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DIY Lace Collar Tee

I love cheap basic tees, but I always resist buying them because I know I won’t wear them unless they’re jazzed up somehow. So after specifically deciding to put lace around a shirt collar, I set out to buy a plain blank tee. I got this heather gray number at Target on clearance for only […]

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Screenprinting in Brooklyn

[excuse the clutter of my laundry] This past Saturday I drove to Brooklyn for a t-shirt screenprinting workshop I signed myself up for. Back in high school I did a lot of stenciling on t-shirts, and when I was in college I started getting into screenprinting after majoring in graphic design & was getting better […]

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Quick DIY: Desk Drawer Makeover

Once upon a time I made the mistake of lending my brother a set of drawers from Ikea that I wasn’t currently using. He used it when he moved off campus in college, and when he returned the furniture came back a little beat up. You can’t totally blame him though, Ikea stuff is cheap […]

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Make Your Own External Hard Drive

Recently my portable external hard drive kicked the bucket. Like anyone would, I immediately felt panic by not having any backup of my things besides some important files I had in Dropbox. So, I needed to buy a new one pretty quickly. I remembered my brother showing me that hard drive enclosures exist (big props […]