Moving Update + DIY

    I'M IN TORONTO, YAY! We moved late Sunday night, but I could only take things that would fit in a car so unfortunately, I have no furniture until halfway through September when we do the rest of my moving. But I've moved in and my cat Jayda and my sisters cat Zoe and slowly getting used to each other again. Not going to lie - I thought they Zoe was going to kill Jayda this morning, she got very territorial and wouldn't stop hissing. But they've separated themselves now and they seem like they maybe won't have cat WWIII.

     One of the things I brought with me this week was a little shelf and it was a very orangey-brown colour that I absolutely hated so I decided that I was going to paint it, and I also had a lamp with a wooden base and an old bread box, that I'm going to use to store my vhs tapes. They turned out really well and I thought I'd show you!

    So the paint colour I chose is called West Coast from the Benjamin Moore Designer Classics Collection, it's a really nice blue toned grey, and I just bought one of the tester cans for $7. I did two coats on the shelf and just one on the lamp and they look so good. The bread box I tried to ombre with a white paint and just sponged it on. I'm actually so pleased with them and I'm so excited to get the rest of my furniture and fix up my room.

   I tried to vlog this whole experience and it looks like a piece of poop so I'm going to keep learning before I actually upload anything, but I am definitely going to film a room tour when it's all done! Also I want to do something cool with the lampshade, but I can't really find anything online, so if you have an idea of what will go well with the colour please let me know in the comments below, or on instagram @delaneycassidyy!

Twelve Days of Christmas // Day Seven

     Ayyy day 7. Today I thought I'd show you how I made my adorable little friend. I originally made him for Halloween, but he was too cute not to have around for a few months more.

     So first of all you need two Styrofoam balls, one slightly bigger than the other and two bags of feathers, I did black and white but you could do any colours you want. You also need two googly eyes, a piece of tinsel or ribbon, and a triangular bead for the nose.  First, you hot glue the smaller ball on top of the bigger one, and wait for it to dry. I recommend you use a hot glue gun for this as it melts a little bit of the Styrofoam and makes it rest on the other ball better. Then, you start to glue on the feathers using white glue. Start in the middle, using the first colour and then add the second colour feathers on the rest of the Styrofoam. It is really simple, but it take a lot of time to let everything dry, as you will probably have to do it in shifts.

     After the feathers are dry, you have to glue on the eyes and nose. I also stuck some feathers in the Styrofoam to make little ear tuffs which I thought were very cute. Next, take your tinsel or ribbon and make a scarf. I tied mine, but you could glue it on if you wanted to make it permanent.

     I honestly just think this owl is so cute, the pictures do not do it justice.

Twelve Days of Christmas // Day Five

This year I wanted do something creative and make my own Christmas ornaments. I bought a bag of about twenty white Christmas balls (thrift store, $8) and decided to wing it for the first one (which I don't have a picture of, sorry!). Needless to say it did not look very good, but it gave me the idea to make Dr. Seuss inspired ornaments. 

So first up I did the Grinch heart which I just started by painting it completely green. This took a while because I had to wait for it to dry and then go over it again to get the spots that I missed. Then I painted a lopsided heart (I'd google the image first so you know what you're doing!) and then I painted a heart shaped line around it and some lines to indicate that it was growing. Not pictured is the back which says "And in Whoville they say, the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day". I wrote it in pencil first and then went over it in a thin black pen after. 

Next up I painted a ball red and then just started painting white circles on it. This one is not finished yet because I do plan on going over the edges again with red paint just to tidy it up, but the ball does look very cute. 

I think the next one is my absolute favourite, they are the Thing 1 & Thing 2 ornaments. I started these by tracing a circle in black marker, then painting the inside of it white and the outside red. When it had dried I went over the line again with black paint and touched up both sides. 

Next I drew the outline of the letters and then filled them in with black marker. You could use paint, but I thought that it would be a bit harder to do. The letters do not have to look perfect, I honestly didn't mean to make them smaller from left to right, but I think they look really good. 

I have to say that I honestly have no artistic talent whatsoever and the fact that these aren't completely awful makes me so proud. They were really inexpensive to make, the paint was only $1.25 each and the paint brushes were $2. I think all in all I spent under $20, but it did take a LOT of time. I'm still not done, to be honest with you, but I thought I'd share these few. Hope you're enjoying your holidays so far!