Posted: March 31st, 2009 | Author: raven burgos | Filed under: Brooklyn, Current Affairs, Famous Friends, Favorite Blogs, Inspiration, fashion, style | Tags: Apartment therapy, Best websites, Brooklyn style blog, Cheeky Stitch, Cheekystich, Color Generator, Color palette generator, craft blog, Craft your future, Crafting tutorials, Design blog, DIY, Do it yourself, raven burgos, Sartorialist best images, Sartorialist images, www.cheekystitch.typepad.com, www.sartorlialist.com | No Comments »



I especially enjoyed uploading images from The Sartorialist.com, he has an eye from muted tones and very bright hues, I like deconstructing shots and finding inspiration from complete outfits. my current passion is muted lilacs.
"Speaking of color, I found yet another useful, online color tool today. degraeve.com
has a handy little app that will create a color palette around any
picture you show it. Extremely handy if you are building your room's
decoration around one piece, like a painting. link"
via Dudecraft.com
Posted: March 31st, 2009 | Author: raven burgos | Filed under: Current Affairs, Favorite Blogs, Television | Tags: Almodovar Film, Almodovar short blog, Apartment therapy, Best websites, Brooklyn style blog, Cheeky Stitch, Cheekystich, craft blog, Craft your future, Crafting tutorials, Design blog, DIY, Do it yourself, La Concejala antropófaga, raven burgos, The Cannibalistic Councilwoman, www.cheekystitch.typepad.com | No Comments »

Cant wait till his November release of Los Abrasos Rotos? No worries he recently released his first short film in 25 years 
La Concejala antropófaga (The Cannibalistic Councilwoman)
"a Concejala was shot during the filming the upcoming Los Abrazos rotos which stars his muse Penelope Cruz, who is also in the short in a brief cameo so as to give the short some context in relation to Abrazos. Also starring are Marta Aledo and Carmen Machi. The idea for the short came as a result of Almodovar’s fascination with Carmen Machi’s character, Chon. She has only a brief role in Los Abrazos rotos, but Almodovar felt that her character needed some expanding outside of the plot of the film."
Via Remezcla.com
watch it now or read Perdos blog
Posted: March 17th, 2009 | Author: raven burgos | Filed under: Craft, Food and Drink, Supplies, Travel, Weblogs, recycle, reuse | Tags: Design blog, DIY, Do it yourself, Funny blogs, heineken brick, heineken green bottle, heinekin build bottle, rafting tutorials, raven burgos | 1 Comment »
These Darlings can be used as bricks to build structures
Mr. Heineken’s idea came after a visit to the Caribbean where he saw
two problems: beaches littered with bottles and a lack of affordable
building materials. The WOBO became his vision to solve both the
recycling and housing challenges that he had witnessed on the islands.
The final WOBO design came in two sizes – 350 and 500 mm versions
that were meant to lay horizontally, interlock and layout in the same
manner as ‘brick and mortar’ construction. One production run in 1963
yielded 100,000 bottles some of which were used to build a small shed
on Mr. Heineken’s estate in Noordwijk, Netherlands. One of the
construction challenges “was to find a way in which corners and
openings could be made without cutting bottles,” said Mr. Habraken.
Despite the success of the first “world bottle” project, the
Heineken brewery didn’t support the WOBO and the idea stalled. Interest
was reignited in 1975 when Martin Pawley published Garbage Housing
which included the chapter ‘WOBO: a new kind of message in a bottle.’
Heineken once again approached Habraken who teamed up with designer
Rinus van den Berg and designed a building with oil drums for columns,
Volkswagen bus tops for roof and the WOBO bottles for walls, but the
structure was never built.
Today, the shed at the Heineken estate and a wall made of WOBO at
the Heineken Museum in Amsterdam are the only structures where the
‘beer brick’ was used. As to the remaining WOBO’s it’s not clear how
many exist, or where, but the idea, even some four decades later,
remains a lasting example in end-use innovation.
Inhabitat.com
Pics Via RE-NEST
Posted: March 16th, 2009 | Author: raven burgos | Filed under: Brooklyn, Craft, DIY, DIY BODY, How to, Weblogs | Tags: better and cheaper than LUSH, Brooklyn DIY, Cheekystitch recipe, DIY Lush bubble bar, easy bubble bar recipe, Easy lush bubble bar, EASY VEGAN Bubble Bar Recipe, Lush bubble bar recipe, raven burgos, solid bubble bath, Vegan bubble bar recipe | 1 Comment »
This is a quick and easy bubble bar recipe to try
Ingredients:
1 c baking soda
1 c sodium laurel sulfoacetate
2 tablespoon cream of tartar
20-25 drops of essential oil
liquid glycerin
Food Coloring
Mask or handkerchief
Mix dry ingredients in a bowl you don't plan on using for food ever again, mix well and wear a mask
SLS is fine and as soon as you open the package its in the air. Makes 18oz
Mix a little food coloring with glycerin then add to the dry mixture. Continue to add gylcerine until mixture holds together. Do not add more that 1/2 cup or it will take forever to dry.
Posted: March 13th, 2009 | Author: raven burgos | Filed under: Craft, DIY, Famous Friends, Favorite Blogs | Tags: Brooklyn DIY, Cheekystitch, DIY felt, DIY inspiration Board, Felt inspiration board, Felt project, Handmade in brooklyn, How to Inspiration Board, How to use cork, Moustache inspiration board, raven burgos, Uses for cork | No Comments »
Inspiration Board
Cork board, I bought a roll from Pearl paint
Blade
Felt
Hot Glue Gun
Pins, tacs
Yarn
Carboard
Hole Puncher
I used an old box and cut out a 24 x 12 inch piece
I then rolled out the cork and hot glued it to the cardboard
Once cooled I cut off any excess cork from the sides
I then cut out a Moustache out of black felt
you can cut out any shape you like this is the part where you can express yourself, a machine gun, or a penis for example, whatever floats you know
I hot glue the moustache to the top and bottom of my board
I then make two holes on either side, about an inch from the top
Tie a single piece of yarn to either side and hang, TA DA!!!
The result
Posted: March 6th, 2009 | Author: raven burgos | Filed under: Craft, Current Affairs, DIY, Favorite Blogs, Locally Made | Tags: Apartment therapy, Best websites, Brooklyn style blog, Cheeky Stitch, Cheekystich, craft blog, craft tattoo, Craft your future, Crafting tutorials, Crafts tattoo, cross stitch, Design blog, DIY, Do it yourself, knitting needle tattoo, raven burgos, tattoo, www.cheekystitch.typepad.com | No Comments »

