollers to make wrapping paper, cards and other stationery.

Visit their website for more information and photos, or visit their Etsy page to order.

Rollers for walls, paper, wood

Rollers for fabric

A finished room

Of course I would love the woodgrain printed fabric!

Traditional pattern perfect for a breakfast nook