Walk-In Closet

I'm planning to turn the smallest bedroom in my new house into my own walk in closet.  All day today I have been looking at pictures to inspire me.  Here are a few that I LOVE!  I definitly want to have floral wallpaper on one side of the wall and paint the rest.  I want my room to be colorful and inspring.  How cute is the idea of using a cupcake tray as a jewelery holder?  :)  Also, I love the idea of buying old furniture and fixing it up. 

So, yesterday I went to Goodwill and I found the perfect dresser to fix up.  It was only $9.99 and it already has floral knobs.  I practically scream with joy in the store.  LOL.  I'm not sure what color I'm going to paint it yet.  Maybe, mint green??? What color do you think I should paint it?   The thing that sucks is that since I still live in an apartment I won't be able to paint it until I move, and that won't be until June.  :(  But bare with me, I promise to show you after pictures when I'm done. 

DIY: Studded Collar

 Here is another quick and fun DIY!  I decided to add studs to the collar of one of the blouses I bought at the thrift store.  By adding studs to the collar, it will make this plain blouse more interesting!  You can add studs to basically anything. Follow the steps below to achieve the look above.
 

Step 1

 

Find a blouse that you want to stud.  I bought this blouse for only $2.99.  It's just a really plain cream blouse.  I knew I wanted to add gold studs on the collar right when I bought it.

Step 2

 You will need to purchase studs.  I purchased these gold ones from ebay but it took forever to get here, because it was shipped from China.  It was only $5.00 but I found that if you go to studsandspikes.com, you will find inexpensive studs that will ship quickly.  I bought silver studs from there and have studded my shorts with them.  That will be the next DIY post.  I use an old tweezer and it worked fine.

Step 3

(Excuse my chip nailcolor polish)

You can decide how you want to arrange the studs on the collar.  You can add a few studs or add a whole bunch like I did.  I decided to add a whole bunch because the collar is wide, but you can really do whatever you want with it.  Choose your own design and just go with it =)  Poke one of the studs through the collar.  It shouldn't be hard to poke through.

Step 4

Take the tweezer and and just bend the end of the studs over.  Do it to all four of the ends.

Step 5

It should look like this.  And after you have added all of the studs, the back should look like the picture below:

Final Step:

Repeat the steps on the other side of the collar.  Then you are all done!  =)

Here's what mine looks like.  I love it.  I have the day off from work, so I am going to finish a lot of DIY projects and post them next week.  

I also bought a DIY book for homes.  I'm so excited to try some of these projects and I love the pictures.  So inspiring!  I also have a friend, who is an artist, creating some artwork for me.  I'm excited cause she is very talented! Well, my next post will be on Sunday.  I look forward to reading how Easter went for everybody.

Just be true to who you are.

(vintage blouse, forever 21 shorts, dolce vita wedges)

I have great news to share.  They accepted my offer, so I am officially a homeowner now!  I will be turning one of the bedrooms into my personal room, where all of my clothes/shoes/purses/etc will go.  I can't wait to start decorating and renovating my new home.  Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

I love this song.  It always gives me motivation to be a better person. 

Weekly Thrift Finds #1

I am going to start showing more detail pictures of my weekly thrifting finds :) I am so excited to share what I found and I hope you will enjoy it!  Lets start off with blouses.  I love blouses!  As you can tell, most of my outfit of the day, I am wearing a blouse.  I can never have enough blouses and I usually buy 5-8 blouses every time I go thrifting. 

I usually look for any cute prints or bright colors for Spring/Summer.  From left to right, I found this super cute polka dot blouse, a snake skin blouse, another stripe blouse, a cobalt blue blouse and an orange blouse.  

From left to right, I found this wavy print blouse, dotted print blouse, a teal blouse, a plain white blouse with gold buttons, and a colordot dotted blouse.  All super cute!

But my favorite blouse I found this week was.........

Isn't adorable?  I love the collar.  I was sooo happy when I found it!!!!

Up next, I purchase three high waisted jean shorts.  I'm glad I found a black one.  =)

I'm so excited to share with you this polka dot dress I found.  It's super cute and fits me perfectly.

 There are also a bow on each sleeve.  So cute!

Next, I found a super cute floral romper.  I can't wait to wear a jean jacket over it and a fedora hat.

And last but not least, I found two purses and two pair of shoes.  I love them all!

I hope you enjoy the pictures and please comment me below if you have any thrifting finds you would like to share with me.  I would love to look at your pictures.  As always stay tune to see how I style these items.  I know I have to do a better job at blogging.  I should have more time now since this semester is almost over.  Oh and I have some excited news to share with you all.  I put an offer on a house today.  It will be my first home purchase.  I hope I get it =)  You know what that means, more DIY projects for my home!  =)