Some containers are too good to toss. The problem is making them look like they belong in your home instead of your recycling bin. This is the one supply that completely changed how I approach them.
There’s a quiet kind of joy that comes from finishing something you started—especially when it involves torn paper, sticky fingers, and a $7.99 lamp from Goodwill. Two neglected lamps, a little decoupage paper, and one glowing reminder that making something—anything—feeds your creative soul.
There’s a small lamp in my office that never turns off. It’s been glowing through moves, late nights, and seasons of creative chaos — a quiet way of saying you’re home. When its shade was destroyed in the move, I realized the fix might be less about repair and more about joy: choosing a decoupage paper not to match the room, but simply because it makes me smile.