Rowantree Designs Decorates

When November rolls around it's time to think Christmas decor...so many ways to go.  Silver, gold, green's and reds.  Do I go traditional, white on white, or funk it up with some fun?  I went for Fun!

The large stash of artificial flowers left over from a fashion shoot gave me inspiration to go kitsch and colourful.

I purchased a florists wreath and the green tape and covered the polystyrene wreath with the green tape.  Cut the stems of the flowers to suit and stuck them into the wreath, that was the fun bit, putting all the colours together.

With some tweaking here and there, it looked so good I hula danced around the house with it adorning my head.  It just needed a bit of Christmas glam. 

The little silver balls, left over from last Christmas (when I did the white on white with the silver trims) worked magic.  As you can see I am still undecided about the colour for my front door!  I loved it, poured myself a glass of delicious Marlborough Savy to celebrate.

The savvy worked it's magic as I decided what to do with the left over flowers and last years white tinsel.  Updates will be posted!

Rowantree Decorates "Bare Walls in the Kids Room'

My friend's baby girl sadly isn't a baby girl anymore, she is quite the busy toddler and mum wants to re decorate her room.  The baby girly wall stickers have already come down, the cot and change table dismantled, the bed is arriving in a few days, and the family will be arriving for Christmas.  I get the call.  Help!  What can I do with the bare walls?  

I love the Ikea Diginete hanging system it's really affordable and can be adapted to many uses.  I have one in my studio that I hang my sketches, pieces of trims, inspiration pictures and photographs on. 

I love the idea of having them in a child's bedroom, you can change the display frequently. My ideas....

Hanging pictures of the family and family pets

Drawings and postcards

Favourite pieces of your child's clothing i.e. ballets tutus, footy team shirts etc.

Small led lights wrapped around the line look really cute

But this really caught my attention and with lots of fabric scraps laying around my studio we can get right to it and have the room tickerty boo ready for Christmas.  

You can find the tutorial at  make it and love it.