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Mini makeover – coffee table tray, round deux

Around this time last year I did a teeny, tiny makeover on our coffee table tray. It was blah and wooden and whatnot so I painted it a light grey to cheer up our coffee table, but unfortunately it still looked shit hadn’t reached its full potential.

I attacked it a couple of weekends ago with my trusty can of ‘winegum’ paint from Montana and voila. Much better. Om, nom.

And here’s what it looked like before I painted it this time around – 

To pump up the volume, the below now NEEDS to happen to my tray. The moment I saw this picture {which the focus is meant to be on the jewelry, but my brains were immediately distracted by the spike candy} my heart actually stopped. Something along these lines has to happen in my living room. 

I showed photo to father this past weekend to pick his brains hoping he would know of some hardware piece that resembles these studs to some degree. BUT, the Practical Patty that I am is already thinking things like “it’s a high traffic area, and if someone’s clothes get caught on one of those spikes, a) someone/kitty might get hurt, b) contents of tray will morph into glamorous shrapnel and fly everywhere”. Well poo. Thanks, brain.

Has anyone out there in the blogosphere tried something similar to this? I’m thinking maybe gold thumb tacks  as a last resort, but it won’t have anywhere as near of an impact.

xx A

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Custom Christmas colours – part 1

I’ve noticed a big theme this season where people are straying from the typical Christmas hues, and going more suited to their taste and existing decor. I adore Christmas, but I’m not a massive fan of green and fire-engine red combo in our apartment, and I’ve had an itch to try something new. Since I’m going down the aubergine, burgundy and black route with our decor, why not keep it up for the holidays?

Starting off with whom I believe to be one of the most painfully talented ladies on the blogosphere, Christine from Bijou and Boheme. This is her home from last Christmas, but nonetheless, this shit is tore up from the floor up and I can’t wait to see what she concocts for Christmas this year. I want to eat her entire house. Serious design crush happening.

Sarah over on Two One Nine shared her black, gold and silver Christmas tree which works so well with her insanely bold and beautiful living room. It takes serious balls to carry off this black-on-black number. Scrum-didilly-umptious.

Kristin from The Hunted Interior wrote this week about how she’s organizing her Christmas colours this year based around one of her favourite prints hanging in her living room. Utilizing all that pink, green and orangeness for a super fresh Christmas twist.

Why not take a look at what you’ve got going on in your home and go with the flow? You can still maintain a Christmassy feel with an alternative colour palette. 
Over the weekend I’ll be jazzersizing my existing Christmas ornaments {reduce, reuse, recycle} to better suit our living space, and fingers crossed, if they don’t look shit, I’ll be blogging them next week. Super simple stuff like adding a bit of ribbon, mastering a few yarn pom-poms, a shit-tonne of glitter, and my favourite lazy go-to these days – spray paint.

Happy Friday homies! I hope you start your weekend well, after all, the festive seasons kicks off tomorrow.

xxA

Custom Christmas – part 1, part 2, and part 3.
Image cred 1 and 2, 3, 4 and 5.
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Coming up …

It’s taking a little longer than expected, but I’m slowly working away at our living room revamp. If I could, I’d pick up the IKEA Stockholm Rand rug as I’d love to get that added to our living space, but alas, we don’t have a car, and something tells me I would rather drive dull spoons into my eye sockets than lug that thing over two bus routes, through Dublin, in order to get it home.
BUUUUT, until we bum a lift off an unsuspecting victim, I have stifled my design thirst with my most recent purchase. It’s a biggie for me, and I want it to hurry the hell up and get here already. It’s only the Karlsson flip clock …

24.5cm² of silver, flippy goodness. Om nom nom. I expect this to happen to my facial region whence the packaging is torn open … 

I will shit a kitten. And yes, I foresee myself waiting until the stroke of midnight, much like a giddy child on Christmas eve, waiting in anticipation for all the flips to flap.

When the lord giveth, he also taketh away, in the form of one of our cats decided to reorganize our living room while we were in work this week. Husbands birthday present this year – a watercolour of the Dude’s cardigan by moi. Sad face. I suppose, another excuse reason to go to IKEA! p.s. Kitties are unscathed, just a little startled. 

But until then, I hope to get some sweet, sweet posts sorted this weekend for some {hopeful} goodness next week.

I’m also contemplating decorating our home this weekend for the holidays. But, every fiber of my being is screaming, telling me it’s too early. Last year we decorated on the 1st of December, but by New Years, I wanted my apartment back, so I’m hesitating this year to decorate too early. BUT for sure, there will be some Christmas crafting going down this weekend.

Later homies!
xx A

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