Zipper bracelet

Quilting - first attempt

Summer Button Necklace

Faux fur vest

The must-have faux fur vest...

I found this piece of faux fur on sale and it looked perfect for a warm and fashionable vest!

I made the pattern by measuring a jacket of mine for the back side and I improvised a little bit for the front side because I wanted the two front parts to be uneven, with the one part to be wider, covering the other part.

I cut the fur and assembled the pieces... and I added pieces from the left-overs to create the colar parts.

Under my Umbrella

Broken Umbrella into skirt

Winter is almost gone and what we're always left with (especially in Brussels), is winter blues and plenty of broken umbrellas. There's nothing I can do about the blues, but here's a fun way to recycle the umbrellas and create something really pretty!

Let's get rid of the metalic part by cutting carefully the strings and we iron the water-resistant cloth.

We make a hole in the centre and then we sew it with the sewing machine all around, so that we can pass the elastic all the way through.

 The skirt is ready in no-time and looks so nice!!!

Artichoke hallway lamps

This is an idea that I borrowed from the internet in the search of original DIY lamps. It is very simple and very cute. All you need is (apart from love :-) a plastic bottle and more or less 60 plastic spoons. It's also eco-friendly because it can be made entirely by waste materials.

First I cut the two ends of the bottle and then I cut the spoons.
I glued them with a silicon pistol.

 It is very easy, it can be made very quickly (it took me around 2 hours) and the effect is very clear and bright lighting, like a nude bulb.
Let there be light!!!!

Winter's around the corner

Winter's around the corner

Beginning of October and weather in Belgium follows its normal trends. Temperature is dropping and rain is pourring non-stop. Time for cocooning in the couch watching movies and...knitting, preferably something warm!

It's just a simple two-needle stitch, with a puff stitch as a finishing line.

Et voila!

Easy and colourful placemats for every-day use

Easy and colourful placemats for every-day use

Originally I bought this cloth to make some curtains/shades for my appartment but then I decided that I liked blinds more, so I needed to find another use for this material. Somehow I came up with the idea of placemats, because the cloth is thick and water resistant.

I cut it in 6 equal parts and provided for some extra centimetres to be folded in the inner side and to be sewed with the sewing machine.

And then some decoration...

... and matching glove

As simple as that!

Project "Hand-made croco clutch bag"                                         

Here's a hand-made croco clutch bag, after a special request by my friend Eleftheria, who saw it in Wendy's lookbook (http://www.wendyslookbook.com/2011/11/happy-friday-prada-sweater-dress-homemade-clutch/) and adored it instantly. And there's no bigger chalenge for me than the question "can you make it?". And they know it and this how they manipulate me...

So, all it takes is a few centimeters of fake croco leather, a magnetic bag clasp and a sewing machine. I also put some grey lining in the inside to make it look more elegant. I had to break three needles before I realise that there is a special tool that is attached to the needle to prevent smooth cloth from sticking onto the plastic surfaces of the sewing machine.

Project "Industrial design - pendant lamp"                      

Several years ago, there was a commercial on greek tv with the moto "now hang your cooking pots up" (τώρα τις κατσαρόλες σας κρεμάστε τες ψηλά) advertising a pre-cooked Bechamel sauce. This commercial came into my mind when my pendant lamp was finished and hanged from the ceiling of my kitchen/living room.

The idea popped into my mind when I first saw these milk pans in the stock shop in my neighborhood. Their colours matched exactly my kitchen/living room colours, so I bought six of them and another three little frying pans in the same colours (of which only two have been used for the pendant) for 2,95€ each.

It required a lot of drilling to make a hole in the center of each pan bottom, so that I fix the sockets. Thank god there was already a hole at the edge of every handle, that helped to bring all the pans together with a long screw.

It was extremely difficult for me to do all the wiring, as I didn't have a similar background, but thanks to the contribution of my friend Yannis, I managed to make this work.