Monthly Archives: January 2012

a little upholstery re-do

The no. 1 rule to decorating your home is to make decisions. Don’t be afraid to commit to something because guess what? You can always change it after you’ve lived with it for a while and realized that it’s not your cup o’ tea. I am a true believer of this rule and I’ll be the first to admit when I’ve flubbed on a design. BUT I won’t just change it right away, I’ll let it sit for a month or so until I really know how much I hate it. Do you remember my Hepplewhite chair of yore?

I bought this chair for $14 at a flea market almost 2 years ago, then a few months later I settled on a paint color, then after months and months and months I chose the “perfect” fabric, and then after 8 months of staring at my finished product I wasn’t quite satisfied. I loved the bright white frame, and the bold pattern of the fabric, but something just wasn’t right.

While I was home for Christmas I found a mecca of designer fabric remnants I’d been hoarding in my old closet and had forgotten all about. While digging through some beauties [that I can't wait to use for other projects] I found this little gem..

Mmmm now what’s not to love? It’s a fun twist on chevron, it’s navy, and it’s F. Schumacher. It also retails for $80/yd to the trade but I got it fo free! And it just happened to be the perfect size for the seat of my chair. Can we say meant to be? Youbetcha! So I removed the previous not-doing-much-for-me fabric.

And wrapped my new [old] fabric around the seat cushion and stapled away.

I was sure to center the chevron points with the middle of the seat of my chair, otherwise the uneven pattern would drive me bonkers!

So much better right? I just love the contrast of the navy with the bright glossy white paint. I’m not in love with that pillow as a permanent feature on this chair, but that’s how it looks right now, so we’ll see what happens in a couple of months. Or sooner if I can light a fire under my butt to start sewing some pillows from the stack of fabric I have collecting dust.

all the cool kids wear socks in their hair

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I’ve been known to sport the occasional giant bun on top of my head. What can I say? I like the extra inch it gives me.

People [mostly strangers now that I think of it] always ask me how I get such a perfect bun, and if my hair is miles long. It isn’t, it’s all just an illusion. And now you too can fool ~~your friends~~ strangers into thinking you’re part Rapunzel:

Step One: Start out with your hair down. Obvy.

Step Two: Put your hair up to the ponytail height you desire. Remember the higher the hair the closer to God. Oh wait, that’s just in Texas.

Step Three: Take an old sock close to your hair color that has previously lost it’s mate, and cut off the toe.

Step Four: Start rolling the sock as tight as you can.

Step Five: Keep rollin’ rollin’ rollin’

Step Six: Pretty soon you’ll have a nice little donut. I like a big bun, so my donut is about 3″ in diameter, but if you want a smaller bun then either use a smaller sock or don’t roll it as much and cut the rest off.

Step Seven: Slide your ponytail through your sock donut, like so:

Step Eight: Bring the sock donut to the end of your ponytail and spread the ends of your pony around the sock like a palm tree.

Step Nine: Now roll the sock down your ponytail while tucking your hair under it as you roll. This part is difficult if you have layers and will look a little crazy about halfway down, but trust me it’s going to look fly. Also be sure to make a crazy serious face because bun rolling is no laughing matter.

Step Ten: Keep rolling until you can’t roll anymore. Remember to tuck as you go.

And voila! You have a totally awesome bun.

This is a favorite look of mine when either A. I want to look way cooler than I am or B. I really don’t feel like doing my hair. And the fun part is, you’ll never know if I’m feeling lazy or awesome. Bam.

ch-ch-ch-changes

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As you’ve probably already noticed we’ve made a few little changes to the ol’ blog. We get a lot of emails from people asking about specific projects or where to find the how to guides. So we decided to make everything a little more user friendly! On our side bar you’ll now find this little gem:

Here all of our most popular series are listed where you will find anything and everything. We used to just link to the category which was nice if you knew the name of every post, but I’m pretty sure even I don’t remember all of them. So for the more visual people out there, we’ve added photos of all of our projects, outfits, recipes, etc. Some of our favorite new additions look like this:

Any project we’ve ever done will now be listed under the “diy projects” tab for your reference [and ours]. Another addition was the “what i wore” page which shows any and all of the outfits I’ve worn in the past, for your shopping/styling convenience.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Right? If there’s anything that we haven’t included that you like to reference back to let us know so that we can add it to the list, or if any of the links aren’t working please tell us so that we can fix them in a jiff! We want to make our blog user friendly for everyone, and don’t worry there are a lot of projects and tutorials on the horizon. I can’t wait to share them with you!

what i wore: bug-a-boo

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dress {c/o langford market}, sweater {old navy}, shoes {payless}, belt {thrifted ralph lauren}, necklace {thrifted}, bracelet {c/o langford market}, watch {michael kors}, ring {kate spade}

So the other day some of my Reps took me out to lunch for Indian food. It was some much needed girl time with lots of wedding talk, you know.. the usual. About halfway though the meal I noticed that there was a bug in my drink. It was dead and sitting on an ice cube, but nonetheless it was still a big bug.. in my drink. I didn’t want to be rude and interrupt our fun conversation or gross anyone out with my discovery. So I just kept eating my crazy spicy food, knowing I could never sip any of the iced beverage that sat a few inches away. Yes. I am that awkward. Don’t worry, as soon as I got back to the office I downed my nalgene bottle like it was my job.

wedding wednesday: engagement photo sesh

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It’s the moment ~~you’ve~~ we’ve all been waiting for! Our engagement photos are officially up! Below are some of our favorites, but you can view the whole gallery here.

WARNING: before you scroll down, prepare to see a whole lot of PDA. I mean we’re in love for crying out loud!

All images from Lynsey Creative