Green

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

To be completely honest, I've actually never really cared about St. Patrick's Day. 

Which is surprising because I love holidays and, having some Irish in me, you think I would take any excuse available to celebrate another one.

However I just have never been too interested in it.

But I decided to go along a bit and share a peek at what I've been working on around here, which so happens to be green.

 Having a lot of fun with these. 

Look for some new things in the shop soon!

Friday I'm In Love

This Friday, I'm in love with....

This song

The 30 Days of Lists challenge

I will have to do it at some point

I love making lists

My friend Sherri's 7 Ways to Wear a Chambray Shirt

Coral Hunter boots 

(I don't even like pink that much but these are just too pretty)

This bow manicure

Blair's Chanel pin

 This cake pop recipe 

Would you believe I've never had one? 

I know

A cute DIY for a camera strap

An Anthropologie necklace DIY look alike

This fried egg and avocado panini looks delicious

(I've never been a huge egg eater but I might have to change my mind)

A Scrabble bag tutorial

The Nifty 50

(Oh how I want it)

All the beautiful vintage road maps Bri and her husband found

(I still have a NYC one I need to frame and hang)

An Oreo truffles recipe

(I mean let's be real. If it's Oreo related, I'm there)

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Have a wonderful weekend guys!

Tutorial: Mens Shirt Turned To Dress

Today I am sharing with you my first ever tutorial! 

I'm pretty excited about it.

I'll be showing you how to turn a mans dress shirt into a cute dress!

It's super easy, with a minimal amount of sewing skills required.

Ready?

Let's get started.

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Things You Will Need

-Scissors

-Pinking shears (If you have them. If not it's ok!)

-A sewing machine (or needle and thread if you intend to sew by hand)

-An X-Large mens dress shirt (I scored this one at a thrift store for $1)

-A cute belt

Step 1: Lay out your shirt

Step 2: Cut off the sleeves right before the seam so that you still have an edge that will prevent too much fraying

Step 3: Admire your now sleeveless shirt

 Step 4: Try on your shirt (inside out) and determine where you want your sleeve to end 

(mine was about 7 1/2" down from the shoulder. This may be different for you though!)

Step 5: Once you determine this, stick a pin in your shirt to mark that point

Step 6: Now, starting from the pin, draw a line all the way down to the bottom of your shirt. You will be sewing along this line and making a new seam.

Once you've done that, cut off the remnant seam with your pinking shears 

(to prevent fraying!)

Step 7: Put on your new dress, don a cute belt and revel in your craftiness!

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So what do you think?

I was thinking about doing some more tutorials, would you all be interested?

Let me know if you have any questions or if anything was unclear. I'd be happy to help!

Also, if you try the tutorial, I'd love to see pictures!

Send me some if you do :)

Dots Back Inn

A little list I have for 2012 is my 20 List. Which has 20 things on it that I want to do while I'm 20. 

On this list (number seven to be exact) is a resolve to go to ten new Richmond restaurants.
The only requirements are that I haven't ever been to them before, they're located in Richmond and they cannot be a chain.

So far I've only been to one (I know, I need to get a move on...) and I thought I would share it with you today!

It's a little place called Dots Back Inn

I had the felafel (which was pretty good though not as good as the first one I ever had) and their fries (which were more like potato wedges but sooo yummy). 

I am a huge fan of fries of all kinds! 

But let's be real, who isn't?

I wore one of my favorite thrifted dresses (found at The Clothes Rack for $3!) and some pretty pastel heels (found for $4. Thank you Goodwill)

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Do you live in RVA?
What are some of your favorite restaurants?
Any suggestions of what I should try next?

A Week In Review

I'm feeling pretty good this Monday morning.

 I was originally feeling like I hadn't had the most productive week last week but as I started thinking about it, it really wasn't that bad.
This week I...

