I’m so excited for the McAwesomes wedding in July! It’s coming up so fast and I can’t believe I’m the bride!!!!!!
Matt and I have decided to DIY a lot of our wedding. Our stationary being one of them. It took forever but we ended up finding the perfect set of flowers and some fonts to use. We designed them and were surprised that we actually made them look so cute. [Read more…]
My second favourite time of year is upon us – Halloween!
I love dressing up and going all out. Since I started youtube I have done a few halloween looks every year. I put together a playlist of all the looks I’ve done over the years in this fancy playlist for you. to watch them all you have to do it —>Click Me<—
For my first look of 2015 I came up with this witch like masquerade mask. As promised in the video, this is the place for a list of the exact products I used. Most of these are staples and you’ll see me use them often in my videos. [Read more…]
I am a super organized individual.
As I am organizing my office I find I am missing a quick glance desk organizer. I looked online and in a whole bunch of stores for a desk calendar but they were all too big or too expensive.
The inspiration for this cute option came from my whiteboard that is on my fridge. We use that for meal planning and grocery lists. Its all white and blends really well with the fridge. Why not use a frame to match all my other decor? [Read more…]
As you all know I love Pinterest . I wake up pinning I go to bed pinning all the time Pinterest.
I saw this one pin while looking for Christmas baking ideas. They looked ahh-mazing! They have pretzels, caramel, and chocolate. I clicked on the pin and sure enough it looked super duper easy, so here I am trying them out. [Read more…]
A ball covered in purple daisy’s! How cheerful 🙂
Ive always loved the cute hanging flower balls that hang in clusters. Living in an apartment that we rent makes it difficult to add extra holes to the walls and ceiling in fear our damage deposit or part of it will be taken if we decide to move.
I had this clay pot that used to home a lovely lavender plant from one of my students laying around. I have a brown thumb and I killed the plant which is why I had this one lonely pot. One day, probably in the shower, I had a lightbulb moment! Why not SIT the flower ball in the clay pot.
Off to Wal-Mart I went with this flower ball in mind. I went straight to the fake flower isle and there was everything I needed. A Styrofoam ball and $1.00 flower bundles…yes $1.00 for one bundle that had lots of daisy’s on it. It was perfect. I guesstimated and lucked out with 6 bundles/bouquets. [Read more…]
Eucalyptus essential oil is effective for treating and helping to relieve a number of respiratory issues such as cold, cough, runny nose, sore throat, nasal congestion, bronchitis, sinusitis and even asthma.
Eucalyptus oil is antibacterial, antifungal, antimicrobial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory and decongestant in nature, which makes it a good ingredient in many medicines that treat respiratory problems.
Eucalyptus essential oil should be a staple in your pantry during the cold and flu season. Even though winter is technically over the change is seasons is enough to get those allergies flaring and colds to start up.
Dry Shampoo has been coming out of the woodwork recently.
As a hairstylist I would always hear of such a product but never have actually tried it because it was so hard to find. The closest I got to this sort of thing was the KMS Makeover Spray which was pretty darn awesome. I did not consider this a dry shampoo but I guess it did everything a dry shampoo did so it could have been in that category.
A few years later, versions of dry shampoo started to pop up in aerosol spray containers. I am not too keen on spending lots of money on aerosols although I’m no saint, 1 bottle of hairspray is sitting in my drawer as we speak.
I like to limit my garbage or come up with different solutions for all these types of things so I started my search for dry shampoo on google.
There were lots of options to try out, corn starch and baby powder being among the most popular. I decided to give it a try.
Oh boy! Was that ever a bad idea!
I have brown hair, I looked like I had grey hair and had 1 inch of roots! It was so horrendous I immidently had to wash my hair.
It was about a year since this experience that I decided to try out a different recipe. I searched pinterest and google and saw that you could use cocoa powder to blend in with brown hair. This is genius! I wish I could credit this person but Im not sure who came up with it first.
It took a few tries to get the formula just right in order to come up with the exact proportions to blend into my medium brown hair colour. I finally did it and I’d love to share with all the brunettes out there how to get dry shampoo that actually works! Plus, its cheaper than that aerosol stuff 🙂
I moved to a larger two bedroom apartment this week and I’m quite excited at the amount of space we have.
The largest of the two bedrooms will be our office and my filming area. I got the ok from my partner Matt to decorate as girly as I wanted. With this permission I’m all giddy about picking paint and decor with my good friend Krystal.
I’ve decided on a champagne gold, mint,white and pink/coral colour scheme. I have a whole board on Pinterest with ideas bursting out the seams.
Krystal and I headed to Home Depot and Walmart to grab some paint swatches. Here are my narrowed down list.
I love how clean and crisp these colours look. I’m super excited to pick out the colour and start painting on Sunday.
For the record here is the before shot of the room
Don’t forget to come back for more and see the room transition to a beautiful office/filming space.
I absolutely love making things from scratch. When My boyfriend, Matt, and I were living our year without plastic (single use disposables & packaging) we had to make a lot of things from scratch. It’s such an adventure trying to figure out ways to do things. Sometimes you’d be surprised at how easy most things are to do from scratch.
That being said, Matt and I had to create all these christmas gifts for our family and friends sans plastic. This hot chocolate & Marshmallow duo quickly became popular as it was fairly easy and very impressive.
Hot Chocolate Mix
by Alton Brown
Click here for the original recipe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Ik_rnrcu0
Peppermint Marshmallows
by Martha Stewart
Click here for original recipe
I cannot believe Halloween is in a week!
Halloween is on a bit of an awkward day this year for anyone older than 14. Thursday is far enough from the weekend before and obviously before the weekend following.
When are we supposed to celebrate dressing up and eating our weight in candy?
My friend had suggested doing a get together on Nov 2nd and her logic makes perfect sense. EVERYTHING that has anything to do with Halloween is at least 50% off on the 1st.
I have taken on the task of hosting this post Halloween extravaganza and hoping to nail some of these Pinterest gems.
Meghan from Domestic Sugar made these witch fingers look real and creepy using cinnamon. I will be recreating these Halloween sugar cookie staples
originally from FamilyFun Magazine this swamp juice looks interesting to say the least. Who wouldn’t want fish eggs on Halloween!?
how cute are these ghosts? I’m not sure who to credit this for. I pinned this item but it just brought me to a single image. None the less, I will be making these “floating ghosts”
Follow my holiday Pinterest board to see what I’m up to CLICK ME: HOLIDAY FUN
What are you spooky plans??
