Little Woodland Fairy Party

Fire and Creme Kids

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I just came across Fire and Creme Kids, which is an amazing kids party planning website. They showcase tons of inspiration for non-cheesy parties (no Spongebob here) and I think the ideas can be modified to create the perfect whimsical adult party or shower. The site provides everything from furniture, props, costumes, etc and each theme has party boxes for sale filled with decorations, table settings, and goody bags. The boxes run pretty expensive, $200-$620, but I found some great alternatives to create your own Little Woodland Fairy Party on a budget. For about $80.00 you can get everything I have listed and with a little more cash, creativity and crafting you can easily make the ribbon streamers, felt crowns, and floral pendant banner. Another bonus, no need to pay for a party venue because fairies live outdoors!

Mark Love Joy Photography

www.marklovejoy.com

I just came across these photos by Mark Love Joy and I absolutely love them. They have me inspired to  want to create some splatter paint photographs of my own. Perhaps I have finally found a use for all my old nail polish.

The Most Brilliant Wallpaper Alternative Ever

While doing some Saturday morning blog searching I came across Glitter Mint, an adorable blog with great DIY's and ideas. I first came across the blog because of their Rodarte star clip DIY, and upon further reading I found these paint rollers as one of their Fave 5's. These rollers seem like a much easier alternative to stencils and a much cheaper alternative to wallpaper.  I'm totally sold, and can't wait to use these when decorating my grown-up home that I will one day own. Find these amazing rollers for $26.00 at The Painted House.

Budget Friendly Over-dyed Rugs

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ABC Home and Carpet

 6'9"x8'6" $4,000

6'3"x8'0" $2,999

 8'8"x11'10" $6,200

Loom

www.loomrugs.com.au

Overstock.com

Each 8'x10" $399

Last weekend I was doing some DVR catch up, and saw a beautiful turquoise over-dyed rug on an episode of Home By Novogratz.  I love old vintage rugs, but sometimes they are way to traditional for my taste. Seeing them come to life in these bright, contemporary colors was so invigorating for my Sunday afternoon and I had to research, and research I did. ABC Home & Carpet carries a ton of these beauties, but they would cost me about two months rent, so they are a no go. Upon further searching I came across a really cool store, Loom, located in Australia. I liked these rugs even more than the ABC ones, but their prices were not listed and it is safe to say that shipping from down under costs about three months of rent. I was about to surrender to the fact that these rugs were out of my reach, until Overstock.com came to the rescue. A rainbow of over-dyed 8'x10" rugs for $399.00! They're not vintage like the others, but if they look as good as they do in the pictures, I could care less.

Around My House

 Better Decorating Bible

Shelter

This summer I scored some really great items to spruce up the ole house, all together costing less than $30.00! 

1.The ultimate trash to treasure find! I was driving in my neighborhood when this lucite bookshelf on the side of the road caught my eye. Feeling like it was to good to be true, I made an abrupt U-turn to check out the shelf, thinking it must be made of flimsy plastic. Upon closer inspection I found that it was made of thick acrylic and in great shape. It just needed to be cleaned up a bit and it's new home is in my living room, replacing a small Target bookshelf that wasn't working for me. 

2. This tiny mirrored compact now sits on my vanity. I got it from an estate sale for $4.00, and I am guessing it is from the 50's. I feel in love the color and the old-fashioned thick-cut confetti glitter. It also reminded with me the latest Edie Parker collection.

3. & 4. I made this panel to go above my mantle. I hated the blank space behind my TV, so I stapled together sheets of foam board and originally covered it with wrapping paper. You can see the before panel in this post. I was over the yellow birds, plus the paper had air bubbles, so I finally re-covered it with a marble fabric I found on sale for $10.00 a yard. I'm not as crazy about it as I thought I would be, but it works for now.

5. & 6. I found this scrap leopard fabric at an estate sale for $2.50. I am going to use it to make throw pillows for my living room.

7. & 8. I had seen about 10 rolls of this snake print wrapping paper at T.J. Maxx, but passed on it because I have a ton of wrapping paper that barely gets used. After looking through some saved pics I came across the adorable snake print table shown above. I have always loved this table and I suddenly remembered the snake paper I had passed on months ago. I went back, thinking is was hopeless, and found one roll left. It was meant to be and now I will be on the hunt for a tiny table to decoupage with the paper.

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Let's Make A Dickie!

dickie created from Forever21 shirt, tee-Banana Republic, pants-Suno, headband-DIY

BB Phone Home

iPhone cases from Society 6

Iphone users, I really do envy you. You and your abundance of iPhone case choices. You're so spoiled and you probably don't even realize it. Some of you don't even take advantage of all of the wonderful and exciting new cases out there, settling with basic black. As you may have guessed from the above rant, I do not have an iPhone. I don't even have the internet on my phone,which I know is shocking for most of you. I have the most basic, boring, black phone and believe me, they don't make cool cases for my LG. Just when I thought I'd have to live another 2 years with a dullsville phone, I saw this pic on one of my favorite blogs.

The lovely Nicole, of Sketch 42, had this iPhone case customized with a print of one of her own paintings. Genius, and the inspiration for my splatter painted phone cover DIY shown below. Much more exciting than boring grey and it will do until I join the rest of the world and get an iPhone of my own.

A Sample of The Glitter Guide

This week I was excited to come across this somewhat new website The Glitter Guide.  It features all sorts of adorable tid bits about fashion, travel, food, entertaining, beauty, house tours, diy, etc.  I especially like how airy and bright this house featured is and it has a lot of elements I love and have in my own house. Lucite, gold deer, vintage knick-knacks, fresh flowers, Johnathan Adler accesories, crystals, sequins, candy-colored china, yep me and this gal have a lot in common. The only thing I'm not to crazy about is the artwork in the last pic, but hey to each it's own.  Check out The Glitter Guide for yourself, but if your not a fan of complete girliness and glitter, this may not be for you. You've been warned :)

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I don't know about you, but nothing delights me more than receiving a thank you note or a post card in the mail rather than irritating bills and worthless coupons.  When it comes to this enjoyable mail I get a thrill out of giving as much as receiving.  It is one of my personal rules to to always send thank you notes, but unfortunately the cutest stationary tends to be a little on the pricey side.  My solution to this problem is to simply make my own.  For the above cards I made my monogram on Microsoft Word and got the background  pictures from magazine ads and weheartit.com.  I hand cut and pasted the template for the cards and Xeroxed them at Kinko's.  It was pretty easy, but I do need to work on my cutting skills.  I use a Martha Stewart paper cutter, but the lines of the initials and the edges of the card don't line up exactly and that kind of bothers me.  Oh well, I will keep on creating and work on my precision. 

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Cheap Thrills

Nicole's

       

   

Mine

Nicole called me randomly Sunday afternoon and asked if I wanted to make coasters with her and I said "How could I resist!" So here they are, made with $0.12 tiles, mod podge (every decopager's best friend), and old catalogs. I had once wanted to have a girl's craft night every Sunday, but it happend like once, so maybe it is time for a comeback!