DIY | hanging plant

I have been seeing these plant hangers around recently. The rope and olives are from Leylands but I'm sure you can get them from any hardware store. I already had the plant and pot from Ikea.

1| get four meters of rope & cut into 6 equal lengths
2| using string tie the ends of the rope together
3| lay flat and  take the rope and put them into pairs using the tiny olives to hold them together
4| repeat this taking a rope from each pair
5| place plant in the middle and  hang it up

rope | £1.32

olives x6 | £1.56

total | £2.88

ACCESSORIES | four

I was due some new hand candy and when I found this on the & Other Stories site for six quid I could not resist.

four bar ring | £6.00

DIY | recycle

White, minimal and free. I really liked the shape and size of this Vanish washing powder pot so I planned to use it as a mould for my DIY concrete planters, but as I removed the labels I came to realise I preferred just the way it is.

You can use it for a verity  of things.  

white plastic pot | £0.00

total cost | £0.00

DIY | customisation

People customise their food and drinks everyday, yet when something is designed, manufactured then purchased, the purchaser commonly stops the design process there.

Yes, not everything needs to be customised, but making something more suited to your needs is a good thing.

I have been asked to style a SS15 look book this weekend which brought on the  reason for the rant on customisation. I was after a minimal double strapped sandal, much like The Row's SS15 and after seeing the collection I was styling and discussing with the designer he also agreed this type of sandal was perfect.

After a long time looking I decided they don't yet exist. So instead I customised some I found on the internet.

DIY | storage solution

   

Spending Christmas in my (what seemed huge) family home back in Southampton was lovely, Christmas is defiantly one of my favourite times of year, but when I got back to my tiny flat and bedroom in London, I was stuck for space. I couldn't quite believe how much stuff I had acquired over the holiday. I have a place for everything and every place was taken but instead of popping to Goodhood and buying some beaut storage boxes from HAY even tho I really wanted too I choose to reuse the boxes some gifts came in. I felt I should as one of my new year's resolutions was to 'spend less money' and its only the 4th.

 I spray painted the boxes matte black and matte white. The spray paint is from Leylands.  It only took about 10 minuets to spray them however I would recommend spraying them outside as I nearly choked myself and Sunny to death doing them in the studio this morning.

Hope you like.

boxes - recycled | £0.00

matte spray paints | £2.75

total | £5.50

DIY | twenty fifteen

The new year always excites me. 

It feels like a fresh start, a time to improve and a time to achieve. Something that never fails to make it onto my New Years Resolution list is 'be more productive' which is why a calendar is essential. 

Click here to download and print this minimal and clean twenty fifteen calendar.