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It’s Time to Make an Ugly Christmas Sweater!

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Amanda B
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Christmas is just weeks away and it’s time to make an ugly Christmas sweater. While you can find a fair share of ugly holiday sweaters at thrift stores, it’s always more fun to create your own. By making your own, you can ensure that yours is totally unique and no one else will have it. Here’s how to make your very own ugly Christmas sweater.

Gather Materials

Your Christmas decorations bins are the perfect place to get started. Look for old ornaments, gift wrap, bows, stale candy canes, lights, bows, and garland. You’ll also need a plain sweater, glitter, fabric paint, a hot glue gun, paintbrush, and scissors to make your very own ugly Christmas sweater. Stick with a theme of red, green, and gold to keep the Christmas vibe.

Attach Decorations

Trim the garland for the collar, cuffs, and hem of the sweater and then attach it with a hot glue gun. Then glue the bows, gift wrap, ornaments, and unwrapped candy canes on the sweater.

Paint Snowflakes

With a paintbrush and fabric paint, create some snowflakes and then sprinkle glitter on top so they sparkle. Alternatively, you can use a stencil or snowflake rubber stamp.

Sky Blue is Etsy’s Color of the Year, Here’s How to Decorate With It

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Kate B
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Over the past decade, there has been a ton of “it colors” with everything from millennial pink, Gen Z yellow, and slime green being popular at one point. And the latest color of the year according to Etsy is sky blue, which is only expected to become more popular going into 2021. The color is calming, which is what we could all use after such a tough year. Sky blue has already made it’s ways into our closets and now, it’s time to incorporate it into your home. Here are five ways to add a touch of sky blue to your living space.

Rugs

Rugs take up a lot of space on the floor, so instead of choosing a neutral shade, add some much-needed color into your living room with a sky blue rug. If you want a more subtle touch of the color, look for rugs in more traditional shades with hints of sky blue.

Table Accents

For smaller doses of sky blue, dinnerware is a great place to add some color into your kitchen. It’s the easiest way to not invest too much money in the color trend, but still feel like you’re trying something new.

Furniture

If you’re looking to really dive into the trend, invest in furniture like sofas and chairs. You’ll want to relax on these sofas after a long winter day.

Wallpaper

For a look to cover much of your living space, decorate your walls with trendy wallpapers with a matching trim.

Dyspnea’s Delicate Clothes Are All About That Dazzle

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Amanda B
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Dreamy fashion pieces have been ruling the world this year, and several cult fashion brands managed to find viral fame thanks to their fairy tale-worthy designs. Dyspnea was one of those brands, and their clothes are instantly recognizable thanks to the sparkly details they all feature.

Dyspnea was named after the medical term that describes shortness of breath because its founders, Rachel Motteram and Jameen Zalfen, wanted to design pieces that will take your breath away. According to their official website, their clothes have “enough fluffs and sparkle to give anyone a migraine” and that’s exactly part of their charm.

This brand mostly specializes in making embellished sassy negligee pieces. From retro, disco-inspired dresses and tops to miniskirts and blingy pants, all of Dyspnea’s designs have three things in common—they’re sparkly, sheer, and impossible to resist.

Another thing that we love about Dyspnea is its commitment to sustainable and ethical practices. As their business grew, Motteram and Zalfen started searching for artisan makers skilled at hand-beading and found what they’re looking for in Bali, Indonesia. In addition to being eco-friendly, their clothes are also incredibly inclusive, and you can get them in any size because they’re made to order.

Teri Johnson’s Candles Celebrate the Harlem Renaissance

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Amanda B
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Harlem, New York City was home to artists, poets, and performers during the Harlem Renaissance. And although 100 years have passed, Teri Johnson, the owner and founder of the Harlem Candle Company wants to make sure these legends aren’t forgotten.

Johnson’s luxury home fragrance brand infuses scents associated with greats of the time like James Baldwin, a novelist, playwright, poet, and activist, with a “Baldwin” Candle that hints at his love for his St. Paul de Vence garden with notes of apple and cloves. There’s also a candle called “Speakeasy” that relates to Harlem night life with auras of bourbon and palo santo.

Johnson started making candles in 2013 for friends and family, but she changed it into a business after hiring a chemist to create fragrance oils. This ignited her passion and she got into the process of making them before creating a story for each one. As a Harlem resident since the mid-2000s, she decided to start selling her candles to local pop-up shops and spreading her business on Instagram. And by 2014, the Harlem Candle Company was created.

Her greatest struggle is finding inspiration for each candle and also balancing art and inspiration. Johnson believes that “scent is powerful, scents are tied to memory,” she told Martha Stewart. “If we can really awaken the spirit, remind people, and relax people through the fragrances and through the little flicker of light that’s glowing from our jewel-toned vessels—then that makes me happy.”

