Welcome to Kandiland!

Welcome to Kandiland!! 

So I decided to start this blog so as to share the DIY projects I am working on. A little bit about me, I'm a married mom with the most beautiful little girl (I know I'm biased lol). Her impending arrival is actually what started my whole DIY journey. 

Before she arrived, even though at the time we lived in a one bedroom apartment and she wasn't going to have a nursery a space was made for her in our bedroom and I still wanted it to be cute for her. Initially I was looking to buy decorations/artwork to hang on the wall but my goodness!! Everything is so super expensive!! 

So I started looking on Pinterest for ideas and from there realized I can try to make my own decor. Mind you I've never thought I was creative or imaginative so at first I thought it was going to be near impossible. But Mike (my husband) was a huge source of encouragement and helped to boost my confidence. And thus it all began. 

Below are some of the decor I created for her space. We have since bought our first house and I'm now currently working on her nursery. I've incorporated the pieces I made for her space while in the apartment into the nursery. And working on adding a few other things which I'll be updating you all on here on the blog. I also look forward to sharing the other projects I have going on around the house. 

I have included pictures of what I did in the apartment and her nursery currently. My favorite thing is the giraffe art hanging over her crib. I've never been able to draw and I had to painstakingly practice this over and over on sheets of paper till I was able to get it right and I'm quite happy with how it came out. Maybe one day Kennedy will pass it on to her child lol.

Anyways please feel free to comment and ask any questions 😀😀

KAB

Kitchen Shelves DIY

So it's been a few weeks now since we moved into our new house but it's been slow go getting organized and working on the list of DIY projects that I have planned.


Between Kennedy and summer school, getting shit done has been a tad tough lol.


But summer school is finally over and I finally completed my first project. I wanted to put up some shelves in the kitchen as the cabinet space is just not enough for all my stuff. So at first I thought I would just buy some shelves and install so I went on Etsy and saw these industrial pipe shelves that I just loved.

Alas they were way too expensive. No way I was gonna shell out $200 for a couple of shelves. Anyways Pinterest to the rescue.


I found several sites with tutorials on how to build the shelves for a fraction of the cost. So I got two pieces of pine wood boards, and stained them, got some steel pluming pipe parts,cleaned them and then spray painted bronze and copper to kinda give them an aged metal look. Attached the pipes to the wood and mounted on the wall and voilà I got my industrial pipe shelves.


Now on to the next project.