Oh, Hello Friend

I almost forgot to post this yesterday! What I bad blogger!

I picked these lovelies up at the Patchworks Craft Fair from Oh, Hello Friend. She's a super sweetheart with the prettiest jewelry and the coolest finds on her blog. I've already wore the clover earrings out and totally g0t complimented. Sometimes I hate giving up the source of my cuteness but for Oh, Hello Friend I totally passed along the info!

Happy Friday!! :)

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Type Love

{images via francesco mugnai}

One of my daily design reads is Francesco Mugnai. I have found so many inspiring designers from this blog. Francesco always comes up with the most amazing collections of artist, artworks and designs. Enjoy!

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Heavenly Weekend: A Wedding + A Free Day

Wow! What a wonderful 3 day weekend! I do hope you all had fun things to do. It has been awhile since I have included some sort of wedding entry and I am kinda proud to share with you all that I attending a fantastic wedding on Saturday. A great friend of mine I went to High School with married the love of her life on the most beautiful day in May. Coincidentally my sister Nicole also attended a wedding for her best friend, Tammy, on the same day. Since I am Nicole's personal hair and makeup person, I got to use all my new Stila product on her! Super exciting stuff! The best thing I love about using Stila is that it never looks caked on or fake. It's always soft and natural.

The Wedding Reception was a blast! We all had so much fun drinking wine all night, dancing, and reminiscing back to our High School days. Sarah also used Tracey from The Flower Tray for her flowers so you can only image how beautiful the room looked. It was seriously a wonderful night with great friends.

On Sunday night, Nicole having her connections to the Wine and Food Festival at Disneyland, got us in to a Wine Reception. Which means we had more wine and more food for the weekend! We were running kind of late so by the time we got there we only had 45mins to hit up all the o'dourves and wine stations. Nicole and I drank 3 full glasses of wine and were feeling pretty nice and happy.... Too happy to go home to soon.

Today we celebrated Memorial Day with an early BBQ with the Fam Bam and hung around the house being lazy bums. Towards the afternoon we headed out to LB to watch the Laker game with some friends and to of course BBQ some more and eat! The game was too upsetting to watch. Argh! The Lakers better win the next one...COME ON LAKERS YOU CAN DO IT!!!

I hope you are all ready and rested for this short week!!! Here's to an AWESOME TUESDAY!


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Shoe Eatin' Dog!

{links & images via juliette merck}

Oh my! How freakishly cute are these! I don't know about you ladies out there but I think I would just faint if I saw my puppies chewin' on my beloved shoes. Marie Claire - France in collaboration with the talented Peter Lippmann know how to pull at our heart strings!

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Elizabeth Soule

We met Elizabeth Soule at Unique L.A. and totally fell in love with her work. Her lovely Polaroids and other prints are breath taking. I picked up a set of her postcards for safe keeping until I can pick what print I'd like to own from her etsy shop. She is quite amazing and talented for sure.

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More Things You Gotta Love

Just a few things I picked up at Patchworks Craft Fair. Of course I had to stop by and visit my girls - Myra of Double Sided Tape and Ivy of Delightful Trinkets. These two talented ladies had the most adorable booth! I picked up a set of LOVE note cards from Myra and the loveliest LOVELY ring from Ivy.

Check out their etsy stores and blogs to see more of their work.

Double Sided Tape Etsy Store
Double Sided Tape Blog

Delightful Trinkets Etsy Store
Delightful Trinkets Blog

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Springtime Gardening

Finally found time this past weekend to plant some new flowers in our hanging baskets. How sad that for months the baskets hung with some scary dried out twigs. Now the baskets are overflowing with loveliness.

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Dust and Co.

I Love Dust!! Not the kind that makes you sneeze... but the kind that makes you swoon. I picked up these two pieces at Unique LA a few weeks ago. Dust and Co specializes in handmade items from recycled materials. My favorite are the vintage label necklaces made from vintage decanter labels replicating 18th century hand lettered engravings. Why I choose to get the Bourbon one is kinda beyond me. I think its because I like the typesetting best. Sonny choose to get the 1920s vintage silver cuff links made from movements from antique Bulova watches.

Check them out... www.dustdesignco.etsy.com

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A Heavenly Giveaway

Hey Everyone! For the first time ever I will be doing a fantastic giveaway to get you all ready for summer with Stila's brand new Indian Summer 24k Collection. On Sunday, May 31st I will be randomly picking one Heavenly Winner.

