DIY ornaments for the holidays!

I know I've neglected my blog, and I hate that! As soon as I got back from vacation in August, classes started, then I went away again. After that there was all the school work and everything else and now the holidays are right around the corner. I've just been super busy! But, I have found the time to start crafting and work on some great DIY gifts for the holidays! I'm obsessed with Pinterest and I'm always pinning anything and everything that grabs my attention, just for inspiration. But, my DIY board is truly a place where I pin projects or crafts that I really want to do! I'm super crafty and own half a craft store in my basement so I'm always looking for another project to take on! If you like DIY stuff as much as me then be sure to follow me on Pinterest and check out my latest projects below!


I've been making a ton of different ornaments. Glitter ones are super easy to make and inexpensive too!

What you'll need:

Ornament

Baby oil

Glitter

An empty cup

Ribbon or ornament hook/hanger

Total cost: Under $2.00 per ornament!

Basically all you need is an ornament with an opening. I use the plastic ones instead of the glass because they're less expensive and you don't have to worry about them shattering. I always purchase mine at Michaels and they're usually half off. You can find all different shapes and sizes too!

Then you pour some baby oil, which I purchased at the dollar store, into the ornament. You don't need much at all. Just enough to fully coat the inside. Keep rotating the ornament until you feel like every inch has baby oil on it. Then you can tip it upside down, sitting in a cup if you'd like, so the excess baby oil can make its way out instead of settling in a blob somewhere inside of the ornament. I usually take a paper towel and dab the opening a bunch of times to speed this process up. 

Then you need to start adding glitter of your choice. Any kind will work, you just have to be patient and add small amounts at a time. The skinny tubes of fine glitter work really well because it's easy to pour right from the tube into the opening of the ornament. You want to rotate the glitter around to cover every inch like you did with the baby oil. It gets tricky the closer you get to the opening but you'll figure it out I'm sure!

I love doing it this way because you don't have to worry about the glitter falling off the outside of the ornament because it's all on the inside and it's just as beautiful! 

For this blue and silver one I mixed two different glitters, so the possibilities are endless! You can also add some ribbon, and decorate the outside if you'd like too!

I'll be posting more the DIY projects I've been doing very soon, so stay tuned! 

A bracelet post & an update on my t-shirt DIY post

I just posted my June favorites video...even though it's July 14th, I felt I needed to do it! Anyway, In the video I'm wearing a bunch of bracelets and I wanted to show you them here to because I know stacking bracelets has become a huge trend of late.

June Favorites

These are my bracelets 

from left to right

DJ3K, American Eagle, CALYPSO St. Barth for Target, H&M, Alex & Ani, Yankee Universe

DIY OOTD @ Yankee Stadium!

Today I wanted to show you a super easy way to make a plain crew neck t-shirt into a one of a kind off the shoulder cute t-shirt! It's super easy, inexpensive and I did it with a Yankee shirt because I was going to a Yankee game but clearly this could work for any shirt you have lying around.

First, I went out and bought a new shirt. Now if you know me at all you would know I don't need any new Yankee clothing for the rest of my life, however I don't want to chop up what I have and I usually buy something new for the game so I went shopping!  If you are going to a game and are going to do this I suggest doing what I did which was head to the clearance rack. I went to Dicks and they had a pretty good selection, I ended up buying more than just this actually. But, this way you're not spending a lot of money on something you're cutting up, especially since Major League sporting goods stuff can be pricey. You could also try TJ Maxx or some place like that.

Anyway, I also suggest getting either a size or two up from what you usually wear sine your going to wear it off the shoulder and you want it to be a little baggy. You can also go into the kids section and get a bigger size there, which could also save money. I think mine is a kids because it's a large and it fits pretty perfectly with the bagginess and I'm usually a small.

Now, here's how to do it. Basically all you'll need is the shirt and a pair of scissors. Now, I'm sure there are actual fabric cutting scissors and if you have them, then great, but it's really not necessary to go out and buy them just for this. If you're using regular scissors, it may be helpful to have a smaller pair with you as well for when you're done to clean up the edges, but again, only if you have them available.

Here's the shirt before. 

This is how I made my first cut. I stuck the scissors directly below the ribbing and cut all the way around. Don't worry about it being perfect because you're going to cut a lot farther down but this is just the first cut as a guideline.