Pretty Craft Ideas from Living at Home

If you are looking for pretty creative crafty ideas to give your home that special personal charm, then you have to check out the German site, Living at Home. Where every month they share a new DIY project to make - complete with shopping list and step-by-step instructions!

I am loving the mini shelves and have decorated a couple that I hang in my house, but I am loving the ones from Living at Home that are painted in the prettiest pastel blue. Oh! and how adorable are the envelopes, I think they would look great on a pin board full of little treasures!

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My guest room mini printed shelves

Remember the mini shelving I made for my craft room? Well I have been making some more, this time for my Guest room...

I bought the pale violet checkerboard paper from Roots Living whilst at the Spirit of Christmas fair

The rest of the paper I already had...

Rie Elise Larsen paper from Folly & Glee, all other paper bought in Copenhagen

Mini shelving tutorial

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Mini Shelving

This past weekend I finally got around to decorating my miniature shelf unit. I bought my miniature wooden shelf unit, with 19 compartments, back in January from Panduro Hobby but couldn't make up my mind how to decorate them!?! I eventually decided to paint them white with a pretty print in the background. I plan to hang them in my craft room as a great little place to store some of my favourite trims and sewing bits and bobs.

Mini Shelving
Tools and materials

• Miniature shelf unit
• White paint
• PVA glue
• Pretty paper

Mini Shelving, How-to step by step


Start by painting the entire shelving unit with a couple of coats of white paint and leave to dry. Then, using a variety of printed papers, cut out two pieces of printed paper @ 90mm x 110mm, five pieces of printed paper @ 44mm x 110mm and twelve pieces of paper @ 54mm x 44mm. Then carefully coat the inside of the back of the shelves with a thin coat of PVA glue. Immediately stick the cut pieces of paper to the PVA glue and smooth down with your fingers or glue spatula to remove any air bubbles and leave to dry. Finish by coating the stuck pieces of paper with a thin coat of PVA glue to give them a protective finish.

Sequins, beads and decorative silver birds

Felt flowers, spool dolly, embroidery threads and beads

John James pebbles with beading needles and general sewing needles

Finished and ready to hang on the wall

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