The Stila Indian Summer Collection features four limited edition makeup must-haves inspired by the power of gold and the exotic beauties of India, and includes:

24 Karat Lip Gloss
The infusion of genuine 24 Karat gold leaf in this non-sticky formula allows lips to reflect light for a vibrant, glistening smile from any angle. The smooth texture is loaded with moisture-locking ingredients. This glimmering gloss is adorned with a genuine handmade bindi from India and can be wore alone for a natural shine or with a favorite lipstick for a dazzling effect.

Charmed Palette
This palette's grouping of subtle metallics with rich jewel tones lends it to look both dramatic and delicate - but always a little mysterious. Genuine 24 Karat infused shimmering shades of mid-tone copper and warm gold combine with intense teal and deep burgundy to create endless possibilities.

Golden Noir Smudge Pot
For anyone who thought black eyeliner was stunning - add in a little gold sparkle and the benchmark has been permanently raised. This new twist on the cult favorite Smudge Pot sprinkles genuine 24 Karat gold flakes into the matte black base leaving eyes gilded and glam.

Marigold Convertible Color Duo
Makeup artist are already clamoring for this new addition to the Convertible Color family - a combination of golden hues to bronze and highlight, with the Stila's signature dewy finish. Tap the cream formula onto the cheeks to create a bronze lit-from-within glow or contour.

Loose Mineral Bronzing Powder with 24 Karat Gold
This 100% Natural Origin finishing powder creates warm skin with one simple dusting. Eco-certified ingredients hydrate and protect, while the 24 Karat Gold and pearl pigments keep skin glowing and healthy.
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Eligibility: Heavenly Giveaway is open and offered only to U.S. and Canadian residents who are age 14 or older at the time of entry.

Prize: Giveaway prize consists of the Stila Indian Summer Collection. Winner is responsible for any and all taxes that may become payable by winner based on approximate retail value of prize. Prize is not transferable or redeemable for cash.

Drawing: The winner will be selected by Carlene Cruz on or about 5/31/09 in a random drawing from among all eligible entries received. Winner shall be notified by Carlene.

Heavenly Weekend: A Simple Life

First off... Sorry for no Heavenly Weekend update last weekend. I came down with a sick bug and couldn't get myself out of bed to blog. Also last Sunday night Sonny bought me season 1 of Roswell and you know how it goes when your life energy literally gets drained from you with a little DVD box set. I don't care how disciplined you are, you can never just watch one episode. Its completely impossible.

The past two weekends have been filled with lots of things to see and do! Last weekend we spent some time with our "married" friends and had a special picnic to celebrate Mother's Day. The sun was blazing down on us that day and left many of us with the oddest looking tans. Mine looks like someone brushed brown paint on just my right arm. Can't wait for it to fade so I can look normal again.

We also went to watch Star Trek. I can't even put into words how amazing that movie was. When we got home Sonny and I caught some documentary of the Star Trek auction on the History Channel and I could not believe how much of a Trekie Sonny is. He knows a little bit too much... I am surprised he didn't start speaking like a Klingon. I guess you never can run out of things to learn about your Husband. I think he secretly has Spock ears hidden in valet tray. ;)

This weekend was very quiet. Sonny was off on some adventure up north so I had to come up with things to do all by myself. I tend not to like being away from him for too long. I know it kinda sounds cheesey... but I can't sleep unless I know he is beside me. I had to stage a fake Sonny by propping big pillows on his side of the bed and kept a movie playing in the background to lull me to sleep. I am so pathetic... as was my fake lumpy pillow Husband.

I did keep busy by of course getting my Spin Class on! Oh What?! And then I did some gardening and household, domesticated work to past the time. On Sunday I went with Rachel to check out the Patchworks Craft Fair in Santa Ana. There were some similar vendors there that were at Unique LA. I finally got to meet a fellow blogger and now friend Myra from Double Sided Tape. We both kinda like secretly stalk each other so it was nice to see her face to face. Totally a sweetheart!

I do hope you all had a glorious weekend because you all know what is coming tomorrow...

Monday! :)

Got The Monday Blues?

Watch this!!

Feeling Green - Flora Grubb

{images from Flora Grubb}

So pretty!! Who doesn't like plants? Especially ones that look like beautiful pieces of art.