LIfe: Quick update

I've been a little MIA on here. I know 4 days isn't exactly a long time, but it feels that way to me. I've been working on some new ideas for wreaths as well as some other things. I'll get to posting them when I finish them.

Till then I will leave you with this, the beautiful work of Dale Chihuly (one of my all time favorite artists). Which you can see at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center.

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Fashion: Monday Shoes

Orange is an under loved color. I know it became "popular" a little while back, but really I've never been one to follow trends. If I like something I wear it, not matter the style or color. This is why I've had orange shoes in my closet for some time. I'll get to all of them soon enough, but for now I will share these wonderful little finds for you...

Oh and yes...these too have that signature red bottom and yes it's a sick addiction!

The perfect orange strapy summer shoe!








Stats:

Designer: Christian Louboutin
Name: Sanlak
Color: Orange
Material: Leather
Heel: 3 3/4 inches

~Sorry these shoes are no longer available.

Crafts: Snow covered pine wreath (how to)

As many of you have probably been able to tell, I've been on a wreath making kick. This time I decided to make one with fake pine that looks like it's been covered in snow (flocked). I stocked up on the pine branches at my local craft store (50% off) and used my trusty metal wire form!

Plus this wreath is also great because you can keep it up well after the holidays!

Here's my step by step for a quick and easy wreath.

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The pine branch up close. There were three main sections (a main stem with two smaller stems coming off of the bottom). I broke them up and used the main ones as the starter and the smaller branches as the filler.

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I bought 11 of these (it was a guess on how many I'd need to fill in). I used about 7-8 of them for this wreath (23 inches across).

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The starts of the wreath and my tools. Wire is the key for this wreath. I wired the branch to the form in a few different places and moved onto the next branch. You want to layer the branches on top of each other to create a fuller look.

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A close up of two of the places where the branches were wired down to the form.

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The wreath covered (this took about 5 branches). Now it's time to go in and fill the holes till it looks full (really depends on how full you want it).


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Ta-dah! All done! I might go back to fill some spots.

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Close up of so you can see the flocking.

I just might add a great bow to it as well.

Just a word of warning, if you use the branches with the flocking the flocking can be a bit prickly. At least mine was. Also watch out for the pokes that the wire is bound to give you!

If you have any questions let me know!

Fashion: Holiday outfit

Tonight is Nate's work party (military) and lets just say that the once glamorous holiday party is no more (at least for where he works). The description I got for what to wear was "casual" and "festive". Right. Those don't really go together, but whatever. So after some thoughts about me just dressing up at a Christmas tree or wearing festive pasties, I put together my causal festive outfit.

Here's what I put together...

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Green cotton sweater with white tank top with sequins. Clutch is a black/silver leather hard case clutch.

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Close up of sweater with earrings (center stone has a gray tone to them).

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Black herringbone dress pants.

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Silver sequin covered shoes.

Sweater: Limited - $13 (from Marshalls)
Tank top: Express - $9
Pants: Gap - $42
Clutch: Banana Republic - $8
Earrings: Swarovski - $30
Shoes: Report Signature - $75

Decor: It's slooowly beginning to look like Christmas

We're slow going with the whole Christmas decorating this year. We have our tree up with maybe 7 ornaments on it. I've been making ornament wreaths for everyone other than us. We have some pine smells going through the house, but that's it.

Today I put out our outdoor wreath and tied the a bow on the lamp next to the door. I have two more wreaths I put under the lamps on the front of the house, but it's been way too windy here to do that. So for now you'll have to deal with just the door wreath, which I made two Christmases ago (it's holding up pretty well).

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