Category Archives: Heaps Cool Stuff
Heaps Cool Stuff
I love these photos of leather craftsman Steve Soria’s house in Santa Barbara, California (via Design Sponge).
Here’s a cute DIY from Pine Needle Collective – painted heart tights! I’m not sure how they would go in a washing machine but they do look adorable. And you could do this with any shape/pattern you liked!
I can’t stop listening to Cults lately.
I love this project ‘The Girl With 7 Horses‘ by Ulrika Kestere.
I love this DIY tufted headboard by Little Green Notebook. I am getting really bored with my bed lately and I think this could bring some life back into it.
Who wouldn’t want to pay $70 for some Guns N Roses nesting dolls?
Chocolate brownie pancakes with chocolate hazelnut sauce (from Lawfully Wedded Wife). These look insane and delicious.
Heaps Cool Stuff
Apologies for my absence/lack of posts lately. I know it generally sounds pretty wanky/self important when bloggers act as though everyone is constantly refreshing waiting for their new post but I don’t know, I’ve been feeling a bit uninspired and been having a weird month so I haven’t been updating much even though I want to be posting 3 or 4 times a week. I’m starting a new job next week and I’m hoping that will help with a new routine with lots of blogging and with that in mind, here’s some heaps cool stuff.
DIY: all you need is some clear plates and some scrap booking paper and ta-da!
This mug changes from sleepy face to awake when you add hot coffee (or tea. or probably hot chocolate). How cute.
I’m generally not that into clutches but these Kate Spade book clutches are pretty cool. (Brought to my attention by Oh Happy Day).
I think I’ve mentioned before how beautiful I think Colorado is but here’s another reason I want to go there – The Stanley Hotel! It’s beautiful, reportedly haunted and was the inspiration for Stephen King’s ‘The Shining’. Apparently they play the Kubrick version on a loop on channel 42 on the televisions in all the guest rooms.
Speaking of The Shining, lately I’ve been really into ‘making of’ documentaries. ‘The Making of The Shining’ (shot by Stanley Kubrick’s then 17 yr old daughter Vivian) is on YouTube in full and I also recommend Hearts of Darkness.
Have you guys ever heard of fatal familial insomnia? Basically it’s permanent insomnia that eventually kills you. Pretty scary stuff.
I love Kelli Connell‘s ‘Double Life’ images. She scans in two or more negatives from self portraits and edits them to look like there are two different people in the photo.
I love obsessing over houses I will never own (now that I know I have to move out of my current house by the end of March I’m finding myself doing this more and more) and this L-Stack House (designed by Marlon Blackwell Architects) in Fayetteville, Arkansas USA is beautiful. I love the window boxes and floor to ceiling glass doors.
Henry Miller’s eleven commandments (from Henry Miller on Writing).
My favourite of all the ‘shit ____ says’ videos – Shit Liza Says!
Lesley Kinzel wrote a great article for XOJane about fat shaming.
Instagram Thursday!
We went to our first wedding last week! It was Tom’s cousin’s and it was super fun. My dress is from JezzyBelles and Tom’s face is from being sad that he had to wear a shirt and tie.
Hanging out with Zigmond.
Trying on clothes at Dream Diva.
I’ve finally mastered the delicious art of homemade baked beans.
Zigmond cuddling with his father.
I ate this amazing pizza the other day.
And we finally made it to the beach for the first time all summer!
As always if you guys want to be Instagram friends my name on there is bronnyzig 
Heaps Cool Stuff
BRB guys, I’m just going to the 1970′s so that I can have a pet lion.
The lovely Rachele of The Near Sighted Owl made this amazing digital portrait of me! How sweet is that?! You can also commission your own digital portrait from her here.
Aetienne shows how to make your own mirrored collar using broken CDs. This looks both surprisingly easy and awesome.
On a scale of 1 – 10 how wrong would it be for me to put one of my cats in a pram? Probably pretty wrong, hey? Still, Suki the Siamese looks adorable.
20 Reasons Why We Still Need The ‘F’ Word.
Gifolas Cage – fairly self-explanatory.
Meme Proposal | Tim * Audrey from Crazy Monkey Studio on Vimeo. So nerdy, so cute!
