cholshorthairstyles: April 2011

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Outfits Galore! (The Last 3 Days)

I have been a bad blogger this week. I just haven't found the time to blog but I'm trying to make up for it now!

I was very fortunate to be able to attend Barbara Bush's Celebration of Reading event this past Thursday. Many members of the Bush family attended and George W. Bush read excerpts from his book, "Decision Points." I enjoyed all of the authors there that evening and especially look forward to reading "Picking Cotton," by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton. Water for Elephants author Sara Gruen was also supposed to be there, but she fell ill.

For this event, I wore my new lace dress from White House Black Market that I got on sale at the outlet for under $40.

Dress- WHBM Outlet
Belt- J.Crew
Shoes- Me Too @ DSW

Friday night, my H and I went to the Ke$ha concert @ Verizon. It made me feel old. There were all these teens there with their parents and all of the girls had colorful eye makeup on, bright clothes, lace tights and glitter there everywhere---on clothes, faces, bodies, hair. I guess I missed the memo.

I opted for comfy clothes because I literally woke up from a nap, threw them on and went to the concert. I was up at 3am Friday morning WATCHING THE ROYAL WEDDING, so you can imagine I was exhausted. I can't even blog about that right now because I am still stunned by the whole thing and need time to gather my thoughts. SO amazing.

Top- C&C California
Jeans- GAP "Always Skinny"
Necklace- F21
Flats- J. Crew

Finally, today's outfit also included the same top as above (I had only worn it for just over an hour at the concert). I had my hair colored and cut today, but these photos were taken prior to that. Then, I had lunch at Gigi's Asian Bistro with Candice and did a little shopping (more to come on that). Tonight my H and are going out for dinner for a friend's birthday. Yum!

Top- C&C California
Shorts- AE Boyfriend Shorts
Shoes- Steve Madden Fantasik

Necklace- Tiffany & Co.

More posts to come...still recovering from Royal Wedding tiredness. It was ALL WORTH IT though to watch it all live.

Happy weekend everyone!!!

xoxo,

Veronika.

Spring Flowers

Lori is back again with two more Couture projects, as promised. The first Lori describes as, "a very simple layout documenting my tulip love in the spring time and how I love to bring them in the house this time of year for a little SPRING inside!"

How did she do it? She "used samples from the paper collection to piece together to form a quilt together.... Love all of the colours in this line... so pretty and soft and perfect for spring layouts."

"I made my flower by accordion folding my paper and then layering it on top of a die cut accent and then adding some of the pretty embellishments from the Couture Sundries."

The second project for today, from Lori, are these pretty altered flowers. She says, I "made this flower bouquet from an altered kit I had from years ago. Just coverd some chipboard flowers with scraps of paper and then used all of the pretty buttons and brads as the centers. A very simple project but so much fun to make! I used my paper crimper to crimp my scraps and used them to fill the bucket."