I got the idea from Save Snail Mail, but decided to take it to a new level of missive-palooza by DIY-ing my own.
All you need is a sheet of printer-ready labels, some postcard templates, beer coasters and stamps, of course.
- printed vintage postcard labels
- beer coasters
- stamps
I found several different vintage postcards designs just by searching Google and looking through a few of my favorite DIY sites, How About Orange and Just Something I Made.
I felt it only appropriate to share this, being so close to Halloween. A Horror Coloring Book!
I want to color (or colour, since it’s from the UK) this while watching The Fly, or House on Haunted Hill.
This also really inspires me to make my own coloring book. If only I could draw better!
If you take out all the political quandaries my state has had, Arizona has a lot of things to be proud of. Canyon de Chelly, Grand Canyon, San Xavier, vineyards, statuesque saguaros – the Wild West is alive and breathing.
I do love my home state, and, inspired by this post from Design Mom and a little help from Jordan Ferney, I was able to make my own affordable State Love art.
All I needed was: water color paper, an outline of the state, beautiful piece of our state song, .99 cent watercolors and bam! A little goes a long way.
Cinnamon rolls! Ride the sugar rush! Well, as you would not be surprised, I got this recipe from Paula Deen and I was very surprised that there was only one stick of butter used!
The above link has the recipe, but if you must know, I did make a few changes to make them mine:
Out of the 6.5 cups of flour, I substituted one cup with wheat flour. Actually, I ran out of regular flour and that was all we had – but I’m glad it worked that way because it is slightly healthier, hehe. I also used skim milk instead of regular milk. I also warmed the towels up before I put them on top of the bowl – you can either warm them outside (because we live in AZ), or in the dryer (but that’s pretty energy wasteful) or pop them in the microwave for a few seconds, like I did.
When the recipe calls for you to brush the butter on, don’t skimp. If you still have butter leftover after brushing the tops, keep going! If you are going to make cupcakes as the recipe says, good luck trying to roll that dough log small enough to fit it in a cupcake tin! I made mine into regular rolls and just brushed a casserole dish with butter.
Instead of making the glaze on top, I used an extra icing we got with some dessert sticks from a local pizza establishment. It probably isn’t as healthy as making my own, since I don’t know exactly what’s in there, but I am recycling and that should count!
I would post some more pictures, but yeah, they’re already gone. 
The other day I found this link to public domain astronomy images and once I stopped staring wide-eyed, my mind instantly started working.
I love astronomy – I mean, obviously – and want to incorporate dreamy galaxy pictures into my home decor without it looking like a 1970s-inspired little boys’ room (not that there’s something wrong with that!).
I have found very few ideas around the web, so maybe I will just post a couple and see if I can bounce some ideas off everyone else. If not, I will have to write a desperate email to Apartment Therapy for astro-help!
This marvelous wall-sized mural poster I found on AllPosters seems like it would be an awesome mural to adorn my bedroom ceiling.
The only other ideas I could think of were placemats, window films, wrapping paper, or screen-printed or Spoonflower-d and made into throw pillows.
Anybody else have any ideas of how to incorporate astronomy into a (semi) adult decor?
Today’s DIY is pretty darn simple, with pretty darn great results. Do you like the look of vintage-looking porcelain milk bottles, but don’t have the time or money to scour antique stores? Well thanks to the endless creativeness of papernstitch, you’re covered! All you need is a mason jar (or any nicely designed bottle/jar), a dropcloth and some KILZ original (white! Not gray!) primer.
Step 1: Turn the clean jar upside-down on the dropcloth in a well-ventilated area. I chose outside.
Step 2: In short bursts, spray primer onto glass. I stress the short bursts because as you can see in my 2nd photo, I sprayed it like I would with spray paint in long strokes, and it came out all pebbly and crumbled off when you touched it. So, once again, let me emphasize the shortness of the bursts!
Step 3: Once dry, feel free to use the jar as pen holder, flower/tree branch vase, craft tool wrangler, or anything of the sort!
I found several different vintage postcards designs just by searching Google and looking through a few of my favorite DIY sites, How About Orange and Just Something I Made.
