<— You want this. Even if you didn’t know you wanted it before, now you do. Being able to make your own tutu gives you infinite options for costumes! It’s stupid easy. All you need from the fabric store is tulle and elastic. There are all sorts of tulles, so you can mix colors and…
Author: Lyssa
Feel Good Friday 071213
Feel Good Friday is a gratitude list I write each week to express my appreciation for all of the things that made me feel good or that I’m grateful for all week. Join me and leave your Feel Goods in the comments! A weekend largely spent on bikes, cruising the peninsula with different groups of…
Compliment or Insult: “I Did See You Squatting” Edition
Background: One day, I was repping back squats at very close to my one-rep max. If you’re unfamiliar with this feeling, know that it was challenging enough to make me almost throw up standing up the weight on my last rep. The following conversation ensued: Texter: Are you good at football? Me: Yep.
Free Therapy: Good/Bad
This is what it’s like to be a psychotherapists’ kid. Today was a bad day. Not terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day, but a slightly bad day. Like no rainbows. None of these bad things are that bad. But if they make me grouchy, and they do, then I get to consider them bad, even if…
Feel Good Friday 070513
Feel Good Friday is a gratitude list I write each week to express my appreciation for all of the things that made me feel good or that I’m grateful for all week. Join me and leave your Feel Goods in the comments! Grillin’ grillin’ grillin’ … just an all-day, errrryday excuse to have people over…
Over it. Leggings.
You guys. Some top-ranking keywords driving traffic to this site: leggins* and long dress leggings+corti what to wear with leggings in the summer *fact. no g YOU GUYS. First, don’t ever wear leggings and a long dress. That’s just stupid, unless it’s cold outside and no one will ever see the “leggins”. Second, don’t ever…
I think I’m having fun!
… but I’m terrified too!
Feel Good Friday 062813
Feel Good Friday is a gratitude list I write each week to express my appreciation for all of the things that made me feel good or that I’m grateful for all week. Join me and leave your Feel Goods in the comments! “Dancing” with new friends at The Ranch—really just observing the country dancing, it’s…
DIY Inspirational Coffee Table
Decoupage (or découpage) is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cutouts onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf and so on. Commonly an object like a small box or an item of furniture is covered by cutouts from magazines or from purpose-manufactured papers. Each layer is sealed with varnishes (often multiple coats) until the “stuck on” appearance disappears and the result looks like painting or inlay work. The…
How Exactly Does One Write an Undie Review?
… without getting too personal? MeUndies recently sent me a sampler pack of briefs to try. I mean, when cute underwears arrive in the mail, you gotta try ’em, right? I’ll admit, I was dubious. Not because of the delivery method, but because remember when boyshort undies first came on the market and they were so…