Hello guys, Drew here from Loan Fox. Welcome back to my channel. Today I'm doing a really fun IKEA hacks for you and if you might notice, my hair's a lot darker. I got it dyed like a warm honey blonde, which the hair stylist did such a great job at. My friend Dustin. At the time I was like, oh my gosh, it's so good. I love it. And then when I got home and re-scaled on myself, I was like, Yikes. I don't know guys. Like it looks pretty on camera kind of wrinkled forehead. I'm not 100% sure if I'm gonna keep this color. I don't think I am. I think I'm gonna change it back on Thursday. I'm back to my platinum blonde that I've had for a while, which I just love that color. I think it really really suits me and I've just been working with it and loving it. I was walking around IKEA with my friend James the other day and I found three new IKEA hacks I wanted to share with you guys and I'm so excited about these. I actually did have four in the first place, but I ended up only doing three in this video because I need to order something for the next one. So if you do want to see a fourth IKEA hacks video on this channel, definitely give this one a thumbs up. If you have two other ones of these videos that actually got so many views, you guys seem to love them and I will link those in the cards up above. You want to check those out. But without further ado, let's just get into these projects. This first project here I thought was so innovative and fun. So what I used was the Hajor Chon pot and the Bruns to Lamshade along with some E6000 block paint and a paintbrush. So I used the bottom side of the pot, which is typically like the water catcher and I flipped it over. And I'm gluing the top side of this Bruns to Lamppendent directly to the bottom of the pot. So what I'm using is E6000. I cut the corner off by the way just to get the E6000 out because sometimes the top dries and I'm using a ton of E6000 and just making sure this is really going to be cemented and fastened because this is going to be holding up a plant. And I just put a ton of it on there because we're going to be covering this with black paint later. So no worries. You can fold over your E6000 corner and use it again later. And then this is a following day. I actually use a bit of black paint just to cover all of it. And you guys, this was so super secure. If you let the E6000 just dry overnight and you wake up, it's going to be legit cemented on there. So use a bit of black paint and painted it all on there. Let it dry. And you can put your pot in the top and I kept it just on the neutral tone for a little bit of contrast and that is your new planter. Next up we're making this deck of posh tray and I used the clock tray for my kea along with the magazines, scissors, matte mod podge and a paintbrush. So what I did was go through a couple of magazines I had laying around my apartment and just pulled out anything that was interesting to me. So like this tiger printed elephant, these really cool words with the yellow background. I found this Louis Vuitton sort of background that's had consumed cool on it and just lots of random images and just finds inside of magazines or anything that you might have personal momentos, Polaroid photos. I even ended up in the end adding some personal things I did a ticket from an OC fare that I went to. Just lots of stuff you can deck a posh on here and keep in mind also. You can add as you go. So if you don't have a lot of images to start with, you can just deck a posh ones you do have and then later on down the future you can add more to it, cover up what you don't like anymore and just keep adding because you could honestly never have too many things deck a posh on this tray. So I cut up this really cool pair of Gucci sneakers as well and something that I definitely recommend when you're doing deck a posh like this is to cut around some of the images. So don't make everything squares. Definitely create some that are a little bit more organic shapes and cut around them leaving a little bit of an edge. I think that really creates that magazine-esque look. And then what I did was use my phone just to take a photo of the placement that I had so I can start actually deck a poshings. What I do is just add a very generous layer of mod podge to the back side and then I place it down on my tray where I want it to go and then I'll use a bit more mod podge and go around the whole top edge of the project just to really make sure that it's fastened on there. And I used a couple images of Cerrois Ronin because she's one of my favorite actresses ever. I love the lovely bones. It's one of my favorite movies even though a lot of people think it's creepy. I really just enjoy like the cinematography and the coloring and the graphics. Everything about that movie, the music, the acting, the casting, it's all amazing. I just love that one and then also Lady Bird. She just starts in a lot of movies that I really love. So I wanted to definitely make her prominent and I had her vote cover so I definitely added that in there and I just deck a poshed everything down and that's basically all you have to do. Just make sure to go over everything in the end with a lot of mod podge just to lock it and seal it all in. Put it on your nightstand, put some perfumes on it, source some books on it, whatever you want to use it for. Just a quick disclaimer before I start this next project, I know a lot of people are going to say that this is not fire safe but do keep in mind that it's honestly the same exact thing is having an extension cord touching a rug or an extension cord under your bed touching a piece of clothing or just touching your bedding in general. This is completely coated in plastic so if there is for some reason a spark or something that happens where the thing blows up, it's probably going to light something on fire anyway. So having this little bit of cord around the wire is not going to affect it. It is coated, there's no live wire showing so do keep that in mind. What you're going to need for this project is a couple of extension cords, some brass spray paint, hot glue, macromate cord, some tape and scissors. So what I started off by doing was taking my tape and just taping off the front side of this extension cord because I didn't want anything to get in those actual outlet holes then I also taped off the little clicker at the top. I brought it outside and gave it a nice spray painted brass touch so I sprayed it with my 14 karat brass spray paint and let that dry of course and then I peeled off those tapes sort of as a mask just to expose the actual outlets. And next what you're going to do is use your macromate cording just to tape it on the actual cord and I did make sure to kind of keep it away from the edge so I kept it about half of an inch away from the actual edge or the start of the extension cord and then I just wrapped the macromate cording all the way down using hot glue and it's going about at an inch section each time. So I did about an inch of glue then I would wrap the cord around a couple of times and this is just a great way to create an extension cord that you would like to actually be seen. So because a lot of the times you don't want your extension cords to be shown so I thought this was a great way to just create something that added a little bit of focal aspects to your living room or your bedroom or something and that is a completed project. So guys that was today's video. I hope you enjoyed and it gave you a couple of ideas to incorporate in your own personal room decor. Definitely give it a thumbs up if you enjoyed watching and yeah you can check out my channel for more DIY and home videos. I post some every single week make sure to subscribe and also follow me on my personal Instagram at i'mjruskott. I'll put it on the screen for you guys and I'll catch you next one. Bye guys!