Lainey Molnar’s Comics are Brutally Honest

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Elizabeth N
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Society puts a lot of pressure on women to act and behave in a certain way, and it’s hard to meet all of those expectations. One artist named Lainey Molnar has had enough of it and she decided to empower women by creating honest comics about women’s role in society.

The 31-year-old artist believes that the pressure and expectations relating to being the “perfect size and shape, being maternal but also ambitious, strong but also sensitive, staying youthful and fresh while gracefully accepting the aging process, looking ideal but not overdoing plastic surgery”, as she told Bored Panda, are too much to handle.

You could say the artist is passionate about women’s issues. In addition to drawing, Molnar works as a digital business strategist with content creators and women-owned business and she has written a guidebook for powerful women as well as written for women’s magazines.

But art is her true hobby—she’s been doing it for over two decades. After going into lockdown earlier this year because of the pandemic, she created a comic-style avatar of herself and began posting drawings about her daily life as a woman.

She’s always been a huge advocate of no-shame talks around taboo topics like mental health, adult friendships, and not wanting kids. Molnar hopes that women will stick together and break barriers, so these lifestyle choices are no longer considered abnormal.

Decorate Your Home For Hanukkah This Year with These DIY Crafts

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Kate B
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Hanukkah is just about a week away and now that Thanksgiving is over, it’s time to start decorating your home for the festival of lights. There’s no reason to go out and buy decorations when you can make great ones at home for a fraction of the cost. These DIY Hanukkah decorations will add some festivity to your home.

Marble Menorah

As kids, we made menorah’s with alphabet blocks and this adult upgrade made with marble and sewing thimbles looks like it came from a shop. It’s classic and timeless and a great piece to display in your window for all your neighbors to see.

Dip-Dye Table Runner

Use traditional Hanukkah colors of blue and white to decorate your dining room table when entertaining guests. If you’re feeling extra, make matching dip-dye napkins.

DIY Hanukkah Garland

With felt or construction paper cut out Star of Davids, dreidels, and menorahs or use stamps to create these garlands. Just attach a string and hang them from your windows or ceilings.

Star of David Wreath

If you’ve ever wanted a Hanukkah wreath, this Star of David wreath uses tree branches, faux greenery, and faux flowers.

Min Zumi’s Tattoos Look Like Sewn-on Patches

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Mark O
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When it comes to tattoo artists, we had pretty much seen it all until we came across this tattoo artist whose work looks like sewn-on fabric patches. Min Zumi of Authentic Ink Sydney, Australia, has a very unique style. If you love retro patches, he’s your guy. His work looks super realistic due to the attention to detail he puts in and his lines look like stitching.

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The artist’s passion started after he got his first tattoo. “It was very exciting. The outcome was great and so I realized that I also wanted to be able to design and create the same excitement for others,” he told Bored Panda. His style developed after researching and working with professionals in the field.

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Zumi’s work often celebrates pop-culture with some of his best pieces being Banjo-Kazooie, Son Goku, and Daisy Duck-inspired. The fine details in his work are an effect of thin lines varying in colors and shades, which create the illusion of threads. It’s a long process, that requires a lot of planning and attention to detail, but Zumi also finds it incredibly rewarding. In fact, each session with the artist takes between three to six hours and costs around $200 per hour.

What do you think of his intricate designs? Would you be interested in getting a tattoo from Zumi?

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Snøhetta is Creating Epic Modern Buildings and Landscapes Around the World

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Amanda B
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If you still haven’t heard of the architecture studio Snøhetta, it’s time you’ve learned the name. The studio’s epic modern buildings are popping up around the world, from Oslo to Shanghai, and they represent a perfect fusion between futuristic and classic architecture.

Founded by Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, Christoph Kapeller, and Craig Edward Dykers, Snøhetta started operating from Norway before opening offices on several different continents. Some of their most notable early designs can still be found in Oslo, including the city’s imposing opera house.

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One of Snøhetta’s strongest suits is its multidisciplinary approach. The studio defines itself as an integrated architecture, product design, and graphic design studio. Their main goal is to “enhance our sense of surroundings, identity and relationship to others and the physical spaces we inhabit” through each of their projects, ranging from large-scale buildings to observatories, landscapes, and commercial spaces.

As their rise through the ranks continues, Snøhetta expanded out of Norway’s borders and went to design breathtaking buildings across the globe. Some of their most notable projects now include Calgary Central Library in Canada, Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, El Paso Children’s Museum in Texas, and Shanghai Grand Opera House in China, set to open its doors in 2024.

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