Oh, look: it's tassel day on Ramshackle Glam!
We'll get back to our regularly scheduled, non-tassel-related programming tomorrow, but in the meantime, here's how you make 'em. (Seriously it's so easy.)
How To Make Your Own Tassels
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How To Use Tassels In Your Home Decor
Because you really should. Tassels make everything better.
Now, obviously fort decoration is the best possible use of handmade tassels (click here to learn how to make 'em)…but you can use them lots and lots of other places if you're not planning to install a tent in your living room (although you should).
Hanging Out On Memory Lane
For superbowls, we wear leopard. (Please note that the red-eye-autocorrect function helpfully adjusted the color of all eight of my eyeballs.)
On Sunday night, Kendrick and I went into the city with the kids so that he could finally, finally realize his dream of watching the Superbowl from start to finish. (If he watches it at home as he has for the past several years, you see, there is a virtual guarantee that at some point he'll hear a "Honey...?" coming from the other room, which will be followed by a request that he do something not involving being cemented to the couch in a pile of chicken wings.)
We went to a party at our friends Ella and Larry's house, and the Superbowl was watched. Start to finish. (Not by me - I popped in to be horrified by that TV-falls-on-child insurance commercial and enjoy a little Flying Katy Perry, then popped right back out...although I did join for the last twenty minutes and I TOTALLY GET THE FOOTBALL THING now, because that was awwwesome.) And then Kendrick went home to take care of the dogs, and very fortunately did not take my car keys with him this time, yay.
Make Your Own Tent (With Tassels!)
WE MADE THIS.
You will note, please, that I said "we" and not "I." That is because I had literally nothing to do with like 99% of this project, because I am not talented like that. I do, however, have a friend, Erin, who is, and who responded to our son's love of cave/fort things with "Well, let's make him one!"
And so we (and again, by "we" I mean "Erin and her husband, who just happens to be a master woodworker") did. And then we covered it with polka-dot flannel and added rainbow tassels, and the whole thing is just flat-out RIDICULOUSLY COOL.
Five Easy New Mom Beauty Tips
With a newborn and a toddler at home, I don't really have time to think about things like…my face. That's OK; these beauty fixes are so fast and easy they even leave me with time for more important things, like drinking all of the coffee in the world.
(Click here to check out more of my Allure Insiders segments.)
Here Is An Important Thing For You To Know
OK, so perhaps this is common knowledge, but it was not common to me. Or at least had never occurred to me. Not, that is, until yesterday afternoon, when I got in my car, turned on the heater to "high," and very quickly and dramatically learned that soda cans left in freezing-cold vehicles overnight and then rapidly reheated?
Will explode.
Or possibly create a series of explosions, if what you left in your car was not, say, a single soda can, but rather an entire carton of them.
A Better Bottle
People are really passionate about their bottle choices, you guys. I’ve had super-intense conversations about the pros and cons of various bottles with everyone from my broker to the waitress at our favorite breakfast place to the cashier at the CVS we stopped at in Maine.
And I get this. Because transitioning to a bottle can be intensely stressful if it doesn’t go smoothly (if the baby doesn’t want to take the bottle, or then takes the bottle and later rejects the breast, or if he ingests too much air when bottle-feeding and ends up all gassy and miserable), and all parents want is a happy, fed, not-miserable baby.
When I had Indy, I knew virtually nothing about child-rearing, and basically improvised my way through…everything. This mostly worked out fine, but the transition from breast to formula was rough. He had terrible colic, and was constantly crying with stomach pain that I didn’t know how to relieve. I tried various gripe waters, tried moving his legs in a little running-man position recommended by my friends, tried bouncing and bouncing and bouncing until my arms felt like they were going to fall off…but one thing I didn’t try was switching to a different brand of bottle.
Links & Love & Stuff
So yesterday I went to Carter's with a pregnant friend who legitimately needs things, and totally wasn't intending to purchase anything myself, and then saw the berry butt onesie. -> done. (Also this because cats and this tres French thing and this because god knows Goldie needs something to keep those flowing locks out of her face and this because boys count too.)
This woman makes five million dollars a year unwrapping things on YouTube. I'm not even kidding. And I'm not even sure that this is insane, because I watched her videos and was in a trance within seconds (via Fusion).
Now that's an apology. (Benedict Cumberbatch: "I'm an idiot" for Referring To "Colored" Actors, via Jezebel.)
Cannot. Stop. Painting Stuff.
But really: there are few things in life that can't be improved by the addition of a little neon.
(Painted that penguin, too. How cute is he?)
Looking for good neon paint? It's weirdly hard to find; trust me, I've looked. Try Martha Stewart Satin in Lightning Bug, Orange Soda, and Lime Zinger; they're the paints I've been unleashing on everything we own lately. (Especially fond of my Pollock-ed mirror project.)
Scent Your Home With Stuff You’ve Already Got
I’m a bit of a home scenting obsessive, but stocking up on candles can get super pricey. Fortunately, you can get all that lovely fragrance without shelling out a ton of cash (or any, really). All you need is just a tiny bit of craftiness (and I do mean "just a tiny bit," promise).
Presenting: my favorite (easy) DIY Home Scents.
Lavender
