餐紙巾拼貼木盒、花盆和電燈掣 Decoupaging a Wooden Box, a Planter and Light Switch Plates

餐紙巾拼貼是我喜愛的裝飾技巧之一，它的方法很簡單，只須將餐紙巾貼在我想要裝飾的物品上。有些人說必須用一種叫做Mod Podge的特定膠水，但我只是用白膠漿用水稀釋，出來的效果我不覺得和用Mod Podge有什麼分別。

Decoupaging is one of my favourite skills for making decorative items. It is a rather simple skill – sticking paper napkins onto the objects I’d like to decorate. Some say you need to use a specific glue called Mod Podge; I simply use white glue thinned with water. I don’t think the outcomes are any different from using Mod Podge.

我曾在網上見過人用餐紙巾來裝飾電燈掣，自此我開始尋找葡萄牙瓷磚圖案的餐紙巾，結果真的給我找到！裝飾後，電燈掣看起來像是真的瓷磚一樣！

I once came across the idea of decoupaging light switch plates from someone’s blog. Since then, I had tried looking for paper napkins with a pattern resembling Portuguese tiles. I finally found them. After the decoupage decoration, the light switch plates took on the appearance of tiles!

另一個項目：我用姊姊送給我的貓咪圖案餐紙巾來裝飾一個木盒。

Another project decorating a wooden box using a cat pattern napkin that my sister gave me as a gift.

這個項目不是用餐紙巾，而是用報紙。這些《蘋果日報》的廣告記錄了2020年香港人民的聲音。我用它來裝飾一個鐵罐，用來栽種植物。現在《蘋果日報》已經停刊，這些廣告變成了歷史文物，更形珍貴。為了好好保存這些廣告，我已經把水種植物換成了人造植物。

This project used newspaper instead of paper napkins. These ads on Apple Daily recorded the voices of Hong Kong people in 2019. I used them to decorate a tin can which I turned into a planter. Now that Apple Daily has been closed down, these ads have become historical artefacts. To avoid ruining them, I have replaced the water plants with artificial ones in this planter.