totally inspired: jamie meares on the glitter guide.

did y'all see jamie meares of furbish on the glitter guide? GAH. i am a confessed meares stalker (in the good way) and i love love her style. girl is BALLSY and her store is fab. it's a great read and i always love seeing how the people i admire really live, so this image-heavy article was a rill treat. there are about eleventeen things from her lovely home that i want to DIYASAP, so here goes. also i learned how to put text on photos? but don't have time to work out the kinks? (just putting that graphic design degree to as minimal a use as possible, ok?)

i feel like this is a great opportunity to hop on this needlepoint pillow i've been wanting, HARD. does anyone know where i can hire a needlepointer? it only comes in a kit.

she's crafty: tassel stool.

i'm kind of over making resolutions (soooo 2010), but if there is one thing i would like to attempt more of in life, it's to finish projects that i start. and then actually blog about them. this is what i like to call SETTING REALISTIC AND ATTAINABLE GOALS, people. so this project has been sitting on deck for awhile, and this morning, over coffee and breakfast tacos, i totally killed it. killed it, took pictures, and now i'm blogging about it. boom goes the dynamite, but i'd like to reiterate that this is not a resolution: this is a commitment to completion and it coincides with early january; fuck resolutions dot com.

i bought this POS little stool at the guild shop, a houston thrifting treasure trove, for like $7. it was super fug. so fug that i had to hide it from b-rad. the thing is, i KNOW brad can see the potential in all the trash i drag home, but his secret motivational tool for encouraging me to transform things is to get really, really mad when i bring stuff home and yell that it is trash and a total waste of money and does he need to call hoarders? and be like my wife is hoarding a giant pile of things that belong in a landfill? so i don't have a BEFORE picture, because quite frankly, that is kind of like evidence of how bad this looked when i bought it. but it looks pretty fly now, right?

it had three layers of other fabrics on the seat, so based on the layers of gross that i peeled away this morning, it's at least the 4th incarnation of this stool. AND LET ME TELL YOU A SECRET: i re-upholstered it using a blouse. it's not as fluorescent as it looks below, but lemme tell ya: it is a fierce electric melon.

you don't actually need that much fabric to recover a cushion (or make a pillow, for that matter), so if you are already working on the cheap and kind of know what you are doing, thrift yourself a shirt or dress or badass blanket or curtain panel or any other textile in good condition. a half-yard of nice fabric can get expensive, but this 2X ladies' shirt was like a dollar. surely you bitches saw how nick olsen used a mexican blanket on a french chair in house beautiful and the world was like WHAAAA? pick one up for yourself next time you're at the fair.

i should mention that it really freaks me out to post pictures of my own house, because the things that go on or go in here are things i would NEVER do for a client. my style is 'bizarre tchotchke clutter pattern explosion + animals' and we don't seem to sell a whole lotta that in the high-end interior world, so i like to save it for my yours truly. it's really a specialty niche, after all. people like kate spade and herve pierre and abigail ahern know what i am talking about, y'all.

so just in case you're curious, and because i made brad take pictures, here are some action photos. wallpaper shown is cole and son matsu pines; bed is custom, lucite lamp is arteriors and you may have also noticed my 5-year journal (still amazing) and 4-H ribbon from previous posts.

outermost layer. if it looks really fancy in this photo, it's because brad is practically ansel adams.

second incarnation. this version totally had a crush on jake ryan.

true OG velvet layer with welt trim, aka ol' dirty bastard.

prior to diy-ing, get manicure, put on bunny sweater.

counter-clockwise and keep it tight, bitches.

ikea maskros.

i saw this over the weekend on pinterest--sidenote: are y'all on pinterest? you should be. it is rad and you can follow my pinterest boards here. my tagline for pinterest would probably have to be 'if you like al gore's internet and pictures in general, then you will love pinterest.' end sidenote--and it got me to thinking... WHEN ARE WE MAKING THIS THANG AUDREY? that's all. have a super monday, bfaces.

{image via here.}

do you have $95?

i should really start being more open about my deep and abiding love for gold spray paint in the future, not just because i use it All. The. Time, but also because this

plus this

equals this.

and if amy butler thinks it's okay, i'm hopping on it. check out more pictures of amy butler's cute house on apartment therapy here.

{via little green notebook, and homegirl posted her personal ikea makros hack project too.}

do it yourself.

is your broke-ness giving you a case of the sads? dry up, because D-I-Y is looking less and less shabby these days. thanks to the internets and sharp creativity, you don't even need mad cash to make your pad super fancy. here are tutorials for two extremely clever at-home projects that are guaranteed to impress your friends and make all your wildest dreams come true:

ultra sick john robshaw-ish block-print rug, via apartment therapy, found over at april and may.

swank dorothy draper nightstand knock-offs, via marcus design, found over at little green notebook.