Last night I was struck by some creative inspiration. I think you will recognize the urge to try it immediately.

Back in December last year, Fifi Mandirac offered as an advent one PDF paper design each day. I printed them on plain paper and cut butterflies from it and sandwiched them with glue on a natural robe, and I loved it :-)

While I was busy, an other idea popped up, mmmm I could also print that one with a lot of white on brown kraft paper… and use it to make an envelope…. and so I tried and loved the result as much :-)

Those stools are not an original design. I saw them on internet at Wood&Wool Stool and asked my dad if we could make those for our hallway…

He made the stools and I did the crocheting and thrifting of the wood. I found the wood in a container in our street where they were rebuilding an apartment.

I bought some cheap acryl yarn at Zeeman (a store in The Netherlands where they sell very cheap stuff), because I wasn’t sure if it would work out. So those stools did cost practically nothing, and were so much fun to make.

I really loved working with my dad, making plans together, try to visualise the end result. And at the end both being happy that it all worked out so well :-)

As a late birthday gift I got my own stamps from my sister. I was looking for a way how I could use them. I like the way how they look together stamped on the brown paper and tied by a scrap fabric piece. 

Because the pimped skirt was a present, I wrapped it. I used brown paper for that as well, I think I’m in my brown paper period. I embellished the present with a self made fabric flower. A tutorial on how to make those can be found on the Nest Decorating blog. It’s really addictive to create these flowers in different sizes and colours and for different uses. Have fun, because it’s a perfect way to use your scraps.