summer is here! (liles)

Well summer is here and I am soaking it up! Around here our lilies are blooming like crazy! They are so bright and gorgeous. They make me happy just looking at them. I love the bright and happy orange color. They just pop in our backyard where there isn't very much color going on right now.

simple solution (storing jewelry)

I don't know about you, but I have a hard time finding a good way to store my jewelry. I'd put it in a jewelry box, but then when I needed a necklace I would have to spend 20 minutes untangling it. I didn't have the patience to do that every time I wanted to wear a necklace. I thought about hanging up some hooks on my walls to hang my jewelry on, but my walls were pretty crowded already. So I came up with a solution: I hung some hooks in my closet! That way it's out of sight, but easily accessible when I'm getting ready. 

I think this would be a good storage idea for scarves and bags too.

I might clear off my wall a little and do something like this in a bit, but for now I'm happy with my solution.

diy (fabric flowers)

I've seen these flowers around and I really like them. I've seen them on headbands, clothes and bags. I just had to make some even though I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to do with them. They were a lot easier then I thought they were going to be. I know an eight year old that makes them without any trouble. You can use any kind of fabric you want. You'll also need a hot glue gun and scissors.

1. Cut out a circle. The smaller the circle, the smaller the flower. It doesn't have to be perfect.
2. Fold the circle in half. Once again, it doesn't have to be perfect.
3. Put a dab of hot glue in the middle of the circle after it's folded in half. After you put the glue on, fold the circle in half so it's in quarters.
4. Glue all of the pieces you make together in order to make a flower.

These are the three that I made. I'm not sure what I'm going to use them for, but I think they turned out pretty good.

Our little campfire

We got a fire pit a little while back and we have been using it all the time. It's fun to go out and sit around it just like we're camping, only we can go inside and use flush toilets and have a nice comfy bed to sleep in after. The other night we wanted to roast some hot dogs. We got the fire started and the dogs roasting, only to find out that we didn't have any hot dog buns. We luckily had some croissant dough, so we wrapped the hot dogs in that and roasted them. We were going for the pigs in a blanket look. They tasted surprisingly good. There's just something about a hot dog cooked over an open fire.

This is what our hot dogs looked like. Delicious! (I had to run inside for better lighting for this picture, another plus about having your fire pit right outside your door.)

5 strand braid (bracelet)

I've seen the five strand braid several times on Pinterest and I thought it was pretty cool. I've mostly seen headbands, but I wanted to do something a little different so I made a simple little bracelet. I plan to wear it all summer (and maybe even longer). I found how to do a five strand braid here. It was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be. I want to try doing it in my hair sometime.

(via Make it and Love it)

 Here is my own little bracelet I made. I like it a lot. It's so simple, yet so cute.

Bracelet (Rosettes)

I've always been fond of rosette flowers and I've been wanting to do something with them. They're really simple and easy to make. I found a tutorial here. It was very helpful and luckily I caught on quickly. I made them once before for a bag that I made. (As seen here) I wanted to be able to show off my rosettes after I made them, so I decided to make a bracelet. I made a big rosette and then a smaller one. I just hot glued them onto a ribbon for a simple, yet very cute, bracelet.

By the way, the polka dot background is my new yellow polka dotted dress. It just makes me feel happy inside when I see it. So bright and happy!

our garden

It's been cooler these last couple days, so we decided to take advantage of them and get some work done in our garden. It isn't the biggest garden, but it fits us and serves us well. We've had a garden for as long as I can remember. We have the basic plants: tomatoes, beans, peppers, broccoli, zucchinis and pumpkins. It was looking pretty good today after we finished weeding and watering so I snapped a few pictueres.