Happy start of Labor Day weekend everyone! Are you vacationing or stay-casioning? We are staying close to home with LOTS of chores to do this weekend. I know, ugh! Just what you want to do over a three day weekend. But it has to be done.
Whatever your plans are though, let's kick them off with today's fun vintage styled shoot!
Amy Jaye of Posh and Posy Events designed the look of this shoot, with red and pink florals mixed with succulents, rose glass candle holders, and brass candleabras. The table settings mixed vintage glass ware with burlap table runners and a rustic wood table made Click Here to Read More
Monthly Archives: August 2012
3 Oaks Vineyard Vintage Styled Shoot
Happy start of Labor Day weekend everyone! Are you vacationing or stay-casioning? We are staying close to home with LOTS of chores to do this weekend. I know, ugh! Just what you want to do over a three day weekend. But it has to be done.
Whatever your plans are though, let's kick them off with today's fun vintage styled shoot!
Amy Jaye of Posh and Posy Events designed the look of this shoot, with red and pink florals mixed with succulents, rose glass candle holders, and brass candleabras. The table settings mixed vintage glass ware with burlap table runners and a rustic wood table made Click Here to Read More
Make Your Own Pretty Handmade Chandelier
This homemade chandelier is a definite labor of love for me! Seriously...whooweee! But I'm so HAPPY with how it came out. Isn't it pretty???
I designed and made it for my "closet room", the completion of which I will be showing you as soon as I can. You can see part of it in the background here ;-)
Anyhow, I wanted to show you the chandelier as soon as possible because I knew you'd love it as much as I do.
If you want to give one of these a go...here's what you'll need and how to make it.
SUPPLIES
Clear holiday ornaments
Silver & gold pre-holed sequins
Clear jewelry Click Here to Read More
One AH-MAZING Recycled Designer Tree-house!
You all know how much I LOVE design right? And how passionate I am about recycling old things into something new again, correct? Let's not forget to mention how much I adore the great outdoors.
Now....how about we mix them all together into one post for today? What do you say about that?
A blogger and designer friend of mine, Lynne Knowlton from Design The Life You Want To Live, sent me some images of her AH-MAZING tree-house to share with you and I couldn't be more excited! Remember, Lynne sent me that fabulous Grapevine, Eh-Em...Balls DIY a couple of weeks ago? That's right...now I can Click Here to Read More
A Pink, White & Black Classic Wedding at Arizona’s San Tan Elegante
Today's wedding comes to us from San Tan Elegante in Gilbert, Arizona. Megan and Jay hired photographer Renee Kaminski of The R2 Studio to document with lovely imagery the beauty that was their special day. From Megan's gorgeous dress from Uptown Bridal & Boutique to the pretty floral arrangements provided by Blume Events LLC, everything was perfect from start to finish. So sit back and enjoy a few special images from their fabulous day!
Photographer: The R2 Studio
Floral Designer: Click Here to Read More
An Offbeat Black, Gold & White Loft Styled Wedding Shoot
I really love the idea of having a wedding in a loft, especially one with brick, crumbling paint and lots of ambient light streaming through giant windows like the ones in this shoot. Photographed by Alea Lovely Fine Art Photographer, this fantastic Kansas City styled event has so many gorgeous and unusual details.
To start, these custom invitations are absolutely adorable as the brilliantly designed reply cards left with open spaces for guests to return them with festive notes or drawings so the couple can save them as keepsakes. Great idea, don't you think?
Also, instead of a typical Click Here to Read More
A Bold & Brightly Colored Sand Hollow Resort Engagement Session
There's a pretty popular trend among photographers right now to wash everything out using Photoshop actions or sometimes even over-exposing images to get the white washed look. Of course there's nothing wrong with that, it's a beautiful style and it's imperative for a photographer to have a look if they want to be successful. I'm just saying I've seen and featured a lot of the lightly toned images so it's nice to show off something a little different. Yep, and today's engagement session is fully colored eye popping candy...and I love it!
