The Good Fight

From the Findery blog:

“…We make our human mistakes. Connected to so many, we are intimate with fewer and fewer. We squander our days in amusements. Instead of truth, triviality. We are exhorted to sate the urges of the millions, their sloth, greed, pride or lust. We are told that this is what will make us a success. This is a deadly cynicism, which we must fight.

Because the internet is a medium, it doesn’t care whether it transmits love or hate. It is what we build and who we are that make it what it is. We can build things that diminish our humanity or build things that bring us to human flourishing.” –Caterina Fake

I’m being more cautious about my information diet. Have you made any changes to the way you interact with the internet lately?

Bangarang! Pixie Dust Party Invitations

Thanks to Disney Junior for sponsoring this post. They planned a whole Jake and the Never Land Pirates party, so I did my take on the invitations. I also talked like a pirate the whole time I was putting them together. I think you can really tell in the finished product. Have a look in the video below for more ideas. Matey.

Ugh. You guys, I haven’t had nearly enough time with my glue gun lately. There’s so much stuff to encrust, and I’m just sitting here, not covering a single thing with sea glass.

Anyway, I made these mod pixie dust invitations for a grown-up party, but I think they’d be even sweeter for a kid’s birthday.

Fancy invitations make your party so much more difficult to pass up. And making them in front of the TV counts as multitasking.

Man. You could not be more efficient right now.

Here’s what I did:

– Hand-wrote “pixie dust” on some rectangular Avery labels and affixed to the glitter bottles, which come prepackaged like that in adorable corked bottles. Hooray for not having to search for tiny bottles into which you can decant glitter, which you will then find on the cat and between your toes for years to come!

– Folded tissue to fit the boxes and lid interiors of 8″x2 7/8″ matte white necklace boxes, and secured the tissue with double sided tape. (Fit the paper first, apply tape to the box and then secure the paper carefully. If you try to tape the paper, which anyone would, it will wrinkle and tear.)

– Secured the pixie dust in the box with a couple glue dots on the back.

– Punched the decorative hole in a plain bookmark, saved the confetti bitlet for later use.

– Wrote out the party info on the back of the bookmark, and then hot-glued a little ribbon tag at the bottom so the mark would lift out easily.

– Lightly secured just the top of the bookmark to the box with a glue dot.

– Secured the confetti bitlet on the opposite side. (Glue dots are magic!)

So pretty, right? Right.

As you can see, the glitter comes in lots of colors, so you can choose your palette. It think the colorful glitter is better for a kid shindig.

If you want, you can affix a label to the outside and tie with a little ribbon. You can hand-deliver, but the box is sturdy enough to mail in a regular manilla envelope, or you can do a padded one if you’re feeling cautious.

Boom! Best party invites ever.

Here’s where you can get everything:

Martha Stewart Glitter in colors and metallics (search around, you can get almost any color combo you want), Martha Stewart Craft punch (mine is old, but she has a whole line of stuff like what I linked to), Glue dots, plain bookmarks and bookmarks with holes so you don’t have to bust out the glue gun to affix the ribbon, Jewelry boxes. You know where to get ribbons and Avery labels right? I trust your judgement.

And if you just so happen to be planning a whole Jake and the Never Land Pirates theme party (I’m on to you search engine traffic), there are a ton more ideas in this video, so have a look:

You’ll find Jake and the Never Land Pirates every morning on Disney Junior, on the Disney Channel. Wear an eye patch while you watch. Maybe a kicky striped shirt.

Make My Bedroom the Perfect Place to Be a Girl? Check.

Painting my bedroom made me happier than I’ve been in years, let alone clearing out all the junk to make room for a few ideal things. Go check out the end result on Go Mighty. And then you should do this. Do this!

Huge thanks to Victoria Smith of SF Girl By Bay.She took all the gorgeous photos, including the one above, and did the interior design. Without you, my sweet, I would have been too overwhelmed to start. Thanks especially for the education in throw pillows — we got ours from In Bed and dwellstudio — and asserting that even hardwood floors need a little dressing up. (Speaking of which, parents, I cannot recommend the sturdy, neutral Metallic Leather and Hemp Rug from Serena and Lily more highly. I’ve torn through a dozen crappy rugs over the years, and this one is worth an investment.)

Most of all, thanks to Olay for the kick in the bum, without your team I would never have prioritized this life-changing project. Head to Go Mighty for more details, and then check out Victoria’s post for sources and a few extra photos.

We’ll talk more later about how it all came together, but for now, I’m laying on my bed to read and watch the sunlight throw stars off the disco ball.

Put This in Your Ears: “Afraid of Summer,” Lost Lander

Afraid of Summer on Spotify

Photo source, Portland Beer.

Lost Lander – Afraid of Summer – Live at Caffe Mela from Voortex Productions on Vimeo.

After listening to 1,000 new songs as part of my Life List, I decided to post a new song on Mighty Girl every day for a year. I’m focusing on songs produced in the last year or two, so if you’re looking for new music, put this in your ears.