Tag Archives: decoration
Quick and thrifty retro bird decoration
*****Warning: contains strong, possibly offensive views***** You know what I hate? PINK. UGH. It is so disgusting. I have no doubt that my hatred of it is in part because of how it is now a prescriptively female colour, to … Continue reading
Posted in Craftiness, Thrifty
Tagged bird, decoration, fabric, garland, mod podge, thrifty, valentines day
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DIY Valentines decoration with a doily and a coathanger
Doilies are little things of wonder, an intricate relic of a daintier world whose stars faded in the eighties. (Like most good things, eh? MC Hammer pants, Button Moon, my childhood.) I heard it was once commonplace, before the advent … Continue reading
Posted in Craftiness
Tagged air, clay, coathanger, decoration, diy, doily, dry, handmade, hearts, ornament, valentines, wreath
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It is all about cross stitch… (no, really!)
I had a dream this week where all my friends, old and new, were at a cross stitch party and they were all better at it than I was. Dreams are so boring to hear but it is still so … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Craftiness
Tagged crafty, cross stitch, crossstich, decoration, frame, gifts, subversive, thrifty
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The writing (and a pair of flares) is on the wall
When I was 14 a can of spray adhesive changed my world. (By world I mean bedroom.) Gone were the tatty, blu tacked up Green Day posters and up went all manner of random stuff that shouldn’t naturally be stuck … Continue reading
Posted in Craftiness, DIY, Our recycled home
Tagged decoration, flares, foy, london, love, on, purple, riots, spray adhesive, stick, then, things, vance, walked, walls
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