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DIY Travelers Art
Mexico Medium: Cardboard Anyone that knows me knows I love art. Without it covering my walls tend to be uninspired. Being an art lover is hard when you are also a traveler because you know you will have to finagle it back to wherever it was you came from. So I came up with this idea for disposable…
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Mexico Upcycles Charmingly Out of Necessity
Businesses and locals in Playa del Carmen, Mexico are crafty. I mean impressively crafty. Locals reuse ordinary objects in a number of ways by recycling or upcycling by mixing fashion and frugalness. Why the process of upcycling may come easier for a more creative person, the idea is to take disposable items and create something useful…
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El Rey Ruins in Cancún Through the Lens
Tourists go from driving through a lengthy strip of retail shops such as Louie Vuitton and Dolce&Gabbana to a hidden ruin site located in middle of the sleepless city where condos replace skyscrapers. Visitors can still experience small Mayan remnants of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization at El Rey (Las Ruinas del Rey) located in the…
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Hecho En Mexico: Playa del Carmen’s Thriftiest Bikini
I had been eyeing a $250 dollar bathing suit in a storefront window for a month when it happened. Lying on the beach, a woman walked right in line of my ocean view with the bathing suit. It looked horrible. Ok maybe horrible is a bit extreme, but it did not look $250 dollars worthy.…
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DIY Flower Trinket Container Made from an Egg Carton
I eat eggs. I eat lots of eggs. Therefore I am left with a large quantity of egg cartons. Besides, recycling is boring so instead of throwing the cartons away I get crafty with its uses. Here is a DIY guide to making a recycled trinket organizer with a delicate feel that is also useful. What you will need:…
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Ek’ Balam Through The Lens
Ek’ Balam is located in beautiful Temozón, Mexico and exhibits 45 Mayan ruin structures. The site lacks sightseers and gigantic tour busses as it is one of the less known ruin sites in the Yucatán making it an intimate experience for the visitor. The astonishing and remarkably well-preserved sculptures uncovered at Ek’ Balam date from…
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Dreaming in Mayan Blocks of Chichen Itza By Way of Valladolid
My life was a vast gleaming empty page and I could do anything I wanted. I grab my faded blue Chuck Taylors and hop in a rental van with my husband and three-year-old son to pick up my two brothers in Cancun. Our intention is to explore ruins in central Yucatán. We spend the night in…
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Thrifting at Segunda Vida
Downtown Playa del Carmen is not absent of boutique shops, but it is missing an abundance of thrift stores. In America, consignment shops seem to be on nearly every corner but here in Playa I was only able to find one: Segunda Vida (Second Life). The tiny, eclectic shop displays racks of specialty items from…
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Little Limerick: Bring Back the Red Finale
I’m standing in the rail yard watching train wrecks go by On a never-ending track of delusion A boxcar full of mental confusion I watch the caboose fade away
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Add Some Color To Your Life With A DIY Piñata
You don’t need a reason to take a whack at making a piñata. While time consuming, it is fairly easy to make on your own. People that see this round, colorful ball will be seriously impressed with your paper crafting skills. You might even impress yourself. What you’ll need: Newspaper Scissors Glue Colored tissue paper…
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