• Make a Wedding card birdcage for your wedding reception with just a couple supplies and some creativity. Click here to see more.

    Wedding Cards Birdcage

    This blog originally started as a place to keep track of all of my craft projects and the many wedding cards birdcage holders I was making in my Etsy store, so it was a huge shock to everyone that I said “no DIY projects” for our wedding last September. I knew my schedule would be busy enough leading up to…

  • Ever wonder how to make gift wrap bows like a professional? Click here for an easy tutorial on how to make gift wrap bows from wire ribbon!

    How To Make Gift Wrap Bows

    Last week I told you how to wrap beautiful Christmas presents with some tips and tricks I learned while working at a department store in my 20’s. The crisp edges and double-sided tape are my secret weapons. The other part I have always loved about department store gift wrap is the bows and ornaments and I am sharing how to…

  • How To Wrap Beautiful Christmas Presents

    When I was 22 and working at Robinsons-May, I made a deal with my friend James. He would learn how to work the Ticketmaster program and I would learn how to gift wrap. Well, I think James got the short end of that stick because Ticketmaster was always busy and it was a complicated system to use but when gift…

  • DIY Fall Entryway Decor

    Fall is here! The leaves are changing, the Pumpkin Spice Lattes are flowing and boots and scarves are starting to make appearances – or at least they are in other parts of the country.  Here is sunny Southern California it still in the 70’s. But that won’t stop me from being festive and celebrating the season of burnt orange and…

  • DIY tissue paper pom poms for wedding decorations.

    Wedding Pom Poms

    One of my best friends got married yesterday.  Sorry fellas of the world, the hot red-headed nurse is forever spoken-for! The wedding was lovely; a beautiful mix of rustic and elegant elements and Brittany was stunning! – That was a given. Project Wedding Pom Poms started when Brittany saw {this} photo on Pinterest (curse you Pinterest for your awesome and…