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Raymond Nichols Welcome to part five of our million part series on making mineral make-up eye shadows! If you’ve been crafting along, you should have…Part 1: Figured out how to make a an eye shadow basePart 2: A matte base Part 3: A metallic sheenPart 4: A black suitable for an eye liner or accentBut now you’re...
When making mineral make-up eye shadows, black is your friend. Yeah, I know you’re thinking that you’re unlikely to make a ton of black eye shadow because black usually equals goth (or lazy Susan who forgot to take off her make-up last night!) but black is an essential part of your MMU palette. It’s a...
We interrupt your regularly scheduled set of links about organizing to bring you a SNOW DAY! It’s too dangerous to drive right now — especially in a car without snow tires — so our agency is closed. SNOW DAY! (I just heard on the news that Chilliwack had 32 cm of snow as of yesterday...
So you’ve got an adorable bulletin board all clean and waiting for information, but how to attach it? Do you remember marble magnets? Adapt those by substituting a tack for the marble and you’re done (and the tacks are cheaper than the magnets, so it goes from an affordable craft to a mega-super cheap craft!)...
Okay, so you’ve made a cool date book, which will organize your life, but you want something you can look at in one glance in the morning. How about a bulletin board? Now, I am going to warn you…bulletin boards can become very disorganized very quickly…see the example to the left..but you can keep a...