My New Style Blog!

My new little baby bump has inspired me to start having some fun and creativity in getting dressed! So I started a new blog for fun and motivation to keep me dressing my best during pregnancy! 

Come check it out! 

www.bumpingintostyle.blogspot.ca

DIY Polka Dot Shirt

I like clothes. .. okay, I love clothes. I love looking through "my style" boards on Pinterest and finding inspiration for cute outfits. The other day I bumped into this pin on how to make your own polka dot shirt. COOL! So I went searching for a cheap white shirt! I found one at my favorite thrift store for $2.99- perfect price AND perfect fit!

I put cardboard inside the shirt so paint wouldn't bleed through to the back. And of course a plastic trash bag under the shirt as well.. just in case.

I used Martha Stewart's craft paints, since it says it's good for fabric too.

The lid to one of our pill bottles was the perfect size for dots. I just dabbed it in the paint, and with my sponge brush, I took off the excess glob of paint. After a couple of dots, I ended up just using my sponge brush the whole time for painting the lid then applying it to the shirt. It kept my fingers a little cleaner too.

After I had all my dots on where I wanted them, I took my little paint brush and painted in the spots that were missing paint.
 {Oh, and I only put polka dots on the front of the shirt}

After the dots were dry, I ironed over all the whole shirt, leaving the iron on each dot for like 2 seconds at a time. At first I wasn't sure if I should put the iron completely down touching the shirt, or hold it super close, letting the heat and steam hit the dots. Well, I did it both ways haha.

I LOVE IT!
It seriously looks like I just bought it somewhere like this. 

I went outside for a few photos.

WOW, today is a GORGEOUS day here!
I thought summer had left me for good.. but that sun was so bright and warm I could barely open my eyes

I really really like my new shirt! Hubby thought it was super cool too.

I haven't washed it since I've painted the spots. I know the Martha Stewart paints say they are for fabric as well, but I'm still nervous to wash it! Does anyone know anything about Martha's craft paints when it comes to painting on fabric/clothing?? I would really appreciate any info you know! Thanks!

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Pom Pom Necklace. . and new boots!

 Last night I needed something to keep me busy while Hubs worked on his sermon that he's going to be preaching tonight. I just have to be doing SOMETHING. . I hate when I have idle hands. I could sit for hours looking at inspirational things online, but I hate doing that! (I love it, but I hate it .. make sense?) I just like to be busy making or doing something to make good use of my time. So I decided I would make me a pom pom necklace, just like Little Miss Momma's.

What I used to make my necklace:

Felt

Fabric

Hot glue gun

Scissors

Necklace chain

small wire cutters

First I cut 5 little 1 inch  or so circles out of the felt

Then I cut out same size circles out of the fabric

Okay, this is pretty much where I forgot to continue on taking photos of the process. . 

BUT you just scrunch up a fabric circle from the center, apply some hot glue to the point and glue the point right down to the middle of a felt circle. Continue that until you have a nice little pom pom as full as you'd like. 

Then after all 5 of the pom poms are made up, arrange your pom poms on a sheet of felt in the arrangement you want them to be for the necklace. Glue the pom poms down right to that piece of felt, except for the top two. This is where I got my necklace chain and cut it in half with my wire cutters. Glue one end of the necklace chain to the bottom of one pom pom, and then add some more hot glue and glue that pom pom down to the felt in its spot. Repeat with the other top pom pom. Now you're ready to cut the felt around your pom pom necklace (not around each individual pom of course!). 

(see LMM's tutorial for more photos of the process)

I actually glued some extra strips of felt to the backing just to make it sturdier, because it was a little flimsy and wibble wobbly with just that one layer of felt.

I love it! 

I wore it to church today :) 

New boots! Got them at Ardene in my mall for like $13. They really aren't going to be super great for winter and snow and wetness, but I like them anyways.

Wearing a clearance dress I got from Walmart, thrifted cardigan (had it forever), boots from Ardene, $3 clearance walmart scarf (my new favorite), pom pom necklace by me!

It's a pretty day today. . very fallish like.

.. and you know how I feel about Fall!

