How To Dazzle Up A Room (peek inside my makeup room)

 I've had grand plans to dazzle up my make-up/filming/video room. I've had even "grander" plans for a video background, but since my plans required big power tools and materials I don't own, they are on hold til I get more "toolery".

What I do have is all my favorite things vintage, sparkly, and candy themed. As you know, I love thrift store hunting, antique treasure hunting and craft store goodies....

I got my giant candy jars at Home Goods (it's like a discount or clearance store for all kinds of cool things!)...and I bought a bunch of christmas ornaments to fill them with. I bought ornaments last year after Christmas when boxes of em' are all on clearance for like $1. So I bought all kinds of them last year! The ones in the jar in picture I got at Target just a couple weeks ago though!

We'll see how much I can get done in my artsy-craftsy-girly-retro-vintage-shabby-chic-candyland-makeup-filming-costume room! ha ha ha

And hopefully I'll have a new background in my videos to surprise you guys with!

PS...If you miss and loved the FLOWER WALL background I made, I did too! But a few people complained that it hurt their eyes or was too distracting, and I don't want to to hurt anyone's eyes, so flower wall is patiently waiting for  a new purpose. (I think it would be so fun to make a whole FLOWER WALL in a room! It would be like you were in a garden!)

Here's the video if you want to watch how I made it:

yay for crafts and dazzling up our rooms... your kandee

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Barbie's in the house!

Barbie's on my wall is more like it!

I got asked where I got this Barbie painting (it's not an actual painting, but a giclee, it's like a fancy print on a canvas)...because it was in the background of a video....see:

there is this really cool store in downtown LA that sold vintage fun stuff and had all the Barbie painting in it...I used to go there and look at all the Barbie paintings because I loved them and thought my mom would love them too!

One day a friend said she had a surprise for me! It was this painting! I love it!

(me and little tiny, outside the vintage store...I don't know the name but they don't sell the paintings anymore. Which was the whole reason I took my mom there a few weeks ago. ha ha)

It is my only "big girl" painting that I own, besides paintings that I've done ...but somehow I don't think those count! ha ha ha

And what better to go with my hot pink couch...than a Barbie painting. I've had a hot pink couch in my house for over 10 years. Everyone loves the hot pink couch! when my hot pink cover got ruined and it was just plain white....it was no where near as fun! ha ha ha

to check out more of the artist who paints the Barbie pictures go to:

www.judyragagli.com

Wait til you see them, they are so cool and Barbie-fantastic.

happy Sundays and I'm typing this from my hot pink couch, your kandee

Decorating on the cheap!

 here's a peak into my house with a little cheap-chic tour of some of my favorite things in my house...
I bought these metal stars years ago at Marshall's for super cheap...they were really dark colors, like navy blue and dark green...
SOLUTION: I took hot pink spray paint to a few

 and white spray paint to the one above...and took different color acrylic paints in turquoise, green, olive green and painted over the white with a stiff paint brush to get this one with a cool "vintage" finish.

 real, live Orchids....I am so proud of myself that they are doing well.....I've heard Orchids are really hard to keep alive so I've always been scared to buy them. They were a gift and they are still going strong!

 This is one of my favorites....it's a painting I did on a piece of scrap shelving wood. It's acrylic and oil stick in black...this has hung on many walls over the years.

 I got this vase super cheap from Home Goods (it's like a super cheap place where you can buy all kinds of stuff they've bought from stores that didn't sell, for redinkulously cheap!)
These fake flowers I love...I some like this at Anthropologie for more dollars than I wanted to spend...then I saw these for cheap at Pier 1 Imports, and they can home with me.
I got the sparkly "flower vine" thing at Pier 1 too.

 This little figurine is one of my favorites.....her and I met, many years ago at an antique store....she was only about $12...well, her and her boyfriend...he is not as adorable as she is though. He's still packed away in a box. And behind is an old candlestick I gave a fresh new life with some white paint and turquoise-wash paint over it.

And my bathroom...I saw vases like these in a picture from a fancy furniture store...then I saw these babies for super cheapo at Home Goods (I love that place!)...some didn't have the right lids..or one at all, like the one with the flowers in it...he didn't have a lid..so he got flowers! ha ha ha

So there's some of my Friday Favorite things....the home edition! ha ha ha

fake flowers and paint make-overs...your kandee

DIY Flower Ball Craft Project for you Room!

 I love Do-It-Yourself craft projects...
so it's time to fire up your hot glue guns...
hunt down some fake flowers...
and grab some styrofoam balls...because we're gonna make some romantic fantastic flower ball decorations to bring some girly, beauty to your desk, dresser, bathroom or bookshelf!
These are adorable in little girls rooms and in big girls rooms...mine lives on my dresser!

WHAT YOU NEED:

1. Styrofoam Ball 

(any size you want)

 You can get these at any craft store.

2. Hot Glue Gun & Lots of Glue Sticks

I got my Zebra Print Glue Gun at Michaels Crafts by ArtMinds for like $4.99

 3. Fake Flowers

(you can use a fun mixture of colors like these)

or big Peonies like these...

or you can just get a bunch of white roses like the one I have!

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Pull off all the flower blossom from the stem

-they just pop off when you pull on them-

so you are left with a bunch of green stems that look like this.

2. Start gluing the flowers to the styrofoam ball until they cover the whole ball...
you can glue them in a circle line around the ball or just start gluing them next to each other...as long as they cover the styrofoam it doesn't matter which way you start to glue them!

be careful not to burn your valuable fingertips!

AND VOILA...

your very own orb of floral-girly-ness!

smokin' glue guns....kandee