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DIY Upcycled Cell Phone Holder

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Now this is an awesome example of upcycling and organization. If you're gadgets are taking over all your table surfaces while recharging, make a holder that holds your phone underneath the outlet and out of the way. It's made from a lotion bottle and some fabric. Wow. The full tutorial can be found at Make it and Love it.

via | avie designs via Make it and Love it

Socks with high heels

I've been seeing a lot of socks with high heels lately in the fashion magazines and even this ad above for Target has this sartorial style featured. What's your opinion on this? Fashion forward or faux pas? Personally I love the the comfort of socks with heels, but it's seriously hard to pull off the look if your over 25 in my opinion. Not that the age limit stops me from wearing many things I probably shouldn't ...

Artist Elizabeth McDonald

Culling

Bears Love LicoriceAt a recent Second Saturday (think First Friday) event, we had the pleasure of meeting artist Elizabeth McDonald. She is an amazing young talent working with oil and watercolor which gives her work a unique moodiness. The top canvas pictured here "Culling" completely captivated me. We were actually walking outside the gallery and it caught our attention on the street. Here are Elizabeth's own words describing her work:

I am not depicting truth in my paintings, nor am I simply inventing. Instead, I explore an interweaving of reality and fiction similar to what is constructed during the recollection of dreams and distant memories. I paint simultaneously from two angles; the concrete and the intuitive. My paintings have an anecdotal quality but not a singular narrative. They are often based in reality but become skewed towards the uncanny through the use of color, composition, and invented detail. There is a balance between dissonance and beauty; one is left with only precarious assumptions of subject yet one is not driven away by the uneasiness within the painting. Instead of presenting a complete and coherent story I simply attempt to reconcile the viewer to the painting's inexplicability.

Beautiful bike helmets

One doesn't normally think of bike helmets as a fashion statement, but these certainly are. Adeline Adeline carries specialty bicycle accessories that are just as beautiful as they are useful. The model pictured above is the Yakkay -- the base helmet is the same -- you switch the covers to completely change the style. Top image is the Tokoyo Blue Stripe cover and the bottom is the Cambridge Gold cover.