Here are some more visual goodies from my inspiration folder for you. I collected most of them over the last few months from various tumblrs and blogs. You might think I’m strange but I find them all quite festive in some way, though not in the traditional sense at all :) To me they are [...]
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One of the most established findings in social psychological research is that, compared to people with average looks, attractive people are considered to be more intelligent, more interesting, more creative, as better leaders, better parents… in short: they are attributed a whole range of socially desirable traits. Psychologists call this the halo effect: the attractiveness [...]
This isn’t really a DIY tutorial, but a fun idea I wanted to share with you. I hope you like it! Drip candles were really popular in the 70s, and I think it’s time they made their comeback! I got the idea for this candle holder from the Almost Famous movie and I love it, [...]
This time of the year you can often find me wearing different shades of black on my nails. I say black, because from far away they all look black, but if you look closer you can see a hint of colour. I always veer towards richer shades like these in Autumn and Winter, I think [...]
They look kind of like paintings, but these are the beautiful photographs of Jose A Gallego. He calls them “Portraits of the Heart”, maybe because they convey amazingly well what the animals are feeling. I can practically hear this Orang Utan laughing.
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I have always loved slave bracelets and was forever searching for them until I realised that they are actually really, really easy to make yourself. All you need is some chain, a few rings and about 10 minutes of time. This tutorial is for a simple slave bracelet with five middle strands. As soon as [...]
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I thought I’d share with you some of the contents of my inspiration folder. For about two years I have been saving every pic that i liked, so now I have a ton of pictures on my laptop. It is fun to look back and see what kinds of things spoke to me and how [...]
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I found a whole bag of these great multicoloured sea shells at a flea market and for about a year I was debating what to do with them, until I had the idea of using the shells like mosaic tiles. In a nutshell what I did was cover the shells in jointing compound and then [...]
I couldn’t believe it when I found out that these pretty nature scenes are completely made out of food. At first I thought they just take pictures of every item individually and photoshop it together but they actually lay out everything and photograph it as one. I wish there was a video of the process, [...]
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