|Pre-Wedding Week Series| DIY Flower Crown

 This week I will be bringing you a few of the things that happen before a wedding, as well as some tips you need to know if you are getting married yourself, I call it Pre-Wedding Week Series. The first installment is this easy peasy do-it-yourself flower crown that you can wear on the day of your wedding. This was my own flower crown that I wore for the reception part of my wedding, for the ceremony I used a birdcage veil that I also did myself (see here), you will get to see a better photo of the birdcage veil in the Post-Wedding Week Series. I found all my materials on Etsy (here x here). Doing your own flower crown will save you almost double the price of most crowns in the market, so get to it.

Flower crowns have been used in celebrations for centuries, the Greeks and Romans were the ones that proliferated them, making them a very popular choice for brides, flower girls and now in modern times for festival goers, but ancient people also wore them for any form of celebration. I chose to wear a flower crown for my reception because I wanted to have a very ethereal garden nymph feel to my look, as my wedding was set in a Garden. I can tell you that I wish I could have worn it way beyond my wedding day, as I just loved it way too much and I really felt like a garden nymph. I also felt like Galadriel the beautiful royal elf of middle-earth in the Lord of the Ring series and The Hobbit series.   

What was your choice of headpiece for your wedding? or what will you be choosing?

|DIY| Sprinkles in Springs x Chic Streets and Eats Collaboration

 

this DIY was very easy and very fun, especially because I partnered up with the extremely talented Kara of Sprinkles in Springs, she shares the same passion about crafts as I do, but she takes it up a whole 'nother notch. Back at the end of October I believe we decided to do a collaboration post that would be related to the holidays and so we brainstormed on our own and we came up with this idea of creating our own gift wrapping paper because c'mon doesn't this look so much fun and so chic? I'd like to think so. All of the materials came from Target and were easy to find, but you can always run to your local craft store and I am sure you will have the same luck.

 

I hope that you find our tutorials easy to follow and that you get inspired to create your own personalized gift paper to make your loved ones feel even more special. To see Kara's gift wrapping paper creations go here. Please leave us your thoughts we love to hear from our readers and if you end up doing your own creations based on this tutorial take pictures and tag us on Facebook and Instagram, we would love to see them.

 

*Special thanks to the wonderful Kara for this collaboration and for the beautiful banner you created (see first pic), it was a pleasure working with you and hope to do it again soon.

 

|DIY| Lace collar x Belt duo

 

 this has been by far my favorite DIY project I have done, I love the results and cannot wait to show it off in an outfit post. I need to find the perfect outfit to go along with it, I have a few ideas. Collars in general have been quite the seen, and lace collars are stunners. They are delicate and feminine but if you pair it with something sophisticated and edgy you get a spectacular result.

 

I hope you find this tutorial very helpful and if you decide to do it yourself I would love to hear about it. Stay tuned to my outfit post featuring this cutie.