Lets Make a Mess
This is my favorite way to wear eye make up. It makes your eyes look bigger and brighter, and is perfect for someone like me, who has flat set eyes and heavier eye lids. It’s also pretty quick… just 8 simple steps. I used: Bare Minerals Correcting Concealer (Light 1) Benefit Cosmetics Eye Bright Pencil Clinique Creamy Gold Shadow Base Stila Eye Shadow Trio, Ethereal Lancome Dark Brown Eye Liner
We are back home in Orlando. Finally! Benjamin (3), Lyla (20 months), and I have been on the road/in the air for over 2 weeks now. We had a lot of fun and were able to see all sorts of family and friends. I’ll post more pictures and little stories of our adventures later. Here is a quick summary of the craziness. In the past 16 days we have slept
Between the hot humid summers in Florida, and the adorable little grabby hands of my two toddlers, I have been wearing my hair up almost every day. Most of the time, you’ll catch me wearing at least one little braid to make a simple pony tail a little more fun. I also love to braid my little girl Lyla’s hair. Here is a little bit of inspiration for some stylish
This is a fun and simple project… a great way to use up those little scraps of paper and thread that you don’t want to throw away. What you need: 1. Scraps of paper or card stock 2. Scraps of embroidery thread 3. Mod Podge What you do: 1. Cut your paper to the width that you want your beads to be. Wrap the paper around something like a BBQ
After posting all of those wonderful DIY stamp ideas, I had to try a few of my own. These stamps are really a combination of a few of the others, but are closest to this herringbone stamp from A Beautiful Mess. I was a little worried that using craft foam sheets wouldn’t work very well, but it really did. It was so easy, and I know I’m going to make
I’ve been on a little ombre spree lately. Plus with working on opening an Etsy shop, I’ve been on a huge jewelry spree lately too. Here is one of the simple earrings I came up with. They don’t take very long to make and are great for beginning jewelry makers. The hardest part is finding the right sizes and shades of beads (and not leaving the store with 100 different
I’ve always been a little disappointed with the selection of stamps at the craft store. There are always a couple that are cute, but for whatever reason, I never seem to find what I’m looking for. Plus, isn’t it more fun to make your own anyway? Here are a few awesome tutorials for making your own stamps. I’m going to try a few of these techniques this week and share
(find the dandelion stencil here) As many of you know, we just moved back into the townhouse where Grant and I first lived after we got married, and where we were living when Benjamin and Lyla were born. When Lyla was only 2 months old, we loaded up a little truck with a little bit of our stuff and moved across town to live with and help take care of
I hope you’ve all been having a wonderful summer. Things have been really crazy here. First, we moved across town. There’s actually still a lot of work to be done. Then Grant and I went on a short trip to the Bahamas. Of course we managed to not get a single picture of the two of us together, haha. Meanwhile, my cousin and I have been working on starting up
Welcome Barbara from Chase the Star! This is the last post in the Craft Stash Bash series. I’ve really enjoyed seeing all of the different projects everyone came up with, and I hope you have too. Thanks so much to everyone who participated! Hi there! I’m Barbara from Chase the Star. I’m a wife, mom, and die-hard DIY’er and craft addict! I started blogging as a creative outlet a few months
