Christmas Room Decor - Avery Huia

helloooo!

for todays post, I thought that I would do Christmas room decor! I have 3 things that you can buy, and 2 things that you can make. I am so excited for Christmas and I have used all of these to make my room super festive!

I got this silver bell star wreath, and I thought it looked so cute and added a simple festive touch, but it could also be used all year round. I got this from Kmart, and it was super cheap!

I added some candy canes in a mason jar, and they add a touch of red to my room, but they are super hard to resist! You can get these anywhere, and there are some super cute DIYs with candy canes, like a heart shaped wreath!

Also at Kmart, I found this super cute pillow with a gold reindeer on it! This adds a festive touch, and a pop of gold too! It is also reversible, and on the other side it has gold, sliver and black triangles!

for this DIY, we will be making some christmas tree ornaments, out of sticks! You will need -

- sticks of any shape and size

- hot glue gun 

- thin ribbon/wire

- strong scissors 

First, start cutting up you sticks so that they form a Christmas Tree sort of shape, and trim them to the size that you want. You could make a wall hanging out of this, or do what I did and just make little ornaments to hang on the tree, though I hung these in my room. Once you have your desired shape, glue away! Then cut a piece of string or wire on to the back in a loop shape to hook it onto things. Now you have a super cute and festive decoration for your room!

For this bunting DIY, you will need

- big letter stickers

- red and green card paper

- ribbon/string

- ruler and scissors, pen and sellotape

First, measure out the size of bunting that you want, I did mine roughly 8cm across and down, but put a further 2cm down for the point at the bottom. Do this in repeating colours (red & green) until you have enough for your chosen word (mine was joy). After that, stick the letters on, and tape the letters to the string! Then you can hang it up in your room or around your house to get you in the mood for Christmas! Here is a closer shot of the final look!

I hope you enjoyed this and got some ideas on how to festive-ify your room for the holidays! I can't wait for the rest of my Christmas Series, I have some super exciting posts planned!

love from avery huia x

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diy mood board! - Avery Huia

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for today's diy post, I found the inspiration to do moodboard from instagram, which I am constantly finding amazing photos and projects on! it's pretty straight forward, but I thought that it would be fun for you to see the pictures and things that I used and I hope you get some inspiration from my one! I am so happy with how it turned out and when I look at it I get lots of ideas, from styling my room to colour schemes and fashion!

you will need:

+ frame (a4 or smaller)

+ scissors 

+ washi tape 

+ glue stick

+ magazines

+ 1 sheet pf a4 paper

start by leafing through the magazines and choosing a colour scheme or theme, and find pages and pictures which you think will match and go together. I chose a bright and colourful theme, with lots of different shades, but I still made sure that they all flowed.

with the backing of your frame, cut the a4 piece of paper to fit it if you need to. once you have found your photos and have cut them all out, place them on the piece of paper and arrange them until you have found a layout that suits you, making sure you have covered the white paper entirely. don't be afraid to overlap pictures and crop parts out of them to make room for other cut outs. 

once you have your perfect arrangement, remember to take a picture of it so you remember how it looks before you glue it all on! after I glued everything on, I added some washi tape on top of the pictures to make them look like they have been stuck on, and I thought that it gave a really cool pop of colour, and added texture to the mood board! 

here is my finished project! I am so happy with how it turned out, and it really gave my room a pop of colour and makes me feel good! I put some room decor and styling, some pillows and blankets, Emma Stone and Taylor Swift, some bold words, and A, H and a B, for Avery Huia's Blog, and some other pictures that I thought were really cool and pretty!

lots of love - avery huia x

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diy plants are friends wooden sign - avery huia

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a few days ago, I saw a really cool diy that I wanted to make and share with you! it is a plants are friends wooden sign and it is a room decor piece and I love the way that it looks! 'plants are friends' photos, signs and shirts with it on are all over tumblr, and I thought that it looked really cool and would be fun to try out!

you will need -
+ 30cm wooden plank
+ white paint
+ black paint or
+ black vivid
+ 1 thin brush (for black paint) and 1 thick brush (white paint)
+ pencil
+ wire
+ hot glue gun/pva glue

first, paint the wooden plant white, and leave to dry for around an hour. once it is dry, lightly trace the words 'plants are friends' and draw out the cactus' or plants that you would like to have as well; I'd recommend finding a picture from tumblr with a layout that you like. once you are finished, draw over with a black vivid or sharpie or go over with paint if you want. turn it over, place the wire in a semi circle from the back of the board and over, to create a handle/hook, and hot glue the wire to the board when you are happy with the length/ size. leave the hot glue for about five minutes, and then hang from a nail or hook on your desired wall.

