DIY

Personalize Your Coffee Mug! [DIY With CC]
A Sharpie mug is a way of telling someone any message of your choice and is a lasting gift that they can use over and over again! Also, having someone reminded of you every time they happily finally get their morning cup doesn’t sound too bad.
Add Flair to Your Drinkware With Hand-Dotted Tumblers [DIY with CC]
If you were to walk into my dorm room tonight, you’d see me and all my friends drinking alcohol out of everything not classy to drink it out of: weird plastic cups from random events, coffee mugs, sippy cups, reused fast food cups. I’m not trying to be a snob, but I just feel more sophisticated when I’m drinking pinot out of a glass.

Play Photographer! [ReadyU Conquer This List]
Now that I’ve got a camera with me at all times (read: my phone), I tend to snap pictures of everything I find funny, interesting, or beautiful. That means I have somewhere around 10 million photos that made really funny Facebook posts or TwitPics at the time, but looking back, I wonder what I was thinking when I took them.
How To Get Perfect Nail Polka Dots [Craft Post]
Nail art is totally in right now but the intricate designs look not only time consuming but pretty difficult.We found this awesome tutorial on Snap Guide that shows how to create the perfect dotter for nails. It’s foolproof and will speed up the somewhat tedious process of trying to have fierce nail art. Check it out.
DIY With CC: Beer Advent Calendar [Craft Post]
If you’re anything like me, you are, like, totally excited for Christmas. Every year my mom gets me one of those cardboard advent calendars where you can pop out a little chocolate and you can also see how many days there are until Christmas. It’s a family tradition. This year? While I don’t hate the little pop out chocolates, I could definitely use something a little more adult while I anxiously await Christmas day. Solution. Beer advent calendar. It’s like, you’re double excited. You’re excited for Christmas AND excited for beer. Perfect. And it’s relatively easy to make.
DIY Lana Del Rey Flower Headband [Craft Post]
We found this awesome video on how to create a Lana Del Rey inspired floral headband. Lana has an awesome style that’s a mix of classic American sportswear, 1960s glamour, and a dash of hiphop. This floral head band probably isn’t something you can wear all the time, but it feels festive and maybe a great thing to spruce up your outfit come X-mas dinner.
How to Make an Ugly Christmas Sweater
Everyone scrambles to find the ugliest sweater possible at thrift stores but if you don’t go early enough, you’ll end up with a less than stellar tacky sweater. Instead of getting discouraged, why not make your own tacky sweater?!

Review Session Spa At Home [CC Beauty Live]
There are some great treatments you can find right in your own home! And that means you don’t have to change out of your pajamas.
Super Cute DIY Earring Holder [CC Craft]
I found this great tutorial on how to make a storage/display frame for my earrings.
Stud Out Your Jacket [CC Craft]
So instead of spending 100 bucks on a cool jacket, hop down to your local thrift store and buy a leather or denim jacket for $4.99, order some studs online and make your own.
Go All Artsy Fartsy [Ready U Conquer This List]
I don’t think I would ever consider myself a “crafty” person. I was the girl in kindergarten with the art projects that only a mother could love. I also have terrible handwriting, which I chalk up to another reason why I will never be good at art.
Make a Quilt Using Old T-Shirts [DIY With CC]
You’re in college, which means of course you have an over-abundance of T-shirts. Whether it’s the billion or so from high school track team or the random shirts everyone makes for every single college event (seriously, I don’t need another dorm shirt!), there’s no way you’ll need to have all those sitting in your drawers taking up space when you’re not even going to be wearing them.
How to Make a Safety Pin Bracelet [DIY With CC]
I love when I can find a way to make something new out of something I already own as well. It’s especially exciting when I can use a something that’s not traditionally used to make jewelry in the first place.
Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel Got Hitched [Candy Dish]
The Internet is exploding with girls lamenting the fact that they will never be able to randomly run into J. Tims at the car wash and fall madly in love after lending the boy bander some spare quarters.
Sauteed Brussels Sprouts with Bacon [Intro to Cooking]
Though Brussels sprouts often come with a bad reputation, all it took was one bite of this recipe to change my mind about them completely.
Apple, Bacon and Cheddar Griddlecakes [Intro to Cooking]
Food is such a central part of Southern culture, and my childhood was a reflection of that. As I have established myself in a new city, I find that most of the memories I am making now are also centered around food: trying new restaurants, introducing new ingredients into my repertoire and spending some time each week working on material for this column!