You know how sometimes posts are nice and timely? Like, Valentine's Day gift ideas posted a solid three weeks pre-Valentine's Day? Spring break outfit suggestions posted right around the time you'd like to start shopping for a new swimsuit? Et cetera?

Well, this post is the opposite of that. Because if you do what I suggest doing in this post at this particular moment in time, the result will be death. (This is less foreboding than it sounds; we're talking about Plant Death, not You Death.)

Anyway.

Oh, look: it's tassel day on Ramshackle Glam!

We'll get back to our regularly scheduled, non-tassel-related programming tomorrow, but in the meantime, here's how you make 'em. (Seriously it's so easy.)

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Because you really should. Tassels make everything better.

Now, obviously fort decoration is the best possible use of handmade tassels (click here to learn how to make 'em)…but you can use them lots and lots of other places if you're not planning to install a tent in your living room (although you should).

But really: there are few things in life that can't be improved by the addition of a little neon.

(Painted that penguin, too. How cute is he?)

Looking for good neon paint? It's weirdly hard to find; trust me, I've looked. Try Martha Stewart Satin in Lightning Bug, Orange Soda, and Lime Zinger; they're the paints I've been unleashing on everything we own lately. (Especially fond of my Pollock-ed mirror project.)