Sprinkle the gift of birdseed ornaments around your neighborhood, making the trees and birds both merry. Oh, and here’s a window into my neurotic creative process.
To the Nines: Christmastime 2012
With just a few weeks to go before we achieve critical holiday mass, I’ve rounded up my nine current favorites in each of the essential Christmastime categories: How to decorate, what to eat, and what the hell to give everybody. Find something inspiring to make your own season super merry and bright! Decorate These lovely fabric and book …
Instant Artichokes
These artichokes are easy to make out of fabric scraps pinned to a ball. Also, congratulations to the winner of the Gangbusters treasury contest!
Gangbusters Treasury Contest
Curate the best treasury and win a $25 Etsy gift certificate!
Farewell Halloween, Hello Harvest: The Quickchange Holiday Vignette
Presto chango! See how we transformed our Halloween display into an homage to the harvest season without buying anything new.
Spooky skeleton necklace
In under ten minutes, you can make this fun skeleton necklace for Halloween out of a little decoration from the dollar store.
Have your pie and drink it too: Spiked Pieshakes
In the southern U.S., as well as most of the lower hemisphere and places like Sudan and Malaysia (I’d imagine), even though it’s the same October as the rest of the world, it isn’t really the same fall. Not yet. And the only thing I have to say to my Instagram feed and all of you with your tights and …
To the Nines: Halloween roundup 2012
Leaping lasers, you guys, it’s October. What?! I’m pretty sure it was mid-March when I went to bed last night. Do you feel it? That old come-on-I-JUST-put-my-winter-clothes-into-storage-like-YESTERDAY feeling? It’s too rainy around here to feel the crisp bite of autumn yet, but the calendar (and by calendar I mean the tool-tip that appears when I hover over the clock on my desktop) says …
Super-Soldier Serum
For Independence Day this year, we’re having punch. Very red, very American punch that tastes like ambrosia—cherry, marshmallow, and coconut—with sweet little white stars.
Make Your Shelf at Home: Revamping a $10 Bookcase
How an ugly piece of furniture became a cute place to store cute things.
Cintucky der Mayo
Cinco de Mayo and the Kentucky Derby are both this weekend. Are you ready?!
Save Roy (and how to make a terrarium, probably)
I’ve made a terrarium, so if my plant survives, then we’ll know that these instructions on making a terrarium are correct.