| December 22nd, 2008 | Runny |
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Frequently occurring pet peeve: getting holes in my tights So I bought a couple of pairs of tights yesterday. As I was literally trying these tights on for the first time, half way up the first leg I poked a hole through them with my finger. Luckily I put some clear nail polish on them and the run is low enough that I can still wear these with boots, but sheesh. This seems to be happening to me a lot lately, usually not the first time I put them on, but lots of running tights. Is it because tights have gotten cheaper this year or that I’ve gotten much more clumsy? Whater :-/. 
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| December 20th, 2008 | Back to Posting! :) |
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| December 11th, 2008 | Backseat |
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Unfortunately, updating this blog is taking a backseat to many other things (mostly school!) and will be for the next week. Finals are going to be pretty intense this semester, so I’m really trying to dedicate my time to them. Hope everyone is doing great! I’ll be back soon :). |
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| December 3rd, 2008 | Etsy and Bottle Koozies |
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So I was going to post these sweet bottle koozies I’ve been working on lately on etsy, but for some reason Etsy won’t load at all for me! Is anyone else having this problem?! :(.
I’ve been rather neglectful of my shop lately. The reason behind this is that almost all of my sales end up going through etsy anyway. I like having the shop at tulipsociety because I like to have things very organized and the program I use is really good at that. But on the other hand, I think people are a lot less trusting of it and would rather go through a place like etsy where there are steps they can take if their order isn’t received. So… chances are I’m going to go strictly through etsy sometime in the near future. That is, if I can get etsy to load, haha.
ps. new Britney album is fricking sweet. |
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| December 3rd, 2008 | Short Post |
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(Willie Theodore, David’s Parent’s kitten who hung out with me last week) Just an incredibly uninteresting update to say that I got back from Ohio last night… So… I’ll post something tomorrow |
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| November 24th, 2008 | Crocheting, Poladroid, and Going to Ohio for the Week! |
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First off, I learned to (kind of) crochet and I’ve been fairly obsessed the last few days. I wanted to learn to knit last year so I could make slouchy beanies, but then never really got around to learning how to do circles (knitting patterns confuse the heck out of me, I pretty much stick to scarfs, bowties, and flask covers…). So I watched youtube videos on crocheting and wow… so much easier.
Second, Gala Darling posted a link to this program called Poldroid today and I’ve been playing with it for at least an hour. So amazing! I love the way it edits the pictures. I am very much afraid that this will lead to me being super lazy and never editing photos ever again. Why should I when poladroid makes them look exactly how I want them? So woo, go download it.
Third, I am leaving to Ohio tomorrow at like, 2 or 3am! I probably won’t be updating because they have dial up, but if I have to work on homework somewhere with wifi (which is quite possible, meh) maybe I’ll sneak in a little something about how our trip is going. Otherwise, don’t expect anything on here until next tuesday!
Last, I’ve been getting 2000-3000ish visits to this blog the last few days because of my ipod cigarette case. It got posted to shinyshiny and pretty much every gadget place on the internet has a link to it now, haha. Exciting, but I’m somewhat worried that I’m going to go over my bandwidth and the site will shut down! So… if you come here and it’s down, that’s probably why, hehe.
Have a great week! |
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| November 21st, 2008 | Orange Jello Shots |
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So I stumbled upon this Orange Jello Shot recipe on Food Network’s website and decided it was one of the most ingenious things I’d seen in a very long time. I’ve been meaning to try to make these for a couple of weeks, but since people get old enough to go to bars it seems they rarely throw house parties. After being antsy about it I finally decided to make them a couple of days ago to “test.”
To be honest, I’ve never in my entire life peeled an orange. I don’t really like orange a ton. I like the flavor and I like orange juice, but I don’t really like the texture of citruses. I didn’t know you were supposed to use one of those special spoons, and even if I had know it’s not like I have one. So getting the Orange out of the peel was a slightly more complicated process than it had to be (as you can see by the mush in that bowl).
I put the orange halves in my fridge and filled them up from there, since I was pretty sure I’d have a heart attack trying to carry them all from the counter to the fridge. It worked, somewhat, but there was still a lot of spillage (as expected when you try to fill something up to the very top.
And I must say, mine clearly don’t look as amazing as the Food Network ones, but it was a really good idea. I think I’m going to try to make jello jiggler shots next. We’ll see how that works out. |
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| November 18th, 2008 | This is a lot cooler if you smoke |
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Years ago I was doing my homework on a bench outside when I gust of wind blew all of it away. I got up to chase it down, forgetting that my ipod was attatched to my ears and sitting on the bench next to me. When I chased my papers my ipod fell on the concrete and broke the screen. It looked cool for a few months until it eventually stopped working. Anyways, I kept it lying around for a really long time until sometime last year I decided to take it apart. I took out all of the ipod parts, painted the back of the screen black, and made it into a secret cigarette case. This would be much cooler if I smoked more than one cigarette every few weeks, or if I was a spy and needed to keep top secret information with me or something, but alas, I’m not a smoker or a spy. So in the meantime I’ll just carry this around with me to impress people at bars and such. :). |
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| November 15th, 2008 | My favorites of Chinese Fashion Week |
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I was going to write some words to go with this, but I’m too lazy. Click the links and tell me your favorites! |
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| November 13th, 2008 | Altered 80s: Bubble Dresses |
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I debated on this dress for quite a few minutes before buying it. I’m big on “potential” and giving love to things that will sit on racks for weeks, but this was a little much even for me. I get lots of weird looks when I buy things at thrift stores, lots of “is she serious?” faces, but in the end I figure I can usually figure out something. Anyways, bought this 80s Jessica McClintock bridal collection dress the other day. It really gets me a little bit angry that bridesmaids had to wear these at some point in time!
Quick and Dirty Tutorial on Making a Bubble Dress (no sewing needed!)
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