Making Cards Against Humanity

Our friends Lillie and Scott recently introduced us to Cards Against Humanity, a fun party game that requires little skill and a lot of perversion. We played a few rounds the other night at Guthrie's Tavern. It's the perfect spot to mix drinking with board games as God intended.

Joe and I decided that we needed a set of our very own. The game was funded through Kickstarter, which is cool, except now it's sold out and hard to get unless you want to pay at least twice as much to scalpers on Amazon. We are not those people. 

Guthrie's extensive board game collection

Luckily the game makers are so cool they've included instructions at the bottom of their website so you can make your own set. Seriously!

Joe enthusiastically took the reigns on the fairly easy diy project, printing and cutting the heavy card stock at Kinkos the same afternoon we discovered the instructions. We now have an awesome homemade set that set us back about $10. Just in time for our upcoming lakefront vacation with the family.

Our set of Cards Against Humanity. Every bit as good. 

Getting Laced

The best-cheapest-most-environmentally-friendly-personalized way to get new clothes is to first fancy up your old ones. Here's a great tutorial on how to make the perfect pair of cut offs shorts. It also shows you how to add a lace cutout to shorts with just a little hand sewing and some scissors. By the way, if you ever sew or tinker with sewing or want to tinker with sewing, buy a good pair of fabric scissors, and save them just for fabric. Never use them to cut through paper--it's a fast way to dull them to oblivion (paper is wood, after all). A good pair of fabric scissors just makes your work more enjoyable, which makes it feel less like work. Anyways, I love lace (obviously). So I made a pair of these lacey shorts. Here's how it went:



In the end, I really like how they turned out, though I wish I had made the cut offs just a little shorter in the first place. I may have to do it all over again so I can cut them to a more flattering length, but it was so easy that a redo doesn't really bother me.

Oomphing Up: Finished Product

Oomphing Up

I've had this cheap H&M jacket lying around for a few years, and while I've always liked it, it's a little plain for my taste. This morning, I was finally ready to do something about it. I spent something like $4 on lace and thread, and it took me about an hour to complete. If you can sew around a curved edge on a sewing machine, then you should give this cheap and simple project a try to give a little life back to an old staple.

Balcardening

I live in a city. And I like fresh veggies/herbs. Something had to be done. 

Thank goodness I have a little balcony space. 

  

Where I plan to spend every breakfast until October

Homemade upside down strawberry planter

Old dresser drawers make perfect window boxes
 for two kinds of tomatoes.

The lettuce doesn't like me so far.
But the basil and I are in love.