I have a really nice apartment but the kitchen needed some work. When I moved in it was completely white but some of the walls were really dirty. The kitchen was the worst, there were a lot of food stains behind the stove and near the fridge.
The second issue is that my kitchen and living room occupy the same space, loft style. The high ceilings of this parlor floor apartment help keep the airy feel but I wanted to define the two spaces.
I picked a sunny yellow for the kitchen, and a light aqua blue for the wall. I was going for a robins egg blue but I think the girl at Lows gave me the wrong color. It was obnoxious at first but looked way better when it dried, like most drunk people
I have gotten a hold of some beautiful antique ball jars and will be posting how to's and techniques for making your own little ecosystem. This is great book that can show you how to get started on your own
• different venues for cultivating your terrarium
• plants that flourish in these gardens under glass
• ideas and designs for creating your first terrarium
• how to care for and maintain the environment you’ve made
Martin has designed a unique range of imaginative terrarium
projects, including ones that are suitable for children, enliven the
seasons, incorporate plant propagation, and show off a nature
collection. Whether you are a gardener or city-dwelling nature lover, The New Terrarium
is the perfect way to spark your creativity, while helping you to bring
your favorite plants into your home and giving them a place to thrive."
How-to make a shopping bag out of fused plastic: *For the small shopping bag you will need 8 fused squares for the body of the bag and two fused rectangles for the handles. * For the large shopping bag, you will need 12 fused squares for the body of the bag and 4 fused rectangles for the handles.
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Over lap the squares and sew them together using a zig zag stitch. 4
squares for the front. 4 squares for the back. (for the Large shopping
bag, six squares for the front and back) * When you are sewing the
plastic together, do not go over the same spot a bunch of times or it
will weaken the plastic and make it break. - Place the front and
back together, right sides facing in towards each other and sew a seam
down both sides and across the bottom. - Cut off any excess material on the outside of the seam. -
"Square" the bottom of the bag by creating a triangle with the two
corners, sewing a zig zap stitch from on side to the other and cutting
off the excess. - Turn the bag right side out. - Fold the the top of the bag in to create a simple hem and sew it down using a zig zag stitch. -
For the handles, take one of your rectangles and fold the two sides
inward. Then sew a zig zag stitch down both sides. Repeat with
rectangle 2 for the second handle. (for the large shopping bag, sew to
rectangles together at the ends then proceed with folding and sewing) - Attach one to the front and one to the back as shown.
You can sign up for a membership account and get fresh wallpapers send by over ten different artists. Heres an interview with Heather Pudewa the artist of my current wallpaper. Artist: HEATHER "EZ" PUDEWA
You were given Pantone's color predictions for Spring to draw inspiration from. What colors did you end up selecting and why?
"I think I used a little bit of every color in this piece (I couldn't
help myself)… I just bumped up the brightness a couple of notches."
What does Springtime mean to you? "Spring is all
about new beginnings and growth. The world is bathed in color and light
and filled with hope and the promise of beautiful things to come. It's
a magical time of year!"
How did you try to translate that into your work?
"I really wanted to capture the fresh crisp colors of Spring, so I went
with tones that remind me of newly blossomed flowers…my favorite
thing about this season."
I wish I had thus tutorial when my beloved shade of blue Nars eyeshadow exploded all over my Anthopology text book, there was a blue sheen that continued to haunting me the rest of Sophmore year this tutorial will teach you how to save eyeshadows from certain death
You will need: a ziploc bag, rubbing alcohol, scissors, paperclip (or bobbypin), fabric, and a coin. Godspeed!
"Using your paperclip, break the eyeshadow up and pour into a ziploc
bag. Tilt the bag so all of the eyeshadow is concentrated in the
corner of the bag. Smash the shadow until it becomes a fine powder (I
used my chapstick). Clean and sanitize the
original eyeshadow pan. Place two drops of alcohol into pan. Cut the
corner of the ziploc back and pour half of the eyeshadow into the pan.
Add a few more drops of alcohol and mix using your paperclip. Add the
rest of the eyeshadow and the necessary amount of alcohol to form a
thick smooth paste, like icing. Smooth it out the best that you can
(doesn’t have to be perfect right now) and let the alcohol evaporate
until it has almost completely hardened, about 30 mins. Take a coin
that will cover the the entire eyeshadow pan (a quarter usually works)
and wrap it in your fabric. You should choose a fabric with a pattern
close to that of eyeshaows. Firmly press the coin into your
eyeshadow. Make sure to press hard enough to pack in the eyeshadow,
but not too hard so that the eyeshadow breaks and oozes out. "
Real Living magazine is pretty enough to make me lift my emotional ban on Australia caused by my perthy ex who bought me a boomerang, thanks guy. its inspirational, Check out their blog for hits in between issues.
I almost started a Literary magazine last winter, despite by terrible grammar ( oh im aware) i remember the hassle of finding a publisher, oh how I wish we had found this nifty sire. you can self publish you own for as little as 20 cents a page.
"Aspiring publishers must handle their own writing and design work,
sending a PDF file of their creation over the Internet to the MagCloud
repository. H.P. farms out the printing jobs to partners scattered
around the globe and takes care of billing and shipping for people who
order the magazine. While H.P. charges the magazine publishers 20 cents
a page, they can charge whatever they like for the completed product."
Ferm Livings how to makes wallpaper a littke less daunting, i cant read instructions and follow them. not with but projects or things involving too much math, videos like this are great because technique cant be spelled out, its gotta be seen and learned.
I hate cutting onions, as soon as they are chopped I out them in an air tight container and dispense as needed, i still end up with sloppy chinks and tons of tears that last for days. Heres the first instruction from this tutorial and i already see how im doing it all wrong. I totally cut off the end, ugh
"step 1Slice off the top Slice off the top of the onion–do not cut off the root end!"
I saw this tutorial on TONY and thought it was beautiful, Abilene bar is the bar up the road from hy house, i have never gone in but always noticed these pretty lights. My boyfriend recently re-created this in his room but attached a dimmer to the switch, The effect is beautiful.
"5–20 Y-shaped socket adapters (a.k.a. “splitters”), $2.79 at Home Depot (
15–20 small round standard-base lightbulbs,
STEP BY STEP
* Make sure your ceiling has a standard-socket light fixture into which you can screw the chandelier.
1 Take a Y-shaped socket adapter and screw two more Y-shaped socket adapters into each of its ends.
2
Then screw two more socket adapters into each of those ends and so on,
until your chandelier has split out enough to the desired size.
3 Next, screw the lightbulbs into the empty socket ends.
4
Attach the completed chandelier to the ceiling by twisting the original
Y-shaped adapter—which is now the chandelier’s base—into your ceiling’s
light fixture. Seriously, that’s it!
