The other day when I was looking around Etsy, I found this awesome ear cuff and I had to try to figure out how to make it. While something as dainty and cute as this little cuff usually isn’t quite my style, (I go…
Our (very little) NYC apartment, all cozy and decorated for Christmas. 🙂 This little 700-square-foot little place and I have spent a lot of time together over the past couple of months and I’m pretty happy with some of the things my roommates and…
I recently wrote a post over on my favorite little Scarves Dot Net on how to make a dip-dyed scarf. Go check it out! 🙂…
So when we first moved to our tiny NYC apartment, the three of us brought our own mismatched furniture, decor, and knickknacks. Over the past few months we’ve updated a few of these items to make the apartment more cohesive and put-together. These chairs…
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DIY Apartment: Electrical Tape Frames
One of the major things about living in a NYC apartment is that we have to decorate our home in impermanent ways without making everything look like a dorm room. One way we’ve been doing this is with an excessive use of black electrical…
There’s a pretty specific type of couch that you can haul from Indiana to New York in a cargo van full of furniture, clothes, and stuff to furnish an apartment. There’s also a very specific type of couch that will allow three roommates in…
When it comes to hair accessories, I’ve worn, (ahem, *nested*) everything from flowers, to tinsel, to feathers, and even tiny birds in my hair. My philosophy is that my hair’s already crazy curly, whats the difference if I add something else in there? 🙂…
If it isn’t obvious on this blog by now, I am a huge fan of remaking, rethinking, and repurposing things from everyday life to fit in my craft projects. I’ve used socks in hairstyles, zippers for headbands, suitcases for tables, vinyl records for purses,…
One night a few weeks ago, I was riding my scooter home off the subway and I noticed this wine crate outside of a liquor store near our apartment. In typical scrappy fashion, I picked up the crate and took it home, with no…
These days some of my favorite crafts have had to do with our tiny NYC apartment as opposed to crafting up my clothes. 🙂 I’ve decided to start a little blog series on the progression of our apartment and give little tours when the…