A Bigger Picture

Hello lovelies!

Collage; my preferred ways to make use of old magazines. If you are anything like me then you will be trying to keep up with the latest celeb gossip, my favourite way to do this is stocking up on magazines. I'm sure some people read every word of a magazine and study it until they have got their two pounds worth, but me, on the other hand, I like to just flick through and look at the pictures!! This does mean that I end up with piles and piles of old magazines. Being a bit of a self confessed hoarder I just can't bring my self to through them out... you just never know when you might need them for a project!

SO eventually I found a good use for some of my vast collection of magazines. My wardrobe in my bedroom is getting on a bit now and I was pretty board of just painting it so I thought I would try a collage of magazine pages to cover the doors to see how it looked. I just tacked them at first with blue tack to see and the result was pretty cool. Collage is so free I could get away with using different sized pages, a mix of fashion shoots, adverts I liked, whatever page caught my eye. I was so keen on the result I decided to take the whole thing one step further and paper-past them to the wardrobe! Best thing to make this a permanent installation and keeps it looking fresh and undamaged.

I think collage is a really good way to cover up a tired piece of furniture and gives a fresh new life to it! Don't be scared, get your paper-past out and dig out your old pile of magazines and have a go at revamping some of your furniture and see what you can bring back to life!