Category Archives: DIY

A Little Bit of Self Promotion Never Hurt Anyone

February 27, 2013Art, crafts, Cuban, DIY, Ecuadorian, Etsy, Fashion, Gay, Homemade, Jewelry, Latina, Lesbian, Queer, Small Business, Stuffed Animal, Twitter, Woman Owned Businessart, Cara Reynolds, clay bead necklace, clay beads, DAS, eco-friendly, etsy, fashion, felt, handmade, ipad case, jewlery, lesbian, Maria Emilia Borja, Mensa, Mushpa, Mushpa Y Mensa, necklace, pig, plush animals, recycled, stuffed aimals, stuffed animal, tablet case, toystdaait

We write a bunch of blog entries about this and that, but I want to focus a bit on our baby Mushpa y Mensa today. I am going to send out fantastically positive energy to everyone to want what we have to offer.

Listen, I want to make it, not just for us realize, but for all the other artists, inventors and nerds who desire their freedom from a job they’ve never really loved. For all those who want to believe that it is possible to be happy in what you do. I want us to be that example where people say, “See anyone can make it if they do the work and believe.” Seriously, that is all anyone needs to do and we will prove it!

Here is my shameless self promotion below.

Mushpa y Mensa Etsy Store – http://www.etsy.com/shop/MushpaYMensa
Mushpa y Mensa Blog – http://mushpamensa.wordpress.com/
Mushpa y Mensa Twitter – https://twitter.com/mushpamensa
Mushpa y Mensa Pinterest – http://pinterest.com/musphamensa/mushpa-y-mensa-we-are-two-crafty-chics/

Go check out our sites and buy one thing, maybe an amazing tablet case, or plush sweet pigs who think they are elephants and aliens who have no name, and there is even a gorgeous handmade, clay necklace!!!

Please, do us a solid and send an email to all your friends, family, enemies we don’t care who, just do it. It will take two seconds and you will be helping two people who in turn will help millions. You help us and the Universe will help you. I promise!!!!

Until next time…

-Mushpa

Better late than never!

February 27, 2013Art, craft, crafts, DIY, Ecuadorian, Gay, Homemade, Knitting, Latina, Lesbianart, artist, Cara Reynolds, etsy, frame, handmade, homemade, lace, love, Maria Emilia Borja, Mensa, Mushpa, Mushpa Y Mensa, nail polish, paint, Photoshop, picture frame, pictures, yarnMaria Emilia

A little lace, a little paint, a little yarn, and a gross amount of ❤❤❤.

Hey Mushpa! Here is the frame I promised you : )

Ewww!

-Mensa

Easy Hummus Yummus Recipe! (Without Tahini)

February 26, 2013DIY, Food, Food and Wine, Gay, Homemade, Latina, Lesbian, Recipe, UncategorizedDIY hummus, healthy, homemade hummus, hummus, hummus without tahini, Maria Emilia Borja, Mensa, Mushpa Y Mensa, no tahini, recipe, tahini replaced withMaria Emilia

Sunday morning I cleaned my kitchen and realized I had a can of garbanzo beans in the pantry…So what can I make? Well what else but HUMMUS!

I looked up a couple of recipes and realized that one of the main ingredients, tahini (sesame paste), was not in my pantry…

So I IMPROVISED! And it turned out better than delicious!

This is an easy recipe for a home-made hummus. I usually eat it with carrots, sugar snap peas and crunchy anything. The combination is the best!

Here it is:

-1 can of garbanzo beans

-1 lemon for its tangy juice (use less depending on your liking…I ❤ lemons!)

-salty salt (about a teaspoon or more also depending on your tastebuds)

– Olive Oil

– a little cumin

-1 tablespoon or so of pine nuts (These replaced the sesame seeds/tahini)

-1 clove of garlic

Add garbanzo beans (making sure you drain all the extra water from the can), about a teaspoon of salt, a good two tablespoons of olive oil, the garlic, a couple of “shakes” of cumin, and the pine nuts all in a food processor. You can also use a blender of course, as long as you blend it to a smooth consistency. I eye-balled the recipe, so amounts are about what I think I put in. A little more, a little less will only make it YOUR hummus recipe :]

I tasted it and thought it needed a bit more olive oil, so as it blended I poured a bit more in to give it texture. I transferred it to my own tub and now I have hummus for the week!

And it only took about 10 minutes!

First time hummus making…a delicious SUCCESS!

-Mensa

DIY Body Art

February 25, 2013Art, crafts, DIY, Gay, Latina, tattoo, Uncategorizedart tattoo, artist, Cara Reynolds, DIY art, DIY tattoos, do it yourself, handmade, Maria Emilia Borja, Mensa, Mushpa Y Mensa, sketch tattoo, tattoo design, tattoo drawing, tattoosMaria Emilia

Things are done better, with more love, and more rewards if you at least try to do them yourself (as opposed to having something pre-made). So why not design your own tattoo?!

So for Mushpa’s birthday, one of the things she asked was to design something to compliment the tattoo she already has.

Here are a couple of sketches of the soon-to-be-tattoo!

Why not draw something that only you imagine in your head? It is a fun process, and you get to have more of a say in every detail possible, and it is only yours!

(Ps. This sketch has already changed a bit since this post!)

Want some art in your body? Do it yourself! (Starting at least with the design part of it all! We can move to tattooing later…)

: D

Keep on making,

-Mensa