-Went to a VCU Basketball game (my first! Crossing that off my bucket list)

-Finished a hair tutorial a friend and I were working on

-Voted

-Had a photoshoot with Brian (which I'm super excited about)

-Had a great bible study with friends 

-Booked a ticket to ENGLAND

-Took a mini road trip to Gloucester 

-Had a lunch date with my Dad (mmm Mexican food)

-Finally posted a photoshoot from a few months ago

-Edited some photos

-Trimmed my bangs back (quite proud of myself for doing a not too shabby job)

-Caught up with a very dear and old friend 

-Started going to yoga again

-Bought tickets for The Hunger Games movie premiere

-Had a few dates with my man

-Started designing some knit tie patterns

-Have a new obsession with spicy brown mustard (it goes on all my sandwiches now)

-Ate some donuts and Oreos 

-Wore some knit socks

-Read some more of The Happiness Project

-Fell in love with the little harmonica necklace that my boyfriend gave me

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What did you do this week?

Kendall & Jordan

Meet Kendall and Jordan.
Aren't they gorgeous?

I've known these two sisters my whole life so they're definitely very special to me.

A couple months ago they asked me to do some portraits of them for their parents for Christmas and these are the result!

We had a lot of fun frolicking around in the woods and I didn't even have to pose them.
Such natural models.
I personally always like it when I can naturally capture people and their true personalities and situations the way they really are, as opposed to posing them. I have a hard time telling people what to do in general, so it's definitely always nice when people feel comfortable enough to just be themselves.
Even when there is a camera capturing their every move. ;)

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I told you they were gorgeous.

Check out a few more photos here!

Some Very Exciting News!

Dear readers, I have some very exciting news this morning!!

That's right! I'm headed to England in a few weeks!!

I can hardly believe it's happening.

I've been using an excessive amount of exclamation points ever since it became official.

It's something that I've been praying about for quite a while now and it finally just fell into place without me doing much of anything really. It's so awesome to see what God can do when you leave things up to Him.

I've had a desire to travel more over the past few years and so it's so exciting to see this dream become a reality! I can't wait to get over there and have some new adventures.

There will definitely be a lot of picture heavy posts about it!

And I can't wait to go find a yarn store.

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Have you been to England?

What should I not miss doing while I'm there?

Any travel tips?

Friday I'm In Love

This Friday I'm in love with...

The photos Kaytee took of the Lights concert we went to with our friend David last weekend

Started this scarf the other night. I'm loving the fun stitch!

The newly discovered Krispy Kreme app for your phone!

Now at all times you can have the knowledge of where the nearest Krispy Kreme is and whether or not the hot light is on.

Naomi's Puffed Pancake recipe looks so delicious. I must try it soon!

A pretty tutorial for pin curls

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Can't believe the weekend's here already. 

Hope you have a good one!

Fishtail Braid Tutorial

Happy Thursday!

Today I am sharing a little hair tutorial with you all.

The Fishtail Braid to be exact.

My friend Kaytee Lauren and I had fun putting this together, we hope you enjoy it!

Make sure to let us know if you tried it and send us some pictures of your finished braids, we'd love to see. 

(This is her original post from her blog which you can see here)

A while ago, A Girl Named Leney and I got together and practiced hair styles for my wedding back in July. Leney was a bridesmaid, so we were trying to find a unique look for her. We had so much fun creating a hair style together, we thought it would be neat to make a tutorial here on the blog. This is our first tutorial, hopefully there will be more, and hopefully this tutorial explains the hair style in a simple way. Today we are explaining the fish tail braid, which is super in trend right now. Sorry the white text is a little hard to see! I should have used black....

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Be sure to stop by Kaytee's blog and tell her what you think!

Stop Kony

Wondering what all this talk is on Twitter and Facebook about some dude named Joseph Kony?

I was.

And until this afternoon I didn't sit down to see what it was all about.

Well, even if you never watch youtube videos that people post, watch this one.

Watching this broke my heart.

This is just another form of slavery that we have to stand up and fight against.
Because it's wrong. Because it's an injustice. 

Because we are called to protect and fight for those who cannot fight for themselves.

You can make a difference.

Sign the pledge here.

Buy a bracelet here.

Buy an action kit here.

Like Invisible Children on Facebook here.

Follow them on twitter here.

Share on your blog, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, Pinterest. 

Anything to help spread the word.

Because there's injustice that needs to be stopped.

Make Joseph Kony famous.