The paint store or paint aisle at the hardware store is full of all sorts of other interesting finds besides color. Here are nine ideas to use paint supplies as actual decor, rather than just as means to color your walls. They're each fun and, admittedly, a little tongue in cheek to the roller-and-brush-heavy DIY decor scene.

Sure, a coat rack or hook keeps your jackets and coats on the wall,  . . . Continue Reading

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Have you ever seen an axolotl? This picture's been making the Internet rounds for quite a while now, and it's about time i gave axolotls their due for being so insanely adorable/creepy/amazing. Not only do they appear to be smiley little amigos, but they can also regenerate limbs at the drop of a hat. Axolotl is really fun to say out loud as well. Axolotl. Axolotl. See? Unfortunately, some of the  . . . Continue Reading

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ReadyMade is getting in on 30 Days of Creativity—which means we’re making something every day during the month of June! Read more about the initiative here. And check out what we made today:

"Coming home is always fun. There are shelves and nooks and corners of childhood treasures. This time we found the LEGOS. Tools of our earliest creative efforts, and hours  . . . Continue Reading

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ReadyMade is getting in on 30 Days of Creativity—which means we’re making something every day during the month of June! Read more about the initiative here. And check out what we made today:

"I crocheted this blanket for my niece using six balls of Lion Brand's Thick & Quick, a wool/acrylic blend. I've been using this yarn for a lot of projects lately because it's  . . . Continue Reading

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I love rhubarb for a lot of reasons: its place, alongside asparagus, as a harbinger of summer’s bounty; the gorgeous rosy pink color it imparts to dishes; and most of all, its sweet, sour, slightly vegetal flavor. But as someone who tries to avoid going down the dessert path too often (especially, I hate to admit, in swimsuit season), I find my rhubarb-consumption options limited. Sure,  . . . Continue Reading

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ReadyMade is getting in on 30 Days of Creativity—which means we’re making something every day during the month of June! Read more about the initiative here. And check out what we made today:

"After a massive graduation party, we had leftover tortillas that were too crunchy for burritos or wraps (warming them all day in an oven will do that). So my sister and I fried them up to make  . . . Continue Reading

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A little more than a year old, the awesome eyewear company Warby Parker (who we’ve shown some love to in the past) is back at it again with their first-ever pair of sunglasses. But like many of the start-up’s other products (since its inception, Warby Parker’s buy-a-pair, give-a-pair program has proven to be a major philanthropic success), these dark specs do a whole lot more than protect  . . . Continue Reading

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I have to say... I bought into the party line about Salt Lake City. Although I have breezed through it on countless trips through Utah on I-80, I've never so much as stopped to gawk at Temple Square. When Claire and I started planning our summer road trip, we both realized that Salt Lake City was one of the few major cities in the country that neither of us had spent time in. Chalk it up to a mutual dislike of  . . . Continue Reading

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