Loving these Five Faves

Happy FRIDAY!!! Woohoo for all you that have a 3-day weekend celebrating President's Day on Monday! Linking up for a H54F with Lauren at From My Grey Desk, here are my top five faves of the week!

1. I've been making it a priority to get on my Vita-Veta-Vegamin game, taking a dose every morning! Another one of my 2013 resolutions that has been full effect starting this week! 
2. The cutest little boy in all America, my little nephew Ese, turned ONE this week! He's growing wayyy too fast :/
3. Laughed my life away as my man put on a show for me while busting a smooth move to ADORN by Miguel.
4. We had some phenominal weather this week, and the shadows came out!
5. Valentine's Day was delightful, especially when these were delivered to my door. BEST HUBS EVAHHH!

Have yourselves a lovely long weekend! I sho will.. my day of birth be Monday FUNday ;)

Be Mine

Happy Lover's Day to you lovely peeps!! Whether you're married, have a boo, or single and ready to mingle... everyone can show some la la love in the world! I hope that's just what you do today! Love everyone and anyone around you, whether you know them or not! Say HELLO to someone as you walk past them... offer to hold the door open at the grocery store... buy someone's coffee while you're getting your Starbucks fix! Be kind and loving to one another!

Here's a cutie patootie banner I put together to add some love around our house! And you know I had to hang it right by our wine so I can see it every day since I love to pay visits to that section of our home!

The rest of the steps is simple enough, I felt the pics weren't necessary! Cut, glue, string and hang! I even added a few more fancy pants decor like the glitter heart in the middle of the two words... and bows at each end of the lover banner!

Now if you'll excuse me while I'm off to show some love to my wonderful and handsome hubby!

Organizing Chaos

I don't know if you got the gist by now, but I've been getting in touch more and more lately with my arts and craft side. On my blogiversary, I told you guys I wanted to head in a different direction with my bloggy blog... one of the ways being to pay it forward and be of service to you wonderful people!  I hope me crafting and showing some easy peasy ideas has inspired you to take time out of your busy schedules to partake in fun times! So here I am... taking my job serious and making initiative to make the time for my DIY Sundays! 

I pulled down my arts and craft box about a month ago, and it's been sitting on our kitchen table in a hot mess (want proof?? see the MESSY pic below!). Hubs and I have been eating on the couches because of the lack of open space on the kitchen table (whatta sport he be!). It stayed on the kitchen table for about 3 weeks... I just didn't have the energy to sort through it all, or any idea of where to begin! 

THEN... one day while clicking blog after blog, I discovered one of my most faves to read nowadays! IHeart Organizing... right up my ally!!! Jen blogs about different ways to organize... and in style! I came across her post about recycling and using cereal boxes as drawer dividers. BOOM!! There goes my starting point for my arts and craft box! I knew I had to create compartments to separate my items. And what better way to do this other than using things I can recycle and already had in the house?? I even took the cereal box idea a step further, and used other boxes/containers I knew would fit just right!

Even though these dividers would be sitting in my arts and craft box, I still wanted to cover up what I was able to with some wrapping paper and material I had! After all, my craft box is clear and you can see a peep of the sides of the containers!

After wrapping these bad boys up, I was ready to organize this chaos! It was like trying to fit puzzle pieces together the best way possible. Moving things here and there, I finally found the best layout and ran with it!

 

I swear to you... having things in their own "home" makes my crafting so much easier. I can actually see everything I have, and utilize things I forgot about because they were hiding under my layers and layers of stickers! I even utilized this little bag my sweet hubs picked up for me for the doodads that don't fit in my box! The pockets are zeee bayyyyst!

Friends... I encourage you to chiggity check Jen's blog out and get your wheels turning as to how get chyo' life organized! 

I be ready now...  a crafting WE WILL GO! If you haven't seen it, peep my XO door decor here. Annnnndddddddd... get ready for some show and tell of my Valentine's Day crafting on Thursday!

