Heart snack

Happy Hearts are finding their way into everything we do over here. I just used a heart shaped cookie cutter to add a valentine twist to our sandwich lunch today.

Beautiful sweater

I just love the color and texture of this sweater by Hip & Zen. The doubled up buttons are so pretty.

Pretty things for my daughters room

I just adore the scalloped border in this room. I'm not sure it will end up in her room, because of so many other things I am doing, it might be too much in one little room.

Today I have been in the think tank pondering what I want to do for my 3 yr old daughters bedroom. I has been needing a face lift for a while now and heres what I've come up with.

(Image from Little Helpers)

(Image from The White Company)

My daughter Loves princesses, so a "princessy" canopy would really be great.

(I LOVE the chandelier ,Image from pottery barn)

Pink is her favorite color so that is for sure the wall color. At this moment she and her brother are sharing a room and he has a black crib. I love pink and black so that is the color theme!

(print by jaimers)

I am in love with chandeliers right now so I plan on stenciling a silhouette of one on the wall somewhere. Probably something a little more simple than that first one. Its a little messy in the middle where it overlaps. The red and white one is exactly what I'm going for!


(image from Martha Steuart)

Playing tea party is an every day activity in our house, so that will play a part in the design too.

(Images from pottery barn)

I would love to display some toys, books and stuffed animals on a shelf somehow too.

(image from paper source)

(image from Decor8)

And, lastly, using letters in the design is a must. I love these pretty variations on that same idea.

Fun paper craft

Making flower decorations out of paper bags was a fun treat. The kids really had fun helping me. I first saw these on the Something Old, Something New wedding blog. From there I got the link to the pattern and instructions on the Martha Stewart website.

I made a tutorial showing how to make this paper craft with your own paper.

I used book paper but newspaper, wrapping paper or scrapbook paper would all work great too.

Click the image below to see the tutorial.

I chose brown paper bags for a more neutral tone.

They turned out so nice. I think next time I'm going to use tiny colored bags for a different look.

Enjoy!

New and improved papier mache art

Hello everyone, I am here to introduce my newest friend. She doesn't have a name yet though. She is the first papier mache sculpture I have done with my newly acquired Paper Clay!

Lately I had become interested in making dolls out of Sculpey. I loved looking at the beautiful art doll creations of Black Eyed Suzie, Du buh du designs, Noodle and Lou studio, and Marmee Craft no patience...OK both. I couldn't get the polymer clay to do what I wanted and I couldn't get the details small enough. I got very frustrated and gave up; but not totally. Since I love working with papier mache I thought working with paper clay would be a good experiment. Plus it goes well with papier mache since it is, after all, paper. Paper clay is so much better for me than sculpey! It air dries, which I love (no burning) and after it's dry you can still add clay. Water can also be added to change the consistency of it. The experiment worked out really well and this pretty little girl is the result. I LOVE how she turned out. In fact I love her so much I'm afraid I cannot sell her. If I can get this great of results with the next girl then I may sell this one but you'll have. They inspired me to try my hand at sculpey, but sadly I have no skills at doll making, or I have to bribe me. I have three more girls in the works, with paper clay/papier mache, so be on the look out for more pretties! Let's hope they all turn out as cute and sweet as this girl did. Her dress and hair are papier mache; and her face, arms, and legs are paper clay.

Have a great Thursday!

A little more texture

(I love the body and layers in her hair, I also love the thickness of her bangs.)

Looking in the mirror and getting ready to go out has been the same old thing for too long. I need more body and texture to my STRAIT as dry spaghetti hair. I took the liberty of doing a google image search for hair styles and got a few good images but the search led me to two main web pages that really got my attention.

beauty.about.com

and

rasysa.com, long hairstyles

rasysa.com home

(this one is in Japanese but had the best photos)

After looking through too many pictures I noticed that what I wanted was really specific, very helpful for a girl who usually has too many ideas that she can't make up her mind. I learned that I want layers. And maybe some bangs, either sideswipe or thick and straight.

Pretty much the same hair as the first photo but shorter. Again loving the body.

I like that she swept her bangs to the side.

My hair would not flow as lovely as hers the way mine is cut right now, believe me I tried it yesterday.

Another image of pretty side swipe bangs.

I like her bangs and the "messy" body in her hair.

Links again for those lazy scrollers.

beauty.about.com

and

rasysa.com, long hairstyles

rasya.com home

(this one is in Japanese but had the best photos)

I heart pedestals and platters

(I love that this pedestal plate has a shallow bowl type quality to it.)

While browsing my picture file entitled "My Faves" I noticed a trend. I love cake platers and pedestal plates or bowls. I already knew this about myself but didn't realize I was a little obsessed. At first glance (in my kitchen) you wouldn't know this about me. But once you went through my cupboards you would find quite a few of them. Let me reach into my brain and see if I can remember how many I actually have. well theres the glass cake platter I just got at the thrift store, the playful cake platter I use for birthdays, the colorful cake platter with a scalloped edge (Trent's favorite), the tiny pedestal plate with daisies on it, the pedestal bowl, and lastly the easter one that came with bunny figurines that hold little eggs. So...whats my total? Lets see...it's six. Wow and I still want more? YES!!! I want one with tiers and I want a white ceramic one and I want I want. :) Well lets just look at these pretty ones I really want someday. (Old images again, so no links to sources, I'm a Bad Bad Blogger!)

This simple cake plate is so pretty. That is "the one" I really want. It'll match every table setting.

Love the hight in these two platters. And I love that they have the glass cover. (I have a plethora of cake plates and not one cover...hmm thats weird.)

i love the alternative use this one is being put to.

Sleek and modern but still a cake platter always has that classic feeling to me.

A cupcake platter with three levels! "sigh" I LOVE it!

This image just makes me want to have tea party.