LEMAX Village

It's that time of year! We're getting into the Christmas Spirit by decorating our home to bring that comfort and joy we find during this special time of year. My husband and I have dreamed of getting those little villages, reminiscent of our childhood. We decided to go to Michaels craft store (waited for a sale and a coupon of course) and looked at them one at a time to find the perfect combination that would represent our family and our tradition.

After the villages were picked out, we needed a place to put them. We looked around at the village platforms and realized it wasn't in our budget so I decided to make my own.

Materials needed:

Old boxes (I had diaper boxes lying around)

Glue gun

Glue sticks

Scissors

Heavy card stock.

I measured the ikea island we were going to use as a base as a guideline. I didn't want to make the platform bigger than it's base :)

I then glued all the pieces together with many hot glue sticks.
I used the card stock to make the edges.

I decided to paper-machee the entire platform to solidify the surface.

I used equal parts of flour and water and old news paper. I covered the entire platform with the gooey mixture. (except for the back as you will need room to run the wires.)

Make sure you let it dry for at least 48 hours as it will need to be completely dry before you put any weight on this structure. Last thing you want is to have the entire thing collapse on you.

We then placed a large piece of white felt over the structure and methodically placed our LEMAX villages scene on top.

LEMAX villages : $250
Village platform : $20
Kids face when they saw the magic happen : PRICELESS!!!

Welcome!

Against a northern Ontario landscape with the soft sumptuous pastels of spring and the vibrant, varied colors of fall, an artist was born. That would would be me!


I've never been happy with the mundane, I found myself rearranging the furniture over and over again in my own home and accessorizing with whatever is available. My favourite thing to do is finding a new way to use and old thing. Over the years i've learned to sew, creating unique clothing and decorate my surrounding out of scraps of material and treasures along side of the road. Everyone seems to be inspired by my creativity and wants what I have - little do they know where it came from. Now let's keep that between you and me ;-)


Before I got into the design industry, I was studying the wonderful world of business and finance. I sure do love the numbers... but quickly found out that there's not much creativity in that. You can always shuffle them around but 1+1 will ALWAYS = 2. 


One day, I was sitting in my living room with my close friend Marie-Claude dreaming up a wonderful house for her. I've always love to help people out wherever I could. She challenged me to help her design her "new" home. I quickly accepted the challenge not knowing where to begin... we talked layout, colour palettes, even landscape... by the time we were done we had planned out a castle. I thought to myself, I better get my act in gear and go back to school. But how will I do this? The money? The time? Did I mention I have four young kids?


I dug real deep... It took a while but I DID IT!! That's right, I went back to school and got my interior design certificate. Now my passion for art is fused with cutting edge technology, and my knowledge of the latest trends in the design industry makes me capable of accomplishing such projects. And thats when From House to Home, my interior design, home staging and landscape design business was born!