Vintage Crafts: 75 Do-It-Yourself Decorating Projects Using Candles, Colors, and Other Flea Market Finds - Hardcover

Lidström, Clara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1626361037 ISBN 13: 9781626361034

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

Vintage flair isn’t just classy and cute; it’s fun to create and perfect for any budget! So let your creativity run wild on trips to the flea market, and don’t back down from that deal at the yard sale. With Vintage Crafts, use paper scraps, teacups, and a splash of paint to decorate your house room by room.

More than just a craft book, Vintage Crafts features recipes fresh from the countryside, lessons for safe and easy outdoor improvement, and tips for keeping your house eco-friendly. This is the ultimate home decor resource from Sweden’s number one lifestyle blogger, Clara Lidström. Learn to liven up secondhand clothes, turn old fabrics into patchwork projects, and interject some ’50s-era chic into your thrift store finds.
Elegant, old-style country projects include:

• Champagne box bookshelves
• Wallpapering with maps
• Silhouette frames
• Baby shoe flower planters
• Bark and twig lanterns
• And so much more to make with your two hands and flea market bargains!

So look around: if your house is full of scraps and never-used knickknacks, turn them into something beautiful, useful, and made by you! With Vintage Crafts at your crafting table, your hands will never be idle again!

About this title

About the Author

Clara Lidström is a professional photographer and journalist, and she writes one of Scandinavia’s most popular blogs, UnderbaraClara. Encouraging an environmentally friendly, country-living lifestyle, she blogs about cooking, home decorating, home-growing food, and crafting. She lives with husband Jacob, son Bertil, a dog, two pigs, and some chickens in Västerbotten, Sweden.

From Publishers Weekly

In this book, which is based on her blog, Lidström plays that pretty, talented friend who makes flea market finds and shabby chic decor seem enviable. The author makes make-do and mend look like high design, from her collection of beloved vintage dresses to a scrapbooked linen cabinet decorated with wallpaper. The author never lets her flea market evangelizing (I fear that we're annihilating our heritage in the rush to constantly consume what's new and modern.) overtake her enthusiasm at remaking a great bargain. Her favorite thing to do is to pimp her finds: a set of old speakers with lace, notebooks with vintage girls' book covers, and a lampshade. The book contains a few gems, such as a recipe for wallpaper paste using water, sugar, and potato flour, as well as tips for freshening up old clothes with flaxseed oil soft soap. Her advice isn't always new—using newspaper to form cups for seedlings or attaching jar lids underneath a shelf—but no matter. The book is less a practicum and more an idiosyncratic and inspiring romp through the charming space that Lidström has created from scraps and paint. Framing that world is a series of gorgeous, light-filled, photos, in which the author and her son often play a supporting role to the author's lime-and-red retro kitchen or her tastefully unkempt vegetable garden. (Oct.)

About this edition

• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1626361037
• ISBN 13: 9781626361034
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144