Beautiful mini garden in planters

How to make a little gardening project in your home? It` easy...


Tools and Materials

5 terra-cotta planters
Soilless potting mix
Assorted herbs

The How-To

Our planter has rosemary, sage, parsley, thyme, oregano, basil, and chives - all readily available in nurseries and versatile in the kitchen. Any herbs can be used. If you want to grow mint, plant it on its own in the top pot, since it can overwhelm other herbs.

Place largest planter in the location selected for the herb garden. Center 1 smaller pot within, upside down (with at least 6 inches of space around the inverted pot); fill ring between the two with potting mix.

Repeat to create a second layer with 2 smaller pots, with 4 inches between them. Place final pot right side up on second inverted pot. Fill with potting mix. Plant herbs in all three layers.

Source: www.marthastewart.com

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How to Make Whimsical Fabric Flower Hair Clips

How to Make Whimsical Fabric Flower Hair Clips? You just need a little fabric, some hair clips, and a flame.

Materials for Fabric Flowers:

• synthetic fabric in whatever colors and styles catch your eye.  I used 1/8th of a yard each of five different types of complimentary fabrics, some sheer, some opaque.
• a candle
• scissors
• something for the center of the flower.  I used Swarovski crystals, but rhinestones, buttons, sequins, anything would work.
• needle and thread (or glue, if you prefer)

Instructions for Making Fabric Flowers

First, cut your fabric into circles of varying diameters.  Don't worry about being precise, or getting the circle perfect.  Really, you can just freehand it and be awfully sloppy about your cutting technique.  Put your kindergartner on the task and it will be just fine.  It's that easy.  I want to make a quick comment about the type of fabric here.  You really need to be sure that you get completely synthetic material.  No cotton or silk can sneak in there, or the technique won't work.  I found a great selection of shiny synthetics in the formal dress section of Joann Fabrics.

Next, light your candle.  Hold the cut edge of your circle close to the flame, and you will see it start to melt and curl.  This is what we want!  (I had total flashbacks to my 4th grade science fair experiment on flammability of synthetic versus natural fabrics when doing this step.)  Melt and curl all the edges, and you'll have not only sealed the edges from fraying, but you'll have a perfectly shaped layer for your flower.

Stack the circles so that you have a nicely layered flower. Again, this is incredibly easy. I put my first-grader in charge of this job. There are no real rules, just stack from biggest to smallest, and you'll have a beautiful flowers.

Use a needle and thread to secure the stack of petals and to sew any center in the flower if you want to. You could also easily use glue to stack the layers together and glue a center in the flower if you want a completely no-sew project.

Glue the completed flower to a headband, a pin, or a hairclip for an easy and gorgeous accessory.

Source: http://tradewindtiaras.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-make-whimsical-fabric-flower.html

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Beautiful Napkins for Christmas table

The holidays have arrived once more, and with them all the delicious foods, parties, and festive events intended to evoke the Christmas spirit inside us all. If you are planning a Christmas party this year, you might be interested in using decorative Christmas napkins to help set the mood. Not only do they turn any table into holiday fare, but Christmas napkins can be sculpted and folded into decorative holiday art such as Christmas trees, candy canes and snowflakes.

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Cristian Zuzunaga Pixel Furniture

Cristian Zuzunaga is well since then Spanish, London-based designer kept on exploring the use of pixels to produce unique colorful visual furniture.Working and collaborating with some of the best name in furniture design like the Ligne Roset or Moroso amongst others, his patterned  furniture can definitely fit into any cool modern interior design house or office.
His graphic patterns derive from zooming in on images he has taken of cityscapes until the image is broken into these infinitesimal geometric shapes.

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