This week’s learned, links, and thankfulness…

Our Brave is 10! What a whirlwind few days as we had originally planned to head to SF to celebrate, but plans changed, so in 24 hours Ben and I put together a Harry Potter full day adventure. It was quite the production, but her constant smile made it well worth it. So I dropped off the blogging planet after Wednesday due to that.

Since we were supposed to go out of town, Ben has a week off! YAY!

Cute Ferragamo slingbacks for a 6.5 foot!

We don’t use the AC at all (we made an exception for Brave’s bday) and oh man we are sweating all the time. lol But we are saving money and energy! 🙂

I want to make a pretty cake like this.

Ben and I had a huge fight last weekend and it wasn’t until Friday that I could feel my heart softening towards him (I didn’t want to let my selfishness win and praying I see Christ as better than all). Marriage is great, but it ain’t easy.

Love my Everlane day heels and wide leg pant. See it here.

Got this blush and loving it so far.

I see all this hubaloo about Glossier, can someone who’s not trying to sell it, but uses it, tell me what’s so fabulous about it (besides the pink bubble zip bag)? I want to place an order just for that bag.

If you need a wedding planner, I highly recommend Ah, Love Events.

Found this amazing antique Edwardian blouse when I was out sourcing this morning. It’s so pretty! Rawson has many similar and lovely styles if antique blouses make your heart pitter patter too.

Stay cool friends!

It’s National Ice Cream Sandwich Day! I’m back to contributing over at Babiekins, so to start back up, I’m sharing how to go a little more wild with your ice cream sandwich and use donuts! See the full post here.

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Mini Leather Clutch

Supplies:
8 1/2″ x 11″ leather piece
9″ zipper
Neon paint
Paintbrush
Tape
Scissors
Coordinating thread
Sewing machine

Seam allowance: 1/4″

Directions:
1. Cut your leather rectangular piece in half, so that each piece is 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″. Tape off the portion of the clutch you would like to give a bright, neon stripe. I did ours about 2″ in from the edge, and make sure you paint the opposite side of the second leather piece, so that when you put the right sides together, the stripe ends up lining up.

Paint your stripe and allow to dry completely. I did 3 coats to get a nice bright pink. In black light, the pink glows!

2. With the zipper teeth down on the right side of one of leather pieces, line up your zipper, pin in place. Sew along the edge of the zipper.

3. Place the second leather piece on top, with the right sides together, line up the zipper edge with the leather piece. Pin in place and sew along the entire length.

4. With the right sides of the leather pieces together (open the zipper, so that it can be turned inside out), sew along the sides and bottom of the clutch. I sewed ours with rounded corners. Once all sides have been sewn, turn right side out. Add a tassel in a fun color for a little bit more neon pop!

It could be a pencil pouch or a mini clutch for a night out. I haven’t decided if I’m going to give it to the girls to use (they want it!) or keep it for myself. Maybe, I’ll just have to make another.

Supplies provided as part of the Michaels’ Makers Series. From neons & neutrals, to bag charms & kawaii cuteness, Michaels has everything you need to head out Back To School in the latest trends.

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This was our 11th trip to the OC Fair and we keep going just to take these pictures and use the photo booth. Upon arrival at our usual spot, we were bummed out to see that they switched the booths out into digital booths (bring back film please!). The lady, who takes our photo every year (and I’m facebook friends with now), let us know they’re slowly switching over to digital. They still had some film booths at the fair, but not at our usual spot, so we took our family photo here, and headed to the other ares for the film photo booth. Here are some things I noticed about this newest family photo versus the previous years…

Ben and I are both wearing denim like last year.

Brave has had her hair up 3 years in a row.

They are standing in descending order this year.

This year there are no outfit repeats from the previous year (though you can’t see, but Ben is wearing the same camo shorts like in the previous 4 years).

I’m still always standing to the left of Ben.

The baby, Glow, is always closest to me.

Ben’s hair is really long.

Anything stand out to you regarding this year’s photo? Read last year’s comparison’s here.

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This week’s learned, links, and thankfulness…

Thankful the girls don’t need technology to be entertained. They spend most of their days reading and playing together. Maybe about an hour before Ben comes home, I’ll let them watch something on the ipad.

It was a blessing for Ben and I to be able to carve out “alone time” for Brave. We’ve been trying to give each girl their own special mommy and papi time each week.

Super thankful and blessed to be able to hang out with lots of friends this week, but I am feeling a bit peopled out. This introvert needs some time to recharge.

Have you seen the most recent Wovenfolk shop update? This one is a fave.

I would love to embroider a shirt like this, but I don’t think I have the patience.

Made this enchilada casserole, but substituted the ground meat with black beans, and I made my own enchilada sauce. We all loved it! The egg whites are a good tortilla substitute.

In love with these Rachel Comey earrings.

Anyone try this blush? I’m almost all out, so while I love the powdery version of this, I’ve never done blush this way.

Would happily cover my legs with this button up skirt via Shop Aro.

We’ve got another birthday coming up this week… Brave is gonna be 10!

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I teamed up with Beth from B. Jones Style on a little WOVENFOLK lookbook video. We each styled 3 outfits with some woven goods and Beth put together an awesome little video to show you! The shop’s most recent update included some of the woven pretties that were featured in the video.

We both have a love for vintage, and pretty much that’s all we’re wearing (except our shoes), so we don’t have links to share if you wanted to know where to find the exact piece. But if you love the hats and bags… I’ve got you covered over here.

Watch our collaboration video here!

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