The Story Behind a Pretty Instagram Picture
How to Take Instagram Pictures

The sun is shining

You’ve got your white table set up next to a window

You place a couple of props on it

You take one picture

And it’s perfect

…

…

Yeah, RIGHT!

Here is how it really goes:

The sun isn’t shining

So you have to set up studio lighting, if you have any. Or figure out how Photoshop works

OK, so this doesn’t look good

Neither does that

What else do I have here that I can use

Maybe I can steal my mom’s cacti

Cacti pictures always do well

No, wait, I got it

This will look good

After I move that lipstick 1 mm to the right

Yeah, this is it

Now I only have to take a gazillion pictures

And hope that one of them will look good

Done

Man, now I need to clean up all this mess I’ve made

But, hey, this picture looks awesome

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Creative Outlet
Wreck This Journal

Back in 2014, I bough a Wreck This Journal because I wanted to be creative. I knew that a lot of people had this book and they seemed to enjoy it.

The purpose of this book is to creatively destroy it. Each page has a set of instructions that you have to follow. It even says that some of us might grieve for the perfect state that we found the book in (YES!… Read the rest

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DIY: TBR-jar
TBR jar

When we were younger, there was always someone to read us stories. Now that we’ve grown up, we are able to read them for ourselves. Some of us like to read so much that our book collection only keeps expanding.

Last year, my bookcase was so full that I had to buy a second one. However, I still want more books; even though I haven’t started reading many of the books that I already own.… Read the rest

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