‘Make Your Life Gezellig’ Archives
Author: Kristen Published: July 23rd, 2009
I am a compulsive recycler. If something can possibly be used again, by god, I have to at least try — and if it keeps me from having to buy something new, I am equally delighted by my ingenuity and my single-handed environment-savingness.
At the same time, I also really love a good household purge. When you live with another adult and a kid (as well as three cats) in less than 650 square feet, there is really no room for anything you not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
So, what happens when you have something still beautiful but not useful? For example, what to do with a shirt that shrunk in the wash just enough to be too small on my husband while still too big for me?
Recycle it and make it into something beautiful, like so:
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Category Green is Gezellig, Life in Maison Gezellig, Make Your Life Gezellig |
Author: Kristen Published: January 28th, 2009
I was going to tack this on to the last entry about using less plastic, but it would have felt, well, tacked on and this product is cool enough to warrant its own entry:
So long plastic utensils; hello cute bamboo ones in their own little recycled-plastic carrying case from To-Go Ware. (Yeah, fine, you could be doing the same thing with a set of utensils from your own kitchen drawer, but where is the cute in that?)
My husband and I each got a set as a gift just after the holidays. I’ve used mine a half-dozen times so far — the bowl of the spoon is maybe not deep enough for soup, but the knife is about as good as a plastic one and the fork is considerably better. Best of all though, the satisfaction of wiping it off and using it again later. After washing it, of course. Because otherwise, um, ew?
Category Green is Gezellig, Make Your Life Gezellig |
Author: Kristen Published: March 22nd, 2008
I was cleaning out a cabinet when I found a folder full of random magazine pages. Most of the pages were apartment decoration ideas when I was going through a phase where I thought I’d actually ever do anything like that.
Anyway, one of the pages had photos of stuff like this:
You’ll have to envision less orange liquid and more… arty arrangement with a bunch of other flasks.
Maybe it’s just because I’m a science nerd at heart, but I kinda want like, 12 of those and maybe a couple of these too. And maybe this.
Category Make Your Life Gezellig, Science! |
Author: Kristen Published: March 5th, 2007
So, there I was; pushing my kid in her stroller, headed down Broadway, from my husband’s office, heading towards Union Square.
And then I saw it. Fishs Eddy.
I stopped dead in my tracks and pressed my face to the window like an old-timey street urchin, gaping at wonders, well, like these:
When I snapped out of my must… buy… now trance, I braced myself for the seemingly inevitable NYC window shopping letdown: the price.
Ready for this? Go get your wallet. You got a $20 in there? Maybe a buck in loose change? Congratulations, you just bought everything I put on this page (including tax).
Damn, I love this town.
Category Make Your Life Gezellig |
Author: Kristen Published: February 26th, 2007
It’s Monday. Even though I overslept this morning, I’m still wiped out from last night’s Oscar revelry. It’s snowing. Sort of.
All I want to do today is browse through the delightful Little Flower Designs and imagine a world in which I would be okay with spending $40 on a sweet little bowl my husband would almost certainly break while washing.
Ahh. Nice.
Category Make Your Life Gezellig |
