Crazy About Decoupage!

I recently became obsessed with decoupage. I had done exactly one decoupage project back in 2008- a cardboard money bank covered in Berber pictures for Aissa to save money for a trip back to Algeria, but beyond that, I didn't do much with decoupage, even though I had lots of ideas.

Well, one day at work I became crazy about the idea of starting again. After work I stopped at Utrect, an art store, looking for Mod Podge. They didn't have that, so I got Yes! Paste, a similar kind of glue that the salesman recommended. Aissa has brought home a few cigar boxes from work for me, and I decided that they would be the perfect things to start decorating. I had some MIR travel brochures with tons of pictures of Central Asia, so I cut out the best ones and glued them on. My final goal is to put a handle and a clasp on it to make a purse, but I haven't gotten past the gluing stage (Yes! Paste dries very slowly, so I can only do one top coat every 24 hours). Here are pictures of it so far.

 I then decided to keep going. I inherited an IKEA side table from Aissa's old roommate, and I bought a vintage National Geographic map of Asia a few months ago, and I thought that they belong together. So I started a map table. I still have to do a top coat and I want to cover the insides of the legs with maps, but here is a table that is now a million times cooler than it was this morning before I started.

There seems to be an endless stream of ideas in my head of things I can decoupage - picture frames, necklace pendants, more cigar boxes, dresser drawers, switch plates, lamp shades, wooden bowls... good thing it's winter and I have evenings free to turn all these ideas into reality! Pretty soon my house will completely covered in maps.