Home Decoration Guide

Happy Easter! 

Here is our Ester gift to the blog visitors today! Another gorgeous collection of spring ideas by Anna. 

Visit our growing Interior Design Guide to take a closer look at the all Anna's finds as well as many others.

Bead Day. Saraguro beading

2008 International Folk Art Market Flor
Maria Cartuche Fundacion
Warmipak Wasi Ecuador

Sold one-of-a-kind jewellery

Sterling silver and brass locket

Jewellery masterpices. Buckle by Henry Wilson

Buckle and belt. Place of origin: London. Designed: ca. 1905. Wilson, Henry (designer). Silver, cast, chased, enameled and mounted with cabochon-cut stones
Credit line: Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Tax and allocated to the Victoria and Albert Museum

Easy 3 minute DIY: Ring holder

Today I have a blog guest. This is May whose blog I have been following for a couple of years now. She writes awesome reviews about beauty products and her lifestyle. Her posts are either helpful or fun! Here is what she is saying about her blog and herself: 

"Hi! My name is May and I'm the fashion/beauty blogger behind La Vie en May. I love experimenting with different products, styles and colors. My personal style is very feminine and simplistic; I live by the Leonardo Da Vinci quote, "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

Visit May's blog to discover what else she has there to share.

Today May is sharing her fabulous easy giveaway with us. Thank you May!

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As I was cleaning my apartment this weekend, I found a lot of old boxes, supplies and other random items lying around. I threw most of that stuff away, but there were a few things I knew I could salvage. One of them was a beautiful case from NARS. It was a part of a holiday lip pencil set I received for Christmas. At the time, I took out all the lip pencils and just left the case on the side. But I love the design and it's really sturdy. I ended up re-purposing it into a ring holder. Check out how easy and quick this DIY is. It only takes 5 minutes and 3 items to create this!

Step 1. Gather all of your materials. All you need is a case or box, foam and scissors. I got the foam from my watch case, but you can buy it at any craft or supply store near you. Unfortunately, the foam didn't fit in the box, it was about half the size. I ended cutting the foam in half horizontally so that it would fit completely in the case.

Step 2. To cut the foam in half, start at one of the four corners. Cut the corner in half. Continue to cut along the edges of the foam. Once you have cut the periphery, use the scissors to cut deeper into the foam until it's cut in half completely. If you have a craft knife, I recommend using that instead for this part.

If your foam piece fits into the case completely, you can skip this step.

Step 3. Take one of the foam pieces and fold the edge over by an inch. Using your scissors, cut vertically on the fold. Leave about half an inch of space and cut again. Keep repeating until you run out of room. Repeat the same process until there's no more room to cut. On my specific foam piece, I was able to cut 12 holes. Do the same for the second foam piece.

Step 4. Put the foam pieces in the case and start putting your rings in. Voila! Your DIY is completely and you have a new, pretty ring holder to use.

Now, I have another ring holder as a part of my ever-growing collection! Yes, I have that many rings...and I ordered more last week. I bought the Bunny Ring Holder from Forever 21 and the Doe Head Ring Holder from Jewel Mint (originally white, I spray painted it gold). Unfortunately, they're both sold out, but I found some pretty similar ones below!

Jewellery Masterpices. A carousel ring by Alyona Pryhodko

Carousel ring by Alyona Prykhodko. It is a real moving carousel. There are only 3 of  them in the world. One is with elephants, one with the camels and one with the horses.

Monthly Wedding Guide

Every beginning of the month we publish a Wedding Guide created by Anna, the wedding jewellery designer, who is always on top of what is in trend in handmade wedding design. Here are her latest finds!

Visit our growing catalog of wedding ideas to discover what else the featured shops have to offer!

Art Giveaway by Victoria Antolini

My awesome artists friends have started an absolutely wonderful project all about the sea, ships and a big adventure.  It is going to be an animated book for the ipads / smartphones. There are going to be lots of surprises there: animation, sounds of seagulls and ships' horns, etc.

I am inviting you to watch the birth of the illustrations for this unique fairy-tale! Click the "like" button and you won't miss all the updates from my talented friend and the illustrator of the project. Brighten up your feed stream in Facebook!

I promised more surprises from Victoria, the artist who painted that Birthday Party Invitation that you could download from my blog. Here is one more! Victoria is hosting a giveaway in her Facebook page!

Support "The Real Boat Project" by participating in this giveaway! It is very easy, just leave a comment under this Facebook post. You will get a chance to win this awesome piece of artwork!

If you would like to read more about this project, follow this link.

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This is what Victoria is saying about her project:

"Hello folks, we have a GIVEAWAY for you!!! Get this unique tattooed swimming sailor toy for free! 

We are happy to announce this giveaway in support of The Real Boat Project !. We hope that you like sailors just like we do! You may win this paper sailor toy beautifully tattooed by our great artist Victoria Antolini. As you may see he has wet swimming trunks, but you will also get a set of magnetic dry swimming trunks! You may frame our sailor, play (or even swim with him!) or just make a nice gift for a person who loves tattoos!

All you need to do is just to leave a comment below this post (follow the link!) and we will pick a winner next Friday (03 Apr)

Good luck everyone and THANK YOU!"

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Make sure that you like The Real Boat's fan page to watch the progress of the work!

Monday Inspirational Quote

Ocean Life pendant with a moonstone and blue lace agate, sterling silver

Sunday Home Decoration Guide

Anna is back on board! And here is her fabulous collection of interior design ideas! 

My favourites are the book ends. What's yours?

Visit the Guide's interactive page to look at all these items closer as well as even more ideas for home decoration.