10 cool random things

DUH.

I would really really very much like to be able to do this, but I just don’t think jewelry-making is a hobby I can get into right now. I’m already up to my eyebrows in hobbies.

Super useful! I can never seem to remember all of this photography lingo, and I should really print this out and put it in my camera bag.

Of course I love this. Found via The Little Red Blog of Revolutionary Knitting.

GORGEOUS. And super easy! Dying at home for pleasure and profit.

AH. I love folk art tattoos like this one.

These modifications are perfect. Thank you to whoever made them.

Tie-dyed tissue paper! This would be so great for packaging items from the Etsy Shop.

So pretty.

This just makes me sad because I will never ever be that talented. Isn’t it perfect?

Wait! Let’s make this 11 cool random things. You can win this awesome ukulele on little chief honeybee this month!

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I really loved this image, found via Bohemian Musings. I’ve tried dozens (literally) of times to embroider this sweet deer, but it’s just not working. Woah. Wait a second. I just had a brilliant idea. Maybe this time my attempts to embroider this will work!

(Cut to 1 hour later: I’ve finally sucessfully figured out how to design the pattern. Huzzah!)

Next summer I’m definitely planning on making some outdoor chalkboard walls for Grady et al to play with. Find the tutorial at angry chicken.

I think I’m going to make some of these to hang on the front porch in a couple weeks. Check out the great tutorial at Natural Kids.

This girl’s hair and headscarf are perfect. Found via StyleSightings.

Loooooove this gif from the Manifesta Workbook.

1. This is the perfect color pallette. 2. I love the words. 3. The design is too cute. Found via Sweet Jessie, made by The Wheatfield.

I love stick-crafts! So naturally I love this. Though it seems that Maybe I’ll make one of these from Kids Craft Weekly for Grady soon.

I really love this work. So much so that after seeing it on F*** Yeah Tattoos I began following her blog.

Ah! Gorgeous! This is how collages should be. Found via this isn’t happiness.

Pretty pretty pretty. Love this gif from Bu The Right Thing.

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Today’s collection of random things might as well be called the “Tattoo Edition,” as all but 2 of the links I’m sharing are tattoos. What can I say? I love good ink.

Aaaaaaaaah I am obsessed with this tattoo. According to the caption over at F*** Yeah Tattoos, it’s an image of her grandmother’s home. I would love to get a tattoo related to my grandpa’s old house; I was recently thinking of the things that are sacred to me; that house and breastfeeding were right at the top of the list.

This is so beautiful it makes me want to cry. Seriously.

Eep! I love Ferdinand! I’ve seen a lot of Ferdinand tattoos taken directly from the illustrations in the book, but this new design is pretty magnificent.

I love this. It’s like she has a little buddy walking by her side all the time.

Don’t you just want to smoosh those pompoms? They’re made from old t-shirts & I’m a little bit obsessed with them. I’m considering making some for Grady’s birthday party decorations and then using them as decor int he house. Find the tutorial at Craftaholics Anonymous.

Oh, how I love nature-based white-space-y half sleeves. Those flowers are incredibly beautiful. Found via F*** Yeah Tattoos.

I also have a soft spot for traditional rose tattoos. They are just so lovely, and these especially are well-placed and well-made.

Surprise! More flowers! These are too pretty.

Oooooooooh, I love this. I’ve had a fern tattoo in the works for almost a year now; because ferns are incredible, of course. Mine is very different than this one, but I still absolutely adore this one. it’s the first I’ve seen done entirely in green, and I love it.

Tea towels done with fabric marker! Brilliant! I have plans for zillions of beautiful drawn/embroidered/painted tea towels, but when I get around to shopping for the blank towels I always think they’re too expensive. $5 for two towels? No thank you, craft stores. If any of you know a place to get bulk towels (seriously. I’d be cool with a whole giant box of them) for cheap, let me know? Not only does my own collection need some serious revitalization, but I’d love to design & sell some someday. Anyway, find this tutorial at elsie marley.

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Gasp! My love! This is almost certainly the best Bowie tattoo I’ve ever seen. Found via F*** Yeah Tattoos.

This post at Five Green Acres shows you how to make your own Rose Water. Kind of incredible.

Lovely, lovely, lovely. I’ve been looking for examples of crosshatch shading on tattoos – if you guys see any, send them my way? Unfortunately I don’t have the source for this image.

Eep! This umbrella is adorable! There is a tutorial out there, but it’s in a language I don’t speak. But this looks easy enough, right?

Lovely, lovely, lovely. Found via F*** Yeah Tattoos.

Amy of A is for Ampersand created these gorgeous free banners for us all to use! I haven’t used them yet, but am pretty anxious for the opportunity. She also made a tutorial for those of us who don’t really know how to make these work on our photos.

GORGEOUS. I love poppies. Found via F*** Yeah Tattoos.

I really like these paper flowers; and I appreciate any opportunity to add to the “reasons to buy shredding scissors” list. Find the tutorial at Rock n Roll Bride.

Such an adorable idea. Found at F*** Yeah Tattoos.

I love this! I used to search so hard for brilliant wrapping ideas like this, but I haven’t been wrapping presents at all lately. Until I saw this, naturally. Welcome back to the age of adorable DIY present wrapping. Found at Craft.

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I want this to be on my head so bad I can’t breathe. Seriously. Want. Want want want. (I spend waaaaay too much time thinking about what my hair will never be.) Found via Honestly, WTF.

This free printable thank-you card from Hey Susy is adorable.

