The Interior DIYer

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I want it now – antlers, antlers, antlers

Dear antlers, 
Firstly, let me congratulate you on being in vogue. It is for good reason, as you are pretty neat and quite the sight for sore eyes. In an effort to be on trend, I was hoping you could make yourselves available to me? You can do this by falling off. Within walking distance from my apartment would be all kinds of wonderful, thank you 🙂
Lots of love, 
Alex 
I’m thrifty, and I did my research. I found out that our local deer {found in the Phoenix Park} shed their antlers between January and March. I also found out the most antlers are found in the Oldtown Woods. Perfection. We had incredible weather on Saturday, so hubby and I wrapped up in search for some antlers. Low and behold, we came back empty handed. I have not given up. It was however, a lovely and romantical walk. 
It is only a matter of time. The question is – once I get my hands on some of these delights, do I go aux natural, or do I paint them? …

There is some serious winning going on with paint. The white with gold tips – particularly amazing. Fingers crossed we scavenge some of these lovelies. And soon. 
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Attacked with tape – review

Last year I blogged about my poor man’s version of washi tape – electrical tape. It’s been my go-to for a number of projects around our home. My favourite being our cat food tins, as seen above. I covered both head-to-toe in black and white electrical tape. Pretty straight forward, and a quick fix for an otherwise massively ugly orange tin.

I also covered a small Pringles tin for my desk in work …

… and I recently covered my rather boring 2013 agenda, which had a massive brand name and date on it. Thanks, but no thanks.
{I think} the beauty of electrical tape is that it not only is made to last {i.e. the cat tins have been covered for a year now, and the tape hasn’t morphed, slid or peeled in any way}, and it comes in different colours. I’ve seen blue, red, yellow, green and orange on my travels. And for around €1 per roll in home hardware stores, you literally cannot go wrong. 
You can check out my original tutorial here. Although it’s pretty self explanatory – apply tape ad nauseam.

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I dreamed a dream

How lush is this lot? These three pictures have been eating my brain as of late. Especially that last one – the furniture composition, that shelving, plus the velvet chaise lounge makes me tore up from the floor up. Thanks to Pinterest, my mind is now continuously focused on owning a home so I can do a holy show of renovations and DIYs to it. Am I the only one that Pinterest does that to? A girl can dream. 
p.s. Thank you for your lovely comments on my DIY bell jar tutorial! I was worried that would be a bit hit-or miss. I have some more tricks up my sleeve, which I hope to get sorted asap.

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* Sorry to any of you who thought this post would be in some way connected to Les Miserables. My bad.