Craquer la crème brulée

Sometimes I like to make things.
Sometimes I like to buy old, used things.
Je préfère ceux-là.

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Permalink Strawberry champagne cupcakes
Permalink Turquoise + gold + Andy Greenberg’s This Machine Kills Secrets
Permalink Mangoes + limes + sugar + water + tequila + chili powder = Mango Chili Margarita Popsicles (recipe via Top Pops by Emily Zaiden)
Permalink Beads + cord + crochet hook + mad single-crocheting skillz = A very fine necklace! (pattern, beads, cord, and know-how courtesy of The Well Done Experience’s Confetti Chain Stitch Necklace Kit)
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Permalink Flour + chocolate + mini chocolate chips = World Peace cookies (recipe via Smitten Kitchen)
Permalink Apostrophe-shaped bowl + paint + Baked in Brooklyn + some good company = my new cereal bowl!
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Permalink Pink nail polish + even pinker nail polish + pages 82 - 83 of The Plague by Albert Camus = feeling Easter-y and existential.
Permalink Mug + fork + flour (the self-rising kind) + sugar and spice and everything nice + crushed pineapple + oj + grated carrot + vegetable oil + vanilla extract + raisins + cream cheese frosting + 3 minutes in the microwave = a freakin’ carrot cake…in a mug…IN 3 MINUTES!!!
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Permalink Newspaper nail art (instructions via cutepolish’s YouTube page / newsprint courtesy of The New York Times book review of Beautiful Souls by Eyal Press) + backdrop of pages 212-213 of the Winter 2012 issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review, including Ru Freeman’s short fiction piece Sleeping Alone and Joe Sacco’s Kushinagar comic (which I highly recommend) = nerdy nails and Sunday morning reading.
Permalink Paint primer + piece of wood found in closet + assortment of cabinet pulls from Anthropologie + weird obsession with photo booths = DIY doorknob jewelry organizer (instructions found via Glitter ‘N Glue) / photo strip display.
Permalink Close-up of handknit doily (pattern found via Ravelry).