Slide Curtains!

March 19th, 2010

I feel a little bad because I forgot where I originally saw this idea and am too lazy to look for it, but basically they had these curtains of like, 1000 color slide negatives and it looked way way awesome. I only had about 8 rolls worth of slides, so I made them into a little baby window cover with lots of space between the slides and kind of hanging in weird dangly strands. Whatev, I think it looks totes cool!

I kept reheating a needle and then sticking the needle through the corners of the slides so I would be able to thread them together. It was actually a big pain in the ass, to be quite honest. Then threading them together was an even bigger pain in the ass, woo! But it is done and I’m very happy with the weirdo effect it puts in my kitchen!

Oh, and of course it would be snowing the day I try to take these pictures.  lose.

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Cool Thing!

March 12th, 2010

So I have been dying over this tutorial of a yarn string lamp thing for a while and finally did it!  It is very very easy but probably one of the messiest things I have ever done (aka, awesome).  I hung it from a clothes line, but I just happen to live in the windiest place in the entire world so I got messy goop all over me and everything around me.  I didn’t wear gloves.  I did slather to balloon in vasaline though and that really helped, I think.  It would be easy if you had someone holding the balloon in place, or if the balloon was smaller… Anyways, it was fun and makes pretty/creepy shadows all over my room!

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The Beauty You Are

February 26th, 2010

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You know how sometimes you read something and you know it’s something you want to hear every day?  Well when I saw this Velvet Underground lyric on Milk Children, I knew this was one of those occasions :].  So… I made stencils and hung it on my bedroom wall!  If anyone is interested, I have a desktop wallpaper version of the second image here!  Have a nice day :].

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“Semi-Homemade” Hamburger Cupcakes

July 15th, 2009

I decided to make the hamburger cupcakes I posted about a while ago, but when I actually started buying the ingredients I got lazy and decided I wanted to do everything the easiest way possible.  So, below is my super easy, done in less than one hour cupcake recipe :) .

1.  Bake 12 cupcakes in extra large cupcake tins.  Use either yellow, vanilla, lemon, or butter flavored box cake mix.  Do not use cupcake liners!  Lightly grease and flour each cupcake tin.  Follow baking directions on the box.  This will be your “bun”.

2.  Bake chocolate cookies using store bought fudge cookies dough (you could also buy chocolate cookies from a bakery).  This will be your “patty”.  Make sure the cookies are rather large in size, large enough to hang over the edge of your “buns”.

3.  Buy canned frosting in either vanilla or cream cheese flavor.  Add yellow and orange food coloring (about a 2:1 ratio, yellow:orange) and mix thoroughly until you get the color you want.  This is your “cheese”.

4.  Cut your COOLED bun in half, set your cookie patty in the bun, then coat the patty with ample amounts of “cheese”.  Put the top of your bun on, and sprinkle a bit of sugar on top.

5.  Enjoy your hamburger!

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Covering Our Couch: Part 1

June 30th, 2009

Me and David adopted this small sectional couch from a friend last year and I had every intention of immediately covering it with some crazy fabric.  Well… I procrastinated, but now I’m finally working on covering it!  I feel silly posting these pictures because it will show how hilarious and (I hate this word, but it really fits) “ghetto” our cover job really was.  We wanted to cover it with a fun, crazy color because we’re going to have to buy new couches in a couple of years anyway, might as well have fun with these :) . Having no experience and just guessing our way through this, I think we did a pretty okay job!

On to the process!

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Midweek Menagerie 6/24

June 24th, 2009

I think I’m going to start doing a weekly catchall post like I did last week.  There are so many fun things I want to talk about that I really can’t write a whole post about.  So… here are the things I want to talk about this week!

ONE

I am terribly excited to try out this tutorial posted at lovemaegan.com on how to create a braided belt from old jersey shirts.  I haven’t taken those five bags of clothes to Salvation Army yet, so I will have quite a few colors of jersey shirts to choose from :) .  It looks super chic and I love adding belts to jazz up an outfit.

TWO

How gorgeous are these shoes from Coppelia Pique?  I don’t think I could ever wear them, that heel looks deadly, but I’m quite taken with them!  I love how they lace up the back like a corset.  I can’t even imagine how much they cost, it looks like they are individually made to fit your foot.

