Sock Hamper in 30 minutes or less

Sock Hamper

Talking Points

Have you ever washed your clothes before and before washing them it smells like feet? Well smell no more! with the easy DIY Sock Hamper. 

With the revolutionary Sock Hamper you get the chance to separate those smelly sock you take off everyday and not place it in the same hamper you put your used clothes in. As an added bonus the Sock Hamper helps you avoid losing the other piece of the pair. Here's how you make one.

Things you will need:

• a pair of old pants
• needle
• thread
• scissors
• a ring of sort 
• little to no sewing skills
• 30 mins from your day

DIY: 

Take a pair of jeans that you no longer use or does not fit you anymore and cut one of the legs

This is how it should look like after cutting one of the legs

invert the piece and sew the end part as well as the flapped opening

after sewing the ends and opening this is how it should look like when you flip it over

add the ring on the pointy end and voila - Sock Hamper

Enjoy your new Sock Hamper and stay tuned for more DIY project. 

My very own Bucket List

Thing I want to do before I turn 40

I found the Slytherin notebook my sister "gave" ( more like she had no choice but ) me and saw an entry I made a few years back. It had everything that i wanted to since 2011, maybe that's why I titled it Bucket List. Let me tell you the two reasons why I'm blogging about it now. First, carrying a notebook everywhere is 50% fun and 50% bulky so I'm keeping my records online (easy update). Second, I wanted to share it because the more people know, the best chance for me to get all the information I need to achieve it. :)

Here's the list in exact order when I wrote it down. Every time I complete an item on the list I will place a picture below it and update this blog so you too would know.

• Go on a date
• Get a new BlackBerry
• Get a Passport

• Apply for a Visa
• Enroll in a Gym
• Enroll in a French Class
• Learn a New Language (Russian, German, Hebrew and more)
• Travel to Places iv'e never been to

Dumaguete, Dipolog, Dapitan and Dakak

• Travel Internationally

Thailand

• Quit
• Quit Smoking

Smoke Free for 8 months now

• Minimize Rice intake
• Lose weight
• Get over GF_ (sooo stupid, I am actually hiding this.. hahaha.. sssshhh)
• Get a Tattoo
• Boycott Fast Food Joints
• Save P10,000 and put it in the bank
• Get New Clothes (preferably when your thin)
• Go to Boracay 1 more time
• Get a Massage
• Boycott Carbonated Drinks
• Spend the night at a Hotel
• Travel Alone
• Give yourself something special for your birthdays

Birthday 2013

• Visit Pat-pat in Ilo-Ilo
• Eat somewhere fancy
• Take family on a fancy vacation
• Apply and get a job outside the Philippines
• Pay off Credit Card
• Finish Loan
• Take singing lessons
• Buy a Laptop
• Travel to Manila
• Practice Wicca More
• become a Hybrid in the Training World
• Sit through a Play

Les Miserable, Facebooked, Sister Act the Musical and a few more local plays

• Learn how to Surf
• Bake a Cake

Mug Cake - It counts teehee

• Wall Climb
• Fly
• Go Fishing and Catch Something
• Host a Dinner Party 

• Host Brunch
• Throw knives like on Hunger Games
• Be in a Play
• Dance like there is no Tomorrow
• Meet McFly (or any of the Band Members)
• Meet the Cast of Harry Potter (or any one from the movie)
• Take a picture from the outside of the Halliwell Manor
• Meet the Cast of Friends ( Monica, Rachel, Phoebe, Joey, Chandler and Ross)
• Learn Martial Arts
• Shoot an arrow from a bow (lotsa times)
• Fire a gun (safely) 

DIY: My Gossip Girl Inspired Room

DIY: Major Project for the Year

So around the second quarter of this year i decided to make my weekend a little bit more interesting than sleeping and eating (**wink). I remembered I love doing and making stuff on my own so I decided to recreate my room. Let me show you. 

so here's a picture of my room before I started this project

If you look at the picture, its pretty plain, bed on the floor, a Spongebob fleece blanket covering the window to avoid the sun (I'm a vampire that way.. lol). I was very ambitious. I wanted a Greek inspired room at the end of the process. Then I remembered how small my room was so I went to my passion, GOSSIP GIRL. (BIG Fan.. teehee). 

So my room was inspired from the homes of Manhattan's Elite. 

I started out by covering the window with cardboard, insulator and lastly Styrofoam (foam needs to be an inch thick - I'll tell you why in a bit). I glued them using a Glue Gun (please be careful, it gets crazy HOT). I then cut up butterflies in 3 sizes (small, medium and large) from black cartolina. This is the Serena van der Woodsen touch.

Comparison | Clearly it's not the same (but it is **wink.. teehee)

 The next step is a bit toxic so please make sure that you do this in open space and make sure that you have adult supervision if you are young. you will need the following things:

• Soldering Iron
• very long ruler
• Markers
• Sand Paper
• Gray and Red Paint (make sure they are compatible with Styrofoams)

Ladies and Gentlemen, we are about to make Faux Bricks.

Use the markers and the ruler to make your brick lines and use the soldering iron to melt the foam along the lines, about half an inch deep. Use the sand paper to make the surface a little bit smoother and make those imperfections that old brick walls has. Here's what i did.

the one on the left is the first part then i completed the rest of the foam (was pretty proud at this point)

Use the gray paint in between those bricks as a lining (mortar i believe is what is called). then use the red paint to achieve the brick wall look.

Dan Humphrey's Loft inspired 

This was suppose to be my final designed but since i stopped using the AC (bill issue :p) the room felt like hell on earth. So i had to make revisions. 

So below is the final remodeling of my room with the GG motif. I have added a tarp of Lily Humphrey's RAINBOW GIRL that I will back frame to look authentic.

GG Room version 2.0

See you soon on my next adventure.. 

"There's no place like Home. So make your place feel like one" - ALIC in Wonderland