If you know me, or you’re the 1 person who follows my blog, I’m sure you know my obsession for cord management. And when I saw this DIY cell phone cradle, I was so excited! (Yes, it doesn’t take much, sometimes..) Made from any large plastic container (or lotion bottle), you can cut it up and create yourself a cell phone charging cradle:
What a great thought for reuse and save on purchasing another knick-knack, though I’ll be first to admit that some are worth the purchase 
With an old lotion bottle, sharpie, and exacto blade you’re ready to go:
Start by cleaning out any old long and wide plastic container you have (this one looks like a Jergen’s bottle). Make sure that the bottle is wide/thick enough to fit your phone inside of! Then, draw the shape of the cradle on the outside of the bottle with a marker. You can choose whatever shape you like but ideally, it will have a rounded portion with a hole at the top and a “bucket” at the bottom for your phone to sit it (see the pic below). Finally, cut along the lines you traced (be very careful!) with an Exacto knife. Tada!
Brilliant DIY! (ps. Goes hand-in-hand with the most recent IDSA conference in Portland, earlier this month. The theme was DIY.)
via Inhabitat
如果你好认识我的话，当然知道我很喜欢关于包电线的产品。我看到这个自己能作这样的产品的时候太高兴了。能自己做也能当环保的。太好了。
This week I’ve been helping a very good friend with some details for her wedding tomorrow. For the table seating, we put together these lovely name cards (idea from Martha Stewart)! Sorry they’re only 1/2 finished in the photos below, but you can imagine how adorable they would be once they’re finished off with the missing orchid plucked on the top of the wire. The hardest part was securing the name cards to the wires in the little loop. The key here is to make sure that the round loops have been made a large enough diameter to easily hold the card. We had a bit of trouble securing many of the cards and used just a drop of Elmer’s glue on the back of each. She decided to use rhinestones to indicate each guests entree choice. Cute. Don’t you think?
我的好朋友明天结婚。这兴起我帮他做了很多。这是我们作的桌子名片，这里的照片还没作完，但你能看看。在线上还会有一朵花。可爱吗？
Pick a recipe for your kitchen or bath from their website and Design in a Bag will send you a kit (for about US$100) with samples of your personalized selection. What a great semi-DIY concept, making good design accessible to everyone!
Medill kitchen recipe.
On the Design in a Bag website, you can browse online galleries of coordinated kitchen and bath looks, each carefully designed and crafted by Rebekah Zaveloff, an HGTV contributor and the creative force behind Chicago’s preeminent kitchen and bath interior design firm KitchenLab.
Before and After of a client using the Design In A Bag Burgoyne.
Design in a Bag includes: cabinetry finishes showing color and wood species, countertop and tile selections, shopping / resource list, 4 large-format paint swatches and coordinating architectural drawings illustrating the finishes and wall colors – all which combine to help you envision and create your dream kitchen or bath.
via Design Milk
I started a project attempting to etch glass… When starting it, I didn’t realize it would be so simple! The vinyl sticker material used to make the stencil was the hardest part to master. If you’re trying this, a few trials should do the trick to familiarize yourself with how the material cuts with an exacto knife 
The product I found to etch glass was at the local craft’s store: a glass etching cream.
Gather additional materials needed: etching cream, exacto or utility knife, glass, vinyl stenciling sticker, and paint brush.
我开了一个项目关于蚀刻玻璃。开始的时候我不知道能真么容易！
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