New Honeycomb Kitchen Light and Project Highlights

It was a somewhat lazy weekend for me. I mean lazy in the project department, but I feel like I needed it. I spent my time with the kids and some friends.

Sunday evening I went skiing again. I can't believe this weather! More snow? At the end of March? I'm glad I love to ski...otherwise this winter would seam endless. I'm sure that's how the rest of you feel about it ;) right?

I don't know if you noticed in my house tour at Kirsten's from 6TH STREET DESIGN SCHOOL (click HERE) on Friday that I bought a new kitchen light. And I love it. I can't stop looking at it.

Isn't it beautiful?

It is the Honeycomb Glass Pendant Shade from Urban Outfitters (click here)

I decided to take the silver chains, that are attached to the light off.

I like it better that way.

What do you think?

You like it as much as I do?

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I said on Friday that I would do a little project recap for my blog-birthday this Monday! This might be boring to some of you who have been following me for a while but there are also new friends to the blog, so it might be a good thing.

My three most popular posts are:

My DIY outdoor cat enclosure

I would have never guessed that this would be as popular as it is but I'm so glad because it shows that people do care about their furry family members as much as I do.

Click HERE if you want to read about it.

My DIY Painted Horizontal Striped Curtains

I know they have been done so many times in the blogosphere but they are still really popular.

I've had mine for almost three years now and I love them

 because they make a huge statement in the room.

Click HERE if you want to read about mine.

My DIY Flush Mount Ceiling Fixture

Click HERE if you want to read about how I made it.

And here are some of my other popular posts:

DIY Christmas Canvas

Click HERE

DIY Pierro Fornasetti Plates

Click HERE to see them.

DIY Ombre Room Divider

Click HERE to see it.

I don't want to bore you with a ton of my old projects but if you are interested, you can check most of them out by clicking HERE.

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Just as a reminder, you can still enter into my blog-birthday gold polka dot giveaway (say that 10 times really fast, LOL) 

until tomorrow evening!

Click HERE to go to Friday's post if you want to enter.

So that's it for today.

Talk to you guys on Wednesday.

Guten Tag

(Youleeya)

Holy Lamps they are big!

My mom is gone and I was in a serious funk yesterday afternoon. It is hard for me to talk/write about this, especially since I know my dad reads my post (Hallo Vadder!). Every time I voice how sad this makes me, my parents think I'm unhappy or ready to get a divorce, which is not the case. I'm just stuck between two countries and missing my family so much, but that doesn't mean I hate it here. Do you somewhat understand what I mean or do I make no sense?

Anyways, lets get down to business...my bloggy friends on Facebook already know that I've been eyeing up these lamps. Well yesterday morning I finally went and bought them. I saw them for the first time when I went to look at a wing back chair and the guy selling it just unloaded them from his truck. I dropped everything and asked him what he wanted for them. He told me $40 each. Woah! I asked him if he could do less and he said no.

I decided to not get them, because I knew the hubby wouldn't be too happy with another set of lamps and they were way too expensive. The shades need some serious work.

They stuck with me and I couldn't get them out of my head. They kept popping up on craigslist and after 3 weeks they were down to $15 for the pair. Nobody wanted them. Are they crazy? Or am I? Haha!

So my mom and I before she headed to the airport stopped by his house and bought them. She liked them as much as I did and the price made it easy.

So here they are. Turquoise and Gold Hollywood Regency Gigantors!

Yuck, look at those shades. The scale is awesome but they need some serious work.

And look how huge they are compared to my chairs. They are bigger than my 6 year old daughter.

They read f.L. Co. 1963.

They remind me of the show "Bewitched". I used to watch that show in Germany all the time and maybe that's why my mom and I liked the lamps. And the guy I bought them from (he is actually really nice) said that his aunt who passed way said the same thing. That's the reason why she loved these lamps so much. So maybe it was meant to be?

Now that i have them at home, I have to admit that they dwarf everything else in my house. They are THAT huge! I have ideas in my head on what to do with them but some of those ideas will (for sure) not work in my home.

My thoughts right now are that they would look phenomenal at my sister-in-laws house. I mentioned her living room (that I painted a couple of years ago) in an older post. Here it is again and sorry for the quality, it's one of her iPhone photos. I need to go over to her house and take pictures.

