Dumpster rescue. The perfect skinny entryway piece, with drawers. A repository for keys, dog treats and poop bags, purses, with bins for backpacks and shopping bags underneath. I found it outside my new apartment almost a year ago, and it took me about 7 months to get around to redoing it, but boy was I…
I am obsessed with this blanket. It is perfect. It is wool. It is slightly scratchy. It is made for beaches, bonfires, cabins in the woods, tents, tailgates, couches, and cuddling. It is Pendleton. It is American nostalgia. It is dreams and stereotypes and aspirations. It is what I built my entire living room around:…
Living in sunny SoCal has really hampered my ability to kill my own Christmas tree this year. I’m super excited about what I did find though: Living Christmas Tree, a tree rental company! They drop ‘er off and pick ‘er back up, all you gotta do is keep ‘er alive (um, easier said than done,…
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…
Yes, I used Pinterest as a verb. Deal with it. So is Google. I like crafting and home design, but Pinterest mostly makes me feel largely inadequate and unskilled. Nevertheless, I undertook this simple pin: “No-Sew Pillow Cover.” Easy DIY pillows, right? Well, mostly. So easy I covered every single pillow I could find and…
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Miracle-Gro for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. I have a list on my fridge of Things To Do—well, I have lists like that everywhere, but the fridge is command central for Things To Do Around The House. On that list is one item:…
When I was a kid, I remember my parents telling me that dandelions were a weed, and that blowing all the white fluffy things around was helping spread weeds. “I don’t care!” kid Lyssa thought, “It’s making all my wishes come true!” Well, Kid Lyssa, you’re an idiot. Every single one of those wishes has…
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of apartments.com. All opinions are 100% mine. Ahhhh, the apartment search. In typical Lyssa-style, I went upside down with this one: I moved from the dorms into a house I bought with my brother, skipping the apartment hunt altogether. Then, upon moving to Aspen I…
Y’all know I try to be as chemical-free as possible. My family never used fabric softener in our laundry growing up, so as an “adult”, I haven’t either. But when I heard about Woolzies Dryer Balls, which promise not only to replace fabric softener but decrease drying time, I absolutely had to try them ……
I can’t remember the last time I used cardboard boxes to move—I have enough duffles, storage bins, and assorted containers to move my small amount of stuff from Austin to Aspen to place to place. Moving into my house for the first time, however, was a different story. I wish BungoBox had existed then! Founded in…