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Spruce Up Your Space III

My bedroom walls are pretty bare. It’s a small room and artwork would make it look cluttered & tiny. Despite the storage issue in this house being a pretty serius curse, it also turned out to be a blessing.

With no place to store my Lomo cameras, I stuck them to the wall over my nightstand.

Feminist Friday

Image by artist Damien Hirst

In lieu of Fashion Friday, I’m compelled to share an experience with you that really got to me yesterday. A van belonging to Sherwood Solar had a naked Barbie doll duct taped to the grill of the vehicle. I wish I’d gotten a photo, but I don’t use my phone [...]

Spruce Up Your Space II

Crafts, Candy or Coins, Jars Make Great Space

Jars.

Few things are more useful for organization & making your space look rustic, country & classy like jars. They’re ideal for art supplies. Fill them with beads, paint brushes, writing supplies, sequins or whatever bits & pieces you like working with.

They’re perfect in the kitchen, of course. [...]

Create Something!

For each day in June, I’ll be participating in 30 Days of Creativity. Whether it’s a poem, a doodle, a sculpture, a photo, cookies or simply arranging my lunch to look like Kate Middleton, I’m going to create something! It’s important to me that I keep my brain exercised in the arts & always growing [...]

To FutureAlzy

This is probably one of the most private things I’ve ever posted here, but what have I got to hide really? In 10 years, this letter will be delivered to me from FutureMe.org & in all likelihood I will have forgotten about it completely. The world will probably have been totally destroyed, but in the [...]

Your Superhero Hideout

I’m a huge advocate of having space to yourself. Even if you live alone, you should carve out an inspirational corner for reading, relaxing or afternoon napping. My ideal space would look something this.

I always need my spaces to be multitasking. This gives the appearance & feel of both indoor & outdoor space with a [...]

Totem for 2011

Walking around Walmart one night last week, I found myself wandering the toy aisle. This tends to happen when you start hanging out with a 2-year-old. There were all these adorable little animals with huge eyes beaming at me through their plastic packaging. They were a line of toys I’d loved when I was little, [...]

Life is Not a House

image via Jim Kazanjian

I was reading The Naked Redhead’s post about giving fear the finger & it lit up this giant OPEN FOR BUSINESS sign in my brain. I started thinking about what I’m truly afraid of- not just sprickets & the lights in swimming pools, but the things that try to hold me [...]

10 Super Things I'm Doing for Me

Theme song!

I’m borderline anemic & don’t like milk (it’s for baby cows! Not people! Gross.) Needless to say, there are probably a lot of other essential supplies my body isn’t getting. I started taking a daily multi vitamin on the 1st of the year & immediately learned a valuable lesson- always take [...]

2010: A Retrospective

2010 was a year in which I took control of my bad situations & made them my bitches. I really learned how to take a challenge. It was a difficult year, no doubt, but I took everything in stride & made progress my own way. 2010 brought a lot of really amazing accomplishments [...]