Salt painting! This looks so fun. Found via The Crafty Crow.

I don’t know for sure if this is a photo or what, but I love it and it reminds me of how I love abstract photography. Found via Lost.

A big feather … thing! To put on your wall! I actually really adore this idea. From VenusZine.

I am afraid these tights are too Lolita for me to pull off, but I am still obsessed with the idea. Maybe stars instead of hearts? Found via Craft.

Seriously, just click this link. These cat illustrations from Cat Party are just too magnificent.

What are you inventing? Found via The Secret Society of List Addicts.

Of course. Of course Dave Eggers draws brilliant drawings.

I love this. I particularly love the caption: “Plenty of reasons behind it, possibly the most important one being to scare little children.” On another note, I feel like I’m getting pretty good to responding to children’s questions about my tattoos. I still need to come up with a more eloquent and convenient monologue to describe the “don’t” on my wrist, though. Found via F*** Yeah Tattoos.

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I should definitely embroider this phrase, right? And hang it in the bathroom? Found via This isn’t Happiness.

This isn’t something I would want on my body, but man. Everything about this design is mind-blowing. Found via F*** Yeah Tattoos.

Love love love love love. Found via F*** Yeah Tattoos.

I <3 ferns. Found via F*** Yeah Tattoos.

Toilet paper roll monsters, found via Craft. I always dream of little arrangements like these among books on shelves, but my shelf space is constantly 100% occupied by books.

Found via this isn’t happiness.

Luuuuuv. Found via F*** Yeah Tattoos.

… Yup. Found via Le Love.

Don’t you just wanna spoon with him and all of his little sea-buddies? By Candace Jean on flickr.

In love with this. Seriously considering printing it as just a regular old photo, so it can be on my wall. Found via this isn’t happiness.

Written April 22.

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Woahwoahwoah. Via Park & Cube.

The print on that wrapping paper was made using the stump of a bunch of celery. Coolest thing ever. Via Geninne’s Art Blog.

Amen. Via This isn’t Happiness.

Swoon.

I wouldn’t mind a back of this stationary. I think I would actually genuinely use it. Via This isn’t Happiness.

Dear internet: Thank you for this. Thank you so, so much. Via This isn’t Happiness.

Who doesn’t love Venn diagrams? Via This isn’t Happiness.

My choices are apparently a bit angsty today. Excuse me. Via This isn’t Happiness.

Oh, I love this. This would have been much more seasonable if I posted it a month or so ago. Also, I recently found the most beautiful collection of vintage Peanuts paperbacks at the thrift store. I like to fondle them lovingly before going to bed. Via This isn’t Happiness.

I adore this. Can’t wait for Grady to get a little older so she and I can do stuff like this. Via Craftzine.

Written Feb. 17.

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I want to make this. Except not as a notebook, just as something to frame. Mostly to taunt Winston.

10.11.09.

One of the most beautiful half-sleeves I’ve ever seen. Click through the link so you can see it up close – so pretty.

TROGDOR!

So fantastic. This is the best whale tattoo ever.

Cat in a pile of yarn. Nuff said.

Adorable.

Patchwork Beatle!

Gorgeous way to recycle security envelopes.

I am obsessed with this.

Written Nov. 13.

10 cool random things

Whoops, I missed a few weeks. Sorry about that. Here’s a late post to make up for it. Coming Thursday, 10 cool homey things.

WATERMELON DEATH STAR. This makes me feel almost like I could really fall in love with someone someday.

From Cat High. I adooooore this one – a kitteh feminist! “The Feline Eunuch!” Love love love. I just asked Winston if he was a feminist and he flipped me off.

Make an old book into a journal!

Tie-dye your own tights! I want to make two matching pair of tie-dyed tights for Grady and myself. It would be amazing.

Lee Meredith dyed this skein of yarn in a crock pot, and you can too. Seriously. I keep on almost buying crock pots at thrift stores, and then I realize that for the price of a crock pot I can buy a pair of pants for Grady. Let’s talk about the ridiculous prices of baby clothes sometime.

You can also make a planner out of an old book.

Real-life Pacman!

This is a weird-looking cookie recipe that also includes this handy pattern for a gift box.

Real Peanuts. Teeheehee.

How to ply yarn using a drop spindle. A dear writer of mine at the UVU Review gave me a hand-made drop spindle recently, and I haven’t yet dared make anything with it. As soon as I buy roving, I know I’ll be obsessed with it.

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Recycled paper flowers from Maya*Made. This would be cute as part of a mobile, made from old newspapers and felt birds or something. I am sleepy.

DIY $10 macro photo studio by Strobist. Every now and then I’ll make a really lazy attempt at this for photographing yarn. I’m trying very hard to be interesting, but so … tired …

Click that if you can’t read it, because it is hi-larious. Three cheers for Married to the Sea.

David Bowie interviewing Alexander McQueen. Um, amazing. You should read the whole thing.

Such a pretty tattoo. This is the first wrist cuff I’ve seen and liked.

Handmade gifts for men roundup from Whip Up. Making a gift for a guy is so difficult. I just finished one and am racked with doubt about it. Wracked? I have no idea.

Tee hee.

And more funny. This reminds me of a Dmitri Martin sketch about girls with cats that made me feel sad. Quick Winston update: He is faaaaaat. Grady is bored with him. And he has had a resurgence of energy in the battle to escape the house.

The Rebel’s Manifesto. Click that link and read the whole thing – I hope Grady reads this eventually. Be like this, baby!

Group weaving! I think this is so beautiful.