photo - left to right - what you need, painted wood, traced design

                     photo - left to right - vivid tracing, hot gluing wire

this is a really easy diy, and it looks really cool; I am so happy with how it turned out, it suits my room perfectly, and you can colour in the pots or plants to make it suit your room or style. I hope you all try out this, and if you do, please send me photos on instagram or post using the hashtag #averyhuiasdiy , I'd really love to see them!

lots of love from avery huia x

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desk organisation - avery huia

hello lovely people! 

today i have a post about desk organisation! i really like being organised and these things help me to, and also look super cute! 

first, i printed out a calendar for august, and put it inside a clear file, and pinned it up on my pinboard and decorated it with cute stickers and wrote down my activities and event for the month! this is super easy but really effective, and helps you stay organised and looks really cute and simplistic. 

i also pinned up a cute piece of lace at the bottom of my board, and clipped up some stickers and hung a string with my washi tapes on it. this is so cool because i use these two things a lot, and instead of storing them away, they are right in front of me when i need them!

i also re used a bag from the body shop and took off the handles and rolled down the top to create a replica uashmama bag. it is so handy to just throw bits and bobs into, and looks really cool too!

these are really easy things to do to help you stay organised, and they make such a difference to your way of working and are real time savers! hope you enjoyed! 

lots of love x 

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diy potato stamp pillowcases! - avery huia

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a few days ago, on pinterest my mum and i found this really cool pillowcase diy, and we thought it would be really fun to make, and they turned out really well! here is how we did it,  i hope you really enjoy making them.

the things we used were -

tulip slick fabric paint

black fabric paint

4 art brushes of different sizes

3 white pillowcases

3 potatoes, small medium and large

we chose to do a watermelon print, a pineapple one and a button one. my favourite was the button print, but they all look amazing! we first squirted out all of the colours on to a dish and then we cut the potatoes to the sizes. we cut one into a half circle for the watermelon, a oval for the pineapple, and we used a knife to make a cris cross pattern on it swell, and just a circle fro the buttons. 

for the watermelon, we put pink paint on the half circle potato and then stamped that on about 8-10 times in different places, adding a new layer of pink paint on every time. we then put a green line of paint around the half circle as the skin, and put black dots in as the seed. 

for the pineapple, we did he same with a yellow coat of paint on the oval, and put green strokes on top as the leaves, with black dots in-between the cris crosses. 

for the buttons, we put each colour of paint on and did 6 dots before changing to the next colour, and then put two black dots/lines in the middle as the holes. 

 

i love the way these ended up, and they are so easy and fun to make. i hope you enjoyed!

love from avery huia x

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tie dying! - avery huia

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this weekend, my friend Natalia and I decided to tie dye some tops. we went to the warehouse and got the Tulip powder tie dye kit with neon colours. it came with five colours and we found it really easy to use. we bought two white tops, and they were only $4 each, which was really good!

when we opened the kit, it came with five bottles, and they had powder in them, and they had gloves and rubber bands plus extra powder. make sure you put lots of newspaper down on the surface your are tie dying on.

each bottle has a fill line, and you fill it up to the line with water, and then shake until all of the powder has dissolved. then you choose what type of swirl or design you want, and then tie your top up with the bands. you then get the dyes and choose what colours you want to use and where.

once you are finished with the dye, then you wrap the top or whatever item you have used in glad wrap and leave it for 6-8 hours. after that you take off the glad wrap and rubber bands and then wash and dry it.

these are some socks i did as well!

unfortunately i didn't manage to get a swirl on my top, i think it was because i didn't put dye all the way through the whole top, but Natalia did! we are really happy with he way they came out and i will definitely be doing it again

lots of love from avery huia x

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new bed / room makeover / before and after - avery huia

hello!

okay, i know i have recently done a room tour, but that was kind of a before, and this is the after! in the last few days, i have changed my room heaps, for example i got a new queen bed  (omg!) , and changed my shelves, and got some new storage! here is my old room, and after you have read this post, you can compare with my old one!

my biggest and favourite change is my bed! i upsized from a single to a queen, and i love it so so so much. it is so comfy and i love the look of it compared to a single. the bedding is from aura home, the blue middle pillow from freedom, and the two euros and the little pillow in front, are both made by my mum. 

i am so happy that i finally changed the inside boxes in my shelves, and i really like looking at them now! i have put some little fake cacti in, a light up letter 'A', and lots of other little things in them.

i got some new boxes for the top of my shelving unit, and made some paper storage bags for my desk.

i decided to keep this area the same, but put the flowers in a mason jar.

i put a print from tales at sea next to my window, and stuck it up with some copper tape from kikki k.

i love my room so much, and i hope you got some inspiration or ideas from it!

lots of love - avery huia x

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