Kate Spade with her bold colors, patterns, clean lines Click Here to Read More
A Unique Owl Themed Wedding at CJ’s Off the Square in Franklin Tennessee
What a gorgeous summer garden wedding at CJs Off The Square in Downtown Franklin, TN! The green magnolias & white gazebo were the perfect setting. Cassi & Shawn are so deeply in love and it showed through in every detail of their big day! Shawn worked at the Southeastern Raptor Center while they both attended Auburn University. His work there has given them both a passion for owls and they were able to incorporate them throughout the entire wedding with an owl seating chart, table numbers, ring pillow, paper mache card holder (handmade by a friend), owl cake toppers and the most talked Click Here to Read More
I Think I Want To Try Ombre Hair…Or Maybe Something Like It?
I'm not in LOVE with my hair right now. I know...shocking huh? A girl who's not happy with her hair...I'm so original ;-)
My hair is probably the longest it's been in my life. And given I've pretty much always had long hair, that's saying a lot.
Don't get me wrong, I love my long hair and definitely want to keep the length. It's just I haven't cut it in quite a while and even though it's really long, I hardly wear it down.
And by hardly I mean never.
So just last weekend on our way home from LA's Fashion & Fabric District, I was talking to my friend Erin about wanting to try Click Here to Read More
A Beautiful, Rustic & Vintage-Chic Backyard Wedding From California
I have a love affair with lace. Yup...it's hard core, full blown and I freely admit it might be a problem that needs constant attention. Luckily with today's wedding I'm going to get my fill and in the most gorgeous way!
Bride Nicole and groom Rocky planned a beautiful, vintage-chic backyard wedding in Southern California. There was a one little glitch though. Yup, it poured down rain the night before the wedding and everything outside got soaking wet.
Fortunately, many people pitched in to dry everything off and the clouds cleared just as the bride arrived.
Although the day was Click Here to Read More
A Stunning Turquoise & Gold DIY Statement Necklace
I've been thinking about this necklace for a few weeks now, but I'm just getting around to featuring it now.
Ahhh, I know, know...it's terrible of me isn't it? And it was just a matter of squeezing the "doing" of it into what have been some really busy days lately.
Of course, I don't know why I waited so long now because the actual "making" of this took no time at all...I promise! Really, you could buy the materials, make it and wear it all within an hour or so. Now that's a quick DIY!
And now I feel even more silly I didn't do it earlier, sheesh!
But best of all...it's really Click Here to Read More
A Lovely Southern Wedding at Dunes West Golf Club in South Carolina
Southern weddings are always a favorite of mine to feature. I mean, they're usually filled with so many lovely traditions, tons of elegance and heaps of grandeur...who wouldn't want to see one, right? Even better, today's beautiful bride Lane was kind enough to share with us a few words about their wonderful day.
When Michael and I began planning our wedding, we didn't really have a clue of what we wanted...but what we DID know was that we wanted it to be a "southern style" wedding that would make all of our guest feel "at home" and leave Dunes West having a great meal and enjoy dancing Click Here to Read More
Lindsey + Scott’s Unique Norfolk Opera House Wedding
I absolutely love, love, love the idea of having a wedding in an unexpectedly location. And an Opera house as a wedding venue is pretty much as unexpected as it gets, don't you think?
Lindsey and Scott have been together since college and with their deep love for one another, fun personalities and the wonderful ease about them, they wanted a special wedding that reflected all of that.
Photographed by Leigh Skaggs Photography, Lindsey and Scott's Opera house wedding was wonderfully unique, just as their love is and their wedding was as amazing as they hoped it would be. Here's the proof.
Photographer: Click Here to Read More
A Myriad of Magnificent Mirrors
Alrighty then, so...you know how I'm working on my dream closet, right? Well, it's coming along marvelously and I'm dying to share what it looks like with you! But alas...there are a few things to do before I can do that. I know, I know...patience is something I lack as well, but it will be done soon...I promise!
So far I painted the entire room, built two clothes racks into one wall with two shelves and a shoe wrack. I primed and painted a dresser that was in there and created a jewelry accessory center. And it all looks so awesome! I just want to sit in there all day and admire how pretty Click Here to Read More
