For the last few years, I have been obsessed with making sequin pin ornaments (here was last year’s contribution on the subject). They are time consuming but easy to master. The possibilities are truly endless even with just one value bag of sequins and some pins especially sold for this purpose, which should be no [...]
I have had the wire form from a busted lampshade sitting in a box for a few years, waiting for some sort of project. I thought I might make a new fabric or paper cover, but I just never felt like it.
Then I realized, with a lot of bags of plastic beads and some 20 [...]
I recently went on a “spending spree” in my neighborhood thrift stores. Our little corner of DC is lucky enough to have three right along the same street within 4 blocks or four-tenths of a mile of each other (I will list them at the end of the post)
So here is my haul:
And here is [...]
I think that’s a much better adage than “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade” because when are lemons just given? The current price of one lemon at my local grocery store is $0.79! I would love to have life give me any kind of citrus.
What life occasionally does do is break things, like my cereal bowls. [...]
I got this hat as a free promotional gift from Lucky Brand Jeans. The only problem was, originally, it was just plain solid green with the word “ENVY” on the front. I don’t know what they were trying to convey: was the wearer supposed to make others envious of their Lucky jeans? Did they want [...]
I recently finished a project that I’ve been eyeing for a while, inspired by really neat items from Urban Outfitters: a jewelry stand.
Here are some from UO:
and here is mine:
At this point, my boyfriend knows to run it buy me before he throws anything big out, because I will pull things out of the garbage to save them, and no one wants that. So when he wanted to throw away a slightly ripped up towel with a hole at one end, he was nice [...]
You guys might remember a project I had going here, when they were just stripped and sanded. Now they’ve been stained, varnished, and reupholstered!
The fabric is a cream colored micro-suede or crushed velvet. This was my first project with such a fabric and it was quite perplexing, since it didn’t act like other material in [...]
The following picture is NOT chocolate:
I think I’m going to make this a regular feature for Thursdays: Healthy Food. I had 4 bananas that I couldn’t finish before they were going to spoil (they bruised all over being carried home on Monday). So I found a banana bread/cake recipe that had a high banana ratio [...]
I love bottled Starbucks bottled frappuccinos, regardless of their calories and pasteurized milk which I try to avoid. I also love their bottles, although I’m a bottle and jar horder. A few days ago, I realized they are a good size and shape for a bud vase.
If you remove the clear plastic label, the bottle is pretty [...]