Going Away Party DIY Decorations

My best friend and roommate is relocating to San Francisco, so I wanted to have a going away party for her.  I also did not want to spend a lot of money so I decided to make decorations with quotes about San Fran using different colored paper and some hemp string. I formatted them in Word to look like bag tags (for the going away theme), hole punched them, and hung them all around the apartment.  Took quite a bit of time but well worth it!

  

Baby's Breath Ball - DIY

The making of a baby's breath ball for Spring:

I tied some mesh hemp around the styrofoam to allow for easy hanging.  After that, I used wire cutters to cut some fake white flowers and place them pretty close to the styrofoam (to cover up the ugly green color of the styrofoam).  I then cut up the baby's breath and delicately poked the stems into the styrofoam... it now feels like Spring in our apartment.

Bunny Mischief

One way to celebrate Easter...

 

 

 

 

 

Clay Easter Eggs

This past weekend I decorated Easter eggs with different colored polymer clay; I hollowed out the eggs, pressed some clay delicately in different patterns, and baked in the oven at 350* for a few minutes.  After the eggs were hard, I simply painted them with shellac and let them dry.  The process is not only fun but the eggs come out great and they last forever!

               

A collection from this year and last year

Henry loves Easter eggs

Birch Tree Painting

These Birch trees took me a long time but quickly became my favorite painting that I've done yet! 

I really love the background color

Paintings for the Apartment

 An Eat sign for the kitchen:

Two birds for above the couch:

 And Trooper helped me paint this woman:

Decorations for a "Guys" bedroom

Below are a few paintings/decorations I did including a NYC (Jets themed) skyline painting, a bull painting, a bear painting, and a wall collage.  

Wall collage: 
I scoured thrift shops all over Manhattan to find masculine/affordable/unique pieces of art.  I added to the collage: a painting of my own (bottom right), a photo that I took of his lake house (bottom left), and a photo of us walking from behind on a beach where I copied and altered the colors to make an Andy Warhol type piece (top left). I would love to add paintings to cover the entire wall eventually.

Which one do you like better?