Soooo Juiinew obsession!!! So good for you and so delicious. I can't wait to start brewing it myself! Seems simple enough! Kombucha is my jam!! #clearlykombucha #kombucha #drinkhealthy #homebrewing #doityoself (at Rockwall Commons Apartments)
In September of 2012, I read a Vogue piece regarding actress Leelee Sobieski's Tribeca Home, in which it detailed some of her and her artist husband's decorative artwork. The art collection included the following piece:
Her husband, Adam Kimmel, love-commissioned her to assist with this piece, in which she kissed her lips into exhaustion using myriad shades of lipstick. Of course, this immediately prompted me to do something similar (blog cover photo), as well as paint a portrait with leftover foundation, dated mascara, and discarded shades of lipstick.
Which brings us to the first use for old makeup: "painting," or making kiss prints, either on a large scale canvas, or on a smaller scale, with framed paper.
Another, perhaps obvious albeit practical use for worn down or outcasted lipsticks is cream blush. Use a brush to extract the product, dab it on your cheeks, and rub in. Ensure the product doesn't clog your pores, as cheekbone blemishes are obnoxiously prominent on the face.
The same lipstick remnants can be mixed with Vaseline or Aquaphor to make tinted lip balm. Have at it.
Lastly, if you're displeased with the Clinique eyeshadow samples your mom handed down to you, or the ones you obtained yourself while making a big girl purchase, you can use the harsh shades of ochre or strangely warm shades of brown as an eyebrow filler.
I swear there was more of a distinction between the before and after prior to uploading this, but despite its flaws, here are my eyebrows, sparse and natural juxtaposed with the eyeshadow enhanced:
I swear by its effectiveness, although it may be hard to tell from the comparison photo. Representative photo or not, old makeup has its uses, so you may as well get more for your dollar, or at least increase your creative supply free of charge.
I've had this old metal serving tray for months, which was handed down to me from a friend of mine. It's been rusting in my storage closet, until TODAY. 10 minutes and zero dollars later, I turned it into a fabric lined hanging shelf that I immediately photographed and unnecessarily posted to Instagram.
To complete this project, you need is an old serving tray, some fabric, and an adhesive like superglue. Make sure you like the fabric, because it's going to be the backdrop for your shelved items. I used an old tapestry I had in my closet from my bird obsessed college days.
If you don't have these items on hand, as I'm sure most non-hoarders people don't, you can get a tray at a thrift store, and fabric at a craft store or from your closet, provided you haven't cleaned it out in a while.
After gathering the materials, measure the base of the tray and cut the fabric accordingly.
Once you've cut out the fabric, superglue it to the base of the tray. Use the glue sparingly, as generous application may result in sticky fingers and looking real stupid for a while.
After you've successfully lined the "shelf," determine how you'd like to hang it up. Since this tray has a decorative metal design at the top, I opted to attach a ribbon and hang the shelf from a nail (although a hook would look better). If you have a lighter tray made of wood or plastic, you could adhere the tray to the wall with non-damaging Command strips.
Then fill it with stuff. I filled mine with my wine money bank and a few standby toiletries. Nothing like chic lady items above a radiator.
As a bonus, here is an example of a wood tray "shelf," which I stole from my chalkboard serving tray project:
An Alternative Christmas: Another (Interesting) Take on Alternative Christmas Tree Concepts
Here we go! Another blog's take on other options for Christmas trees! Harbor the enthusiasm, and unleash it!
Hello Everyone! It's that time! Time for holiday everything! And if you're me, gratuitous use of exclamation points! I hereby declare this week, and possibly the next, The Salvage Scheme's Holiday Week(s). So please consult this blog for sometimes funny, sometimes useful holiday suggestions for cocktail hours, Christmas trees, and gifts you thought you couldn't afford.
On a more focused note, a couple weeks ago I received notice that the residents of my building, myself unfortunately not exempt, are not allowed to have real Christmas trees. In a tizzy of holiday frustration, I researched faux trees, learning that the pretty silver and gold one I wanted was $50. And a lot of other faux trees possessed a similar price tag.
While that amount is, in the grander scheme of things, completely affordable, I decided to sacrifice the fake tree in order to save a bit of cash for gifts, etc., meaning I had to use some salvaged or existing material to create an alternative version of a tree.
I thought about painting a tree, as last year, I painted a Christmas tree for my dad.
While he didn't say the words exactly, his comment upon receiving the painting, "Oh, it's a Holiday painting!(?)," told me it wasn't his favorite. So I too rejected the Christmas tree painting idea, searching for something with more "wow."
Short on ideas, and as the natural reaction of nearly all girls everywhere, I consulted Pinterest. I found a couple gems, taken from French By Design:
Behold, normal household items arranged in such a way that they become a legitimately beautiful semblance of a christmas tree!
Hark! Antiqued pages of a book outlined with twine and a picture frame form to project the heart-warming, cheer-infusing image of the finest evergreen!
As mentioned, both of these photos were taken from the sleekly designed, undeniably charming French By Design, a blog that makes me feel inadequate, and appropriately so.
Lastly, I found another idea on Pinterest that combines two of my favorite things: chalkboard walls and string lights:
The light set is available at IKEA, but I imagine a similar effect could be achieved with any type of string lights.
While all of these ideas are lovely and in many ways superior to mine, I literally stumbled upon a concept I wanted to execute. I stepped onto a spray paint splashed sheet of cardboard I had used to create the stencils I posted about, which got me to pondering.
I thought that maybe if I cut the cardboard into geometric shapes, I could spray paint them different colors and arrange them into a Christmas tree mosaic. And so the cutting began.
I cut until I ended up with a pile of shapes, most of which resembled triangles, and I placed them on a tarp so I could spray paint them. I separated them into piles, layed them flat, and painted the different groups with Tiffany blue, gold, red, and navy blue.
After letting them dry for 30 minutes, it became a puzzling matter. Seriously, it became very similar to a puzzle, as I randomly pieced the shapes together, learning which ones fit to make the most tree-like shape through a trial and error process. The result, however, was quite nice:
Even if you went out and bought four new cans of spray paint and a new sheet of cardboard, the project still costs under $20. Add it to your list of weird tree ideas.
