Sunny Days and Summer Nights | iPhone Snaps

Hello lovely reader! Happy Monday, I'm sending you my energy to get through this week. Last week wasn't the best weather wise, so I'm hoping June brings some warm weather and sunshine. Here's what I've been up to,

Sun, strawberries, and a nice morning read. I started reading this book and if you are a fashion fanatic or interested in the industry, I highly recommend it! It's funny, informative, and inspiring. 

One of my goals for this summer is to learn to sew properly. So, I am making it happen, starting simple with a swing dress. I enjoy it and wish to be better at it, so hopefully this dress turns out nicely!

Feeling swish with a swirl cone on a summer night!

Celebrated Memorial Day with an afternoon BBQ.

Flower shopping with my mom to spruce up the gardens.

What have you been up to? Xx

Mother's Day | TBT

Hi lovely reader! Today I thought I'd do a throwback to a couple of Sunday's ago when it was  Mother's Day. This day is special to me as I am very close to my mom and she means the world to me. I've found that as I've gotten older and certain events have come up in life that I've began to take Mother's Day more seriously, meaning that I put the extra effort in to make it a special day for my mom, and remind her how much I love and appreciate her. I decided after this year that I am going to make a point to be with my mom on this day or an elected "Mother's Day" each year. Seeing as I went away to school, this year was to be the first year that I would not automatically be with her. However, I called my dad and we made arrangements that I would come in town and surprise her. So with flowers in hand I knocked on my back door an obnoxious amount of times and surprised the lovely women I call my mother. She was thrilled and said she had no idea, so the surprise was a success! On Sunday, we had a barbecue with at my house with my grandparents. The weather was super nice and we spent the afternoon sitting outside on the patio. I took a bunch of pictures that day, mostly personal ones, but I wanted to share some with you! 

(I saw this on tumblr and thought it was too cute not the share)

First, here is what I wore, I wanted to keep it comfy and casual but still look nice. Paisley printed pants, a white t-shirt, and tasseled sandals. I curled my hair and pinned it in a halo braid, and kept my jewelry minimal with some triangle earrings and a coordinate bangle bracelet. 

We started off the morning with some warm, flaky, icing covered cinnamon rolls. Yes! 

The lovely flowers for my lovely mom!

How did you celebrate Mother's Day? Xx

Flower Letter DIY

Hey lovely reader! Today's post is one I haven't done in a while, it's a DIY. A super simple yet cute project. I'm not gonna lie though, it can be a bit time consuming depending on how detailed you want it to be, so let's begin! 

All you need is a blank letter (the one I used was made of cork), silk flowers, and  a glue gun.

Next, take the silk flowers and cut the ends off, leaving a little stub that you will be able to place in the hot glue. 

Now the fun part! Take the flowers and go crazy, I personally didn't lay them out or anything, just went with the flow. Using your hot glue gun place the flowers however you like. 

And that's it! Like I said super simple, but I love how it turned out! 

Did you give this a go? I'd love to know! Xx

iPhone Snaps of the Week

Hi there lovely reader! Tomorrow is finally Friday! TGIF! I don't know about you but this week has been a long one for me. I'm looking forward to the weekend. I took some pics this past week of different stuff (wow that was descriptive) and thought I'd share. Enjoy!

6 Things I Want to Do This Spring

Hiya lovely reader! I hope your April is going well. With spring already here for some and hopefully on its way for others, I thought I would do a reflective post of things that I want to try and do more of this spring and in the future. This post is inspired by Tanya Burr's "10 Things I Want To Do" post that she did on her blog a while ago. I really do believe that it's always nice to step back and evaluate how your live is going and what you want to do. So here are 6 Things I Want to Do This Spring!

1. Fill my space with flowers: As I have mentioned before I love having fresh flowers around! Whether it's a small arrangement of flowers in a mason jar or a massive bouquet, flowers can really brighten the mood of a room. I know it can get quiet expensive so I want to grow flowers and use them rather than buy!

2. Sit outside and read: As of now, there have not been very many nice days to do this, but I am going to take advantage of every beautiful day in the future for sure! Sitting outside and reading a book or a magazine while disconnecting from technology is always a good thing to do, whether it be for half hour or two hours. Recently I have really gotten back into reading and it really gives me a chance to turn off everything else and just immerse myself in a story. Currently I am reading "The Fault In Our Stars" and it is out of this world amazing!

3. Wear Dresses Daily: I love springtime because during the day you can go out and you no longer need a big coat, you can feel a sense of freedom and not have to cover up whatever cute outfit you are sporting. This spring I want to wear more dresses, I have been buying a lot more skirts and dresses with the plan of wearing them during the day. For a while I would only wear dresses if I was going to something that called for a bit of dressing up. But the ones that I have been buying are casual enough that they can be worn during the day to just hang out in or go shopping or to the park and I plan to do exactly that! 

