° Embroidered Painting °

 

° Embroidered Paintings °

Has it happened to you that you are in the process of decorating your home/bedroom/studio/workshop and you are in the search of THAT painting to place on a wall that will make a difference, but end up with nothing because they are all expensive!?

Many times frustration either will make you give up or will turn you into a creator!

I fell in love with a Buddha painting that i wanted so much in my living room's main wall, but unfortunately price was little too much and I was going through a lot of expenses in that moment so I couldn't get it.

Saddened and frustrated I started thinking on how to recreate that same painting at home. I wasn't having much spare time to actually paint it myself so i thought of another way : searching the web!

When I found something 90% similar, I saved the image in my pc ( size should be "Large", I chose one of over 2000 ). 

First step was ready! Getting it printed was the next step!

Once I had it in my hands, I needed to search for a material that wasn't expensive nor heavy. 

 

My choice was polystyrene foam! Its thick in texture but not heavy at all! besides its also very cheap :D

I had a cutter at home so I cut the polystyrene foam leaving approximately  5 cms more on each of the 4 sides of the image 

Once cut and in order to get an even surface, I used gesso to cover it all

I let it dry overnight because I found out polystyrene foam takes longer in drying. Once dry, I painted the surface with a mix of yellow and white acrylic paint ( 1/2 small cup of yellow x 2 cups of white + 1/3 cup of water )

Couple of hours is enough for getting a dry surface!

I found an old blouse with a nice embroidery on it that was in my donations bag. I thought I would cover all 4 sides of the image with the embroidery!

Next step was to glue the image, center it nicely and then proceeded to glue the embroidery in all 4 sides of the image!

The final step was to make a small hole on the back so I can hang it on the wall, where I had a hook previously installed.

Here is the final product!. I did the same for my other 2 rooms! 

Hope you liked and maybe, try it yourself! 

SK Moon

° Wall Garden °

 

 

 ° Wall Garden °

I was having an empty wall on my patio that looked boring, but since I have dogs i had to think of a way to decorate with plants and to keep it out of their reach as well, because they are my little devils 😅 and enjoy destroying everything!

So for this project I thought of a wall garden or what its called in some places, " a vertical garden"  

Here is what I used :

Plywood

Hooks

Thin rope

Succulents

Varnish

Wooden pots

I had the plywood cut in 3 "stripes" of the same size ( this depends on the size of your wall! ) next, I had it fixed on the wall with some screws and hooks ( I got 9 ).

 

Once ready, i got it painted with varnish and let it dry overnight, in the meantime i tied the rope on both sides of the wooden pots ( I was keeping 4 ) and placed the succulents in them 

( they came with soil so I used it as well ). 

Next step was to hang them in the wall garden and voila! its ready!

I noticed my Jasmine plant all alone in a corner so I decided to place it under the wall garden and to protect it from my little devils, I placed 2 empty pots on both sides with candles inside, this way they don't come close to my plant! 😁

I started with 4 pots but will add few more soon! 

 Hope you liked and try it yourself!

 

SK Moon

° Hello! °

 

This part of my blog is where I will show you my work!

Thank you for visiting!

 

SK MOON