I have a couple of friends that have Knitting needles things like that. Though i often describe myself as home-ecky I would probably get a pic tattooed on my, cause I love pork
image via www.mrxstitch.com
Raven Burgos
Posted: March 4th, 2009 | Author: raven burgos | Filed under: Brooklyn, Craft, Current Affairs, DIY, Food and Drink, childhood | Tags: breastmilk baked good, breastmilk cooking, Cheekystitch.com, cooking with breastmilk, raven burgos, Vice magazine cupcakes | No Comments »

I enjoy watching women breastfeed, bring it on. Pro tits and all. I cannot get down with breatmilk in my cupcakes its fucked up and it was only natural that VICE magazine would bring the world this delish experiment
"In case you’re still dubious towards imbibing of le
lait teton, we forced our friend Patrick to do a taste test:
Breast-milk cupcakes vs. some regular old cow-milk cupcakes. He was
hesitant, but we were like, “Suck it up, wimp!” And we went on, “Don’t
you think it’s weird that humans are the only mammals who still drink
milk as adults? And not even our own, but baby fluid for a whole other
species? Did you ever think about the fact that we’ve mutated our own
stomachs in order to be able to digest bovine baby fluid, Four-Eyes?”
And
then Patrick went, “Let’s eat these cupcakes, by Christ!” After quietly
chewing for a few minutes, he whispered, “I… I can’t tell any
difference at all.” But we said, “No, you have to choose one.” So he
held up the cupcake in his right hand and said, “This one is vaguely
tastier.” And guess what, it was the boobcake! Breast milk officially
wins! "
Via nerve.com