THREE

I don’t imagine I would ever have a real *need* for these high waisted undies by TwinSyndrome but really… adorable.  I have been eying these since Winter and just cannot justify buying them.  My favorite color is the one above, but they have quite a few others to choose from!

FOUR

I might be out of the cupcake loop, but a friend recently posted a photo of cheeseburger cupcakes and I’m pretty sure I died of cute right then and there.  I did some googling and found a few variations, but this one is a white cupcake bun, chocolate cookie burger, squished starburst cheese, and buttercream ketchup and mustard.  I can’t wait to recreate these for a birthday party!

FIVE

After what feels like months of not checking out my favorite blogs, I finally went through A TON OF THEM yesterday to see what everyone has been up to.  I visited Tara-Lynn at Stay Fancy Free and went to her etsy shop, which is full of these amazingly cute knit ascots.  Things like this make me want Fall to come four months early (and it totally got me nostalgic for the knit bow ties I made last winter!).

I think this is all I have for you this week.  Hope your Wednesday is going well!



Things to look forward to: alphabet posts coming soon!

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Spa Day!

March 23rd, 2009

So, although David probably hates me now, I declared yesterday a spa day!  We spent a couple of hours soaking our feet, exfoliating, wearing face masks, pulling pore strips, waxing eyebrows, and just acting like metrosexuals.  My hands, feet, and face are super soft todayyyyyyy.  Below is my favorite face mask recipe I found, as well as an exfoliator recipe I made up myself :) .



BANANA-AVOCADO MASK VIA SPA-AT-HOME

  • 1/2 over-ripe banana
  • 1/2 over-ripe avacado
  • 2 Tbsp unflavored full-fat yogurt
  • 1 tsp olive oil

Combine these ingredients, then leave on for 20 minutes.  My face felt super soft.  I followed this with a blackhead scrub to get all of the olive oil off.



LEMON SUGAR EXFOLIATOR (my recipe!)

  • 3 tablespoons sugar (raw sugar for coarser exfoliant!)
  • 1-2 tablespoons olive oil
  • dash of lemon juice
  • dash of lavender oil, if you have it

Mix these together and then rub down your hands and feet with it.  It smells really really good and makes your skin feel like a baby butt, hehe.

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This is a lot cooler if you smoke

November 18th, 2008

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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Scrabble Table Redux

October 17th, 2008

Could it be?!  Why yes, I did finish the scrabble table I was working on in this post. I finished it a while ago, actually, it just completely slipped my mind to make a post about it.  I ended up buying a fifteen dollar table from bed bath and beyond that was meant to be covered and used as a night stand.  Instead of covering it I coated it with the scrabble pieces from about seven games!  There are lots of words hidden in there, but don’t worry, none of them are dirty :) .

(if you’re interested in doing this, just get some wood glue to hold the pieces in place and then spray at least 3 coats of clear paint on top to seal it.)

On an unrelated note, I’ve been working on the shop and am really excited about it so far!  I’ll probably end up opening it back up some time in the next week. :) :) :)

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Howto: Contact Paper Wall Art

October 1st, 2008

If you’re anything like me you love window shopping at the numerous online vinyl art shops (blik is of course a fave).  Unfortunately, I’m on a college student budget and can’t really afford to spend 50-100 dollars on something that just sits on my wall.  Me and David really wanted to paint the apartment but realized it’s kind of frivolous since we plan on moving in a year.  I decided to get some contact paper and make my own wall decorations, the place was just looking so dull!

I wanted to make something really simple, so this is what I came up with :) .  All you need is:

  • exacto-knife with a new blade (it goes dull quick with this project)
  • black contact paper (surprisingly hard to find, but amazon.com has it)
  • sharp pair of scissors
  • assorted circles (I chose an old record, a coaster, a shot glass, and a terrible downloaded horror movie DVD)

From here all you do is find a surface you don’t mind messing up a little (I always use the bottom of my coffee table :-/ ), spread out the contact paper and cut out some circles with the exacto-knife.  Fold the circles up like you used to do when you were little to make snowflakes (if you’ve never done this, here’s a tutorial.  SKIP STEP 6.)  Now all you have to do is peel the backs off and stick them to the wall!

Super cheap way to decorate.  I also did some small polka dots on my bathroom wall.

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