Check out this sweet vintage black-and-white cartoon nursery
Even though we painted vintage cartoon murals on the walls we didn’t want our daughter’s nursery to be “themey.” Think “scene” over “theme” — our daughter’s room is like a booklover’s/modern DIYer’s explosion of fuchsia, turquoise, and orange in a black-and-white cartoon scene (with some retro toys thrown in there for good measure).
Make your own city map wall art
One of the blessings/curses of moving to a new and bigger place is having an abundance of blank wall space. If you’re like me, you want to fill it with color, color, and more color. Unfortunately, art is expensive. Fortunately, DIY is cheap and easy. I fell in love with graphic city map concept a while ago. So I attempted to make my own for around $37.
My favorite color is this combination of colors
Over the past year, I’ve favorited a lot of photos containing this color combination. Some of them are of actual interiors, or homes, or at least buildings, but some of them are of waterfalls over tunnels in sides of mountains in China.
So short of having straight up torches on the walls or just living on a window-washer platform outside my apartment, forever looking in at dusk, how do I replicate that kind of light?
Make your own Sonic Screwdriver
Homies, this twelve-year-old is about to school you on how to build your own Sonic Screwdriver. I KNOW, I KNOW: I was super excited when I found out this video existed, too.
Matching spice jars: pretty & awesome or stupidest idea evar?
Can we talk about matching spice jars?
Half of me says “You should totally do that! It’s chic, pretty, and awesome.” The other half says “THAT IS THE STUPIDEST IDEA AND MAKES NO DIFFERENCE. WHY WOULD YOU MAKE MORE WORK FOR YOURSELF BEYOND THE JARS THEY COME IN?!” My brain literally yells that at me.
What does everyone else think? Does anyone in the real world have all their spices in matching jars?
A “baskets!” hack for broken dresser drawers
Ever have a drawer malfunction on an awesome dresser? I have met that sad fate, and my faithful, trusty, and much loved dresser was out on the curb by end of day. Oh, if only I had half the brains of Offbeat Homie Tess, who totally had a “baskets!” moment with this dresser drawer makeover.
Use dirty things in your hands to clean your bathroom in 10 seconds.
My quick cleaning tip is that when I’ve finished using a makeup remover wipe I turn it over so the clean side is out and use it to give my bathroom sink a quick wipe out of toothpaste residue/stray hairs/dropped powder from my makeup.
Monday Moment: Minimalist, electric blue, Buddhist dining space
Does your rug match your artwork? Thinking of bringing a bit of Buddhism into your decor? This moment will make you think about doing BOTH those things.