Photographs depicting the final 12 hours of Chinese women on death row. They were convicted of drug related offenses and are mostly in their 20′s.
Meet The Sponsors
I’ve been accepting sponsors/advertisers on FAT AUS for a few months now and I thought I would give my lovely sponsors a chance to tell you guys a little about their blogs/businesses and hopefully you’ll find something you enjoy on their sites. I am really picky about which blogs/businesses I accept as advertisers on here, I only work with brands that I feel are appropriate for that and that I personally believe in and think reflect my and the blog’s style. Anyway, enough out of me – meet the sponsors!
Hi, I’m Deborah! I run Jezzy Belle’s Vintage out of my little apartment in Knoxville, where I live surrounded by boxes. My husband, daughter and borderline obese cat take up the space that the boxes don’t. I’m a classic collector, I fall in love with pieces. I imagine stories for them, invest emotions in them. So basically if I didn’t run Jezzy Belle’s I’d be starring on my very own episode of Hoarders. I’m drawn to things with sparkle, loud colors and obnoxious patterns. If it might run a little too tight, a little too low cut or just a little Too Much, it makes me happy. I love sharing pieces with other collectors and there is little that makes me happier than photos of gloriously obnoxious gems on my lovely customers. Things have been a little crazy the last few months, (I’ve moved TWICE. YEAH.) but now that we’re settled in Tennessee I’m really looking forward to getting back into the swing of things both with my shop and with my blog. And getting to know more of my customers!
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Pop Culture Major started because I got tired of submitting posts to other sites and decided to take charge and do it on my own for once. My name is Dani and lemme be for real, I’m a lazy person and I’ll take the easiest way out always but for some reason, my love of pop culture propelled me to say “Hey, I’m gonna start my own blog and do things on my own terms!” Of course it was admirable and cute of me to think it’d be so easy but damn is it hard. You basically have to be online at all times because if you dare to look away for one minute, you might miss something. However, this doesn’t mean I don’t like what I do, I’m just being straight up: blogging is hard work but I love it so it’s rewarding (how Hallmark of me).
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Instagram Thursday!
So as I said the other day in my 2011 wrap up post, I want to start doing a couple more regular features here on Fat Aus. I’m going to do a bit of an Instagram round up post every other Friday to show you guys some photos of what I’ve been up to since it’s a lot easier to take photos with my iPhone than to carry around my big DSLR everywhere.
Pretty into this bag/shoe combo (shoes from Urban Outfitters, bag c/o JezzyBelles)
If you were in Melbourne on Monday you’ll understand why I cooled Zigmond down with some water – it was 40 degrees Celsius! Too hot for furry kitties.
The hot cats in their fur coats.
I made some little zucchini pizza bites for dinner the other night.
I got so addicted to playing Pokemon Snap on N64 that I tried downloading an emulator so that I could play it on my MacBook but I couldn’t get it to work properly 
Looking grumpy while drinking cocktails before Christmas
My first attempt at making strawberry jam – it turned out pretty delicious.
If you want to be Instagram friends you can always follow me on there, my username is bronnyzig.
Heaps Cool Stuff
Santa Hat Brownies! Awww!
What is it about the colour mint that makes me just want to buy EVERYTHING? I don’t know but these eco friendly coffee cups are super cute and I love that the company is called hookturn because one of my favourite things about driving in Melbourne is hook turns.
I’m always just about to write up and follow an awesome budget which will end up with me have a zillion dollars in my savings account. Of course it never actually happens because I’m terrible when it comes to saving. But Anna from And Then She Saved is not so terrible at saving – she managed to pay off over $20,000 of debt in a little over a year! And she made this hand ‘should I buy it?‘ printable flow-chart guide to help you save some money too.
Cute DIY: Removable shoe fringe from The Dainty Squid. I post a lot of DIY stuff on here but I never seem to try any of them myself, maybe that will be a New Years Resolution for me.
“The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming.”
- Via The Rumpus Advice Column, I just thought this was a nice piece of writing.
This collection of photos, notes and diary entries from one of Tavi’s friends’ moms is one of my favourite articles on Rookie so far.
These tents from Field Candy are a bit pricey (~$800) but man they are cool. If I went camping more/had more disposable income I don’t think I’d be able to resist.
