Helloooo! Don't know why I exaggerated that but I did... Anyway! As you can see from the title, this post is about how I made a few things to make my room a bit more unique and Pinterest-y! Hope you like it...
The first DIY I have is this vase of colourful paper flowers! I made these with different colour pipe cleaners, lots of tissue paper (also in different colours) and tape, I used decorative tape but you could use plain tape as well.
- I started off by cutting the tissue paper into circles, I made my circles with roughly a diameter of 12 - 13cm but you can make them as big or small as you want.
- I then picked the colours I wanted for one flower, I used about 3 - 4 circles of tissue paper to make my flowers. Pile the pieces on top of each other in whatever order you want and fold them in half and then in half again.
- Cut the curved edge of the quarter-piece in any way, I cut most of mine in waves or zig-zag pattern. Only cut the curved edge though because otherwise the flower is going to fall apart when you open it back up.
- Open it up so all the pieces are in a circular shape again. Then get a pipe cleaner and fold over the tip of it and twist it slightly to make sure the 'knot' is secure.
- Thread each of the pieces through the pipe cleaner and stop just at the fold. Tape the pieces onto it so they are secure. Spread the 'petals' out a bit so you can see each individual layer.
Repeat all of these steps to make more flowers and then you can either stick them in a vase like I did, but you could put them in a jar, pencil pot or even just stick them dotted around your room if you want!
The next thing is this inspiration board/picture thing that I decided to make. I found this one really fun to make and I don't really know why, to be honest! This is probably one of the easiest things to make and you just need the Internet, a printer or you could even write/draw your own but I'm lazy so I didn't!
There's not really any steps to this one, I just went on Pinterest and Google Images, picked the quotes and pictures that were relevant to my life and my goals (new year's resolutions coming in!), printed them off, cut them out and arranged them on the magnet board at the back of my desk. You can put them up anywhere but I decided on my desk because I sit at it a lot and I can see it from basically everywhere in my room.
This DIY is another easy one, it's ribbon bunting. All you need is any ribbon scraps, I doesn't matter if they're different lengths because that's what I did with mine and I think it looks nice that way and a long piece of thread to hang them up. All I did was tie each end of the thread onto where I wanted the bunting to go over (I put them across a corner above my bed) then loop-knotted the ribbons onto it in the order I wanted. That's it really!
The last thing I made was this jar that I decorated and then filled up with ideas of things I could do everyday for either myself or another person. It's quite self-explanatory but I decorated the jar using some pens that can write on things like glass (you can probably get them from any craft shop). Then I filled it up by writing things on coloured card like "Read a book you love" or "Call a friend you haven't seen in a while". I find it so fun to just dip my hand in the jar and pick something out to do every so often! You don't have to fill it up like that though, you could fill it up with sweets, nail polishes or anything you like!
I really liked making this sort of post so if you did any of these DIYs then please tell me in the comments which one you did, I would love to know! I'm planning on doing more of a range of different blog posts so expect some odd posts that aren't just about beauty or shopping (because to be honest that's usually what I write about!)
**My birthday is in less than a week now and I can't wait! Actually... my birthday is going to be on Monday and that's when I usually post now (I know this post is a day late) so I might be able to post that day but it might also be either early or later. We'll see... :D**
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