To know me is to know that I am a notebook junkie. Stacks on stacks of blank beauties fill up my shelves. There's something holy about the unwritten, but that's talk for another post. This here is about making-over a pack of plain-jane Moleskine cahiers with decorative duct tape and some twine. I gifted these to a friend ...
I like to think that it's chaos that's always so conducive to general creativity. But that kind of thinking is really just a crutch for the untidy (me). I admire people who maintain neat workspaces with the exactness of spacey Scandinavian minimalism. It's an aesthetic I ache to embrace, but my reality is that I ...
I drink lots of coffee. I do. Lots. Prepared in all sorts of ways. French-pressed, aeropressed, moka potted, slow-dripped, turkish-style and when I just need a quick one to get me going, I use a Nespresso machine. But what about all those evil little pods? I upcycle them into craft materials. So far, I've used them ...
I slapped this together in a handful of minutes, making it one of the quickest DIY home decor projects I've ever assembled. I found these test tube vases at the @home store on a clearance shelf and bought them on well-intentioned impulse. I would find some way to make them work as a decor piece. My initial ...
I often save small appliance and gadget boxes for gifting. The Kindle's packaging reminds me of a spartan jewellery box and is just the thing for presenting flat items like stationery, slim paperbacks, skinny scarves or necklaces/chain bracelets. Before beginning the alteration of the box, remove the ragged-looking perforated sealing flaps (I am not a neat opener ...
Most index cards come printed with blue horizontal rules and a margin marked in pink. And we expect this of the form to the point where the lines take on a cast of invisibility. They become blank canvasses that will take whatever you put on them in clashless acceptance. I love using index cards for craft projects. ...