It's another "give me ideas for small and affordable but nice luxurious things" thread, like this one and this one - but with the addition of a DIY option!
Partly to avoid Amazon, and partly to support a small business, I bought super-fancy French soap this week when we were running low, because - like I told the roommate - "if we need to be washing our hands this much at least we should have really good soap to do it with." And that - plus wanting to cheer myself up, plus having a bit more financial stability for the first time in a long time (THANK GOD), got me thinking of what other tiny little things might enhance quality of life a teeny bit. I've loving my fountain pens, I have a huge assortment of tea and a nice tea set, plus some nice coffee mugs for coffee, fluffy throw pillows, things like that.
As an added wrinkle - I'm also looking for ways I might be able to make such things. I have a huge collection of pretty paper, some scrap fabrics, a few different kinds of adhesives, lots of yarn, some random paint and the willingness to accept less-than-perfect-looking results if it's at least "eh, good enough". (for instance - I recently DIY'ed some pretty file storage boxes by pasting big sheets of paper onto some bankers' boxes, and hacked a letter storage rack out of some paper-wrapped old cereal boxes and washi tape; you can tell it's a DIY thing, and the washi tape is coming up in places, but I've decided I don't care. Washi tape wrapping a Pringles cannister to turn into a tea tin worked a lot better.) DIY will also help me pass some time during lockdown and use some of this stuff.
I'm going to pre-emptively rule out knitting my own socks because I've already learned, from repeated experience, that i don't have the patience. I already have project ADD as it is, and I've got like six projects I'm more passionate about. I'm also actually in decent shape with the big-ticket kitchenware and am probably going to be decluttering soon, in fact; I also don't have the room for many appliances or pots, and am not as jazzed about the Latest Gadget kind of things. Storage ideas may be worth it, though.
Any ideas for tiny fancy things I could get or make to enhance life now and going forward? Thanks! |
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