Monday moodboard - Vintage

{1. photo by Stephmel 2. necklace from LucieTales

3. earrings from AutMandata 4. brooch from ALittleDotty}

I'm listening to a radio show and for the last half hour they've been playing oldies music, David Bowie, Marc Bolan, Marianne Faithful mixing it up with jazz and some french artists I don't know. So it put me in vintage kind of mood and here are my picks to go with it :-)
Wishing you a great week,
Aleka
ps you can see more moodboards at Estella's blog right here!

For the new year

Each year I tape a calendar on my closet door, it's proven to be very useful and I've done it for the past three years. The first one was a calendar I got at a book fair, the second one was made by my best friend and now I decided to make the third one. I used images from The Graphics Fairy, the image of the dancing children and a background with a floral pattern combined with a tea stained texture I had on my PC. I played around with the filters and layer blend modes to give it a vintage feel and this is the result, I must say I am quite pleased with it!
Just click on the image and print it, it's a bit smaller than an A4 paper, so you'll need to trim it a bit. I printed it on a bit heavier paper than regular and it looks fantastic, now I just need to trim it and tape it on my closet door :-)
Happy new year, may this year bring all of us the things we most need!
xoxo
Aleka

Shabby chic Christmas stars

Since we've been preparing for the Christmas bazaars we haven't really had time to decorate our home and get into the Christmas spirit. So I did a simple and easy little craft, here is the shabby chic Christmas stars tutorial.
What you need:
linen fabric (I'm not sure if mine is actually linen but as long as it frays at the edges it's ok)
iron on transfer sheet with printed music sheets - I got mine at The Graphics Fairy
cotton thread
star pattern

Print your music sheet on the iron on paper but make sure you reverse the image, so that you'll avoid having it printed backwards. A simple horizontal flip on photoshop or any editing program will do. Trace the star pattern on the back of the iron on paper and cut out your stars. Place them on your fabric and iron them for a few minutes, usually until the paper changes color, it gets a yellowish hue. Leave to cool off, peel the backing paper and then cut your stars leaving a few millimeters around the edges. You don't have to be perfect doing this, so no pressure. Cut off another set of stars from the same fabric, using the printed ones as size guide, to use as backing. Choose your thread colors, I chose a light caramel color and a fuchsia red and stitch the two pieces together. Again you don't have to be perfect doing this, any imperfections just adds character :-) Use a piece of same color thread to make the hanging loops, stitch them and you are done!

Hope you liked it and try it yourself :-)
See more creative spaces here!
xoxo
Aleka