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I had this wood box laid around for years lost in the attic. I tried to make something out of it a few times but never succeeded. A few weeks back, I found the box once again and decided that this was the time to turn it into something beautiful. My original plan was to use plastic straws to give a new purpose to them while helping the planet. Well, that plan went quickly down the toilet. I found on Pinterest that you can do some cute flowers out of straws using double-faced tape. I even went to the trouble of doing small clay balls to be the centre of the flowers and having the straw going around it. Until here, everything was working fine once I started painting them, everything went wrong. The double-faced tape wasn’t sticky enough to hold the straw in place, so it started to unroll. …

I’ve always liked miniatures, but there is something in tiny paper Christmas villages that make them so sweet and adorable. For the past two years, I’ve been dribbling over Pinterest to thousands of pictures of them and wishing to make some. Today is the day! Some people go full on dedicated to making them beautiful and incredibly detailed which is so worth the effort, although I just wanted to save time and make them as simple as I could without losing the cuteness. I got mostly inspired by Delia Creates advent houses since they are so adorable and the proportions seem exactly how I want. When it comes create these type of things, the proportions and the placement of the windows and doors are what creates the harmony and makes us sight on how adorable they are. After 4 years studying architecture, I’ve learned that everything as it’s own place …

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Decorating an Old Wood Box

12 Crafty Days: Simple Christmas Village