Boasting of my Coasters

So I want to share with you some coasters I made of sheer necessity.

I know what you're thinking, "Coasters? Really?" Well, the boyfriENT got a new computer desk recently and I would hate to leave a ring from a glass!

Plus, I haven't seen a cool coaster set except for some very adorable options on pinterest. The failure rate is much too high there and I wasn't willing to run to Home Depot for something this easy.

All you'll need is:

• Jute (I used #28, the thinner kind) 

• Low temperature hot glue gun.

So it's as simple as forming a coil and hot gluing along the way!


Starting the coil is the most frustrating portion of this whole endeavor.


Just make sure that the center is all matted down so it doesn't ever fray apart.


Trick of the trade? Hot glue along the coil rather than along the free jute so you have a wee more control. Also, please have horrible cracked off nail polish... Clearly I am not That girly. HAHA.


Got a little help from the boyfriENT to take a photo of the gluing. Notice I'm gluing along the coil. Also notice my tattoo on my middle finger that I'm so in love with but I have to get touched up as soon as it's healed! Oi! Oi! Oi!


To Finish off each coil use a little extra glue and secure the extra frays and smooth out.


I double stack them because I'm insane and like I said, I'd hate to leave a ring on this beautiful desk.


I whipped these out while watching a marathon of fluffy reality tv!

Break up the routine! I bet these would be gorgeous on a patio table or at someones cabin *hint hint*

Finding the little things to make you smile

Clear mug lets me see the beans!

Sometimes it's little things that make me smile. Obnoxiously bright eyeshadow. Winged eyeliner. The smell of coffee.

Unfortunately I'm a weird combination of coffee snob and lazy where I don't really drink brewed coffee or put on makeup on a regular basis. But I do drink a four shot raspberry mocha (light on syrup, skim if I feel like being bossy!) And have been known to wear some pretty awesomely colored makeup (pat myself on the back, thank you!)

SO! To soothe my savage soul (drama this morning I apologize) I saw this awesome little tidbit on Pinterest that was perfect! 

Since my makeup brushes were getting my makeup case all grody. (BTW, who still uses this word? Any hands? Okay I'll put mine down.) I stopped my my local big box store and picked up the following:

• a clear glass mug

• coffee beans that smell good to you

So Simple even I can accomplish it!

I got some kind of Hawaiian coffee for mine.(ooo fancy!) It honestly could be just someone those glass pebbles if you didn't want to use coffee. It makes my fingers smell lovely!

The only downside so far is the oils from the coffee beans will stick to the brushes. My brushes are mostly the bamboo ecotools so I rub the coffee oils into the brush handles and my cuticles (they always need moisture don't they). Mind you I have no idea that this does any good I just tell myself it does and put o

n my blush.

I do find that since it's intriguing, sorta neat, and it smells good the boyfriENT is more than happy to retrieve this mug for me when I'm feeling lazy!

It's the little things people!