Real Simple: Flower Arranging

Back in February I was reading an article in Real Simple, "Keep Flowers Alive Longer" and thought it was quite a useful idea. Two days later I received the beautiful flowers below from Elon and realized that I could put the article to use.

Day 1

Day 8:

The article encourages keeping all the flowers together and just changing the vases, but instead I just broke up all the flowers into different vases so I could have fresh flowers all over the house. I made four different arrangements.

Using the pretty Sophia Coppola Sparkling Wine bottle we drank on my birthday, I placed the three freshest roses I could find. I placed this new arrangement in the bathroom to brighten things up a bit.

I picked up this dandy little vase for $9 at Harmonie Boutique on Abbot Kinney in Venice. What I adore most about this vase is the self help grid for flower arranging novices like me. You just cut and stick, and magically the vase arranges the flowers beautifully for you. A great house warming gift!

I received this adorable vase from my best friend Cassie. It is a tricky vase to arrange flowers in, but once you find the right style, the color and shape really pop.

So go ahead, divide and conquer those flowers!

Have a Swanky Weekend!

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Forever Frugal Friday

While you are tending to your Spring cleaning, why not spring some of those nasty, thin workout tanks that you still are wearing the gym from your closet and pick up some new ones in various colors.

These Comfy Ribbed Tanks from Forever are just begging to head home with you. Trying to catch that special someones eyes at the gym? Well my friends, holey, stained wife beaters or your old over sized sorority/fraternity t-shirts probably won't get the job done. If not for the gym, they are perfect for layering or throwing on to take the dog out.

Wedding Inspiration Board Carnival Style

Snippet & Ink has done it again! Providing me with some much needed wedding inspiration heading into the weekend. I am not a fan of carnivals at all, but I am a fan of everything in this board. The colors, the pictures, the waiters tie...EVERYTHING! I especially am in love with the china ball lanterns, as Elon and I are trying to figure out right now what color we want to go with. All white? Some pink? Some yellow? Help?

GO COUGS!!!

We're taking on the Tar Heels today, and hoping to make it into the elite eight.

GO COUGS!!

Wino Wednesday

I picked up this bottle of Belvedere Chardonnay at Trader Joe's for $4.99. I am always on a hunt for a cheap, yummy Chardonnay. Unfortunately, this bottle was cheap, but not yummy. It was very acidic, overly tart and crisp and not for this lady. I would say spend the extra $5-$7 dollars and get the Cupcake Chardonnay :)

The Truth about Cupcakes

I was checking out my new favorite blog Cupcakes Take The Cake, that I was introduced to by my girlfriend Marge (still following me?), and laughed outloud when I saw the picture below.

photo by: Baked & Wired

Point taken

Short Wedding Dresses

I had the pleasure and honor of joining my girlfriend Jaime and her mom Kay, try on wedding dresses this past Saturday. Seeing as I purchased the first wedding dress I tried on, it was fun for me to see her try on some fabulous dresses. She ended up finding "the dress" and I cannot wait to see her in it on her wedding day! We found the winning dress (along with some other INCREDIBLE dresses) at an adorable bridal shop called The White Dress in Corona Del Mar. The store is bright and airy and the sales people were wonderfully sweet and helpful.

Upon entering the store my eyes were immediately drawn to the Melissa Sweet Mari dress below:

If money wasn't an object, I would have bought this dress to change into after dinner. Luckily for me, a future bride tried the dress on and I got to enjoy the fabulousness of it.

The White Dress had some other spectacular shorties, which had me recalculating my budget...at least in my head :)

Melissa Sweet Style: Nell

Melissa Sweet Style: Billie (I can soo see SJP sporting this number)

Platinum Style: P1218

Vineyard Style: Ricki

Although it is not a possibility for my wedding, I absolutely love the idea of a short wedding dress. It adds a little fun, flirti-ness and dare I say innocence? What do you think? Short wedding dresses, thumbs up or thumbs down?

Tasty, Tasty

I just tried the Apple Pie Larabar the other day and was quite impressed. It is a hearty bar, so I broke it up between two days. It's a perfect afternoon snack between lunch and dinner, and is just full of goodies. The bar has no added sugar, is also vegan, soy free, kosher, dairy free and gluten free...it is not however flavor free! I picked mine up at Trader Joe's for $1.29 and am venturing on to cherry pie this week.

Happy Easter

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