Most of the art (I use the term loosely, for the most part) hanging in my apartment has been acquired at thrift stores, yard sales, antique shops, and from moving friends. Consequently, for a long time it hung rather blandly in a mishmash of antiqued, boring pea-green, brown, and gold frames with no sense [...]
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Homemade Holidays: Wreath Roundup
One of my dearest friends moved away recently, and she took her camera with her. She’d been letting me use this camera for months (what a good friend!), so naturally I’m missing them both terribly. Kyle is helping me to purchase a new one as a Christmas gift to me (any recommendations?!), but until that [...]
For All You Crummy-Apartment Dwellers
This post probably won’t appeal to a lot of people because most people probably don’t live in crummy apartments with medicine cabinets full of mold, peeling paint, and God-knows-what-else. But, for the few of you out there who do, this is something I recently did that has made getting ready in the mornings a [...]
From Dog Couch to Dream City, an Easy Outdoor DIY
One of the tasks we decided to tackle this crafternoon was the painting of a some plastic outdoor furniture given to Turby and John by John’s and my parents. While the hunter green is completely suited to what they have going on in their backyard oasis in the middle of nowhere, Turby and John were [...]
