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2.26.2012

Beautiful Displays...

There are so many amazing and pretty ways to showcase your jewelry collection ladies!! Check out some of the amazing DIYs here...as well as some great blogs!!

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♡ DIY.DIY.DIYs♡

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Thank you to Censtational Girl...
this one just may make an appearance
in my new bedroom makeover!
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There are SOOOO many amazing and unique ideas out there for ways to organize your jewelry...imagination is everything!! For some other great ideas check out Broke & Healthy's blog post HERE....they have a collection of 50 different ideas and they link to all the original DIYs.

1.18.2012

Brooch Bouquets...

I am always drawn to vintage brooches...I even have a lucky brooch that I will wear when going to an important audition, either in my hair if an up-do or just somewhere on my outfit.

that is the brooch, a bow with a pearl drop,
and yes, I am wearing it in a wig.

Being newly engaged my eye is definitely out for inspiration for my future wedding and while researching I have come across a lot of vintage brooch bouquets! There are some truly amazing ones out there...and what a special and everlasting idea for the bride's bouquet.

I love this beautiful brooch bouquet...the color combination is amazing!

This beauty is featured on Intimate Weddings (fyi: a great site for wedding planning and inspiration)

The previous and the following bouquets were all made by Fantasy Floral Design

("home of the brooch bouquets")

There is the pure rhinestone bling bouquet of brooches...

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and there is the colorful bouquet...

photography by: Alice Hu

there were so many on Fantasy Floral Designs that I had to post this one as well.

These brooch bouquets are also available on Etsy.com HERE

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The following three lovely bouquets are courtesy of Lionsgate Designs...found HERE on Etsy...

And last but not least....TopThisWedding, found HERE on Etsy.com

♡ DIY.DIY.DIY ♡

There is a great brooch bouquet DIY found at Fancy Pants Weddings site...find it here!

I hope that you have enjoyed this beautiful collection of vintage brooch bouquets...I just think they are so pretty.

1.15.2012

I (heart) Credenzas....

So back in March 2011 my fiancé and I moved from a bachelor apartment (YES, a bachelor) into a 1 bedroom apartment!! We were so excited to actually have a living space separate from our bedroom and even more excited to start from scratch with our interior design!!
We began with kitchen... a makeover post that I will post at a later as we just purchased the finishing touch at a thrift shop ;)
Then we moved on to the living room.
I have so much love for beautiful credenzas so we began shopping around...we went to so many antique stores and vintage furniture shops and then one day at Value Village I found something I thought would work...it needed a lot of work, and it wasn't EXACTLY what we were looking for BUT it was $4.99!!! How could I just leave it there?? So here is what it looked like....MINUS those fabulous doors...

We bought it without the doors and I figured we could just custom cut something to make doors or leave it open....BUT THEN we ventured into a funky vintage shop nearby and didn't we find the EXACT same unit...but 40$ more in price and WITH the doors...we did some wheelin' and dealin' and bargained with the shop to give us just the doors!! It was then we knew that it was total fate for us to own this unit!!

We took it home and started doing research on how to refinish this fake laminate wood...we thought about keeping it as is but it didn't really go with the rest of our room so we figured out what we needed to do and voila...this is the finished product...

A deep deep dark eggplant color...and all the original hardware! We love love love it!! All it took is two layers of a special primer and then two good layers of this super awesome color! (It looks a little more purple in this pic than it actually seems in real life!)

So that is my credenza story... before our purchase of the $4.99 unit I was doing a lot of research on the different styles... I fell in love with so many...I'll share just a few...