Hello! The Vivat Veritas site had been down for the past few days and it’s finally up and running again. My apologies if you tried to access only to get an error message or taken to a host server’s site. I needed to migrate the server and I am happy that the process is now complete.
I have a few sewing projects to share here, including my second pair of Ginger jeans (first one here) in white stretch twill, cardigan to cropped sweater makeover and a lace wedding dress I’m working on, but for today, I’m, showing you a super easy DIY that I did last weekend. 
Andy’s grandma is an awesome grandma. She truly knows what I like. She gave me the Ginger jeans patterns from Closet Case Files for Christmas. She also gave me a gold leafing pen! I’ve seen a few DIY’s popping up on my Pinterest feed (my DIY board is here) using the gold leafing pen, so I was trilled to have received it as a Christmas gift.
I decided to decorate an IKEA lamp share I’ve had for years. Previously, I decorated this simple shade with a washi tape but it looked rather boring. So I took off the tape (great thing about washi tape – easily removable) and drew a bunch of arrow-like shapes.
It turned out OK – I’m not crazy in love with it but I can always change things up in the future. I might redo the shade with pretty patterned paper or fabric with Mod Podge like I did with these boxes.
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Happy New Year! You can tell that I’m getting old since I went to bed at 10:30pm on New Year Eve’s. I used to stay up all night for the holiday but I couldn’t care less now. I need my 8 hours of sleep!
Decoupaging a box is super easy. You only need to cut the paper in the size of the box, apply Mod Podge on the box and stick the paper on. After the Mod Podge drys off, apply another thin coat and let it dry, and you are done.
It is a great project to do it with your child. Kiko helped me apply the Mod Podge and she seemed to have enjoy it. I remade three boxes; one for my tea bags and the other two as gift boxes.
It’s almost the end of the year 2014. The direction and purpose of this blog has changed over the years. I would love to hear your feedback on the blog, what you would like to see more of and any suggestions to improve it.