Blingify

Once upon a time i produced a weekly newsletter with some of my friends. We basically printed just enough copies for ourselves, so no one else was very interested and we soon got tired of it and stopped.

In the newsletter, we talked about "BLINGIFICATION," which essentially means "making boring things pretty." (Obviously, the Cookies Club is not a new thought -- just a different way to explore it.) Unfortunately or not, BLINGIFY is still the most succinct word i know to describe the act of making an item lovelier than it was, although i suppose it does imply a certain amount of sparkle.

In fact, if i think to myself "how can i BLINGIFY this?", the first image in my mind usually involves covering it with stickers. And that's very often what I do.

But we had a few other ideas for making life fancier. Here are the ones we listed in the fourth (and final?) issue of BLINGIFY:

• Replace all the band-aids in all accessible First Aid kits with Hello Kitty band-aids.
• Garnish every meal you make with a cute strawberry, and every drink with a cheerful lemon slice.
• If you have not already done so, blingify your cell phone shamelessly.
• Never send a letter without a lovely sticker sealing the envelope.
• Adopt the philosophy if it's there, it might as well be pretty (or frilly or cute or plaid or whatever suits you), then go search out all the mundane things in your world (laundry baskets, school books, sweatpants) and BLINGIFY them.