Bird Ring

A little hot glue, a trip to the wedding section at Hobby Lobby and voila! My latest creation- the bird ring!

So, anyone who's been pregnant before knows that (even after a year) if you start to gain a little weight, your stomach looks like a california raisin all over again! In order to motivate myself to get walking Zion and I have been strapping on the baby backpack and hiking our way to various nearby stores. My favorite is Hobby Lobby which is about a three mile walk. Zion loved the bird and (call me snow white) I loved the idea of a bird perched on my hand!

What I am wearing

I LOVE that everything old is new again. This look I made was inspired by the old "Swatch watch" layering. It's kind of a new take on an old idea. I picked up these watches for a few bucks at an antique shop and wrapped them with a watch that has a stretchy band that I picked up for $10 at Walmart.

DIY Earring Holder

Behold, the vintage shutter. A.K.A.-- earring holder.

Picked this beauty up for about $3 at a local antique dealer. I knew exactly what to do with it when I bought it- earring holder. I kept it as-is with it's well worn scrapes and bruises, that is of course the beauty of buying antique. Although, I made one modification- I hot glued one of the shutters so that it wouldn't flip down when I hung my heavy earrings on it.

This is one of those five min projects that you can do to add a little spruce to your earring displays. You could also replace the knob or hot glue a vintage cameo or button over the current knob.

My previous "earring organization" was a couple of cardboard jewelry boxes. But sweet earrings like this shouldn't be thrown in a cardboard box! They deserve the royal treatment.

Definitely a fun project to do over the weekend. Your earrings have been waiting for this kind of treatment!

DIY Shoes

I spotted this tutorial first on leblahg and these do it yourself petals look so easy to make it got me thinking about making embellishments for shirts, floret pins,  and hair pieces.  Head on over to the tutorial to get the how to's.  Take a minute to look around; it's really cute over there! 

Rompers

So friends, what do you think about rompers?

Love to hear your thoughts on this fashion trend.  I kind of think that they are cute but I never wear shorts cause my legs are so long- shorts can tend to look a little trashy on me. Does anybody have a romper?  Would you wear them in public?  Talk to me creative readers. 

Spring time hair

Love these spring time hair styles that I saw over at Lillies and Grapes!  It was total hair inspiration for me.  

 The side braid has been making a comeback in the recent months; in fact the last time I saw a look like this I was in grade school.  I liked it then and I love it now. 

I have been twisting my bangs up and to the side lately and securing them with bobby pins or small clips.  I started growing my bangs out a few months ago to make it easier. If you don't have long bangs you can achieve this look with some really strong hair spray.  I recommend getting a bottle of got2b for your bang up-do's.  The spray will make your hair solid like the coif of an 1980's rock star but without that "wet look".  You could ride a roller coaster and your hair would still be in tact; and it's perfect to secure hair that's shorter.  Here's my bang twist at a recent photo shoot we did. 

The below style combines the messy bun and the side braid.  

One trick to getting the messy bun style to really work for you is to make sure that your hair is not freshly washed.  Uber clean hair will make it impossible to style. Check out the full post from Lillies and Grapes to read the how you can get these great looks.  

Peach Pants

I get these fashion ideas in my head... sometimes they are colors and sometimes they are fabric shapes.  Right now I am seeing colors in my mind-  white washed pastels.  I can imagine a rainbow of these colors: Peach, pink, lavender, and lemon yellow.  The jeans pictured above are the closest things color wise to what I can see in my head... but trust me- at age 31 I would NEVER attempt wearing them in public. 

The worst part of my fashion imagination is I can never find these colors or shapes I conjure up in my mind actually in the store for months (and sometimes even years.) Usually by the time I can actually find what I am looking for in the store- well, I have moved on to something else that I can't seem to find.  

DIY Flowers

Spotted this post on Ready Made's blog and I thought it was adorable.  The project comes from Still Dottie and you can get directions on how to make this yourself here.