We Made an Art

Look what Husband and I made today. Our very own piece of artwork to hang above our couch. Finally our living room is complete. Now we only need to finalise the hall and our bedroom (Husband has plans). Gotta say we were inspired by Mynx who is always out creating great paintings and encouraging her fellow bloggers to release their inner artist. Thanks a mill Mynx.

Husband and I, over the years seem to becoming more and more crafty and creative. In fact we realised all the framed pieces on our wall are our own creations, be it a triage of sun light themed photos or a tasteful nudie men collage.

Yay. Go art go!

Hope you guys like it.

GBM

Decoupage Master?

So I think Husband and I may have started a trend amongst our mates with our recent venture into decoupage. I feel like I may have found a calling in finding old pieces of furniture and sprucing them up (more to come on this soon). Now if only I can find a away to make some money of this new found ability.

Point being we recently donated two old IKEA drawer units to   our good friends and gaybours who recently moved into a new apartment. Then the boys messaged us up and let us know they wanted to decoupage the drawer units with black and white Japanese Manga. Inspired idea as Fabian (friend in question whose room the units will reside in) is as big a Man-Boy as I.

The boys had the first editions Japanese language Manga of Death Note, Naruto and my personal fav, Full Metal Alchemist to plaster all over the wood. My inner geek was having a nerdgasam at the prospect. Kicking myself, why could have I thought of this? No matter at least I was allowed to be involved with the whole process.

It was clear I definitely learned from mine and Husband's mistakes from our first attempt at the process. The PVA glue was watered down to a more spreadable dilute, placement of each comic page with utmost care to ensure the lack of air-bubbles. Maybe because the end result was for someone else was what lead to my absolute care taking with the process. It paid off though. Between the 3 of us we managed to create something that we should be completely proud of. The boys painted the drawers white to match the over all look and voila.

And

Really ties the room together don't you think? Well done boys, these are fantastic and a vast improvement on the original. Who knew something that cost €20 in IKEA could look this amazing.

Bravo.

GBM

GBM loves a Good Project: Updated

Yay, so as I said before we have been working on a new bedside locker for my side of the bed. We picked up this filing cabinet in our local Broki but it's grey tint alas did not go with our current color scheme (when did I become this gay?). So Husband and I have been spray-painting the locker a black metallic sheer.

That's Husband's Hand

It took a little longer to finish than we thought as we did not purchase enough paint to finish at first. I had been quite enjoying spraying away initially when Husband turns to me laughing and remarks.

Husband: 'You're hilarious, have you never used spray-paint before?'


I hadn't, Jesus how could I be doing this wrong? It seemed so simple. Whatever Husband. So I wasn't a delinquent youth during my teenage years, working on my tagging and being all rad. I was probably busy tipping cows or some other such country nonsense. So sue me.

Anywho after my education lesson in correct spray etiquette (he was right of course, as usual) we unfortunately ran out of spray-paint. So alas I'm afraid I cannot say that I really contributed much to this project. I was back in Ireland getting my wine on and catching up with my besties when Husband sends me this picture.

Looks great, yesh?

It's finished. I guess I am a little disappointed I didn't get to help much with this but that said doesn't it look awesome? Go Husband go.

GBM

GBM loves a Good Project

Look what Husband and I found in our local Brocki (Swiss equivalent of Good-Will or Oxfam) for only 25 francs. It needs some work to but isn't it kinda cool. We are going to use it as a bed side locker, that said the silver colour doesn't really go with the rest of our furniture. So cue pic below.....

With a wire wool pad, some acetone and a can of black metallic spray-paint the plan is to create something more in tune with our current decor. Anthea Turner eat you heart is all I'm saying. Watch this space for updates.

GBM