DIY – Cannonball Read 18

DIY Bubbles

Bubble Tea: 50 fun recipes for boba and beyond by Livia Abraham

August 4, 2024 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

Bingo 7: Bananas Bananas are among other things kind of whimsical, definitely sweet, and have a tendency to overshadow anything they are put with. These are qualities also shared by bubble tea, and so for this square I have Bubble Tea: 50 fun recipes for boba and beyond. I don’t know why there hasn’t been a Despicable Me scene with the Minions getting bubble tea; I can totally picture that. Bananas are also associated (at least in my mind, along with apples) school lunches (and […]

Like the Young House Love blog? Try the Young House Love book!

August 21, 2016 by Blingle Bells Leave a Comment

It’s really amazing and surprisingly to me that DIY home bloggers can be so divisive, yet Sherry and John Petersik of Young House Love definitely are. I started reading their blog a few years ago, and it kind of provided the soil for my dormant love of home decor and DIY to finally blossom into a huge, cumbersome, expensive flower. About a year ago, I became aware that there was some kind of malcontent rumbling in the comments section, which was closely linked to a […]

Just put some nails in your wall. Please.

January 3, 2016 by Blingle Bells 2 Comments

I read Myquillyn Smith’s home design book The Nesting Place: It Doesn’t Have to Be Perfect to Be Beautiful last year and I hated it. I’ve never read Myquillyn’s blog, but I do follow a lot of similar DIY décor blogs. I reread it for CBR8, and…I guess I came around a little. My original complaints still stand, so I’ll address them first. What is the deal with the nail holes? People apparently being terrified to put nail holes in their walls was mentioned at […]

The magic of a tidy mind and house (never mind the bookshelf)

January 19, 2015 by bonnie 1 Comment

I’m a clutterbug by nature, and grad school has only amplified it. There are papers everywhere, I have student papers, and countless books from the library to aid with my research. Not to mention clothes, kitchen gadgets, my own books, movies, shoes, and years upon years of memorabilia. I find myself at an impasse: there are days when I want to live in an empty room, but most days, I feel like I can never let go of ANYTHING. So I found myself drawn to […]

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