To be able to float's Blog. Thrift Candy. Learning to Live Without a Microwave…Among Other Things. (pair of mirrors) John K Samson – Provincial “Heart of the Continent” Many albums, many very good albums, operate on a very simple strategy – they make you live a dream. Last year, albums like Watch the Throne and Take Care played out a millionaire’s fantasy in their listeners’ minds, while those listeners’ pockets were becoming more and more depleted (“25 sitting on 25 mil”, anyone?). There are albums that are dreams of earth-shattering, mythical, out-of-this world love – The Decemberists’ Hazards of Love and The Morning Benders’ Big Echo are perfect examples.
On the flipside, there are albums that plunge the listener into the nightmarish darkness of the artists’ mind – in themselves a certain kind of dream – that make you reconsider all that existential poetry you wrote after your last breakup. I’m thinking here of For Emma, Forever Ago, of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Alligator by the National, and much of Emily Haines’ solo work, just to name a few.
Man, were my prayers ever answered. 1000 Awesome Things | A time-ticking countdown of 1000 awesome things. A Beautiful Mess. I love using cloth napkins to dress up our dinner table, and through the years I've grown even more fond of their sustainability and cost effectiveness. Though, I'm not sure how cost effective it is if you keep buying more and more cloth napkins each year! This holiday season I thought it would be fun to look at how I could dress up the napkins I already own to give them an extra festive vibe.
Check out three simple ways you can give new life to your table linens. And hey! Two of them are even no sew! Ribbon Trimmed Napkin This look is so (no sew) simple! Supplies:-ribbon-heat bond in width of ribbon-cloth napkin (buy mine here)-iron-fabric scissors (not shown above) Step One: Trim pieces of your ribbon to be about 1.5 inches longer than the width of your napkins. Step Two: Fold down the edges of each ribbon segment about 1/4" and iron flat. Step Three: Iron the heat bond to the ribbon (pressing with hot iron for two seconds), then peel off the paper backing. Pom-Pom Trimmed Napkin.