Monochromatic Outfit

One of my favorite fashion blogs that I follow has recently done a 21 day clothing challenge on her blog and I've loved seeing everyone's links for their outfits. One of the day's challenges was to put together a monochromatic outfit. HUH?? What's monochromatic you ask? .. that's okay. That was my first reaction too. 

Taken from Wikipedia: 

Monochromatic colors are all the colors (tints, tones, and shades) of a single hue.

I was kind of excited to learn that and thought it would be fun to try to put together an outfit following this rule... er, whatever it may be called. 

So here's my monochromatic outfit I put together for church today.

Skirt thrifted- $4, shirt thrifted- $1, cardigan pretty sure thrifted, belt thrifted, shoes Bizou- $3 brand new, necklace made by me, earrings Law Students Crafts, bracelets dollar store.

 How'd I do? :) 

I thought the bright belt kind of brought some color life into the outfit!

A skirt day

Boy was today another humid day! So thankful Hubby works indoors where there's air conditioning. 

 Today was one of those days I felt like wearing a skirt. I never wear this skirt either. It's just a super simple outfit, but I love how I feel when I dress up a little more than my usual casual-ness. I'm starting to like randomly wearing skirts here and there during the week, not just for church.

Skirt probably from walmart, shirt walmart $3 clearance, earrings made by me

I'm always wanting to do something different with my hair besides throwing it up in a bun, but.. normally I'm not creative enough so the bun it usually is! Today I put it in a low pony tail kind of on the side, then did a topsy tail thing (flipping the pony tail up and out the top) then just wrapping it in a bun. Can't even tell the whole topsy thing! 

Gray and Tan?

 Do gray and tan go together? .. and black too? .. Oh ya, and purple???

Here's my outfit for this fine sunny Sunday. I normally don't like to wear any shade of brown black or gray together. They just seem to be total opposites or something like that. Not sure how to describe it correctly. I'll I'm saying is, when I wear brown, I never wear anything black at the same time. And vice versa. But today I wore a tan shirt with a black belt and gray cardigan. Maybe I'm just silly {or paranoid} for having that "no black and brown together" rule, because I've seen the two colors pulled together beautifully on other people. So today I decided to rebel against my own rule. What do you think?

This is my husband's aunt's dog, Flynn. He's so cute and hyper! I rarely get to be around any animals these days, so I love when his aunts bring their dogs over to his grandparent's on Sundays. We go to his Nanny and Grampy's house every Sunday for lunch after church. Their backyard is gorgeous and so relaxing! I don't know how many times I said, "I love the grass!!" It's been a long time since I've stood in lush soft grass in a beautiful yard. I can't wait to someday have our own backyard.... 

My Etsy shop is finally open!!

I'm so excited to announce the opening of my Etsy shop! I set up my account sometime last month, but never listed items because of the Canada Post strike.. which lasted about all month! So finally this afternoon I spent much time adding a few things to the shop! It makes me kind of giddy to see my own items in a little etsy shop! Here are some of the things I have in my shop...

My crocheted baby headbands 

{so far I have a preemie/newborn size and will be adding more sizes later on}

Scarves

Fridge magnets

and little crocheted hairclips .... 

I still have lots more things to add to the shop. I didn't realize I had so many items until I started editing photos and listing them! 

I really hope this little experience will be enjoyable. I guess I'm a little nervous about starting a shop, and wondering if my items are not going to be good enough or that something's wrong with them.. But who knows! Maybe my stuff will be liked and enjoyed! We'll see!

Come take a quick peek over at my shop

 {click photo}

I'll be adding more things over the next couple of days to get it nice and full.

Oh hey, want an outfit post? 

I know, I haven't really been keeping up with that, .. mostly because I haven't been in the moods to get all dressed up. ha! Ya ya, I remember why I started the whole "outfit posts" .. buuuuut.. it's been getting warmer out over this way, AND humid-- yuck!! And it doesn't really inspire me to get all cute. Okay so maybe that's really me just being plain ole lazy. Ya that seems to be it. But I guess I was feelin' it today.. but I think my hair was feelin' the humidity! You can't tell? Oh good : )

 Long shorts: Walmart, yellow shirt: thrifted, pull over vest: don't even remember, 

favorite belt: thrifted necklace: dollar store