LOVE and Brief Apologies

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Ashley| 6 Comments

LOVE

WOOHOO I’m back

I feel like this is my ghost blog… in that I make a ghostly appearance every few months or so, remind you that I once lived and that I’m sad about being dead, and then disappear to haunt some other places for a while.  Agh I’m sorry.  Whatever, I’m a flake I guess.

I’ve been nannying like crazy these days.  This is what nannying looks like:

Nannying

So yeah, it’s obviously craaazzy.  Haha.  But seriously, those kids do sap all of the energy out of me.  So I’m showing you a crafty diy that I did back in MAY for Mother’s Day.  Lameskies, lateskies, whatevskies.

It’s cute and easy, so I hope you’ll forgive my absence.  Basically you just need some thick, pliable wire.  I think that this is 18 gauge?  Maybe 16?  It’s not a hard wire, but rather a nice bendy craft wire that I found at the craft store.

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I used pliers to bend it, but if you don’t have any, trusty ol’ hands would work too.  I basically just practiced my cursive skills and bent the wire to form letters.  Then, I tied a simple cord to the pendant and VOILA it was complete.

Perfect for somebody that you love, or that loves the word love, or that loves to wear the word love, or that hates love but wants to be ironic?  Either way, I LOVE IT.  And I think my mom did too ;)

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Oh and PS I can promise you another blog post TOMORROW.  That is a promise I can keep.  Because I already wrote it… HA!

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Morbidity and the Inevitability of Skull Necklaces

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Ashley| 1 Comment

Hello one and alll! I am writing you as a college graduate and now that I’ve passed that major milestone I am struck with an impending sense of death and doom. Just kidding. But I have been seeing all of these rad skull necklaces around the interwebz and since I am now officially a post-grad twenty-something, I thought I could make a sort of viable connection.

Well, no, the truth is I love these skull necklaces and I just wanted to make a post about the skull as fashion accessory and my love for it. And I also graduated college. So, those two things aren’t really connected but for the sake of this post. So there you go.

Skull Necklaces
So I’ve been lusting after these rad skull pendants but didn’t have any of my own, so I decided to bust out some clay. I had some Fimo clay called “marble” that has a white base and little bits of glitter spread throughout it.  It looks like a marble stone when it’s dried, and is perrrrfect for skulls.
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The process was pretty simple: 1) roll and mush a grape-sized ball of clay around until it is easy to work with, 2) form it into a skullish shape, 3) then add the eyes, nose, and teeth.  Then, 4) stick an eye pin into it’s top and bake it according to the clay directions.  When it comes out 5) use a permanent pen to add shading to the eye sockets, nose, and teeth holes.

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He’s a funny little guy (and oh god please ignore my nails… looks like I tore apart a zombie with my hands).

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I strung him on some brown cord and I’ve been wearing him ever since!  Next I may have to encrust one in glitter or rhinestone the bejesus out of one.  I guess it’s safe to say this isn’t the last you’ll see of skulls.  Perhaps my inner goth is coming out… haha

So there you go.  I graduated college and I am now obsessed with skulls.  Melodramatic much? hahaha

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Flower Headbands

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Ashley| Leave a comment


I’ve been seeing them all over the nets, so I just wanted to jump on the bandwagon and show off my favorite hair accessories.  I made a flower headband last spring when I was feeling very excited over a mondo stash of fake flowers I bought at the dollar store.  I’ve been wearing it pretty consistently for the past year whenever I need a bright, happy, pick-me-up.

I wish I could wear it everyday, but that kind of takes away from the excitement of it, right?  But I decided that if I had TWO different flower headbands then I could wear them a bit more often without being too repetitive… right??

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So Voila, a bright yellow flower headband was born.  The construction is pretty straightforward: Get fake flowers, trim them off their stems, glue them to a headband.  It takes about five minutes if you’ve already got all the supplies!  And you can get fabulous flowers and headbands at the dollar tree, so it’s definitely not an expensive endeavor.

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Hot Rollin’

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Ashley| 3 Comments

Just a quick post to say I am so over undergrad… ugh.  Wah wah wah.  Emotional overflow.  So close yet so far.  Blegh.

So now that I’ve gotten that out, I also want to flip to the polar opposite and share something that makes me ohsohappy.

And that is hot rollers.  Yes, hot rollers.

I have recently become somewhat obsessed with the heretofore thought “old-ladyish” styling tool.  Turns out that hot rollers are super rad in that they are quite wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am-ish.  And what I mean by that is they’re fast and easy.  Wow, I don’t know where I’m going with that metaphor… Nevermind.  Here’s how it works:

(start with boring hair)
1. Plug in the curlers and warm them up for ten minutes (while you brush your teeth, make coffee, choose an outfit, take pictures of yourself, etc.)


(oh haaay.  fancy and serious grandma.)
2. Roll them all up in your hair (this takes five minutes max, and as I practice I’ve gotten faster).

 

3.  Let them sit until cool for 10-15 minutes (while you eat breakfast, put on makeup, make lunch, change your outfit, sit on the couch and try not to fall asleep, practice making unattractive faces, etc.)

 

(why lookie here, I’ve got curls)
4.  Pull them out and run your fingers through your curls to loosen them, which takes just a few minutes.

 

(I grin because they are soooo easy)
5. Hair spraaay.  (Or sometimes I just use mousse before I put them in)

Anyways I love them because I don’t have to sit with a curling iron for twenty minutes constantly almost burning my neck and fingertips.  Also, I have mostly-straight hair and they add volume without looking too unnatural.

So this is how I stay sane.  Relatively sane.
Hope you enjoyed this procrastinatory (I really wish this was a word) post!

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