IKEA Hacker - Fun Fur Jules Desk Chair

Sometimes you look for ideas online and are unable to find exactly what you're looking for. After wanting to cover a desk chair in fun fur, I found only one guide on IKEAHackers.net. The problem, this version wasn't visually appealing to me as it reminded me of a toilet. Not exactly the look I was going for in my office.

The toilet version:

I decided to try and create a new version as I wanted a more fitted look as the end result.

The updated version:

I know which version I like best.  ;o)  Using Snapguide I mapped out how anyone can recreate it.

With Snapguide you share what you know.

The latest trend today is hosting a craft party. After attending one on the weekend, there was enough information to create a handy little Snapguide, How to make tree branch ornaments.

The Snapguide app makes it easy to create quick how to instructions on everything from cooking to DIY crafts. Admittedly, it is quite addictive; leading to planning additional crafty projects on the weekends in order to create new guides. Time is well spent - anything that encourages a bit of creativity rather than sitting in front of the computer is welcomed! It's time to bring your social crafting off-line and enjoy a ladies night crafting. Finally! A use for all the pins you collect on Pinterest!

We had so much fun I can't wait to go to another craft party. Crafting naturally lends itself to sitting around enjoying a glass of wine with friends.

The Sideways Head - Igor Mitoraj, Eros Bendato (Eros bound)

On a trip to Lugano, Switzerland I found an eerie sideways bandaged severed head and later found out it was a bronze sculpture by the Polish artist Igor Mitoraj, called Eros Bendato or Eros Bound. Google shed a bit more information about both the artist and the sculpture which was created in 1999. The site flickrhivemind.net has a great image wall of pictures.

Wikipedia contains information on the sculptor Igor Mitoraj. It was a fun little project to run Google image searches and find all the other places around the world where this "sideways head" could be found.

There is a sculpture of Eros Bendato in Vancouver, the Vancouver Biennale website explains it "depicts a fragment of an ancient monument to Eros, the god of love, here blindfolded, suggesting that love is blind."

There is also one in the market square of Krakow, Poland.

Another may be found at Citygarden in St. Lewis, MO, USA. According to art-stl.com it is "inspired by ancient cultures and particularly characters from Greek and Roman mythology. In this sculpture, the dismembered head of Eros, the Greek god of love and desire, lies on its side. The bandages that wrap Eros's face symbolically cover the eyes and mouth, indicating that desires and ideas have been imprisoned. The bandages also symbolize two opposing views of the world: either that civilization is broken beyond repair or that it is being held together despite destructive forces." There is a great picture on DigitalJournal.com.

Two very different definitions there for the meaning behind the statue. 

There is one in Yorkshire Sculpture Park in England. It looks like this particular sculpture may have started off at a Sotheby's 'Beyond Limits' Exhibition, in Chatsworth.

Plus, one more in Roma, Italy at the Mercati de Traiano Museo dei Fori Imperiali.

According to equilibriarte.net ;"The silent figures of Mitoraj have always been my mouth shut, but also, almost always, blindfolded, as if to emphasize the distance between finite being and eternal being" and Mitoraj's work can also be found "in the British Museum and Canary Wharf in London , Bamberg, Krakow, La Defense in Paris, the Uffizi Gallery and the Boboli Gardens in Florence, Piazza del Carmine and the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Piazza Monte Grappa and Piazza Mignanelli in Rome."

There is something very Alexander McQueen about this sculpture. Whatever the meaning is, I love it.