We live in a very, very old apartment, and at times I feel like it’s crumbling down around us. That’s really the only logical explanation for the copious amounts of dust we sweep up on a daily basis. Well, that and our cats. Cats (with all their shedding and the litter they track everywhere, no [...]
Posts tagged DIY
Handmade Valentines
I love botanical drawings, and I’ve been hoarding these beautiful calendar pages for almost three years. I decided to finally do something with them and, using some cardboard and scrapbook paper, I made a few valentines to send to a few friends. I put these sweet babies in the mail today, so hopefully they’ll make [...]
Why I Spraypainted All My Frames Black
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 [...]
DIY Mittens from (Accidentally) Felted Wool Sweater
The past two mornings I’ve left for work it’s been snowing. One morning my car door was actually frozen shut. The next day I was almost late because I sat in my car so long looking at the snow. It’s kind of a big deal here. On these snowy days, by the time I get [...]
Homemade Holidays: Doily Tote Bags
I fell in love with this doily canvas bag tutorial at first sight. I am always in the market for reusable bags to carry to the grocery store, especially ones that don't advertise a something.
I whipped up a few of these sweet bags for Christmas gifts. Ideally, they would be [...]
Our Christmas Tree Saga
Earlier this month we had a wonderful little holiday party, complete with mulled cider, at which we put up our Christmas tree. It was a very normal used pre-lit tree, given to me by my parents, which we used last year as well. I decorated it in golds’ silvers, and reds and used some beautiful [...]
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 [...]
Homemade Holidays: Cookie Mix in a Jar
When I first heard of cookie mix in a jar, I thought it was the most brilliant idea ever. Admittedly, I am pretty idealistic when it comes to things like this, and I didn’t take into consideration a lot of things. First and foremost, I didn’t think about whether the recipes offered up in these [...]
Homemade Holidays: Sweet Little Shirts
I knocked out another Christmas gift yesterday, albeit a fairly easy one. The hardest part was deciding which animals in which colors to put on the shirts. Runners up are: a fat grizzly bear, a sweet kitten, and a flamingo. I was also debating about lime green on the teal shirt and pink on the [...]
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 [...]
