Weatherize THIS

Check out my cool futuristic weather proofing in my kitchen!  Its real purpose is to obscure the window without a curtain that would just get gross and oily from kitchen splatters and such.  I can't stand doing the dishes at night when it looks pitch black from where I stand looking out but if some creepy psycho were to be standing two feet in front of me looking in - rubbing one out next to my worm bin - I wouldn't even know. 

Bubble wrap and double sided tape

Scrap Fabric Picture Frames

In most 2nd hand stores there are entire isles devoted to picture frames and hideous art, but if you're like me you don't even see the art that is in the frame.  Instead you see a vast assortment of incredibly cheap frames just begging for a make-over.  I also have a ton of really pretty fabric scraps and after flipping through an Anthropologie catalog I got this cool idea that really makes the frames look less shabby and your walls oh so colorful!

Artwork from various etsy sellers - really the best place to buy art

Just takes a glue gun and some old clothes and viola!

These guys came from an illustration manual which I then pasted on some wood blocks.

...more wood blocks...

This is a photo from etsy (look under lomo-something I forget) - you can modge-podge over the photo w/o harming it

DIY Sweatshirt / T-shirt

Have a dumpy t-shirt AND a dumpy sweatshirt?  I did!  Look what happened:

Oh the possibilities-when two shirts meet scissors magic happens.

I just cut out the front of the shirt, laid it on the sweatshirt to get the shape right, trimmed down its arms and waist, and then sewed it on.  

...and the pocket too.

 Can't see it very well but this is a skirt I made out of an old plaid shirt I ganked from this really mean bitter girl I used to work with who would paint in her fathers awesome vintage plaid shirts.  Really, how could she? It is so soft, and looks kinda silly I'm sure but I don't care.

And Then She Painted It All White

I started painting on my bedroom walls when I was eleven because they were dirty and ugly and smelled like an ashtray.  Anyone who has brushed a single stroke of that good ol' thick gooey latex paint knows how it can turn the most plain looking piece of shit crawlspace into a bright shiny dazzling palace in no time and at half the price! Right?  So, that's what I did and here is how I left it when I moved out of there:

Copied from Tamara de Lempicka

Copied from Tamara de Lempicka

Not sure of the original artist - but from a comic or movie still.

Taken from a really cool book by a Japanese artist

Those circles were so awesome

 

Modge Podge Montage

My dad gave me a huge stack of Lürzer's International Archive's which he found at Goodwill.  These things are packed with hundreds if not thousands of pictures by a ton of illustrators from around the world of all different styles so there is something in there for everyone. 

Naturally, as I do with all magazines I get my tactile digits on, I ripped out every other page until I had ravaged through the entire pile.  A couple hours later when my kids woke up I found myself on the floor in the middle of a pile of shredded glossies and my little one said, "mess!" and I felt ashamed but also excited for what was next. 

I looked around the room and spotted the sad ugly wall heater and the lonely bottle of modge podge and I knew what I had to do.  This is the heater in my kitchen:

Of course I couldn't stop there-slopping modge podge on everything is way too satisfying.  So here is the electrical panel in my bedroom:

I want to show you more but I have to go hit the books!

Hello, my name is...

Hi, I'm Bridget and I'm a young mom/engineering student/homeowner with lots of cool and creative projects in mind for the future and this is the perfect outlet for me.  I know I am not alone when I say I am inspired by everything that has a pretty color, shape, texture or smell and that these things spark something special and totally girly inside me.  They tickle my eyeballs and fill me with happiness.  It would be wrong to keep that to myself ;)

I don't have many pictures yet, I just sort of started this thing on a whim but I want to show you my childhood room that is covered with murals that my parents are going to paint white so they can sell their house.  But for now I will show you the progress we have made on our house since buying it last year.

 

As you can see, the place started out as a total cabin but we are slowly turning it into a colorful compilation of artful projects.  Near future projects will be a contoured concrete wall with built in benches, terraced hillside in back, garden roof, deck, and treehouse.  I'll leave you with some family pics.

xoxo