Showing posts with label DIY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DIY. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Put a Cork in It: DIY Cork Shadow Box Table

Has anyone seen Anthropologie's cork themed window displays? Together with the Cork Forrest Conservation Alliance they collected over 2 million corks to display in windows to celebrate Earth Day.

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These windows reminded me of the months my sister spent collecting corks from friends, family, restaurants, grocery stores, wine shops, etc. to make this amazing cork shadow box coffee table!

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My dad and her built the shadow box table with a little paint, glass, plywood, 2 x 4s and
some legs from Home Depot... I know I'm making that sound much easier than it was but to
me the hard part was helping her arrange the 500+ corks!

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To my surprise not every cork is the same size. Some are short and fat and others are long and skinny so we had to take that into account along with making sure that duplicates were spaced far apart.



It was definitely worth all the hours of arranging and rearranging though because it's a great conversation piece and looks so good in her wine themed living room!

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PS- If you want to make your own cork table Pottery Barn now sells a great shadow box table. All you have to do is take out the removable dividers and start arranging!

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Townsend Coffee Table, Pottery Barn $499

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Decorating with Peeps...yum

I love this time of year when these brightly colored, sugary critters start popping up everywhere! I spotted this Peeps Sunflower Topiary in Woman's Day the other day and thought what a great idea! A quick Google search later and I realized there are lots of great ways to decorate for Easter with Peeps.

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Peeps Sunflower, Woman's Day

Here are some of my favorite ideas and a few great DIY links in case you want a Peeps decoration of your own.


Peeps Vases

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Peeps and Jelly Beans Vase


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Tulips and Peeps centerpiece, Tip Junkie


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Peeps Centerpieces

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Edible Peeps Centerpiece


Peeps Topiaries

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Peeps Topiary (great how to)

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Peeps Topiary, The Hungry Mouse


Peeps Wreaths

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Peeps Wreath, Tried and True

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Yellow Bunny Peeps Wreath


PS- Has anyone tried the new chocolate covered Peeps? I'm not sure how I'm going to feel about them...

Monday, April 4, 2011

DIY: Matchbook Shadowbox

It's been over a year since I moved back from New York and I've been trying to figure out what
 to do with the 100+ matches I collected from restaurants during my four years there.

Flipping through the sneak peak of Kate Spade's 'Things We Love' book I saw this (that I'm guessing is by the talented Caitlin McGauley), and the wheels started turning about making a matchbook collage. 



So I bought a 16 x 20" shadowbox frame by from the local craft store and set out on my collage. 
After several too many hours of sorting, arranging and rearranging again to
 create the perfect mixture of colors and shapes I ended up with this. 

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I then glued them all down to the back of the shadow box frame so they'd
stay in place for years to come and ta-da!




The matches are not quite "vintage" yet but I love the mix of all the colors, fonts and images!
And now I'll always be reminded of some my favorite memories in New York.

Here are a few of my NYC restaurant faves...

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TAO

Extra Virgin (favorite neighborhood italian)

La Esquina (best Mexican)

P.J. Clarke's  (best burgers)

Stanton Social (tapas..great for big groups)

(favorite wine bar) Inoteca

 Blue Water Grill 

(amazing guac & margs) Rosa Mexicano

  (great brunch and people watching)  Pastis










Ok now I'm hungry and ready for a trip back!
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