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?

Bar Cart Makeover

My grandmother was downsizing her home and I was able to get away with taking an old bar cart, which happened to be an apartment saver as the corner was becoming a pile of coats! I went thrift store to thrift store to find unique pieces to add to the bar cart.  At each store I took photos of pieces that I liked. The last store I went into was the West Elm near my apartment where I looked back at all my pictures and decided what items I was going to go back and buy. I ended up buying: dollar whiskey and wine glasses, dollar mini ceramic plates, a three dollar gold container, two plants from TJ Maxx, discounted towels, and added a lamp, carafe, book, and some wine bottles I had in my room.  Nook transformed!

Christmas Tree DIY

With little money in our pockets, Lindsay and I picked out a beautiful (but neglected) short plump tree.  It wasn't very pretty but after some reused tissue paper, tinfoil, tape, string, a needle, some twinkle lights, and a few hour's past my bedtime...  we soon had a beautiful tree! Merry Christmas!

Elfed       

Bed Frame Turned Into Wall Hooks DIY

I found these old wooden bed frames in the garage and thought they would make great wall decor.  I then went to Home Depot and found beautiful curved hooks to screw into the wood. I love the organic feel of the wood planks combined with the industrial metals of the hooks.

Cleaned off the cobwebs...

Functional wall decor

Refabric Old Chairs DIY

I took these old chairs that my mom salvaged from Rye Bar and Grill before it's makeover in 2009 and put neutral fabric over the black leather to give it a more feminine look.

Welcome!

Hi!  I wanted to create a website to represent a smidgen of my personal life from my evolving apartment projects to my love of food and more.  I hope you enjoy!