Retro style

New Year is a wonderful occasion when even adults act like children, believe in miracles and get excited about shiny things, sparkling lights and bright wrapping paper. You can, as usual, decorate a Christmas tree with traditional glass and plastic balls, but it is much nicer and more fun to make ...

Recently one of my friends visited the Singapore's famous Peranakan Museum. As I am doing restoration of old schemes for embroidery, at my request, he made countless pictures of one of the most famous exhibits of this museum — the luxury wedding tablecloth embroidered with tiny beads with ...

There is no limit to human fantasy. Artists paint the world with rainbow colors, because they see it through their souls. It is always interesting to look at something new and unusual. For me, the works of Ulyana Sergeenko have became recently this something new. Her ideas and findings become a ...

I want to share my find. I got a fashion magazine, Divani published on spring 1958 in Czechoslovakia.'Оdivani' means 'clothes' in Croatian. It's exactly 60 years old and it has many interesting cuts and models one could use nowadays! Some unobtrusive ads on a page:   ...

I invite everyone to create an autumn bracelet! Autumn is my favorite season! A splash of colours, majestic fading, memories of summer and preparing for the New Year :) Love all of autumn colours, especially sun-bleached... To make the piece of jewelry, you need: 1. Fusible webbing.2. Silk for the ...

The second life of old things can be much more exciting :) Inexhaustible imagination and skillful hands! Everything you need to turn rubbish into a table or floor lamp. And if you think homemade lighting devices can hardly take a place at home, it's not so — give a little irony even to the most ...

Retro is a whole epoch understood in many ways — so many men, so many minds. Someone thinks that retro is everything relating to the 1930s, and someone believes the 1990s to be the cool old retro. In Webster's dictionary, the definition is quite generic, which is "relating to, reviving, or ...

This article is devoted entirely to one English cottage hidden among green gardens of the village of Cadbury in Birmingham. The owners of the cottage, Lisa and Matt Pedington, bought it 15 years ago. Lisa recalls that when the house had just been bought, it was in poor condition, but she fell in ...