Pretty, oh so pretty

This is a flower post.

Nothing too exciting but makes me happy and since Spring is in the air, I did a little flower tour of what I’ve got going on right now.

$8 Grocery Store Tulips.

I’ve made it my goal to always have fresh flowers in the house. It’s so much more fun that way

My two gorgeous orchids.

It’s hard to capture in a still, but these petals actually sparkle. Love them.

PS - Does anyone want to buy me a macro lens? I’ll pay you, in craft skills!

“Lady, do you ever stop taking pictures? I mean you’re taking pictures of plants for gosh sakes.”

Oh, and check this out. Looks like a Welcome Mat right?

Well, it is but it also appears to be a little garden!

See what I mean? There are actually little plants growing in my back porch welcome mat. They are miniscule and it’s pretty cool.

The Junior Museum

A few weeks ago when Kim & Josh were in town we went to the Jr. Museum. Well I guess technically it’s the Tallahassee Museum of History and Natural Science. But since I’ve been going for more than  20 years now, we’ve always called it the Jr. Museum.

Anywho, it was the same as it always is, and I still love it.

Josh testing his flight skills.

Deer watching.

Why, hello darling.

Nope, not Jacob the werewolf.

Bobcat

This is a lake. There is hardly any water left in it.

Me and Kimbo

These look really cool when there’s water in the lake.

Uncle Ronnie, Josh, David

The Lau fam.

Oh yes, I’m a wild woman taming a gator!

I love cows.

Would ya look at those pearly whites!

Josh in the sinkhole.

We had some laid back fun. Can’t wait to take my kids (that I obviously don’t have yet) here one day!

Fabric Button Earrings

I was determined to do something tonight instead of sit around and watch tv like usual.

So after a quick browse of my To DIY Pinterest board, I went to Hobby Lobby after work and picked up some supplies to make the Fabric Button Earrings I saw on Casa de Lewis blog.

Sada’s earrings came out so cute and it seemed relatively easy so I figured I’d sit in front of the tv and at least be productive and make something.

Casa de Lewis version

My version

I bought a handful of fabrics at the minimum I could get, 1/8th of a yard. It ended up being about $.61 per fabric. Cheap enough.

Especially since I can make at least 10 earrings from each fabric. Probably more.

Oh, and I bought the gold for some FSU ones, but it ended up being too thin and didn’t sit right on the earring so I didn’t use it.

Remove the piece used to sew the button since you will be hot gluing it to an earring back.

Ready to be made from buttons into earrings.

Simply glue on the backings from the earring pack.

Trying to model the black and white ones…but instead Remi photo bombed.  

And one more time because they’re so cute!

Birthdays & Boots

Last weekend was my favorite one year old’s birthday party!

Miss Savannah turned 1 and Renee & TJ threw a birthday bash in their new house!

Sweet girl.

Her big brother Brody keeping an eye on things.

My Party Outfit

Shirt: Target

Jeggings: Forever 21

Boots: Dillards

Side note on the boots, these babies were $149 at Dillards, then marked down to $52, then an additional 40% off. They came out to about $33 tax, tag and title. I couldn’t not take them home with me  

They are the Arturo Chiang Enlighten Boots. 

Now I’m officially set on boots forever. I have new brown ones and new black ones and I’ll never need to buy another pair again!

My New Longchamp Bag

Long-CHamp? Long-shomp?

I don’t know how to pronounce it, but I know I like it!

My SIL Kimbo has this bag and I drool over it and pet it every time I see her.

So I finally bit the bullet and bought myself one!

Last week I ordered the Longchamp Le Pliage bag in black.

It was more than I think I’ve ever spent on a purse, but I decided to treat myself and buy the real deal instead of a poorly made knockoff. (Which I do often on designer bags)

It wasn’t that much in the scheme of purses, but for me and my normal purse budget, it was a lot!

So anywho, I bought it last week and it came in today! I LOVE it 

Can’t wait to fill her up!

I have everything shipped to my parents’ house when I order stuff because their house is more secluded and mine is right by my road and I don’t want my stuff to get picked up!

So I went to go get it today and Cole (my brother) was there and this is how the conversation went as I opened it on the counter.

Me: Oh I’m SO excited!

Cole: Is that another pair of shoes?

Me: Nooo!

(Who do you think I am, hoarder of all things shoes?)

Me: It’s a purrrrse!

Duh!

Cole: Grrrreat.

Sees the weird green box it came in.

Cole: That’s the stupidest purse I’ve ever seen! How much did you pay for that?

Me: Umm…that’s not the purse, that’s the box and more than I’ve ever spent on a purse!

He starts guessing numbers.

I ultimately tell him and he laughs and shakes his head and is thankful he was not born a girl.

When I finally got it open he laughed again because it came out packed like this!

About a total size of 4x6”.

Then he got to say again, okay that really is the stupidest purse I’ve ever seen.

I had to explain the coolness of it then that it is packaged that way but that it turns into this!

Boys, they’ll never understand