Pom pom wreath

I saw this adorable wreath in a store the other day made from felt balls and thought I'd try and replicate it for our house. It's the kind of wreath that could be put up at christmas but still left hanging for the rest of the year. It was over a hundred dollars where my little replica cost $4 and was inspired by things I had lying around the over crowded craft room.

For this project you will need:

pompoms ( I used a variety of sizes but you can use whatever size you like- I ended up needing to buy two more packets, thus the $4 cost)

a wreath frame ( I used a metal bell frame covered in fabric that I'd picked up from a garage sale years back).

a glue gun

Simply glue away pompoms until you have covered every single surface of the bell (or wreath) on both sides. Then think about where you would like it to go and hang up with string, ribbon, whatever you've got and enjoy. I think if I make another one in the future I'll go with pom poms the same size but this one still worked out pretty cute.

 I placed it in the hallway and it ties in nicely with my hooks. I think I'm  getting a little obsessed with coloured balls!

Lisa x

P.s I'm linking up with
We Like To Learn As We Go
Someday Crafts

Choices, choices, choices!

I have decided to be more adventurous with my paint colours for our new home. For the first two homes we lived in (and still currently live in) I simply went for white walls (which is always lovely) but this time I've been thinking let's experiment.

The first room we are going to tackle is the hallway. We have already added blackwood doors and now it's time to change the walls from the delightful pinkish colour they are.

From the above picture you can make out the marble trim which is also in the hallway and guest room (none of the furniture in this photo is ours). The marble trim is amazingly painted and I know getting a professional painter in to add a marble trim would cost a bucket load. I don't really love it but we're going to paint the walls first and see how it looks with the marble still there. For colours we have chosen 'silver dollar' and 'cray grey' by Taubmans. We are just going to paint the hallway and if it looks fabulous then we will paint the library the same colours too. We have just done a little paint test but once the walls are prepped, then we will paint the rest.

Another thing that we desperately need to do the hallway is to change the white carpet. It is so easy to get dirty and the hallway will be such a high traffic area. After looking at wooden flooring for hours we have concluded that we're going to go for laminate flooring for the time being...then when we're suddenly rich we can add wooden floorboards to the whole house :-). My Dad has kindly agreed to put down the laminate flooring which will save us a bunch. After looking for hours it seems like 'blackwood' from Lecornu is the winner. It helps too that it's 20% off at the moment too (blackwood is the middle one).

I'm feeling excited now that we're making some choices and just going for it. Hopefully it will end up amazing and if not, I can always go back to my love of white.

How do you go about making house choices?

Lisa x

A hallway bench.

before

On this blog I will be showing you how I find old things cheaply and give them a new lease of life.
This phone table cost $2 from a garage sale.
It was the perfect size for our hallway and I thought it would make an excellent hallway bench.

during

How to:
I removed the draw and the seat.
Then I gave it 2 coats of white paint.
A kind friend cut some plywood to size for me (plywood was $13 from the hardware store but I have some left over) and lent me his staple gun.
I got some upholstery material from a friend that was just a bit bigger than the plywood and cut up some foam cushions I had lying around to create a foam seat.
Then I put the foam on the plywood and wrapped the material around using a staple gun to hold it in place.
 And voila...