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More On My Chalkboard Obsession

Chavah Kinloch — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:31:03 +0000

I’d been going on about a giant chalkboard calendar for my home for the better half of a year, so for Christmas my husband decided to make my wish come true and together we created this awesome purple masterpiece. It is so handy and each person that’s seen it has paid it compliment. I think the comments about how fantastic it looks from the random power metre reader lady were the best.

You can find a variety of chalkboard calendar options on Etsy.com. I didn’t have the patience to wait for shipping and I wanted something slightly bigger/different to fit the space I had, so I created mine by painting with coloured chalkboard paint which you can pick up from specialist paint & decorating stores. Definitely check out all the colour options they have out nowadays.

During

Finished

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New Year New Look

Chavah Kinloch — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:29:00 +0000

I’ve been wanting a new look for this blog for a while now, so with my husband being on holiday we decided to tackle a redesign. It’s likely things could change again throughout the year as I work on my ‘to do’ list but for now this new look is giving me renewed enthusiasm to write for the year ahead! Take a look around, let me know if you come across anything that’s not working properly.

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Half An Hour to DIY – Recovered Lampshade

Chavah Kinloch — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:55:40 +0000

Earlier today I posted this on my Facebook status:

The problem I have, is that with my youngest child now growing up and being more independent I sit around looking at things for my home and come up with random ways to change them. It’s probably a good thing we don’t have a tonne of excess money or otherwise my husband would come home and wonder if he was at the right place.

I have so many little projects I can do around my home. It doesn’t really need anything done (well a new kitchen, new carpet and converting the garage to a family room would be great) but in reality, it’s fine how it is. We purchased it because it covered our list of must haves – room to play basketball, fully fenced, two bathrooms, four bedrooms. We don’t have much ‘need’ for anything materialistic, I’m grateful for that but I personally have a need to create… All the time.

Originally today I really wanted to paint something. I have this huge blank canvas sitting there but I’ve dedicated that canvas to a project that will happen ‘eventually’ (read: it’s a really good idea I haven’t made the time to create yet) and so I don’t want to waste my $120 canvas on something that I may or may not like…even though I really wanted to. Sometimes I hate that I restrain myself to be sensible financially.

So anyway, from the painting idea I went outside to fiddle around with the log that’s been drying for months. When I realised I couldn’t be bothered working on that project either I decided to move onto the lamps in my living room that even though in the photo’s appear to be fine, are actually kind of grubby after being around my kids for years.

Juggling through my ever growing fabric collection I came across a certain fabric I received from fellow artist Karley Feaver and was absolutely delighted with the way the pattern looked on a lampshade so knew I was onto a winner.

With my trusty glue gun, scissors, fabric & old lamp I set to work and within half an hour (it may have even been 15 minutes) I modernised these out of date lampshades.

Easy peasy. If I had patience I would probably mod podge the fabric on & line the inside where the fabric overlaps with felt. Those would be my tips anyway for anyone wanting to have a go at recovering a lampshade but seeing as these are just for my home, I’m happy! The kids think it looks great too. I’ll finish the matching lampshade tonight.

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Now You Can Look

Chavah Kinloch — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:44:17 +0000

It’s another fun filled weekend here at the Kinloch residence – well, for kids at least. As one of the two adults that will be present while 7 kids take over till tomorrow, I’m not exactly the most excited person in the world but a parent’s got to do what a parent’s got to do.

We found ourselves hanging out in Miss V’s bedroom as we monitored ‘bedroom tidying’ in preparation for sleepovers and I realised that I’ve never actually given you an update on the space she’s got right now.

Her bedroom isn’t finished, art isn’t on the walls, curtains aren’t up, furnture is still missing but it’s still such a fun space to hang out in…hence why we all ended up in there hehe.

Take your first glimpse into what’s happened in the bedroom makeover so far.

So much colour and fun! Memories and activities everywhere. No wonder she’s started disappearing into her bedroom more often. P.S. I apologise for the quality of the photos, I was snapping away on my phone.

Check out the rest of Miss V’s bedroom makeover so far here:

DIY Lampshade Makeover

I Spy With My Little Eye

Metallic Table Makeover

In the Beginning

You can see my own bedroom one day makeover here:

Bedroom Organisation

Then you can check out Boston’s Bedroom Makeover Progress:

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My Best Friends Wedding

Chavah Kinloch — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:17:05 +0000

We all have those special people in our lives; who even though as time goes on and you go your separate ways, you always remember them as your close friend and will never forget the great moments they brought to your life. Well today’s post is about my childhood BFF. Her name is Anna and she recently got married. She shared the most amazing video of her wedding and I got a glimpse into her very special day. I asked her if it was ok to share the video and she said yes, so please get your tissues out and take a moment to watch the incredibly beautiful Anna, marry her best friend Vince. Congratulations to you both. Your smiles and the look in your eyes say everything. xxx

Click here to watch: Anna + Vince.

Full credit to Turei Cooze|IDoVideo on Vimeo.

