shake it like a poladroid picture

Today while perusing multiple websites to avoid working, I stumbled upon this wonderful treasure of a website, aptly named Poladroid. On Poladroid you can download their free program and then use it to instantly change your favorite digital photos into grainy polaroid perfection, white frame and all. The program even lets you "shake" the photo after you drag it into the camera- to help make the process a little more familiar. I'm still trying to figure out if it's possible to tweak the colors or add any fun effects- but even if it's just a simple conversion tool- I'm excited to create some faux-polaroids of my own.

here are some I made today while procrastinating.

enjoy the site and send us some photos!

something to try

i'm and arts and crafts fanatic and that's why i'm excited to try out this cool necklace idea i saw on smaggle style. Its a great way to recycle old tights and make something new and interesting with them. you can definitely embellish them more than is shown here, maybe a few more charms, a thicker chain and accents of a different color tights or even ribbon... the possibilities are endless!

Here's the complete set of directions, courtesy of Lady Smaggle, herself.

I just cut the legs off the body of the tights and cut the toes off.

Then I cut each leg open and cut them into strips, roughly 1cm wide.

Then I tied each end to an earring finding making sure that each layer was longer than the last. This sometimes meant tying two lengths together and trying it on to check that it was falling correctly.

Then I tied shorter pieces of stocking at irregular intervals along my strands. I also bought a DIY stud kit and put studs all along the strands and ties. I sewed a few silver charms on it too.

Then I added a clasp and chain so I could wear it at different lengths. If you’re going to make this yourself I suggest that you wear it often through out the process of making it so you can gauge the shape and length of it. The total cost of the piece was $1.50. The tights, earring findings and chain were all junk that was lying around my house and the stud kit cost $1.50 from a discount store. Even if I had to buy the findings and chain it wouldn’t have cost more than a couple of dollars.

d.i.y.

Everybody and their mother makes t-shirts nowadays and yet many of us willingly drop big bucks on mediocre designs. I don't know how many times, I've thought to myself that I can make a better more clever t-shirt and have purchased a boring one anyway. Now, making tees is super easy and doesn't even involve any messy d.i.y. silk screening.

Here's how to make it happen:



You can do way better than the corny snake in video, so go get yourself some "Picture This" and holler at us with the results. Pics of my projects coming soon!