It's been too long

18 credits and two campus jobs... that's all i have to say by way of explanation. Oh, and the fact that my computer's been recently fixed after months of being out of commission due to some crazy program-wiping virus.

Let's just ease back into this shall we...

Some random crap I found on my desktop that REALLY makes me wish I had a sewing machine here in my dorm room (I tried... it wouldn't fit in the car):

I just want to go to Goodwill, buy men's shirts, and cut holes in them. WHAT ARE SHOULDERS FOR ANYWAYS. Riddle me that.

Oh and I want this dress. ^^^ Maybe sans Amish-hat. It reminds me of how my former faux-roommate (who now sadly lives a billion miles across campus) tried to argue that you could make any Halloween costume sexy (which is of course what college students do on Halloween... run around as Slutty Bo-Peep or whathaveyou and call it a "costume"). So then my other former roomie (Roomie #2) proposed the challenge that you can't make a ghost costume sexy... and then Roomie #1 said YES YOU CAN and I'm pretty sure the consensus was that you just put a sheet over your head and cut strategically placed holes in it? Something to ponder as we near the fall season.

In summary: Right now, I'm feeling clothes that have cut-outs. Clothes you bought and cut yourself. Clothes with stringy DIY fringes. Clothes that make you look like a sexy ghost. Anything with the prefix "Slutty-suchandsuch." But not really. No, that shouldn't even happen on Halloween. Let's keep our clothes on, kids.

And in case you're wondering about the sources... I don't know. They were on my desktop. Sorry I'm not sorry.

DIY -- things to do with a mens dress shirt PART UNO

Just takes a men's dress shirt, some scissors, a few pins, and bit of hemming. And the end result looks totally rad. More fun ways to demolish your parents' clothing coming soon.

good fun for a rainy day

Found this DIY tutorial on Blythe Hill (which, incidentally, is a blog I just discovered that I really like). Apparently everyone is making them now... Regardless, I tried it, and they are super easy to make. I mean REALLY easy.

my etsy store is now OPEN!

I promised I'd tell you guys first: my Etsy store is up and running! Right now I only have three items... but I'll be adding more over the next few days.

Check it out here.

P.S. As you can tell, my banner needs some work... Any photoshop-savvy philanthropists out there wanna lend a hand?? .............. *puppy eyes*

Just call me Mt. Vesuvius

I'm back from my six-week adventure abroad! My face has erupted in literally every sense of the word (which is why there are no pictures today), I scratched all my bug bites until they bled and now am left with festering scabs, and I see phantom cockroaches at every turn. But really, I'm glad to be home. Don't lie, I know you missed me terribly too. But no more tears! I have exciting news...

I'm opening an etsy store! My next adventure abroad will be to Tanzania with a service trip from school, and it looks like this one's going to run me... about $900. YIKES. My train of thought: need money --> need way to make money + like to craft things --> CHEESE PUFFS --> sell jewelry --> stop thinking about cheese puffs --> ETSY!

I'll be posting a few items hopefully within the next few days, and I'm going to let you, my lovely readers, have first pick by letting you know as soon as they go up. So. Check eett owwt now, da funk soul bruddaa.