Showing posts with label poster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poster. Show all posts

Monday, 14 November 2011

Defi'13 on the 14th

This month's Défi'13 theme ( a challenge against the bad luck of 13th of each month) was British Style. Well, well, well that was supposed to be super easy, right! And I should have come up with tons of ideas. Wrong. Well, I did, but I did not manage to really make any of them... But M saved the day, and made my entry to Défi'13 possible. To be fair it was a joint effort: a poster I bought ages ago, with a frame totally redone by M.


Le thème de Novembre du Défi'13 c'était British Style, et honnêtement je me suis dit que c'était gagné d'avance - the fingers in the nose comme P'pa dirait (son anglais est super évolué). on habite en Grande-Bretagne, et rien que pour çà je devrais pouvoir entrer le challenge de ce mois. Non, non et re-non, çà ne s'est pas du tout passé comme çà. Je n'ai eu le temps de rien faure et j'ai bien cru ne pas pouvoir valider mon entrée ce mois-ci.. Jusqu'à hier soir.. M (mon très gentil, et surtout très patient mari) a fini de peindre le cadre pour mon poster Sherlock Holmes. Et bingo, j'avais mon entrée de Novembre..



I am sure you have seen these posters before. The WHOLE book is written in a tiny font, and the main character/theme is cut out. The frame is now silver (pine before). M customised it as follows: he sanded the frame first, applied a first coat of primer, sanded it again, second coat of primer, sanded again, applied the first coat of silver paint, sanded again, and applied the top coat. A lot of sanding involved! We bought the frame second-hand (it was during my 'buy nothing new for a month challenge' - two massive frames for 30 pounds with the passe-partouts). He also cut the passe-partout to size.

On trouve ce genre de posters partout en GB en ce moment. M a customisé le cadre (en pin à l'origine): il a poncé le cadre, puis peint une première sous-couche, ponçage, deuxième sous-couche, ponçage, première couche de peinture argenté, ponçage, et couche finale de peinture argenté. Il a également coupé le passe-partout.. Bref beaucoup de ponçage!! Mais en même temps comme on a acheté ce cadre pour 20 euros, avec le passe-partout, çà valait le coup..


My first Défi'13... Next month's theme, 'Moi froid, jamais' (or I am never cold) - in theory, it should be even easier than this month's theme... Normalement, le thème du mois de décembre c'est vraiment du gâteau - j'ai même une idée de tricot... A suivre.

Off this afternoon, cannot wait. So hope you all have a wonderful week guys! A plus!

Thursday, 11 November 2010

Home Inspiration 11

I am sure you have all looked (bought?) some of Caroline McGrath posters. I thought that was such a clever idea - so new, so beautiful!



All the interior design magazines I read (and believe me I read many) featured the prints. Can you have too much of a good thing? Well I am ashamed that the novely worn off a bit. It is still great, but it felt that everyone had the print..

However I found out a very cool way to have my unique word cloud. Wordle explains that it is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.

The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends

Here are some of display on the website




All I need now is to find my favourite text (I am considering the song my parents wrote for my wedding - yes, they decided to sing in front of all the guests, and boy did I cry!). What text would you choose?