Oh the Cuteness!

Happy How-Tuesday! This wee I've found a beautiful and simple quilt tutorial, a great palette garden, and a delicious shortbread cookie recipe! This amazing quilt looks complicated, but the tutorial for it proves it's super simple! It's all made from small strips of scraps, paper pieced together in no time! Check out the wonderful tutorial here.  This idea is a great way to reuse an old palette by turning it into a vertical garden. I wish I had one of these at my old apartment! You can find the how-to here. Ooh don't those look delicious? Like a Twix bar on steroids, need I say more? Go get the recipe here and have fun!

Ah Fancy Friday. This week I had the urge to do some gardening on Friday, so my outfit turned out to have a very flower-child vibe to me. Super posh gardening gloves no? They're actually jersey over-the-elbow gloves I bought from Daiso for $1.50 (Everything in Daiso is $1.50, you should check them out!), and I just scrunched them down.  I wanted to go a little more natural with the makeup, while still keeping the hippy vibe, so I got some white eyeliner and lined the inner rims of my eyes, then used dark brown liner and mascara and swept on a little copper on my lids. A slightly darker powder and a bronzier blush helped keep the palette neutral, and the Revlon lip stain is a nude-pink called Honey.  Accessories! The hat is my all-time favorite sunhat, found at Target ages ago. I added the sheer pink ribbon. I left my hair to dry naturally after adding a little leave-in conditioner and scrunching it to increase the waviness. The single braid is held with a ...

Hooray for How-Tuesday! This week I found an infinity dress, helpful gardening tips, and a malted chocolate cake! I love the idea of infinity dresses and this one is made from a mass-produced model. So many ways to wear it! Check out the pattern here . This article has 5 tips for a no-work garden, and the whole website has great tips for sustainable lifestyles. Give them a look here .  This cake is called the Campfire Delight: 6 layers of malted chocolate and toasted marshmallow! Om nom nom! Go make it here .

A little while ago I spent some time with my parents while they were on vacation, and we ended up going to Petaluma. It's such a wonderful little beach town and if you've never been I highly recommend it. We arrived in the late afternoon, so instead of dinner we headed straight to the Petaluma Pie Company and had the best little pies with the biggest scoops of homemade ice cream ever! Then, as we wandered around the little downtown admiring all the shops and antiques, this yarn bombing out front of the bookstore caught my eye: And finally, we went to a very popular place, the Seed Bank . I didn't have the right kind of camera lens with me to capture this business in all its grandeur, but basically it's a specialty seed and garden shop that is in a big, beautiful old building that used to be a bank. So clever and so wonderfully fun to shop in! That same weekend I went to the last-ever Underground Market in San Francisco, and ate my heart out with s...