Thursday, December 19, 2013

DIY Christmas gift: Heart tea bags ♡



What you're going to need:
 ♥ Scissors 
♥ Sewing needles
 ♥ Any kind of tea
♥ Any color thread
 ♥ Coffee filters (Four for every one you make)
Tags


The first thing you're going to want to do is grab about four coffee filters and its a lot easier if you keep them together how they came instead of taking them out individually. This way its easier to cut. If your coffee filters are fairy thin like mine are, you might want to use four, two on each side. But if they are on the thicker side, you can try one on each side. It just has to be thick enough to sew though and not break off!


Fold the coffee filters in half and do your best to keep all of the ends straight. Cut half of a heart into the middle of the coffee filter and you should get four hearts!


It should look a little something like this. If all the hearts are uneven try your best to gather them together and begin to sew. You're going to have to sew very tight together so the tea doesn't fall out!  


Once you have about half of your heart together its time to pour in the tea! This can be a little messy, so I suggest doing it over a hard surface.



Once you have your tea in your bag, finish closing it up and keep it tight! I stress this a lot because the tea WILL fall out!


To add a tag you can use any kind of stiff paper and just poke a hole though the top and add it to the side, or top of the heart. You can have it say whatever you want! I just chose to have it say what kind of tea it was. 


And there you go! A heart tea bag. This would make an amazing gift for any tea lover and it doesn't take very much time at all. You could make about 10 of them and put them into a little mason jar and you have a whole gift that took you less than $5 to make! xo

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Saturday, December 14, 2013

What i've been up to lately ♡



I've been crazy busy lately and was actually working four jobs at once at one point in the last two months so i've been doing my best to work with the little time I do have on the internet. Now that 2013 is coming to a close I just wanted to make one more "what i've been up to lately" post before it ends. In the past month i've been working a ton and eating a lot of Japanese food. Towards the end of this year i've been thinking about what I want to do with my life a lot more since i'm getting older and i'm getting more and more confident with what I want to do with my life. I signed up for Japanese classes at school for next semester and i'm really excited because I really want to study abroad in Japan. 


I was working on a Stay Cute photo shoot that i've been planning for a while and it went really well! You can watch the video I filmed and put together for it here. I got to hang out with some of my friends and it turned out to be a really fantastic day and I can't wait to do a spring/summer shoot for stay cute! I started working at Anthropologie and I absolutely love it. I've been shopping there a lot and I'm really hoping to maybe intern there in 2014! I've been pretty great lately and i'm happy with what 2013 gave me and i'm so happy that all of you stuck with me and gave me the chance to take you all with me and gave me so many opportunities because with out you I wouldn't be able to do any of this! Please do let me know down in the comments how you've been and how this school year was for you!

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How the grinch stole Christmas (THE PLAY!) ♡



I went to go watch how the grinch stole Christmas and it was so fun! I absolutely loved it. I took some pictures to show you guys ^~^ if you see this play near you, you should check it out because its really great. I actually watched it when I was younger and I was terrified of the Grinch.




They decorated everything around the theatre to be Grinch themed!









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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Bonne Chance Collections Holiday giveaway ♡



I hope you've all been enjoying me blogging every single day! I have! In honor of the holidays Bonne Chance and I decided to hold another giveaway since you all loved the last one SO much! This giveaway is free to enter and will be held on twitter so if you don't have an account you might want to make one. It starts today, and ends on the 24th. I'll tweet the winners name and follow them, if they don't respond in 24 hours a new winner will be announced! The winter can also pick the size they want the dress in. I hope your holidays are going fantastic! xo



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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Behind the scenes of the Stay Cute photoshoot ♡


If you didn't know already, I work for stay-cute and this past weekend I was involved in this years winter photoshoot featuring two of my friends! Jared, and Melissa. I give major props to the photographer Carlos because he did a fantastic job. These aren't all of the pictures, but I just couldn't wait to show you guys!
 














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Sunday, December 8, 2013