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So Umm… I Won Something

Chavah Kinloch — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:58:58 +0000

I entered a competition held by Spotlight and somehow I managed to be one of the winners! I was a bit slow on the uptake to learn that I had won something and when I did learn I had won, I actually had no idea what exactly it was that I’d won.

Fast forward to yesterday when I received a letter from Spotlight and I learned that I had won a $100 gift card! That was one of the #1 prizes! So happy, one of my kids rooms will soon have curtains so watch this space because you know there’ll be a blog update about that Thanks to whomever it was out there in the world that made this possible.

Glad that I stumbled across the email about the competition and after going back and forth in my head as to whether or not I should in my head decided to just go for it.

Here’s what I entered, Boston’s Comic Book Drawers:

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DIY Metallic Side Table

Chavah Kinloch — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:12:09 +0000

If you know anything about me, you probably know that I love all things shiny. If it glitters, sparkles, shines, is over the top with bling and catches the eye, I’m in. I love it, it makes my heart sing. I’m like a magpie.

Well this is how I felt when I spotted these side tables below:

I saw them and I instantly thought “Ooo shiny”. Now, I have no idea where you can purchase those barrel like tables and even if I did, it wouldn’t be in my budget; so once again I decided to set off on a DIY adventure to create a shiny side table for Miss V’s bedroom.

Using what I had on hand I grabbed 1 x small square black table, a can of primer, a tube of silver paint and a tube of black paint. I sprayed it white, painted it two coats of silver and then made a black glaze to finish it off. It gave an antique silver result. I really like the way it highlights the texture on the under corners of the table.

The whole process didn’t take very long at all, maybe an hour or two. The longest parts being waiting for the layers of paint to dry. I was going to try a DIY with tin foil for this project but it appears our household doesn’t really use tinfoil – there was none in the pantry and we haven’t noticed there hasn’t been any for months hehe.

On a side note: as I finish writing this I’ve just had another idea on how to make a different sort of metallic side table. Hmmm!

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Stag Head Cushion DIY

Chavah Kinloch — Mon, 30 May 2011 04:03:40 +0000

I spotted this on Pinterest a while ago:

I wanted to add the link to the original post but it seems the blog has been deleted. I don’t know if someone DIYed this or if you can purchase it from a store somewhere.

Totally inspired by the look of this stag head I figured I could use it as an idea for my daughters room! I wish I was capable enough to do appliquéd patchwork type of stuff but that’s a little out of my realm of creativity. Maybe one day I’ll give it a go. If I ever get together with you Joanna, you can show me how it’s done.

For now though, this is my take on the idea:

Total cost = $1 (That’s how much I paid for the cushion) Everything else was on hand.

I made this while I watched The Shining last night haha.

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DIY Lampshade for the Bedroom Makeover

Chavah Kinloch — Wed, 25 May 2011 23:35:59 +0000

So in 2008, yes 2008… I bought this:

I only know I bought it in 2008 because of this blog haha. I posted here the weekend I got it.

Anyway, Miss V’s room needs a new lighting fixture. All it has is a light bulb because the boys one day threw something in the air and managed to smash their bedroom light shade. Can you see me shaking my head? I am. I have a million stories like this lol.

What I want for her bedroom is this:

I saw one for $99 last year and knew I should have scooped it up. It’s pretty affordable anyway but right now my budget is close to non existent so for now I have to make it work with what I got. Challenge accepted.

The lampshade I bought in 2008, I originally intended to spray paint orange. Never quite got there though because I fell pregnant that month with Boston and the exhaustion from the pregnancy kicked my butt.

So here we are years later and a few months back I found this. Pretty sure it’s from one of my favourite blogs because I recognise the room it’s in. It just happens to be one of my favourite kids rooms ever. EVER. Eh-Verrr.

Don’t you love that huge bulb? I die. I’m going to find one. As for the lampshade I figured, I can do that! I had a lampshade just sitting there waiting and I knew I could find the fabric to cover it so off I went and pulled my gear out of the studio to get to work.

Big thanks to Karley Feaver who sent me some fabric last year. I finally got to use some of it! I’ve been wanting an excuse to use that fabric.

I rummaged through my fabrics and pulled out four samples. Here’s what I was inspired to do:

Steps one and two.

Steps three and four.

Hopefully I can get my hands on one of those large bulbs and I can get Miss V’s room looking half as good as the one above. I’m still considering maybe adding some flowers or beads to the shade. If I do I’ll update you.

Total cost = Free (maybe $1 for everything)

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Radio Interview

Chavah Kinloch — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 02:49:09 +0000

On Monday I received a random phone call from a local radio station asking if they could interview me for their radio show Art Is Our Perception. So today I had the interview. I’m sick so my voice is pretty husky but I had fun. You can listen to it here, it’ll only be up for the week:

http://www.radiosouthland.org.nz/podcasts/ARTPROG.mp3

If the interview peaks your interest for any questions you might want to ask me, please feel free to ask.

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