100 Ways To Be Creative: Scratch Art

by Uncustomary | Aug 17, 2012 | Creativity

#96 on my 100 Ways To Be Creative list was to make your own sketch design, aka scratch art. You know those black sheets, that when you scratch them with a coin or toothpick, colors pop up? It’s that. Here is the end result:   The first step is to just cover...

100 Ways To Be Creative: Recreate A Photo

by Uncustomary | Aug 16, 2012 | Creativity

#37 on my 100 Ways To Be Creative list was to recreate a photograph that you think is beautiful. I’ve always loved this photo of someone’s feet covered in glitter. So opened a bottle of gold flakes I’ve been saving for months and months and dumped...

Wednesdays Are Good Lately

by Uncustomary | Aug 15, 2012 | Happiness

There are things that I like about every day of the week. I like Thursday nights because it feels like a Friday night always, even though I still have to be at work at the same time. It’s a freeing feeling. I don’t really know why. I like Saturdays because...

Weekly Happiness

by Uncustomary | Aug 15, 2012 | Happiness

  I want to share some of the happy things that have happened to me in the past week [8/8-8/14]  beautifully painted walls of Poncho & Pepe’s  how the rainbow flowers looked pretty, even dead honoring Nannie with purple sidewalk chalk hearts  the...

DIY Mixed Media Art for the Non-Collage Artist

by Uncustomary | Aug 14, 2012 | How To

 My first guest post! From Michelle from The Reshaping Of Everyday Life and Busy Weekends. There are a lot of people in this world, myself included, who can’t collage. We try. You try to tell us that anyone can do it because in your mind it’s just sticking...