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Make a F*cking Look Book!: YourSpace #2 (DIY Culture)

Laneia

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on October 2, 2009

olooney picture frames

the o'looneys live here

Stimuli

[in which I provide you with exciting links]
*Book Review: Perfect English Cottage
(@decor8)
*Gwen and John O'Looney's Home: A Mosaic
(@beautyeveryday)
*Room-by-Room Inspiration Gallery
(@livingetc.)
*Laure at Home: Interior Photography
(@flickr)

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Your Actual Space

[in which I share reader-submitted pictures & stories]

A couple of weeks ago, we talked about Where I Sit. I invited you to send in pictures of Where You Sit and GUESS WHAT YOU DID! Here we have Mary's workspace before/after:

mary's desk

the magic of bulletin boards

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Jordan shared some shots of her Aunt Mona's craft/painting room!

"This is where I work and play...where I think I can go to be alone and work in peace. But, as soon as I sit down (at least at night), someone seems to always follow (namely, my beautiful 15 year old daughter, who prefers my computer to the house computer)! At any rate, it appears somewhat messy but every time I try to organize myself I can never seem to find anything. So, I generally wind up with most things out...I can simply scan the joint and find what I need when I need it!"
--Aunt Mona

mona's studio-1

color! yes we can!

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Moment of Zen

[in which I leave you with a quote]

"I believe that decorating the home is never 'finished' and interior design is not something you 'complete'. It’s an organic process of collecting and putting away and of recycling, upcycling, or selling. It’s a process of enjoying what you have today but if it no longer interests you tomorrow, that it’s okay to tuck it away and replace it with something that does."
-- Holly Becker, www.decor8blog.com

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11 responses to “Make a F*cking Look Book!: YourSpace #2 (DIY Culture)”

  1. Emily
    Emily
    October 2, 2009 at 4:37 pm Reply

    I do have a lomo, how did you know? Man, I am so “alt”. ;)

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  2. annie
    annie
    October 2, 2009 at 5:33 pm Reply

    ohh this is all very yum. i forgot to send pictures of where i sit! is it too late? a lot of time went into placing things on my noticeboard to look like i spent no time on it at all. anyway – love this column!

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    1. Laura
      Laura (member)
      October 3, 2009 at 9:10 pm Reply

      this is like one of my favorite parts of “the science of sleep” and is vair vair true. “randomness is very difficult to achieve… organization always merges back if you don’t pay attention.”

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  3. jj
    jj
    October 2, 2009 at 7:06 pm Reply

    DIY rules!

    I am working on something like this… but using a 100+ year old minute book that I bought at an awesome thrift store for 12 bucks! less than the cost of a moleskine!!! and it is OLD & AWESOME and has leather binding and the pages are edged with marble-ly-ness

    I am going to go work on it some right now. Thanks for the inspiration!

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  4. riese
    riese (member)
    October 2, 2009 at 11:17 pm Reply

    “it was breakable and pretty”

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  5. Daphne
    Daphne
    October 3, 2009 at 2:52 pm Reply

    I used to have a lookbook like that. But it was more a diary then a vintage tumblr. I glued in more then magazine pictures. It also were the doodles I made in class when I was bored, or the drawing the kids I babysat made me, or even “macaronie art” (you know, like in the old preschool days).

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    1. riese
      riese (member)
      October 3, 2009 at 3:42 pm Reply

      all my old diaries are sort of look books too. I was one of those kids who thought people would want to read my diary one day (we grow up and become bloggers, obvs) and so I illustrated everything — magazine pictures, photos, drawings, charts/graphs of feelings/people, lists, ticket stubs, everything. I still feel proud of them, though most of the content is at this point embarrassing.

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      1. Elizabeth (aka Elli)
        Elizabeth (aka Elli) (member)
        October 3, 2009 at 11:25 pm ReplyReport user

        I had a journal thingy in jr high that I kept weird lists in, painted in, glued magazine pictures in, etc. I also glued one of my allergy pills in it because it had TAYLOR (the med co.) stamped in the side and I was ‘in love’ with a boy called Adam Taylor and I was convinced we were meant to be together because then I would be Elizabeth Taylor… good times.

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  6. Laneia
    Laneia (member)
    October 6, 2009 at 8:43 pm Reply

    I HATE WHEN THINGS GET OUT OF HAND I DON’T COMMENT ON MY OWN COMMENTS.

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  7. tangiers
    tangiers (member)
    June 11, 2010 at 6:36 am ReplyReport user

    OR MAKE A MOTHERFUCKING ART JOURNAL! same same :)

    fuckyeahartjournals.tumblr.com

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  8. michelle206
    michelle206 (member)
    August 9, 2010 at 7:05 pm ReplyReport user

    i love having a ‘journal’ or notebook that is actually inspiring to use

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