The Inspired Bride has a post on some quirky printable moustaches for all your nefarious holiday (and post-holiday) shennanigans! See the full post, complete with PDFs and instructions, here.
I’m having family over for Christmas lunch and plan to make everyone take silly moustache photos then, heehee.
I’ve had to bring out my winter scarves and coats now that winter has arrived in LA. Anyone who lives in um, less temperate climates than us are probably laughing their heads off when we complain about 50-degree weather and a thunderstorm. Despite catching a cold and feeling a little woozy from medication, I love this weather because it finally feels like winter and the holidays. It’s simply not the most festive feeling when you see your neighbors putting up christmas lights in shorts and flip-flops and sunglasses.
I’ll be heading up to Seattle this weekend to visit relatives up there, and I hear temperatures are below the 30’s at night, so I better pack up puffy jackets, earmuffs, and mittens in excess to stay warm!
The days are getting shorter..it’s barely 4:30 in the afternoon, but the sun is already starting its way down the horizon…
I love the clean, elegant look of kusudama balls, and decided to forgo flowers for our wedding ceremony aisle decor and use these instead.
Initially, I was totally psyched and ordered several sheets of blue and silver mulberry paper, excited to get started on this project. Can you believe it took me about 6 months to make 12 balls? Let’s see…5 petals per flower times 6 flowers per ball times twelve balls…okay, makes sense. I’m pretty flaky when it comes to crafting, but even with every spare minute dedicated to cutting the paper to size, folding, and gluing, it felt like a neverending task. Even with the help of one of my bridesmaids, it was still pretty daunting.
After the wedding, I managed to find and keep 3 of them, which are now hanging from a lamp in our office. I have no idea what happened to the rest.
I’ve seen several DIY magazine holder tutorials online. Since I had some time last night, I decided to create a holder for my Martha Stewart Food magazines, which are smaller than the average size periodical.
Throughout the month of December, select Anthropologie stores will host special crafting sessions and/or reading hours for children. Hopefully they’ll teach shoppers how to create some of those amazing displays they showcase!
All the stores around LA look like they’ll be hosting these events, lucky for me! The complete list can be found on their Facebook event page, located here.
Who can pass up free crafting lessons and babysitting?!
This would also work really well for a cool blue summer wedding or a lucky child’s birthday party – just substitute the birds nest for something wedding or birthday-themed! For more details, check out the post on Project Nursery.
Based on the current trend in my closet, I think purple and grey have outshined blues and browns as my new go-to colors. I’ve seen lots of posts about how grey is the new black, which is funny because I painted 2 rooms of my house a beautiful light grey before I picked up on this trend. It’s pretty true though – grey is a wonderful background and can really help make other colors pop. In addition, there are so many shades of grey to choose from, as opposed to black.
Some items I’d put on my wishlist include:
I hope you had a wonderful and festive Thanksgiving! We had a joint family lunch yesterday and I seriously think I gained about 5 lbs. from eating nonstop for 6 hours. There are some terrific cooks in our family, and everyone brought a couple of dishes to complement the turkey and glazed ham…yummm!
This past week, I’ve spent my spare time learning as much as possible about the Nikon D90 and the tricks to using an SLR in general. Currently, just trying to get used to all the different functionalities of the camera is a big learning curve, but the vast improvement in the quality of phots I can take is really gratifying to see! Some examples are below:
Went to the Montrose farmer’s market and took some pictures of scrumptious produce and pretty flowers:
I love strolling down the flea market section and perusing the housewares displayed:
Our family dogs are my favorite subjects to shoot, and I never get tired of their funny poses that guarantee to crack me up:
This is going to be my new desktop wallpaper at work.
Hip Pea 