How To Dye Easter Eggs Using Silk

by Uncustomary | Apr 8, 2012 | Celebration, How To

My friend, Jill, sent me this link last week of a tutorial on how to dye eggs using silk ties! This tutorial is originally based on a Martha Stewart how-to. It’s basically using ties to imprint a pattern onto the egg shell. So cool, right?I bought some silk ties...

April Days

by Uncustomary | Apr 1, 2012 | Celebration, Lists

Happy April!! At the end of every month (so far) this year I have asked people to tell me things that were fabulous, made them happy, or they consider to be highlights from that month. I’ve been keeping logs of it in my Happy Book and here are some of the...

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day!

by Uncustomary | Mar 17, 2012 | Celebration

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!   Here are my favorite things I’ve found online that relate to March 17th:     [You Are My Fave] St. Patrick’s Day in a box!   [OlechkaDesign]Super cute clover magnets! comes in a cute gold gift box   [Craft Zine] Rainbow...

Celebrate Animals: Bug The Cat

by Uncustomary | Mar 9, 2012 | Bug, Celebration

About six months ago I adopted a cat named “Bug”. He is sweet, loving, and cuddly 50% of the time and a rude cute asshole the rest of the time. I love how he runs the house, knocks over water bottles, and parkours all over the furniture.Some of my favorite...

Red Makes A Comeback

by Uncustomary | Mar 8, 2012 | Celebration

Last week I got my hair highlighted bright red! Since I got it done I’ve been noticing how prevalent red is in my life. This is important because if you would have asked me five years ago what my least favorite color was, I would have said “red”. Over the years I have...

March On!

by Uncustomary | Mar 1, 2012 | Celebration, Snail Mail

Happy March, everyone!How was your Leap Day? It was monsooning here so and I didn’t really get to do anything fun outside like I wanted to. I went all-out color wise, though.I also got an awesome package duo from Karen in Minnesota. She sends me all sorts of...