Create your own custom glitter nail polish with this tutorial from Kirsten of Studs and Pearls. This wooden chalkboard is super cute! I want to make one for my new place, if I can find the right slice of wood. These instructions for dyeing leather look super helpful. Can you believe that purse used to […]
Amazing Art: Cosmic Animated Gifs by Ignacio Torres
I’m really blown away by these photos/animated gifs by Ignacio Torres. They’re beautiful even just as still images, but with the movement they’re just that much more amazing. Check out more here.
Sunday Street Style
Getting this one posted just under the wire tonight due to a busy day, but I found such good material that I didn’t want to miss this week’s edition of my street style favorites. Top row: Stockholm Streetstyle, The Sartorialist Middle row: Streetstyle Aesthetic, Stockholm Streetstyle Bottom row: The Sartorialist, The Locals
Friday Favorites: Etsy Jewelry
Today I decided to start a new Friday column, where I share five favorite things. This week it’s five pieces of beautiful jewelry from makers on Etsy. 1. This Blue azurite ring. I’m mesmerized by the color of this stone, and I love how its rawness contrasts with the sterling silver. 2. These silver lingerie […]
DIY Leather Bag Tassel
After making my geometric print clutch last week, I decided it need a bit of color. So found a scrap of leather and made my pouch a bright leather tassel, inspired by the one on this bag. Though I used mine for a bag, there’s no reason why you couldn’t put your tassel on a […]
Amazing Art: Luka Klikovac
If you didn’t know better it would be easy to think that these are photos of jellyfish. Though many of the photos in this series look like ocean depths or alien landscapes, they’re actually colored fluid in water. Photographer Luka Klikovac creates these images with the goal of making people escape from the daily routine. […]
Sunday Street Style
Some interesting mixing of bright citrus-y colors with darker shades going on here. It looks great, plus it seems like a good way to get your eyes used to spring colors. Top row: The Locals, Dam Style Middle row: Fashionistable, The Sartorialist Bottom row: WDUGT Street, Stockholm Street Style
DIY Geometric Print Clutch
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Lately several black-and-white geometric prints have caught my eye, so I decided to make a simple clutch version of my own. For this project I actually used my own tutorial, the one for the leather foldover clutch. I modified it by using duck canvas, instead of leather, and cutting out […]
Backtalk
On Sunday I had the pleasure of visiting Backtalk, a new shop in the Alberta arts district in Portland. It just opened up on April 1, and since I missed their grand opening, I stopped by to check it out. Beyond just wanting to see the shop, I had another motive, too. They’re the first […]