{What I Wore} Coral Stripes and Turquoise

Happy Tuesday y’all… I’m totally going out of my comfort zone today and doing a fashion post of what I wore for Mother’s Day.  This is not my typical post – usually I’m dressing up something around my house and I’m comfortably behind the camera so throw me a bone, mmmkay?  Here we go.

I bought this dress from Forever 21 last year sometime… and it hung in my closet ever since cause I just couldn’t get over the length (or lack thereof).  I threw proper hemline length out the window on Sunday cause I felt like wearing a fun colorful dress on Mom’s Day and by golly, this was the one.  The wide coral stripes were the perfect pop of color!

I paired the dress with a turquoise and wood necklace set that I bought at a $5 jewelry sale (heck yeah) and then threw on my fave brown Franco Sarto sandals from Ross.  All I’m missing is a little bit of color on my pasty tree trunks.  Lordy, get me some self-tanner, would ya?

I love this pic and how the top of my head is cropped out.  My adorable seven year old was my photographer this Sunday;  I asked her to zoom in on the necklace and stripes and this is the end result.  She was so excited to get to take pictures… even though I ended the photo session early when my neighbor came outside.  Baby steps on the being in front of a camera thing (especially when the neighbors are watching)…

I hope you had a fashionable, fabulous Mother’s Day!

{Organization} Jewelry Storage

Hey hey friends!  It’s so good to finally be back to share a project with you – this having two kids in two different sports thing is really putting a damper on my to-do list… but it has been fun to watch them each embrace a team sport and make new friends so it’s all worth it, right?  (And season ends soon – woohoo!)

So I have one of those ClosetMaid storage systems in my closet to help corral purses and scarves, and it had turned into a drop zone for all of my accessories (not in a good way).  I finally decided to tackle the tangled mess and organize my jewelry once and for all.

After saying I would DIY a frame for my jewelry for about a year and never getting around to it, I finally just gave in and bought this one at Hobby Lobby (for 50% off).  It was a great solution to my mess of accessories.  And for the sake of keeping it real, here ya go:

I’d love to have a “real” piece of furniture here but my closet is just too small so this will have to do for now.  I’ve thought of a few little ways to spiff up this particle board masterpiece, but in all honesty, who really cares?  It’s in my closet.  It serves its purpose.  And Lord knows I have far better projects to work on… okay, well maybe I’ll just switch out the handles.

Riiiiight.

Anyhoo, here’s a few more pics:

The two Command Hooks on the side keep seasonal scarves at the ready and the vintage glass bowl holds extra long necklaces and additional flower brooches.

Like any good control freak organizer, my baubles are arranged in a ROYGBIV colourway.  It makes me very happy to look at my spectrum of costume jewelry, and it makes it easy to accessorize when I’m getting dressed.  I find I’m wearing my jewelry more now that it’s organized and accessible.

There are so many other great ideas out there for jewelry organization.  Have you come up with any great ideas?

Well helloooooo!

Hey there!  Just poppin’ in to say hi so it doesn’t appear that I’ve completely fallen off the face of planet!

I had such great plans to post last week and then our cable and internet went down for three days so there went that idea.  We finally had service restored on Friday but then the weekend quickly followed, with a schedule packed with soccer, softball and birthday parties so there was no time for fun stuff.

I then sat down to write a post tonight about my latest organization project and BAM! – someone formatted her camera memory disk before she imported her pics of said organization project so there went that idea as well.

Goodness, y’all.

I will hopefully get some pics taken later this week so I’ll have more to share with you… at least tomorrow’s hump day.

Can I get an amen?

{Recipe} Banana Split Pie

Is it Monday already?  Man, did this Easter weekend fly by or what?!  I spent a lot of time at my church this weekend, singing in our five Easter services on Saturday and Sunday – it was powerful worship each and every time so I am pooped!  Sunday afternoon was spent with Mr. home.made.’s side of the family – I brought my Banana Split Pie, a rich dessert reminiscent of the ice cream favorite.  Today I’m sharing the recipe with you!

I got this recipe from a former coworker of mine a while back and have made it multiple times.  It never disappoints!

