HOME DECOR BLOG HOP 22-24 APRIL 2011

Hello everyone, and welcome to day 3 of the  The Home Decor  3 day BLOG HOP

If you have arrived here from Jen R's  blog then you are on the right track. If you are here just browsing around (thank you), but would like to “hop”  along with us then please start back at Faiths blog for the day one project. 
http://faithfulecreations.wordpress.com/

The theme for this hop is Home Decor so our projects had to be creations for such.

Here is the last of my three day  projects – the first one is a painted mannequin bust.

For this project i took a plain buff coloured back 2 basics mannequin bust and covered it in acrylic black paint and left to dry. The bust is around 24" tall but they do come in different sizes. 

I measured out a dowling rod to fit the right size of the bust and to leave enough for a stand and cut to size. I then asked my hubby to cut me a cross shape for the bottom as i cant use a saw properly!!    

When he cut it for me i had to make sure the dowling rod would fit the hole in the bottom and then glued it into a cross shape to act as a base for the whole thing to stand on. The visible stand base  from cross bottom going up to the bottom of the bust is 12" in height but overall it is 25" but as most of it disappears up inside the bust for stability. 

Once in place and dry i painted it all black.

The bust was then covered in wild orchid flowers and leaves for decoration. I just adore this flower range and have so many of them in my collection. 

I used the ends of the leaves and curled them around a paint brush to create the swirly flourish tendrell embellishments in with the flowers.

Lastly i added 2 buttons and a small piece of ribbon and bling pink gem as a neck piece to finish it off. 

The finished item can be used as an ornament to add decoration to your dressing table in your bedroom or any room depending on the colour scheme used.

My next project is fairy related and for those of you that know me will know that this is no surprise for a fairy thing or 2 to crop up in something that im doing !


This one is a fairy door.



A very simple project as i bought a fairy door blank from ebay (3" tall) and i painted it two colours of brown then gave the wood a grainy effect. Next i added some liquid lead liner for the small window and then made a little hole in it to place in its door handle. To decorate i added a ladybug, butterfly and little gold stars.
A fairy door can be put against your skirting boards in your home so that fairies can move freely from room to room in your home without being detected ! Ihave these in my house and in my garden.



Now for my last project. I bet you are wondering what on earth  this ball with feathers is ???   


Well its a fairy nest.
A fairy nest is a little home for the fairies that live in your home. It can be hung somewhere so the light will shine on the glitter as fairies are attracted to the glitter, feathers and beads and you will soon find that one will be living in your nest. I have several of these hanging up in my house and sold heaps at fayres as they are so novel.


This is how i made it.


Its a rafia ball that i had in a bag of pot pourri and ribbons, feathers, beads and 2 little chipboard creatures.


I sprayed the  ball in silver glitter spray then attached ribbons to the top for hanging it up and tied it off in a bow.


I then attached lots of ribbons to the bottom and threaded on assorted beads.


The feathers are then poked up inside the beads and a little glue added to hold them in place.


I then added the little chipboard butterfly, glittered, to the ball and a glittered dragonfly to the feathers.

There you have it -thats all my projects  for this Home Decor 3 day hop.

I  hope you like what i have created and shown you over the 3 days and id appreciate it if you could leave me a comment. 

If you do like what you see and wanna see more then id love it if you would become one of my ever growing list of followers. I have blog candy giveaways on a regular basis and I also run bi weekly challenges and a RAK club for you to take part in.

Now back to the hop - there are a lot of talented crafty women on this hop and I hope you enjoy looking through their blog entries.  


So now please hop on over to the next blog http://swandog-4scraps.blogspot.com/  where you will find another lovely creation from  Lori.  
                    

There is blog candy being offered along this hop - so please make sure you check out everyones hop stops.

Thank you again to Faith for organising this hop as ive had a blast seeing everyones creations and ive really enjoyed creating my own. Thanks also goes to you for taking the time to hop along each day, i look forward to reading your comments and seeing you back here again real soon. If you have missed any of my previous days projects click HERE for day one and HERE for day two. 
If you are interested in hopping along with me again then have a look at my HOPS tab at the top of my blog for future hop dates that i am involved in.