Unique Cupcake Tower, Guest Book, Baseball, Butterflies, Flowers & Frames!

Suspended Cupcake Tower

Saw this for the first time a while back and I stumbled upon it again looking for something. This is soooo cool!

Guest Book Idea

This would be such a neat keepsake to have from your wedding and quite useful, just transfer birthdays to a new calendar the next year.

Batter Up Party

I love anything baseball! This party is so cute and I love the chalk scoreboard!

Butterflies

So cute! Pretty simple, just need a craft punch and it looks like they just stapled them on! I just love the 3-D effect!

Flowers on the outside of the vase!

This is really unique and super easy...of course it comes from the one and only Martha. Might have to use this for a certain graduation party or 60th bday party this summer!

Frames

A little paint, some frames and some candle holders. Really cute for displaying frames and photos.

My Favs this Week...

Origami Heart Lollipops! Sooo cute! Zakka Life

I love this invitation! Hip Hip Hooray!

Coolest Dining Room Ever!! I'm going to have sooo many pictures in my house and I'm always looking for cool ways to display them! A Thoughtful Place

Halloween Costume? haha I'm always on the look out for easy DIY costume ideas..all year long.

Lullaby Lubbock

I love this front door decor...I pretty much adore all ideas that use embroidery hoops it's really really clever and so cute! The Black's Best

These are sooo awesome! I'm pretty sure any kid would like these and you could make pink masks and capes for the girls too! Zakka Life

Really simple and soooo cute! It is What it is

Unique, inexpensive and you could do so much with this! CD sleeves filled with M&Ms if you couldn't tell! It is What it is

I also love bottle cap crafts! And I'm always looking for good gifts for guys too! I'm definitely trying this one out for sure! Etsy

This is amazing! Looks pretty simple too. Of course...I LOVE it! haha

I totally wish I would've seen this a week ago, since I just went to a baby shower yesterday! Great idea giving gifts for mommy and baby!

Riffraff...So Amazing!

Riffraff - Fayetteville, Arkansas

What you'll find there: Home decor, boutique clothing, jewelry, gifts, and so much more!

I LOVE this amazing store! Like I said in my last post when I mentioned it, never have I ever once thought about visiting the state of Arkansas but after discovering this blog I catch myself trying to find some reason to make a trip there. But actually in all honesty I think I would probably go there just for this store! haha It's that awesome! I went back through the blog to find aaaallll of my favorites to share! Some of their products have even inspired some of my own projects...because you know, "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!"

I love this dresser!

This would make a simple DIY gift, just need a little puffy paint and some dishes/coffee cup!

Fayetteville is a college town and they are very school spirited and full of tradition! I would love to see a store with product like this open up in Fresno to promote support for Fresno State!

That University of Arkansas subway art inspired my own version that I gave to my cousin Blake for graduation.

This was inspiration for a frame I made for my cousin Mia's 5th birthday!

Some friends & family might recognize these from Christmas! They seemed to be a hit and I loved them so much!

One of the things I absolutely love the most is that they are very vocal and supportive of buying local & supporting the community. They have great community spirit over there and the shopping center this store is in is always doing some sort of event, like an open house type of event that all the stores participate in or halloween trick or treating for the kids in the community! It just seems like a great store and a great atmosphere! I'd love to check it out in person some day!

p.s. I got to go to Hobby Lobby for the very first time! I looove it there!! Michaels, meets Joanns, meets Home Goods...in my opinion it's the best place on earth! I only wish it wasn't 45 mins away in Visalia but oh well I think it's definitely worth it! I'll have to share some of the super fun stuff I bought in my next post!

New Idea!

I've decided that my new blog goal is to post at least once a week and in order stay on task I will be posting my favorite and/or all of my weekly crafty, baking, or whatever findings on the internet!

