Buy less crap, do it yourself!

I shipped an old fan from New York with me. The back, where the settings are was cracked, but I thought I would need a fan for the west coast weather. Jokes on me, the only time we need a fan in SF is when we are cooking and baking in the kitchen and we set the smoke alarm off. Anyway, I bought some gold spray paint from Home Depot to spruce up my fan. I choose the color “Champagne Mist”

I had to unscrew all the parts so I could spray paint each piece. I spray painted it outside with lots of cardboard laid out on the ground. I made myself a temporary box so I could contain the spray paint within the box.

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I’ve been meaning to make a bench for our shoe room or what my roommate calls the mud room. So anyone can sit and put on their shoes. I wanted something very simple and minimal. Also I’m not handy with wood so this requires no sawing/drilling on my end. I got 2 pieces of wood cut to the exact length of the cinder blocks and to the width of my liking. I sanded down the corners to avoid splinters. Then I glued the two pieces of wood together and weighted it down with the cinder blocks to dry. I bought cotton rope to tie the two mediums together—cinder block to wood. Viola!

Total cost: $51

We went to the local Goodwill and picked up three articles of clothing, a red graduation gown ($7), a blue tshirt ($3), and a gold blouse ($3). 

Our latest DIY is up on our new Youtube channel!

I wanted a turtle neck midi halter top, but didn't want to spend the money for an itsy-bitsy top that costs around $25 when I would only wear this at an occasional party or concert so I took an old American Apparel dress that I had, but never wore and I cut it up.

I am a huge fan of Kate Lilley (Minieco). Her paper crafts are simple, bright, and so thought out. Follow her!

The idea for these ornaments came from printing her template of the icosahedron on one side of letter size paper and feeding the paper back into my printer, opposite side, and printing galaxy photos I found online. I googled the word "galaxy" and looked through the image search. I've provided the links below.

I've been seeing a huge trend of galaxy, nebula, space, constellation, zodiac themes for clothing, gifts, and events. Why not paper ornaments too?

shimmery string

printed paper

X-ACTO knife

metal ruler

glue stick

The idea for this wreath came from finding the thrown out CB2 kraft packing paper. The paper is quite cool, how it is perforated. Everything used to decorate the brown wreath are scraps and found things.

kraft packing paper

green felt and yarn

needle, thread, scissors

cardboard and leftover wrapping paper (presents)

beads, bells, ribbon, more felt, and fishing line (centerpiece)