DIY: Rock Rings

With florals and maxi skirts and flower wreaths and 70's style platforms ruling the fashion of the week, what's a girl to do about accessories? You could of course go the flower on flower on flower route, or you could DIY yourself up some slightly more solid, but equally hippie-chic rings like I did the other night.

What you need:
Some ring blanks
Some rocks/gems with at least one flat surface
Some super strong glue (like SuperGlue)

What you do:
1) Decide which way you want the stone to face on the ring.

2) Dollop a generous (but not overflowing) amount of glue onto the stone. Gently push ring blank into the glue and set to dry. This might be slightly trickier if your stone isn't flat on both sides - i.e. you might have to hold them together for a couple minutes while the glue dries.

If you have a super long stone like I did, you could even try making a multi-finger ring.

3) Wait until fully dry. Rock out! (badumtsssss)

(sorry for the weird/not great quality final product photos - my camera charger has vanished, so I took them on my iPhone...)

DIY: Rock Shoe Tray

There are two things that happen around this time of year. First, snow finally shows up, then partially melts, freezes, gets slushy, and so on.

And secondly, this:

This may look innocuous, but this, dear reader, is what people at my school affectionately call "soy sauce." Unlike other places, where small pebbles and salt is the accepted answer to slippery sidewalks, my school uses a vodka byproduct known for its great melting-point-lowering capabilities, environmentally friendliness (too much salt = bad for soil), shoe-staining tendencies, and pungent soy sauce smell.

Since I have linoleum floors in my room, covered only by my doily rug and brown square rug, tracking slushy snow and brown smelly soy sauce in on my shoes can only lead to disaster. To combat this, during my recent room renovation I recreated this brilliant river rock shoe tray I first saw on Martha Stewart's website, of all places. Keeps the muck and water off my rugs and is arguably eco-friendly!

What you need:

A tray of some sort (baking sheet, cafeteria tray, low wooden box, etc)

Rocks (you can buy them so they all match, I sketchily took mine from around a nearby dorm)

Hot glue gun or glue of some sort (optional)

What you do:

1) Take rocks, arrange them on the tray or sheet.

2) Glue them down if you're feeling fancy. But really, they aren't going anywhere so I didn't

3) Put shoes on top!

Just some rocks

And then rocks on a tray. SO EASY YET SO USEFUL!!