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 From left to right: Yellow armchair Made.comMoon "pour l'amour" available soon, Sofa La redouteDIY cushions and Leroy Merlincoffee table SengtaiRugs La redouteRattan armchair Atelier du petit ParcFrames Ikea, Habitat and Ferm Living and Miffy lamp at Fleux.

Happy Saturday, my little wooden wolves!

I haven't done that one yet! I hope you're well and starting your weekend, and I'm back today with a decorating article to show you a new room in my little nest. You've already seen a bit of it in my do it yourself Mexican cushions article, but I think I'm starting to get seriously settled in. So, nothing's set in stone, things are likely to change and I know myself, I'll add to it but I think it's starting to look like something, with breathing zones and improbable mixes...

Office Made.comvintage chair, Fridouska toillette case found heredesk lamp Habitatdiy cork painting, inspired by this customization. On the coffee table: blue trays offered by my sweetheart. Maiand cactus Ikea. A paper hanging Habitat and various vintage and ikea.

Let's start with the walls: it's Middleton pink from Farrow and Balland on the other wall it's an XL mint gingham wallpaper by the adorable little brand Baartsch. A moon made into wallpaper with my sweet sidekick Alexandra Bruel, one of our projects for love... On sale soon on the famous Make My Lemonade big cartel boutique I was telling you about yesterday... Today, if I'm talking about my home, it's because I have a solid gold excuse. That's right Pinterest is launching a decorating campaign... So Pinterest asked me to be the decorating ambassador for the month of November: "Pour chez moi". It couldn't have come at a better time, as I was more than inspired on Pinterest to furnish and decorate my apartment, and it's also an opportunity for a refresher course on how this wonderful tool works... I may be pushing open doors, but I think this might be of interest to a few... Mom, this is for you, so open your ears.

So Pinterest what exactly is it? It's a social network, but not just that... For example, it's one of my favorite work tools, and I'd like to make it clear that I'm not being paid to tell you this! Let me explain: on Pinterest, you can find inspiring and inspirational images that users pin to their accounts, all organized into boards like virtual inspiration panels. The images come from everywhere, from Pinterest in a closed circuit, from the internets because from any site you can pin images thanks to the "Pin it" button to be installed in your favorites bar. So, as soon as you find a hot image that perfectly matches your fashion, cooking or decorating cravings, you can pin it directly to your "fashion“, “food"or "dream home". We used to tear pages out of magazines in waiting rooms, now we "pin it". But you can also repin images from users you're going to follow, into your own boards, and that's not stealing. I say this because at the beginning of Pinterest I didn't dare "re-pin" images from accounts I followed... It's the principle, we share.... But you can also import your own inspirational images that are wisely waiting to be printed and pasted into your home's "future work" notebook. Save trees, use Pinterest.

Vintage coffee table, Yellow lamp HabitatPlaster Cactus Selleti, Lamp with Marble Base Made.com and built-in table and chairs Ikea.

In short, Pinterest is my daily brain gym, and I could procrastinate for hours on it, so rather than lose myself in the abyss of the internet, I time myself 20 minutes of Pinterest at the start of the day. Either I pin all over the place when I'm not looking for anything in particular, or I pin methodically to populate a board for a client presentation. It's a marvellous tool for conveying a creative intention... And a little tip: sometimes images, especially those imported directly by users, don't give the source and origin of the image; so I suggest you import the image into google image by clicking on the little camera on the right of the input window, to find the origin more easily. It's always better to know where images come from, especially if you're using them professionally and want to contact the author...

I hope you enjoyed this little illustration video! Thanks to Nathan for his patience and for these images! Thanks to Alex for the song, and as a bonus for your amazed eyes, here's the step-by-step scoubidous abat jour...

You'll need..:

• - Large scoubidous in found colors here,
• - two lampshade frames of the same size (at least on one side),
• - cutting pliers,
• - and brass wire.

Start by using the wire cutters to cut the area that will be fastened around the bulb, cutting this area on a single carcass only.

Then, using approximately 8 cm of brass wire, fasten the two casings together. Position the two casings one on top of the other and fasten them together at 4 points by winding the brass as shown in the image above.

Now take your first color of scoubidou and start by tying a tight knot in the middle of your two carcasses, and start weaving, choosing the rhythm, and the space you want to use between each passage. As for me, I started in the middle, climbed to the top of the lampshade, did a turn on the small diameter, came back to the middle, did a turn around the two large diameters and went down to do a turn on the other small diameter and back to the middle, and so on...

I changed the color of each edge of the lampshade, but there's nothing to stop you making a two-tone or plain lampshade - once again, have fun! And TA-DA!