XO

Happy Monday FUNday peeps! Best week evahhhh because it's the week of Valentine's Day! Love giving love... to my hubs... my family... friends... and to anyone else I can give it to!

Taking part in more Valentine's Day arts & craft, here's some XO for ya! Inspired by my bestie, Lauren Conrad, you can find the original DIY posting here. So simple dimple, all you have to do is paint, glue, and hang!

Pinky promise...every time I walk up to my door, I gasp in excitement at my XO's!

My LLL's of the week...

LOVE

I loved every single performance at the Grammy Awards last night!! My fave's were Miguel, JT, Carrie Underwood and the Bob Marley Tribute! ANDDDD I loveeeee all thew new Fall 2013 fashion that's been happening in MBFW! I swooned to every headpiece that walked down the runway... and Kate Spade's fun colors adorable shoes and purses.... whaaa whaaaa?!?!

LEARN

I learned that great advice and courage can come from anyone who has it... older and YOUNGER!! Shout out to my courageous younger (sometimes wiser) cousin Kyle for tweeting me some positivity this week!

LAUGH

Hubs and I had a cat-walk-off in the grocery store and it made me chuckle sooo hard! I was rambling on and on about Fashion Week since I've been watching it live every day, and I was showing him my cat-walk. Which then encouraged him to do HIS cat-walk since he's always trying to one up me (he's so manly that this is totes not feminine for him!)! I soooo wish I had it on camera to share with you all!!

Outfit LOVE

Feelin' the love this month thus far, and my outfit says so! Since my bad lighting snaps I took indoors last week, I managed to make it outdoors for my hubs to snap a few pics of me (thank goodness it was dry for at least a day!).

Hubs was able to capture the key pieces I told him are my "outfit highlights" (bless his soul for listening!)

Have you been bitten by this February LOVE bug?!

Light my Heart Up!

Happy Monday!! For those of you who called into work today because Superbowl Sunday was just TOO much fun, a super duper happy Monday to you! As you know, February is a FAVE of mine, and I've been all about the red/pink/heart-sy DIY's! I'm kicking it off with my Heart-Jar Candle!

If you want to finish it off extra cutsie, you can add a bow to the brim of the mason jar! And VOILA!

I tried lighting a votive and tealight in the heart-jar, and I think the tealight is best suitable because you can see the entire design of the heart more clearly. You can make a ton of these, and light your house with tons of love!

My LLL's of the week!

LOVE

I LOVE MY FAMILY!! In case you haven't caught onto that by now, I seriously honestly love each and every 32498237498 of them!! This week I talked to so many family members that there wasn't room to feel discouraged or alone!

LEARN

I learned (again) that it's okay to feel sad or discouraged. Just don't let it dictate each and every day you wake up! Dust your knees off and keep it pushin... it's all about your ATTITUDE!

LAUGH

I had some great chukkles with my gal pals when we went to a birthday lunch last week. We gabbed and laughed our pasta and salad away!

1st Friday of Lover's Month!

Happy Friday, heyyyy!!! My top five things from this week??? So glad you asked!

1. Went to a birthday lunch with my gal pals, and thankfully had a decent hurr day!
2. This week while walking the pups, we saw a ton of dear! I don't care how many times I see these animals... they still awe me when they prance right in front of us as they cross the streets!
3. I had an odd 24-hour stomach sickness this week, and my Hubs just shined like a diamond. Took care of me... came home frequently from work. Did the dishes. Cooked dinner early. Brought me soup and crackers and sprite! LOVE him!
4. Hubs and I made "just cause" blueberry muffins one night and they were delish!
5. Today is the 1st day of February. Yes January flew by, but February is one of my fave months! Total lovahhhh's month! (Can't wait to show off some Valentine's Day DIY comin up next week!)

What were some highlights from your week?? Link up with Lauren at From My Grey Desk for a High Five for Friday!