Gnome Home

At Target a couple weeks ago, Eliza and I found this cute gnome guy that you stick in your plants and some mushrooms to go along. I had this really wide shallow pot that my mother-in-law gave me and didn't quite know what to do with it and decided I'd make a little gnome land for Eliza to play with. Now hopefully she'll leave my poor plants alone, I don't think they enjoy being dumped out every few days! Supplies: Shallow, wide, potCaladiumMoss Some PVC Pipe fittings The little gnome guy And some small mushrooms  

My little helper bringing in all the supplies

  

I put in the plants first with the caladium in the back and moss in the front (I'm hoping it spreads around the whole pot?) and then I decorated the gnome house. First, I painted it with an off-white texture spray. Next, I painted the top (roof) red.

And then I painted this little stone and wood door. It turned out better than I expected!

 

Ta-Da! Our own little gnome haven!

A Few Fun Projects

I've had these links forever, hoping I'd get to them someday. Maybe I will, maybe I won't but I will share them with you guys! So here they are:

DIY Cakestand

PVC Pipe Mirror

Braided Rag Rug- I'm actually in the process of making one of these, love!

 DIY Play Kitchen from Nightstand

Land of Nod Inspired Floor Cushion 

Hangy Thing  It's finally the weekend! All of our friends are coming back into town so I'm really looking forward to seeing them all! Hope you guys have a good one!   



Daily Outfit Post: Park

It's only 10 o'clock and this is turning out to be the worst Thursday in the history of Thursdays! Brandon woke me up by breaking the news of my bike being stolen from our patio... It was a vintage Lady Raleigh Bike and was in the process of being fixed up. We probably spent around $200 which sucks the most. I don't even think I had a full picture of her :/ And the second bad part of my day is, I have my first canker sore. It hurts. And I can't have wings tonight, which is like the highlight of my week (i love wings). I guess on the bright side, my day can't really get much worse than this. I really just want to go shopping and blow off all my steam but I am broke. Arg, what's a girl to do  Well, sorry about that. I had to vent a little. Moving on, last week we went to this park that is about a mile away from our apartment that I had no idea about! It wasn't really that great... which is probably why I've  never been there before. I made Brandon exercise his photography skills a little bit and take some pictures of me in one of my new favorite dresses! 

I got it at buffalo exchange for $20! Nice, huh?

Belt: Thrifted

Crochet Vest: Forever 21

Leggings: Forever 21

This is actually one of the dresses I had to buy while I was in Austin, suitcase-less.

What a cutie (: Well here's to my day getting better, I hope you guys have a great Thursday!

 

Kitchen Table Casters

Remember these chairs that I reupholstered? 

Well it turns out the arms were to big to be able to slide under the table which I couldn't stand. I was thinking of just putting some pieces of wood under the table legs but then my mom suggested I put wheels on them instead! Genius! It's a super heavy table and that would make it so much easier to move, so that's what I did.

I bought these casters from Home Depot for $5 a pair:

(mine have brakes though)

All you have to do is drill a hole, hammer this circle base thing in and the wheels snap on!

We got lucky and didn't have to drill a hole, there was already one! And here's our table with it's fancy new casters:

 

Pay no attention to the weird center piece. I just moved the table against this wall and don't know quite what to do with it yet. Maybe a mirror? Or just a large piece of art or something? I don't know, I'll get to it... eventually!
 

Decorating Inspiration

I'm on a kind of decorating spree and have really indulged in Apartment Therapy today. They have a little something for everybody and it is just so inspiring! I smell a bunch of diy home decor in the near future! I'm actually working on a really big home decor/diy project right now (one that I'm totally dreading because of how much time it's going to take) and I will share as soon as I'm done! Until then, here's some great decor inspiration I've found (sorry for being so photo heavy)!  source.   

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I think the common theme here is plain walls (I live in an apartment and can't change those) and brightly colored/vintagey/diy accessories. We don't have a whole lot of natural light so I'm hoping that will help brighten up the place. Ahh, I love decorating!



salted CARAMEL milkshake!

In Austin, a few weeks ago we went to this burger place called Hopdoddy and had the most delicious shake I've ever had! It was a caramel and sea salt shake, and yes it sounds a little weird but the combo is soo delicious!  

recipe

 I've been craving one ever since so a this weekend, I attempted to recreate it. The first round... was way too strong but I adjusted the amounts a little for the perfect proportions. Here is what you need:  

A blender

Measuring cup and spoons

1/2 Tbs of sea salt

1/4 cup caramel

1/2 cup of milk

A pint of ice cream (vanilla)

 We bought our very first blender and this was the perfect thing to break it in! 

It's super easy, just dump all the ingredients into the blender.

Blend.

And serve immediately.

I wish I had some pretty milk shake glasses to spruce these up a bit! Oh well, here's a picture of my little helper.... or spatula licker, whatever you'd like to call it (:

 

may lookbook

Yesterday I spent all day working on the May Lookbook for my store and here it is! I hope you like it!