Showing posts with label DYI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DYI. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Oh, Baby!


For the past few months my mother and I had been busy bees, getting ready to host a baby shower for my brother and his wife! All the planning, gathering of ideas and items, resulted in our little vision coming true. It was a co-ed celebration, sans the cheesy games.

We had a wishing tree.....Wishes for Baby, which was super adorable. Everyone seemed to enjoy coming up with heartfelt and fun little bits for baby boy.
The theme was loosely based around the woodland feel of the shower invite.

As I was looking through all the photos, I realized that I had none of my sister-in-law and I together, as well as none of my brother and I together. Well, except for us playing badminton..but that doesn't count.I think that I got so caught up making sure everything was perfect before the guests arrived and I didn't even think about it during the shower. Lame. 

At least I got this photo of my mother and I together before everyone showed up :)
Mom and I spent a great amount of time making all of these delish cupcakes and lots of yummy sandwiches. My favs. were definitely the dark chocolate with peanut butter frosting cupcake and the mango chutney, cheddar and roast beef baguette sandwich. YUM. 
We had sweet treats throughout the house in cute little mason jars.
 The happy parents-to-be opening up their gifts.
For party favors, we went with fun little flowers and bunches of freshly picked lavender that guests could take home with them.
The grandmothers :)


I can't wait for the little guy to arrive and to be an auntie to my brother's child. Eeeeepp!
Congrats, Kam & Bren!


xo
Lizzie

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Elephants Never Forget

Loving all things animal, I immediately gravitated towards this elephant necklace while shopping a few weeks back. Upon trying it on, I wasn't very impressed. The length of the chain made it lay at an awkward spot, I didn't particularly like the silver chain that it came with and it had a cool eye charm on it but it was placed oddly and laid near the colar bone area.  

I was pretty bummed out, but then I had a lightbulb moment and realized how simple it would be to switch out the chain for a shorter, gold chain that I already owned.
So I took out my little pliers and waalaa...love.


I didn't take a before photo of my little project, but here is the chain and cute little charm that unfortunately didn't make it back on the new chain because it looked weird.

After:


(Ohhh and I kept that little pretty blue charm on)
Necklace:AE



I can't wait to wear this and can't get enough of the Indian inspired style of this little guy... :)

Hope everyone is having a nice weekend!














Thursday, August 4, 2011

Seattle Neighborhoods

About a year before we moved back to the Pacific Northwest, I discovered this amazing company called Ork Posters. The artist behind the company designs posters & screen prints for various city neighborhoods from L.A. to the Twin Cities, Boston and NYC.....there is a nifty lookin' neighborhood poster for your city.

I knew that once we moved to the Seattle area, I needed my very own to grace our teeny-tiny apartment's wall.  A few months ago I decided on the special edition screen print and couldn't be more satisfied. The sizing of these posters are kind of funky, so I matted it myself and then framed it.
DYI baby...



Pretty cool, right?!  
Check out their site if you wanna show your city some love by decorating your wall with one of these 
sweet little babes...

Hope you are all having a good week...tomorrow is FRIDAY! 
Thank.God.