4. Take Time to Meditate Once a Day: I mentioned this in my "App-y Days" post but I downloaded this meditation app called Calm and I want to take time to use it once a day. I have been using it, just not as frequently as I would like. You simply put it on your device and a woman will talk to you and teach you how to meditate, you can unlock more types of meditation the more you practice. I have found that it has helped my anxiety and is a nice thing to do in the evenings or mornings. 

5. Try New Hairstyles: I haven been more versatile with the hairstyles that I do, rather than going with the simple ponytail or down and natural. I am becoming more careless with whether or not it's something other people are wearing. I'm doing it simply because I like it and I want to wear my hair like that. If I feel like wearing a big bow in my hair then I'm gonna wear a big bow in my hair, if I want to wear flowers then I'm gonna wear flowers. (Z SNAP) 

I will leave a few videos tutorials that have some more simple hairstyles I love to wear.  

Halo Braid

Quick and Easy

6 Styles

6: Take Tons of Pictures: Often times I will find myself in situations where I want to take a picture but hesitate wondering what will the people around me think, but going forward, if I want to take a picture of something then you can bet I'm gonna do it! If I think something is pretty or interesting and photo worthy then who is someone else to judge and who am I to care? My storage space, not theirs:) 

Spring Scents

Hi lovely reader! Spring is on its way and that means the flowers will be blooming, Cadbury cream eggs will go on sale, and it's time to break out some new perfume scents! For the spring time I love to wear fresh and floral scents. I thought I'd share three perfumes that I will be wearing this spring.

I realize that this isn't a perfume but it smells nice and is a perfect thing to have when transitioning from winter to spring. It is the L'Occitane Fleurs de Censier Cherry Blossom Hand Cream. This lotion smells amazing and also keeps your hands nice and soft! It's not greasy at all and absorbs into the skin very quickly.

The first of the two perfumes is Daisy by Marc Jacobs. I really love this scent for spring, seeing as it obviously has floral influences. "Fresh and feminine, with a playful innocence. The heart of Daisy is floral with vintage edge of violet." I was given this, so I am not exaclty sure if you can buy the ring. Along with Daisy I also like the fragarance called Eau So Fresh. "A whimsical interpretation of the original Daisy fragarance, this scent is more fruity, more bubbly, more fun!" The bottles for this and Daisy are so pretty!

This perfume I was also given, just recently and I really like it! See by Chloe, smells fresh and clean. It's described as embodying femininity "while blending masculine codes in an urban-chic way." Love it! 

What scents are you loving for spring? Xx

Dried Flowers DIY

Hi there lovely reader! Today I thought I'd share a little DIY that I recently tried.

I love flowers! I think that they can really add something to a room. Not only do they look nice, but they smell nice too. We all know that they don't last forever, they wilt and die, and that's that. So, I wanted to try to dry out some flowers that I was given for my birthday. They were also the backdrop for my March quote. I will leave the link that I used to learn how to dry the flowers. It has a step by step guide and even little video loops.  You can take a look at that and I'll also tell you what I did. I didn't end up drying all the flowers because some of them were beginning to look bad. What I did do though was use the petals.

I picked the petals off of three or four of the flowers and placed them on a paper towel on a baking sheet. I then took the flowers that I was going to dry, and followed these steps. I let both the petals and the flowers dry for about a week. 

I sprinkled the petals in the bottom of a glass jar. Then I took the flowers and cut them down to size, I arranged them somewhat by color, the lighter and smaller ones on the bottom and the bright bigger flowers on top. 

Personally I really like how it turned out. It's simple and sweet looking. I definitely want to try drying flowers again this spring! Have you dried flowers before? Xx

Baby Bliss

Recently I co-hosted a baby shower for an expecting family member. When the opportunity presented itself to help host the shower, I was more than willing to! I love planning parties and organizing everything to create a beautiful day. We asked the mommy-to-be for pics of her nursery to see if there was a theme we could use. Her nursery colors were a lime green and purple (she is having a girl) so we decided to set base everything around those shades. We knew we wanted to keep things quite classy and not super "Baby" or "It's a girl" since the nursery is not like that at all. This shower turned out to be very DIY which is the main reason I'm posting about it. I went online and of course went straight to blogs for inspiration! 

The first thing that caught my eye was a mommy-to-be sign hung on the back of her chair.

We cut card stock into three circles and wrote the words in a purple sharpie similar to her nursery color, then we matched a green ribbon and hot glued the circles to it. We tied it around the chair and finished it off with a nice bow.

The place card holders were my favorite item in the place settings. We had seen these online as a Mother's Day idea but thought that they would be perfect for the shower. They are alright if you only need a few but are not as fun TWENTY FLOWER POTS later. The finished product was adorable though so it was worth it:) 

All in all the shower was a success and the mommy-to-be was pleased with it which is all that matters!

If you have any questions or would like to know specific for anything please let me know in the comments:)