the DIY: EXTREME HIGH LOW SKIRT

This is the most recent high-low skirt that we have made. We've done a version of this skirt before but we wanted to do a more extreme version. See the more subtle version here. This skirt came from Goodwill for $4.29. Hooray for good deals!

Here is an explanation of what to do when cutting your skirt into a high low. Keep in mind that the skirt in the photo is a maxi dress aka it is longer than it may seem/look. When you finish cutting your skirt in the place you would like, just hem! To see more detailed instructions go here! If you don't want to deal with hemming your skirt, use a skirt that is a knit material. It's pretty simple and pretty hard to mess up. Don't stress about how exact the cut is. If you are nervous about where you are cutting the skirt, cut it a little longer and try it on between cuts. Casey and I just bought 4 more skirt to do this to. We have kind of been obsessed with these skirts all summer long!

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the DIY: NAIL POLISH DISPLAY

We FINALLY made this shelf just for our nail polish. It was in a sad box thing all neglected and hard to get to. Upsetting. It took us a while to finally buy all the wood and then actually make the project but it is done! And now one of our walls will forever be known as the "Nail Polish Wall." And thank goodness there is still room for nail polish because you know we aren't going to stop buying it.

To make this exact You will need:
a piece of flat wood- ours is 2'x3'
two pieces of wood- 2.5"x.75"x3'
8 quarter round pieces- each 22.5" long
9 pieces of craft wood- 22.5" long
A drill will make hanging the shelf 713984 times easier
Screws
Gorilla Glue- Fast Drying is best

I put one piece of craft wood on the end of the large piece of wood and put a mark every four inches from there. Put the same marks on both sides of the large piece of wood.

Draw lines to connect the marks from both sides of the wood.


Take a wet cloth and dampen the surface where you will be putting the Gorilla Glue. In this case, dampen the 3' edge of the flat piece of wood and also dampen the shorter side of the 2.5"x.75" wood. Place the glue on one of the surfaces- a small amount will work because the glue grows a whoooooole lot.

Repeat the dampening and glueing process to each piece of quarter round. Place the edge of the quarter round right up against the lines you drew earlier.

I skipped one of the lines to be able to put larger things on that shelf. Things like nail polish remover. There will not be a piece of quarter round under the last shelf. You can see the Gorilla Glue already puffing out of places.

Glue each piece of craft wood on top of the quarter round pieces. They will sit on top of the quarter round and touch the flat piece of wood.

Spray paint that bad boy whatever color(s) you like. We had minimal amounts of many different colors so we just went crazy and used everything we had hence, the accidental rainbow effect. But, whatevs- it totally works in the craft/blog room.

Drill holes in the back of the shelf and screw it into the wall- preferably into a stud. We used a stud finder.

Fill it up with your nail polishes! And all of your almost empty Cutex nail polish removers. If you are feeling really crazy you can organize all the colors. I did this and let's just say I spent way more time organizing nail polish than I would ever care to again- CASEY YOU BETTER PUT THE COLORS BACK WHERE THEY CAME FROM.

No we do not NEED any more nail polish BUT, what colors would you suggest we get to add to the collection? (We are always up to buy new awesome nail polish colors.)

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visual JOURNALS: DO YOU?

Casey and I started visual journaling about a year ago- before we even had a blog. Once we started our blog, we sort of stopped working in our journals. 'Twas a sad day. It all started in a photography class in Texas when I was in college... too many years ago. Our final exam grade was our finished visual journal that we had kept all semester. I figured it would be cool to start a visual journal again to say the things that my words couldn't. Casey really liked the idea so it began. Now we are back into visual journal mode. We have been super inspired recently and are planning on having specific nights to visual journal, maybe even with other people joining in. We plan to post our new pages here and hope you will join us in our visual journaling quest. If you start visual journaling, or already do, we would love to see pictures of our pages- perhaps to post on our blog every now and then. Casey and I both had the same size journals- 11"x14"- until recently when Casey's fell apart and she had to get a new one. Her new journal is 9"x12". Casey's journal contains mixed media paper and mine is just a blank journal. Hopefully mine will stay together and if it doesn't, I will probably just duct tape it back together. Check out some of the pages we already have finished below... we don't have too many since each page takes a good amount of time.

Note: You might wonder what the difference is between scrapbooking and visual journaling. That's very hard to explain, but they are different. You do use a lot of the same materials but with visual journaling you might use water colors, markers, crayons, mod podge, magazine, gesso, etc. Also, with visual journaling you are not necessarily decorating a memory. Instead you are using visual materials to express yourself in the way you would by doing a written journal. Not sure if that makes any sense. 

They look so simple and innocent.

Let us know if you are interested in visual journaling. We would love to do "Visual Journal" posts where we prompt y'all with not-so-specific guidelines to use on a page of your journal, and we would use the same prompt. We could all share pages, hmm.... what do you think??

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