Big Blooms for Spring

My last post was for a winter wedding - tonight I felt inspired by my absolute favorite blossom, the ever color changing hydrangea!! Love the french inspired invitations, as well as the greens + blues, which have been  my favorite colors for a very long time :)

I love the idea of a "pie table" ... instead of the traditional yukky formal wedding cake!

xo
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Sweet Southern Winters

I'm already dreaming of a December wedding - inspired by a few choice color palettes, this is the first. A gorgeous pale steel blue, snowdrop white, charcoal grey, & hints of champagne ... * sprinkled here & there *

Here's the board I created for a Southern belle's winter wedding. 

She loves antiques & all things vintage. 

She is proper yet fun.

She is girly & fabulous, forever a ballerina.

She loves tradition, yet loves to make her own way!

Thanks to Style Circle & Style Me Pretty for some images and board creator! 

xoxo

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Sneak Peak From Lulu's Shower

Hey Ya'll!!

Things have been a bit crazier than usual this week, but in leiu of all the time, creativity, effort and energy put into my baby sister's wedding shower, I wanted to share a few of my  favorite photos from the event.

Photo's were taken by my cousin and a friend of my sisters' who does a lot of creative art :-)
Here they are, more to  come!!

Mini-Cakes made & frosted by moi! Paper flower cuppy inserts handmade by moi, as well!

Family Ties <3

Cutest & Quite Yummy Sparkling Water

I'll post more once I'm back at my little house and ready for the week!

xoxo

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Slight Breeze

Today was nice. It was Tuesday. Nothing out of the ordinary. But perhaps the turn of seasons is approaching. I know that as soon as I mention "f-a-l-l" it will get scorching hot again, but there was a bit of coolness to the breeze today and the humidity wasn't so treacherous.
Maybe it was all in my head, since the quarterly Nordstrom Fashion Rewards catalog magically appeared in my mailbox (ok, so no magical that I have a credit card with them...but a girl's gotta be well heeled). Of course, featuring cashmere and wool blend tights for fall, lovely warm trench coats, adorable fedora hats and accessories to boast. I read through the editorial style of the 'zine and proceeded to tear out and keep only the pages which I felt would be relevant to building (i.e.- adding on to) a fabulous fall wardrobe. It was a year ago, this time that I was a newby to the high fashion world of Nordstrom, and although I do not miss the agonizing pain in my legs and feet from 8 hours of standing in the most trendy bootie-heels or wearing SpanX under my sweater dresses, I do miss the "Occasion" of getting ready for work. I was allotted creativity without boundaries (as long as it didn't have open toes or showed my armpits) and it was truly F U N to go to work everyday and basically spend other people's money $!
Back to where I was originally going with this, is that just maybe by hope and stroke of luck, Fall will show her beautiful golden crisp self a bit early this year (by FL standards) and perhaps today was the start of it. Or maybe I'm hallucinating from the heat+humidity and just the glimpses of fall fashion was enough to make my heart believe it was a glimmer of fall weather today.
Either way, end of summer is always glorious. Boasting of good tan skin (Ok, not this year, had no time for that) and warm summer weather slipping away in the evenings, makes me yearn for a gorgeous front porch, a good swing or rocker, and a glass of Sun Tea with a mint leaf, for good measure. Until my Porch Charming arrives with the changing of leaves, I'll settle for these eye-catching beauties found all over the South.




xoxo


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Imma Bee ...

Inspirations for the store I will one day open :)

Sadly, I'm working *AGAIN* this Saturday, baseball is almost over!! Must bee off !

xx
 B