Ingredients:

• 2 c graham cracker crumbs
• 1 stick butter, melted
• 2 packages of cream cheese, softened
• 1 package of powdered sugar
• 1 tsp of vanilla
• 4-5 bananas, sliced lengthwise
• 5-7 large strawberries, sliced
• 1 20 oz.can crushed pineapple, drained
• cool whip or homemade whipped cream
• chopped pecans
• sliced maraschino cherries

Instructions:

1. Prepare crust: combine graham cracker crumbs and butter in a bowl until well-blended.  Press mixture into a 9x13 pan; place in refrigerator to chill.
2. Beat powdered sugar, cream cheese, and vanilla on medium speed until smooth; spread over crumb mixture.
3. On top of cream cheese layer, placed sliced bananas, crushed pineapple, and strawberries.
4. Spread Cool Whip on top; sprinkle with pecans and cherries.
5. Refrigerate for a minimum of 4 hours before serving.

Serves 12-14

I will warn you that this stuff is pretty hard to stop eating once you start, so make sure there are no leftovers… (mine are in my fridge calling my name right now).  I happily devoured this portion when the photo session ended.  nomnomnom

Here’s to a delicious week!

 

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White and Brass Dresser Makeover

Happy Good Friday everyone!  I promised I’d show you more of my daughter’s dresser makeover last week when I revealed her Golden Mirror Makeover, so here it is:

This dresser came from my mother-in-law’s aunt; she was having an estate sale and my MIL sent me a picture of the dresser and asked if I wanted it.  It was a Bassett piece in great condition for only $50, so I said yes!

I decided to not do chalk paint this time around because I knew I wanted to paint this dresser white and although I love chalk paint, the pure white color is not my favorite.  Instead, I primed and painted with Martha Stewart’s Picket Fence White color-matched in Glidden Paint. 

Although my daughter originally wanted some fun, colored knobs, she decided she liked the original brass ones so we kept them.  The brass goes well with her golden mirror and with some other gold/brass accents in her room.

This room is slowly coming along, little by little.  One of these days I’ll give you a full reveal, but for now here’s just a peek as you walk into her room: pink feather boa wreath on the door, newly painted white and brass dresser, and all of the accessories that a little girl must have.  She’s a princess…

Hope you have a great Good Friday!  I’ll be heading to work while the rest of my fam enjoys the day off… boo!

Duck Tape Office Tray

I started a new job about a month ago and with it will come a new office space… meaning a new office space that will need décor, right?  My office is still empty right now, a boring beige shell, so I thought I’d make a fun office tray out of a plain wooden tray and some fun duck tape.  The end result is a snazzy inbox for my future work digs!

I started with a basic wooden tray and duck tape that I bought with a coupon at JoAnn’s.

I chose metallic gold and green moroccan trellis duck tape for this project, although the selection of patterns was pretty incredible.  I obviously have been living under some sort of duck tape rock and had no idea that it came in so many colors and patterns.  And I call myself a crafter…

Anyhoo, this project was super simple.  I simply cut the duck tape and applied.

Okay, it was a little more involved than that, but not much.  I added the gold tape to the straight sides first, then cut strips of the trellis tape to line the interior of the tray, lining up the pattern to make it continuous.  I smoothed the edges of the tape with the back of my fingernail to help it adhere.

The ends with the handles were a little trickier.  I traced the curved portion onto the tape and cut out, cutting into the tape in the curve of the handle so I could wrap the tiny pieces around the interior of the handle.

And that was it – easy peasy.  Now I have a fun little place to collect papers and inter-office mail all while adding some color and a little nod to Liberace in my boring beige office space.  Can’t wait to move in!

Have you made over anything with Duck Tape?  Surely I’m not the only person who didn’t know all these colors existed!

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{Design Inspiration} Peacock Blue

Happy happy Monday lovelies!  We had a great weekend complete with sleeping in on Saturday because there was no soccer this week (yay!) and a family hike on Sunday.  I put away my to-do list this weekend and just enjoyed my family… it was fabulous.  And now I’m ready to get back to that list (HA!), beginning with a sweet little retro desk that I scored last weekend from a swap page.  I’m envisioning a peacock blue makeover with gold accents… here is some of the inspiration for this project.

Guest Bedroom via Young House Love

Nursery via On to Baby

Via Visual Comfort

Via TJAnderson Homes

Via Country Living

So whaddya think?  Peacock Blue for the win?

This week will be filled again with work and soccer and softball, but I have hope that I’ll be able to get started on the desk.  There is a little bit of repair to be done, so maybe I’ll start there.  I’ll keep ya posted… have a great week!