Last fall I discovered Google Reader and I love it! It has made surfing the blog world so much more convenient and enjoyable! I thought it would help me to be more organized when it comes to where I find things and keeping better track of that sort of thing. In some ways it has helped but the farther back things go the harder it is to find it. So now for my newest idea... I will keep my photos filed in weekly folders and post where I find them. Voila! A nice new system for archiving aaaalllll of the amazing ideas that I find. So hopefully this will work. I can't make any promises but since I already check my Google Reader multiple times a day it shouldn't be too hard to get into the routine of sitting down and posting the pictures for the rest of the world (or who ever stops by my little blog) to see.

Kisses to you

I'll kick things off with that so darn talented Bakerella! I do a lot of cookie pops and the thought never occurred to me to slip one of those really cute paper straws I keep seeing everywhere, over the regular, plain, boring lollipop stick for added fun, color and design! Brilliant! Love it!

DIY Candy Box

A new, instant favorite of mine is a site called, Modern Moments. Really cute, inexpensive way to give candy. She also features one using M&M's too! So simple!

Riffraff:....and it just keeps coming!

I sure have a lot of favorites and this is just another one to add to the list. After discovering this blog I caught myself thinking: "I would sooo visit Fayetteville, Arkansas just to be able to go to this store!" haha Yup you guessed it, Riffraff is located in Arkansas and I never ever in a million years have even once considered a trip there until after finding this blog. I couldn't tell you how I found this one, even if my life depended on it, but I'm so glad I did! It's my idea of the perfect store, crafty/artsy stuff mixed with trendy boutique clothes! Check out some of my favorite things from here, that I've found in the past in my next post. There were just too many to add to this entry!

Looove this Robot Candy Valentine I found on eighteen25! So cute and you don't need a lot of candy for a great presentation!

Super clever! I hope I have a reason to make a sailboat cake someday! I found this on Blonde Designs Blog.

Heart Shirt

If you know me at all you may have noticed that I really love to wear plain white v-neck shirts day to day. It's actually not the most fashionable pick in my wardrobe but they're just really comfy and I always end up wearing them to work a lot. Another plus to having so many of these in my closet is that when I stumble across a really cute idea for a DIY shirt I already have an inexpensive shirt lying around and I don't care about ruining if it doesn't work out so well. And another plus...I get to take a pretty boring plain shirt and hopefully turn it into something kind of cute!

As always, this is not an original idea that I can call my own, so here's the inspiration behind my latest creation:

found these here

So I grabbed a white shirt and went to work...everything I used was just lying around.

Plain White T-Shirt

Fabric Paint (I just used some puffy paints)

Heart Shaped Cookie Cutter

Paint Brush

I chose school colors but now I want to do another one with either purple or teal.

Of course I had to slap on a few polka dots and a couple of rhinestones...even a tiny bit of glitter in there too!

Not bad for a Sunday afternoon of crafting while watching a little Laguna Beach and now watching the Golden Globes Red Carpet as I type this.

:) Happy Sunday all! Hope everyone has a terrific week. School starts on Thursday for me, so let's all cross our fingers that I don't neglect my blogging hobby completely!

Awww Man! That Was My Favorite Headband!

Broken. :(

I'm pretty sure I made this headband like, two years ago. I loooved it so. But a couple of weeks ago I went to wear it and well you could probably draw your own conclusions from the picture.

It may not look so hot here but I promise it was really cute and it was my favorite! Here was my inspiration, two years ago or so on The Hills:

Whitney Port's Headband

Erika Pena - Healy Headband

$665

I searched everywhere for this headband, or even something similar. Nothing. I ended up finally finding the exact one but of course it was waaay over my budget so I did what I always do in that situation...I came up with my own. Hers is a lot prettier than mine. It's made of a bunch of swarovski crystals. Maybe if I had the patience I could use millions of tiny rhinestones but I don't so my version will just have to do.

I found some really awesome fabric that had shiny gold detail to it and then it came time to decide what I was going to use for the round disc-like pieces. I just so happened to look into the hall closet full of all kinds of junk and found a box of poker chips. I covered the poker chips with the fabric, just a little hot glue on the back and added a rhinestone in the middle of each one. Pretty easy. Then I had to place the headband on my head to figure out placement but that was about it.

The next project at the top of my list is to re-make this headband because I loooove it and really really miss it!