A Book Shelf of Shoes

I have a TV cabinet which I use to store my shoes.

It is rather unsightly to display shoes in a living room.

I found some very old books which were destined for a pulp factory. I carefully removed the spines of these books and joined them together into a panel of book spines.

I taped the book spines to the glass of the door. It looked like that I was having a library of books in my cabinet. :)

I intentionally had some spines slightly inclined to make the panel look more real.

Palm Tree Leaf Sheath

Found a perfectly shaped fallen palm tree leaf sheath near a shopping mall this morning. It is almost 5 feet long and curved nicely. I scrubbed it clean then left it to dry under the sun.

The colour of the sheath matched my teak-coloured rubber wood cabinet perfectly well. I positioned it with a piece of pebble underneath.

The cones were picked up when I visited my children in Perth in 2011. These cones were in abundance by the roadsides and in parks. We do not have such large cones in Ipoh, though we have lots of palm trees. I also put in  dragon fruits, cabbage and bitter gourd to add some colours to the picture.

Hanging Orchids

Even though Malaysia has many beautiful orchids, real ones! But I never bought a plant, because I just do not want to grow it. But I like orchids.

I bought this posy of orchids at Jusco. It was originally white, and I didn't think the colour would stand out against my pale green wall. Anyway, that was the only orchid that looked real, among a few other red and purple orchids! So I had no choice but to buy it.

 

I used water colours to add some purple streaks to the flowers.

Diamante Photo Frame

For my daughter's graduation photo, I bought a photo frame from Parkson. Of course, there were some very nice frames, but I liked the simple design (rather, no design) and colour of this frame. 

To make it stand out, I used hot-glue gun to stick 4 diamante squares at the four corners. Now, it looks like a million to me.