Hanging pockets

I've been saving old jeans for quite a while for a future project (stay tuned), and recently saw some picture on Pintrest that sparked an idea. It has been done lots of times before, just google 'jeans pocket hanger'. Here's mine, quick and dirty hand sewing but very handy to hide/organise clutter.

Crochet shell curtains

We have a nice big window in our bathroom. Unfortunately, it looks out onto a blind wall.

Adding curtains or blinds would take the light away, but having it bare didn't feel very cosy. Our local DIY business offered some cheap easy cut & paste frosted film, but this too, seemed to take away quite a bit of light, so we only applied it to the bottom half of the window. For the top half, it was crochet to the rescue ;-)

Using a fishnet like stitch, I crocheted 3 panels, to mimic, you guessed it, fish nets. They can be moved out of the way individually, allowing to maximise the amount of light entering the room. To finish it off, we attached sea shells (carefully collected when I was a child and subsequently forgotten in a box somewhere) to the bottom edge. Window makeover, nautical style...

Another paper light shade

Just as a quick side note, before the origami light shade, there was Jimbo:

Jimbo was originally going to be the new light shade for the bedroom, but turned out a bit heavier than expected. Rather than testing the strength of the ceiling suspension, Jimbo and an old uplighter were recycled into a 'paper palm tree' like structure. It sounds funky and it looks it too. I still don't know if I actually like it, but I couldn't quit discard the hours of gluing hundreds of triangular paper strips onto an old paper light shade (idea from here).