DIY speckled glasses

Today the sun decided to come out and so I moved my crafting outdoors.  I've been wanting to do this little project for weeks now but haven't had the down time.  Alright let's get to it!

DIY Speckled Glasses

Materials list:

• Glasses (99 cent store)
• Nail polish
• Sharpie

Super simple project!  Since I can't wear nail polish at work I decided to apply it else where!  First using my silver sharpie I mapped out where I wanted my dots to go.  Then I painted the dots using the most vibrant color in my scheme.  The lighter colors were used as fillers to add dimension to the design.  That's it!

Blue scheme

Princess-ish speckles

Speckles every where!

Malibu Wines

First off, Happy Cinco de Mayo!!  Today was full of mid-day adventures.  A friend of a friend was celebrating her birthday at the beautiful Malibu Wines.  This place is such a fun and novel idea!

This took me awhile to figure out, and I was still sober :/

They provide a bottle service and have a bunch of picnic tables, fire pits and chairs set up everywhere in this wonderful outdoor space.  You can bring your own food to munch on while tasting their different varieties of wine.  It was a nice casual atmosphere with a guitar duo strumming away some soothing tunes.  I definitely had a great time even though I was freezing my bum off in this cool May weather.

Finally hanging out with my Emy girllll.

It's hard to tell but that stage coach has an aquarium built into it!

Wine fountain!

Birthday girl in pink (salmon??) whatever...the bright fun color!!

This is me (left) and my tipsy stance ^_^

http://malibuwines.com/

Color Me Mine

It was like revisiting my childhood.  I got so excited to learn they opened a Color Me Mine in town!  My friend and I were there for hours getting lost in the peacefulness of painting.

My creation in one photo

Naked!!

Layer one, light color first covering the bottom completely.

Second layer, slightly darker coat from the middle to the top and viola, ombre! To blend the two colors I wet the brush with water and blended the two so no visible line could be seen.

Then the design!  I came up with these geometric lines back in school.  They were great for passing the time during lectures ;)

Ready for the kiln!

One week later...

Shiny!!

The little things...

Today was a pretty ordinary day but one event made it a bit sunnier. I was out shopping for groceries and had a nice conversation with a complete stranger.  It wasn't weird or anything just pure niceness....is that even a word?  Anyways it was refreshing to strike up a conversation without feeling like there was some ulterior motive.

It's the little things that get to me sometimes.

Closet Overhaul

Pinterest Inspiration

Today was the day to finally re-organize my closet.  I stumbled upon the the above pin and thought it was genius.  I probably won't wait a whole year though, maybe 6 months.  Also I think dresses will be excluded from the rule since I barely wear them anyways.  I'm excited to see what I wear and what I need to good will in 6 months!

Android app Color Splurge

DIY Greeting Card Book

Wedding Greeting Card Book

What to do with all of these cards...

Supplies:

• Single hole punch
• Greeting cards
• Binder rings
• Ribbon
• Exact-o knife or razor blade
• Pen

 Take the shortest card and punch holes on the side you want to string the rings.

 You've just made your template!  Now line up your template with the rest of your cards.  I centered the template with the rest of the cards and marked where to punch holes.

Notes: For tri-fold cards make sure to open them before punching holes.  If you fail to do so you won't be able to open the pages to read them later.  Also for cards with many layers you might have to use an exact-o knife to create holes.  After the first few cards I turned the template over so any markings from my pen would be on the back of the card out of sight.

 Thread each card through until the very end!

 Add some cute bows to dress up the binder rings when you're done :)  Happy reading!