Spring Scarves

Scarves have become one of my most favorite/coveted accessories. In the winter - I wear them with every single outfit. I have black ones, sparkly ones, colorful ones, infinity ones, cowl ones and grandma looking ones. 

I've recently realized that there are some scarves in my collection that can be worn longer than just during the cold winter months. And since my office building is the same temperature all year round (freezing) I don't get too many weird looks wearing them. 

Here is one way I wore my scarf into Spring. 

Make any scarf a spring time scarf by tying it into a fun little bow. 

Just like you would tie your shoes - tie the scarf! 

Check out some other Spring time scarves I found on pinterest!

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So many cute styles/colors.

I need each piece in my closet asap. 

Which is your favorite?? 

Weekend Recap + Shabby Spring Bunting

This weekend started a little early on Friday. I picked up a few extra hours throughout the week and had to stay late for an open house one night, so I was pushing over time and decided to leave early Friday.

Saturday was a hang at home all day kind of day. 

It was showering and thunder-storming all day, so it was the perfect opportunity to do a little spring cleaning and spring crafting! 

I mainly organized and cleaned out the hobby room. It's crazy how quickly it can turn into a hot mess! 

I still have an abundance of black feather boas from our wedding that I need to find something to do with. 

I'm thinking probably a Halloween wreath and maybe some garland on the Christmas tree? Any other ideas?

I'm also looking at doing something with these beauties! Besides these colors, I have a ton more grey, brown, and black buttons. I'm thinking about spray painting some metallic silver and incorporating them into our bedroom decor somehow.

After a little organizing, I joined the hubby in the living room with some fabric while he watched the draft. [Go Cowboys!]

 

I cut 4"x 2" blocks of some 'springy' fabric.

 Then I cut them into various shapes and left them with a raw edge which gives it a more shabby look. 

My complete Spring mantle!

I don't know how I feel about the leopard and I'm wishing it had more pink in it, but other than that I'm loving it and I'm impressed with how easy it was. 

We ended the weekend at the zoo with CT's little cousin. It's insane how crazy Kansas weather is: freezing during the week, rainy on Saturday, and 75 and sunny on Sunday! 

We had a really good time! 

It's even better when you can return the child to their parents and then come home and take a nap. Oh the joys of not having kids and borrowing them for the afternoon!

Linking up with Sami.
Linking up with Jamie
Linking up with Jamie.
Linking up with Cheryl.

Weekend Madness

Today and tomorrow are pretty crazy around here for me.  

Between going to CT's little cousins basketball tournament, a co-workers baby shower today, church, and a work meeting tomorrow. I hope I have sometime to accomplish some chores and crafts! 

Last night I had some free time to whip up part of my baby shower gift for today.

I made this taggie blanket in white minky and grey chevron. 

[tutorial at a later date]

I also broke out my colorful springy fabric that Im going to use to make Spring bunting for our mantel.

I need to hurry and get this hung up before we skip right over Spring into Summer! 

I also picked up these beauties at the store yesterday. 

  

I am excited to play around with them and see if I can come up with something cool for next weeks nail files.

Have a good weekend!

Linking up with Sami.

Nail Files [3]

TGIF!!

Thank goodness it's Friday! Thankfully the week flew by, but it doesn't help that the weekends fly by that much faster. 

I think we should have a universal 4 day work week and 3 day weekend! Who's with me?

Anyways, linking up with Tara today to showcase my weekly manicure! 

 In the midst of all this bi-polar weather here in Kansas, I needed some spring colors for a little pick me up.

Purple- Let's Talk

Turquoise- Rise&Shine

These nails were definitely not 'dress code' appropriate but I got away with it for the week! [muahahaha]

I am a fan of these Sinful Colors. 

They are cheap and they have tons of different colors to choose from. The last time I was at walmart it looked as though they had just got in 30 or so new choices. I really like that most of these polishes go on matte but if you put a top coat on it quickly makes them shine.

Crafting: Colored Glass

While scrolling through Pinterest, I kept seeing really cool colored glass: mason jars, wine bottles, everything! I knew that they would look perfect on my mantel for Spring. 

I went thrift store shopping to find the perfect peices to freshen up with some color. 

I ended up going to two different Goodwill's and spent a total of $20 on all 4 glass bottles. I love the vintage-ness of all of them!

I came across a tutorial by Lucy at Craftberry Bush on how to make colored glass. I followed her exact directions and came up with these beauties! 

I used McCormicks neon food coloring in purple, green, and blue and used the ratio of 1 tsp of elmers glue : 3 drops of food coloring : 1.5 tsp of water. 

Since I was only doing one glass object in each color, I had a lot of mixture left over after. I used the method of painting the mixture on the glass from bottom to top. The tutorial says to brush it on top to bottom, but when I did that it would gather at the bottom and not look good. Brushing it bottom to top made it easier to get excess mixture off the glass. 

What's nice about this is if you don't like how it looks you can always wash it off with water and start over! 

Just a reminder, try not to go over it that much. One/two coats is the best to keep it from clumping together. Also, less mixture on your brush is better. This way there is less of a chance of having it run down the glass causing streaks.

Linking up with Young & Crafty and Skip to My Lou and Coastal Charm

and It's Good to Be Queen