Mini Bottle Project!

For a while now, I have been loving looking at how bloggers have used sheet music in different projects & have been trying to figure out how I could incorporate it into my own decor scheme somehow!!

I recently found this little home interiors shop called Raspberry Village... (I could spend hours in there), and amongst many things they sold some cute glass bottles for around £2! They were exactly like what I had been looking for.

However.....I kinda felt I could make them look a little more interesting! So, I went to my favorite craft store, got some creamy coloured paper (like the colour of old sheet music), white ribbon & some metal embellishments!

When I got home, I copied & pasted some music lines on the computer, (four lines for the small bottle, 5 for the large bottle), minimized them to the right size & printed them onto the paper.

I then cut out the music to the right size for each bottle, stuck it to the glass, fed the ribbon through the embellishment and stuck it together at the back.

Here is the finished result!



I think they sit really well on my hall table!


Quick + easy ~ perfect mini project for me! :)

Novelty Photo Display

Today is my day off and its been a really productive day ~ and its still only 5pm! I LOVE days like this :)

I've had this 'problem wall' in my hall & I've been puzzled what to do with it ever since we moved in.

Our house is fairly new so we are pretty much starting from scratch with all the decorating... which is good I guess (?!) except when you have a door bell box in the middle of the largest wall in the hallway (see below). hmm...


Earlier on today I was in the craft shop and I saw some plastic baubles in a range of different sizes. I had a brain wave I could put a picture into a selection of them and make them into an alternative photo display.

I measured out the circles & printed out photographs to fit in them... I then glued the photo to a scrap of card (as usual with me, old card = old sales particulars!) to give stability and cut them out.
Once I'd finished inserting all of the photos, I was trying to decide where to hang them and more importantly how to hang them...

I was outside when I noticed a piece of driftwood I brought from the beach (random, I know) :) I suddenly realized I could hang the baubles from this using white thread!

To my surprise... It actually looked OK!! It defiantly takes the bareness from the wall when you come in the front door!