Ecomanía DIY

More of my DYI column in Ecomania.

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Nuevas ediciones de mi columna en Ecomania.

Ecomania magazine (my DIY section)

This is my collaboration for the new argentinean sustainable magazine Ecomania. It's a pleasure to work among talented friends. Check it out (it's in spanish).
Esta es mi colaboracion con la nueva revista argentina especializada en sustentabilidad Ecomania. Es realmente un placer trabajar entre amigos talentosos.

Esta es mi columna en la revista Mia

Funny to watch and try!

Des grands boutons font de l'art

A very creative and wise friend of mine called Claudio Martinez made me this beautiful pieces that I thought I can be inpired. Don't you just love them?

If you want to make something like this, sew great fancy buttons to a very thick paper (he used some red envelopes), and put them as decorations in your walls. You can use different colors but try to make it stylish, otherwise is going to look kitch!

Easy living style

Like this? I've prepared a small tutorial if you want to make it. I try to reuse this beautiful branches of a flower called here in Argentina "palo de durazno", and now (starting spring) is it season. I took punch holer with a butterfly image and some light blue paper and VOILA! I just distribute them randomly.

It gives a very soft ambiance, try it!

Bias tape tutorial

This is harder to explain than doing it. You can have a lot of bias tape of the fabric you love, just start with a 50cm square, or even bigger if you need more (not less than that). I hope you will find it easy, if not, feel free to ask me any doubts!

High Stool Musical

This stool costs me about 10 dollars and I bought it because the high was just perfect for my working table. But I thougt it was très boring so... here it is with something smooth on it, some fabric, and baby broderie!

I need comments !!!

The missing pillow

Well, as you've probably seen a couple of post ago, I' ve finished my bed quilt, and I thought that something was missing. I found the hole in my design: some pillows! but they needed to be a little bit more loose than the pattern I had made for the quilt, so I came up with the idea of just compose the fabrics without an order. Look at the pictures and let me know what you think!

Pañuelo viejo + Quilting = Almohadon chino

Esto es revamp! Un pañuelo que recordarán fue muy popular en los 80' lo combine con otras telas y devino en algo asi como un almohadón chino, los que se usan para arrodillarse en el piso. Creo que puede servir como adorno en el piso o sobre la cama como una mini quilt (sin ponerle relleno de almohadón). En este solo use guata como en las quilt tradicionales.

¿Qué les parece?

2006 calendar into a post-it board (last part)

More pictures and board in action!

2006 calendar into a post-it board (first part)

Well, this is how I came up with the idea: I didn't want to throw away this gorgeous 2006 calendar because of the thick material and also I thougt that I had to take advantage of the fact it already had a hook to hang it on the wall. So during January I kept thinking what the hell I was going to do with it. Then I found some pieces of the wall paper I had in my childhood home (during the 80's), and since I didn't had much of it, I decided to combined it with some modern paper waists. The function of this recycled? a post- it board mixed whith wall paper memories. I did this for both sides of the board and I can turn it over when ever I get tired of the colors.

What do you think?

I bet you could do the same with a good wall hanging and some wall paper.