19 September 2011

Industrial Design (...or crafts)

So I've been majorly into crafts lately. But like, not just crafts with paper and stuff. Big, building type crafts. Me and Lauren Cole have been into Industrial Design lately. (Hopefully that is her new major!) It's soooo fun. I love doing stuff like this. We just moved in together and we've really transformed our apartment! Most of the things we've hung up have been made by us. Here are the things we've done so far, but we're not quite done yet!

These first five wood projects I made at the beginning of the summer. I just mod podged paper onto different things.



I gave this to my mama for Mother's Day. It was special because she's a little bit
 homeless right now, so she liked it.

This one and the duck frame are hanging above my kitchen sink in my apartment!
Obsessed with ducks :) Photography by Lance IsTough
These next ones are the crafts we've been doing to decorate our apartment! I'm so proud of them!
I bought 4 kitchen chairs from DI and mod podged the seats with fabric to make them cute!

Frame we built to staple fabric over it to make it look like canvas. 

Finished product of the wood frame fabric canvas we made! It's so beautiful!

This is a 4'x6' chalk board I MADE. I bought a thin board, primed it, and painted it several times with chalkboard paint. Sanded it a few times, and painted it again. And hung it up! So hardcore. 

Here is our kitchen with the chairs and fabric frame!

This is our skeeball machine Lauren's grandma is letting us use! I put it together :)

Lauren made these cute tissue paper flowers to go above our TV!
Our apartment is the cutest. Really. We're going to have lots of little food parties. I'm so excited for it! But we have one more project we're going to do. 

This flower is made out of toilet paper rolls! We have a big empty wall and we're going to make a HUGE one! It's going to be so awesome. I've started collecting the toilet paper rolls, but I need a lot. So start keeping yours for me!

I'm really so proud of our apartment. I absolutely love it. I also love living with Lauren. It's sooo much fun!

5 comments:

Lane said...

oh my gosh that's so crazy because I have been in the biggest craft/decorating mood this last week! I absolutely love this kind of stuff! I love all those things you did, please invite me next time you do that? love you!

Lane said...

and I really like that home is where your mom is sign and that canvas picture you made. and ps i love skeeball

cole linnae said...

you are so CRAFTY!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love love love the fabric canvas thingy. you are a gem..that might have to be my next project.

mjnetty said...

You didn't tell me about that canvas frame. That's ingenious. I have a few more toilet paper rolls for you.

Jami said...

Wow! Shay you are so creative!! Come decorate my house!