BUTTERFLY MURAL ♡

Never know what you're going to see driving around here! I love butterflies.



xo

SKETCHES ♡

I have a huge passion for Art. Sketching, painting, Photography, and beyond. It all interests me.

I'm not a natural artist (in my opinion), the kind of person who can draw anything on the spot with impeccable detail. I only wish I had such a talent. I do on the other hand have the ability to recreate anything I see in front of me with fairly good accuracy.

 

Like this, my most recent sketch I did while looking at my phone. I saw this picture on Instagram & liked it so much I was compelled to sketch it. I added the beauty mark I have and tryed to make the nose look more like mine.

A little closer view.

 This is a very old sketch of a rose I did free hand (yes I can occasionally turn out some good free hand) in a high school planner of mine. Probably circa 2003 or 4. I would have to go find the planner to verify, but it's packed somewhere.

 

^ THIS IS A PHOTO MY SISTER FOUND ONLINE SOMEWHERE & LOVED.

So I recreated it for her about 5 years ago when she was getting a new apartment.

 

 

This is the only picture I took of it after painting, and before giving. I could and should have spent more time on it. I rushed it and was done in 10 minutes. She loved it and hung it in her kitchen. :)

 

 

I do plan to start sketching and painting more. Stay tuned.

 

 

xo

 

 

HALLOWEEN FAUX BURNING CANDLES DIY ♡

EASY HALLOWEEN FAUX BURNING CANDLES DIY

You'll need:
Wrapping paper tubes or paper towel tubes or TP tubes, hot glue gun & glue sticks, flat black spray paint, and battery operated tea lights from Dollar Tree.
 Pretty and no fire danger!

 

After picking the perfect spot for each tube, I glued them together to stay in place, then hot glued around the rims (drippy & wax-like) & finished it off with a few coats of flat black spray paint.

before & after with battery operated tea lights.

Such a beautiful Halloween decoration! I almost wish I could keep it up all year long. The flicker of the tea lights is so realistic and lovely. I bought so many packs of tea lights @ the dollar tree. They're the best invention! The only thing I would change about my finished diy would be - to have only used the paper towl and wrapping paper tubes (taller/longer tubes). I used mainly toilet paper tubes & glued many together to make them taller, leaving a not so seamless look. But being October when I made this, I had a few months before wrapping paper season and used what I had.

I will definately be making more again this year! My house will be a flickering candle castle!

^ THIS IS THE PINTEREST PHOTO I USED AS A REFERENCE WHEN MAKING MINE.

 

 

 

 

Such a fun craft and beautiful outcome! Start saving your tubes & try it out.

 

 

 

xo

 

QUICK NAILS ♡

I did these nails last summer. The design was super easy and I love this color polish. <3

 

 

I used: Mood color changing nail polish (from Claires) & tape.

Lay tape onto your nails any which way you like, cutting designs into the tape if desired and then add color! Quick & cute :)

 

I used PEACEFUL/CONFIDENT (aqua/turqoise) color on the very left, top row. It changes with warm & cold water.

I also have the baby pink which is so pretty.

 

PHOTO FROM GOOGLE, sorry it's blurry.

 

 

xo

BEAUTY IS EVERYWHERE ♡

I found this Giant Leopard Moth or Eyed Tiger Moth taking a rest under my water hose. I had never seen such a beautiful moth, I had to get some pictures.

 

I turned the mist on & gave him a drink. He appreciated it.

 

Beauty is EVERYWHERE <3

 

 

xo

 

 

LEMON VASE DIY ♡

I love Lemons & I happen to have an old one laying around getting older. The skin was hard as a rock & it had shrunk so much I didn't think it was good for anything anymore. Until I remembered the pin I saw on Pinterest of the cutest vase using lemons! Another diy thanks to Pinterest!

This was last summer, so I only have a couple pics.

 

I'm hating myself now for not taking after pictures of the complete flower arrangement. I was probably so surprised there was actually anything inside my tiny shrunken lemon, haha. I finished it with some beautiful yellow Asiatic Lilies we have in our front yard.

 

I'll definately be recreating this as soon as they bloom this year, which should be soon. :) It was so simple and the after result was beautiful.

 

 yellow Asiatic Lilies, photo courtesy of GOOGLE.

 

 

All you need for this diy is:  A vase of your liking, another smaller filler vase or in my case I used a shot glass, And whatever you want inside. Just put the smaller vase within the larger vase (obvi) & filler up :)

 

Here are some pictures from PINTEREST using the "vase within a vase" method.

 

 

Mine most resembled this one^ :):)

 

 

 

 

& More ideas!

 

 

Limes with white flowers, so elegant

Wine corks

Magnets

Holiday fruits (Christmas)

Candies, tulips and eggies (Easter)

Candy corn with Autumn flowers (Halloween)

Pastel tulips & conversation hearts (Valentines)

Red Hots candies & red tulips. So pretty <3

Jelly beans, or any other candy. (Skittles, M&Ms, chocolate covered peanuts!) YUM

 

 

I Love this Vase Within A Vase concept! So many endless ideas. PINTEREST strikes again.

 

 

 

 

xo

ORANGE TEA LIGHT DIY ♡

I did this last summer.. when I first saw it on PINTEREST. (of course)
It was super easy, super FUN and super cute!

Here are my pics!

Excuse the messy counter. This was a year ago & I forget what I was making. Probably chicken salad, haha. (go-to chicken salad post for recipe)

So pretty & it actually works really well. (minus the tippy tips getting a little crispy after a while)

 

Just peel it the proper way (as I kindly did-not photograph). Keeping the long wic-like pulp strand in your orange for lighting.. like a wic.

 

Here are photo's from PINTEREST which are better at explaining.

 

 

 

 I LOVE this DIY! You can personalize it anyway you want. I didn't think about it at the time I made my jagged design in my orange, but you could carve just about anything into your orange peel. Names, flowers, cute phrases, stars, anything!

 

If you want it to last longer keep an eye on it and refill the oil.

 

Try it next time you eat an orange!

 

 

xo