Wouldn't they look cool in her circus living room? I think so! If you ever get a chance check out her bakery "Vegan Treats". The bakery has been named one of the World's 10 best bakeries by "Departures", an American Express magazine. How cool is that? And if you are vegan then I'm sure you've heard about her already, right?

I think I'll have to let them sit somewhere for a little to think about it. I call it brew and stew in my head.

What do guys think? Please do tell!

Talk to you on Friday. I've worked on a Christmas project that I'd like to share with you.

Bis bald.

Ikea Maskros Hack Ideas

I have been thinking about possibly doing one of the many 

Ikea Maskros hacks that you can see in blog land. 

Do I have room for one? NO! 

Do I want to be amongst all those bloggers that hacked the Maskros already? Hmmm, not sure. 

But I really am a huge fan of this crazy popular Ikea chandelier. 

It's everywhere: TV shows, store displays, clubs, restaurants...

So I thought about sharing some of the ideas with you.
Part of the Maskros Appeal is that it is simply elegant and a few of my ideas unfortunately take that simplicity away but would make a great focal point!

Here it goes:

Since Halloween is fast approaching I thought about hacking the Maskros into a black chandelier with bats. You would have to cut out or buy 80 (for the small Maskros) black paper bats and attach them to a black spray painted Maskros. Wouldn't that be so cool for a Halloween party? The shadows on the wall but be so fun!
This website sells a package of 8 paper bats for $2.49 or this site sells a large bat craft paper punch.

If you don't like bats, then do black spiders or white ghosts!

The other day I came across this fabulous tutorial on how to make paper orchids on Pinterest. 

Lia from Ellinée blog has a downloadable printout for a white orchid or a pink orchid and I was thinking that it would be so fun to make a Maskros orchid chandelier. 

Instead of attaching the standard flowers, you'd "only" (haha) have to make 80 of her fabulous orchids.

She has several other paper flower ideas as well. 

A paper Tiger Lily Maskros or a Peonies Maskros would be just as beautiful.

DIY paper orchids by Lia from Ellinée blog
(if you want to pin her flowers, please go to her blog and pin from original source)

Or if you like it a little more glam then you might like the idea of punching out mirror effect craft paper. And yes there is such a paper. They have it in the scrapbooking isle in silver, gold and color tinted! Again use a craft punch to cut out the desired shape 

for example a star, octagon or circle and attach to Maskros.

I also thought about making 80 paper lady bugs.
Wouldn't that be cute for a baby or toddler room or even a birthday party?

And last but not least felt!
Felt is so in style right now! So why not make a felt Maskros Chandelier???

You can shape flowers like Beckie from Infarrantly Creative

Or this gorgeous felt flower by Balsam on etsy.

And if you don't want a chandelier then why not transform it into a floor lamp like this hack?

What do you think? So many options, right! 

Do you have any more ideas? Please share!

I 'll probably regret throwing these ideas out there for somebody to use 

and make a fabulous Maskros that will be all over pinterest 

but the reality is that I don't have the room (well, maybe for one) but not for 5 or 6!

Talk to you soon fellow webbers und guten Tag.

Haunted Ikea Stråla Woods

I'm not at all into "crafty-cutesy" Fall/Halloween decorations. I try to keep it to a minimum. But on the other hand I have kids who love Halloween. I have to find a happy medium.

My favorite thing to use for Halloween decorations are spiders. It's not too morbid and still scary enough!

With Halloween approaching I had the idea to repurpose an old white Ikea Stråla Christmas light that I had in the attic. It had turned yellow and didn't look so pretty anymore.

So I came up with the idea to turn it into haunted woods. I first wanted to cut a ton of eyes into the trees and back them with yellow transparent paper to make the eyes glow but it was so hard to cut out tiny eyes in this really thick paper that I quickly realized ghosts would be a much better option.

I drew the shapes of the ghosts on the pine trees and cut them out with scissors and an X-ACTO knife. I also have a house peeking from behind a pine tree. Then I taped the ghosts and anything else that I wanted to keep white and spray painted it black.

Voila... now we have a black haunted pine tree forrest.

I will keep it on top of my fridge during Halloween season because it stands out against my white cabinets.

The kids thought it was the BEST. That's all that matters.

Talk to you soon fellow webbers und guten Tag.

Making the World Cuter Monday