Friday, July 12, 2013

Date Night!



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 Tom & I planned a date night for yesterday! He had kept mentioning how he wanted to check out Parkside Candy down on Main St for awhile. From the outside I could tell it was a treasure & the inside had such a cute vintage vibe to it. I fell completely in love with all the great wall and ceiling detail and dark wood trimming. I bought dark chocolate & sprinkles covered pretzel rods while Tom bought salt water taffy & caramel popcorn, yumm
    







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Next we headed down to Hertel ave, and walked around outside in the sun for awhile before stopping at Gramma Moras for dinner! I had been itching to try this authentic Mexican place for awhile, & it was so delicious! My mom told me that her and my dad used to come here on dates back in the day (aweuh) I indulged in the seafood enchiladas and a pomegranate margarita (and still have some leftover) We finished off the night by renting Silver Linings playbook & eating salt water taffy. Such a lovely Thursday

- xxS

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

DiY -->> statement necklace



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This project was inspired by a certain necklace i had my eye on at Anthropologie a few months ago. It went on sale and i still didnt buy it & now its out of stock (sadness.) So i decided to try and make something in a similar colour palette & i found this string of beautiful gemstones at the craft store (ac moore) --whipped out my coupon and decided to experiment. Heres what i came up with & how:

 // Supplies: 
+ gem stones - 2.50$ with coupon {5$ originally}
+ copper wire - 3$
+ antique gold chain - 4.50$
+ lobster clasps - 1$ -->> {did not end up using these for this project however}
++> not pictured-->> jewelery pliers from home!
// total cost: 10$ 


// What to do:
I. the copper wire I bought was 26 gauge (pretty thin) so i first cut a long piece and strung each stone onto the wire
II. Next, i knotted the ends of the wire towards the stone, leaving a bit of excess wire on each end
III. Using pliers, I disconnected the part of the antique gold chain that i wanted around my neck
IV. I began to wrap the excess wire through the ends of the antique gold chain
V. I cut a bunch of small pieces of the copper wire to wrap around where the two chains met to strengthen the connection as well as give the chain a more layered look


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// The finished product:
+ I really like the two varied metal tones mixed with the rust colour of the gemstones
+ The copper wire on the one side of the necklace did break (i was pressing too hard with the pliers,) so i just kept adding more reinforcement with wrapping more wire
+ The gemstones are heavy so this is a super fragile necklace but i am really happy with the result!
It's mending my breaking heart over the loss of the Anthro necklace...kindof



- xx S

Monday, July 8, 2013

weekly style capture 16.0 (& happy fourth!)



// Monday -- >>
// top: old navy, 12$ // skirt: target, gifted // necklaces: long silver: icing, 2$ / statement silver: francescas,  10$ // feather hair pin: icing, 5$ //
 // Wednesday -- >>
// dress: Anna Grace, 50$ // belt: fossil, 10$ // boots: uo, 40$ // necklaces: charms: fossil & anthropologie, various //




 // Thursday -- >> Happy Fourth!!!
// crop bra: anthropologie, 16$ // shorts: thrifted & diy, 5$ // american flag bandana: ac moore, 2$ // floral crown: diy // red heart sunglasses: icing, 1$ //
// Friday -->> {beach day}
// swim top: forever21, 13$ // high waisted swim bottoms: asos us, 10$

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Hope everyone had a lovely week & enjoyed their holiday :)
- xx S

Thursday, July 4, 2013

restyle: craft bin, closet space, & cluttered accessories


If you've ever been in my room before you'll know that it is filled with...stuff. Trinkets, patterned vases, patterned pillows, candles, paint, cameras, books, canvases, trinkets, clothes, trinkets, clothes...and oh, did i mention trinkets & clothes?

A couple months ago, inspired by helping my friends move out of their apartment, i began to take down a few trinkets per piece of furniture. (obviously i just put them down into the basement until further notice, sorry mom) This past weekend I was in need of a serious clean & reorganization on my room.

Underneath one table in my room I had all of my cameras and film, just chillin. I decided i wanted to put them away but still accessible when I would need them, so into a black box on top of my closet they went. The black box was originally my craft bin which was getting pretty heavy  and difficult to bring up and down whenever i needed it (often to say the least.)  I had this small set of plastic drawers in my old apartment's bathroom and had no use for it since then. I whipped it back up from the basement, gave it a cleaning and propped in in the corner of my room by my closet. It felt nice to be able to organize all my various crafty materials into separate drawers.



Previously in this corner of my room i had all of my blank canvases and paint out. Since i moved the craft bin out of the closet, i was able to fit the canvases and paint back into the top shelf of the closet.




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The other cluttering issue was all of my accessories being out on top of my dresser. I love all of the pretty dishes and containers for my jewelery so i always wanted them to be on display but it became overwhelming to me.

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In the top right drawer of my dresser I have my lotions, deodorant, some perfume, and my box of earrings. It is easy to open up and see what i have and still close it up out of the way when i am done.


The second drawer underneath the earring drawer was a junk drawer. A big overflowing disaster of papers, sunglasses, and useless stuff. I wiped that stuff down clean, threw out a bunch and started moving all my accessories that were on top of my dresser into this drawer.


I'm feeling a lot more organized and a lot less stressed by having these separate drawers for accessories. And for me it feels like uncovering a treasure chest every time i open it up !


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I will be doing a proper room tour eventually as well, but i wanted to give a short and sweet restyle on how to update and organize clutter in your space :)


- xx S

Monday, July 1, 2013

weekly style capture 15.0



 // Sunday -- >>
// maxi skirt: anthropologie, 40$ // brallete: anthropologie, 38$ // floral crown: diY //
 
// Monday -- >>
// dress: thrifted, 5$ // shoes: target, 6$ //

 // Tuesday -- >>
// blue top: uo, 15$ // lace cropped top: fossil, 15$ // jeans: fossil, 70$ // boots: h&m, 20$ //
 // Wednesday -- >>
// lace shorts: charlotte russe, 10$ // white tie top: garage sale, 1$ //
 // Friday -->>
// black maxi: forever21, 15$ // yellow belt: {from another dress} // denim vest: thrifted, 5$ // boots: uo, 40$ //
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Happy July everyone!!! 


- xx S