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Customize Your Cell Phone

So, I gotta admit… I always have the raddest ghetto phone around.  I lose my phone 367 days a year and am always buying the cheapest one off eBay, but it makes me slightly depressed when my things aren’t in a beautiful physical state, so eventually I figured out how to beautify my crappy old cell phones.

The secret is that even though people think you’re very crafty and creative for doing it, it’s cake. So, I’m going to share all the steps with you on how to customize your old cell phone by gluing a unique image on it using a collage technique….

Click “read the rest of this entry” to download and print some images sets I’ve pieced together for you. They all feature the art of my favorite artist to use on my phones, Alphonse MuchaRead the rest of this entry »



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Making Feathered Hair Pieces

Los Angeles is lucky enough to be graced by the presence of Mother Plucker (a little feather shop packed with all the feathers you could ever want), which my best friend Drie shared with me the last time I was in town… I ended up forgetting my feather purchases at her house, so she sent them back to me for my birthday along with tons of other feathers & supplies.  This weekend I finally got the time to start plucking away and sticking things together.  I’m missing a few key elements to make headbands, and it’s hard making all the accessories I want when I don’t have every single color of feathers/boas I desire, but until my order of feathers comes in from Ostrich.com, I’ve managed to throw a few pieces together:

DIY Feathered Hair Accessories

Glueing feathers to hair clips bracelets



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