candles & cookies...

Now It's all about candles & baking & making home

made christmas presents & amaryllis bulbs...

& simply enjoying this time of the year!!

have a nice week :)

new stuff called STUC...

I have been trying out this new product we are starting to sell along with our lime-paint, (www.kalklitir.com). It is a special mix called STUC, (lime, cement etc.) and we use the same dry pigments to add color to it as we do to our lime-paint, here on this table top,  I used my favorite  color,  san saccaria ;)  The process to mix it is similar to the use of our lime paint, i.e. you only mix water to the STUC.  First you have to give the area one coat of a special primer, (we sell that too ;)  which dries in approx. one hour, and then you need 2-3 thin layers of STUC. Then when the STUC is dry, (already the next day), you can give it one 

(or two) layers of wax-oile (we sell that one too ;) to protect it and keep it nice and smooth.

  You can use the Stuc on all kinds of things, stone floor, old tiles, walls, glass, wood etc.  as long as the surface is "dead"  (i.e. not mowing or expanding ;)  I have already tried it on our old  porcelain sink in the bathroom, (will do a post on that late) among other things, and I have to say,

 I'm absolutely thrilled about this new stuff called STUC!! 

yes, I also put some STUC on the base of this wooden lamp ;)

If you are interested in trying out this new

product you can contact us via :  audur@glera.is

Thank you for stopping by....

painting & patinating...

More "faux vintage"

These are few of my decorated bowls I've been doing

 using transfer technique. Still using these 200 year old 

wallpaper cuts I found, editing the prints on my computer,

painting and patinating  and then baking them in the oven

to get the look I like ;)

I am planing to open a web shop to sell the things I make,

( handpainted pillows, bowls, decoupage items, limepaint etc. )

 hopefully it will be soon... in the meantime you can always

send me an email if you are interested in buying ;)

( email : audur@glera.is )

Thank you for stopping by....

glue & glitter...

I'm using copies from old wallpaper again, but this time 

to decorate old and rather ugly metal trash can, 

(but trying to make it look vintage ;) 

& gluing carrara marble glitter

(martha stewart)on things to use

for christmas decorations,

so

glue & glitter all over the place now!

thank you for stopping by...

blue is new...

Blue colors against my lime painted (grey) walls!!

I've never used blue like this before in my home so this is something new for me :)

these blue decoupage plates are some of my resent work

(I've been working on some beautiful old wallpaper cuts form about 1800)

So these days I've been redecorating, adding something new

but also moving old things around in my house.

(Will be posting more photos)

Have a nice weekend...

faux vintage...

I have been doing decoupage for many years, so I'm always

working with a lot of copies from books, old wallpaper cuts, etc...

But now, my son has been teaching me how to work on my photos in 

Adobe Illustrator, and though I still print them out and make them 

"old" by hand, this has opened up new and exciting ways 

to  decorate object's. 

Learning something new is great!!

I can honestly say that I love the shabby/vintage style,

and even though these jars are "faux vintage"

I will enjoy making more of them ;) 

thank you for stopping by...

so pretty again...

One coat of acrylic primer 

sand it down again (using very fine sand paper) 

a coat of grey furniture wax (rub it on and buff it out)

 and a new toile de jouy fabric

Just a day's work and voila!! 

....so pretty again

Thank you for stopping by...