Chains n' Stones Can't Break Your Bones.

I almost panicked for a bit right now because I thought I lost the DIY tutorial on my unorganized list of favorite blogs. Of course, I just had to share it with you. Now this is for all the chain and rhinestone crazy loves out there who love the look but don't wanna break the bank achieving/getting the item. For a cheapskate like me, DIYs are my ultimate best friend especially with jewelry. This one from Honestly WTF, I especially love and cannot wait to try out. I seriously need to go to the craft /hardware store asap. Enjoy!

(tutorial in collaboration with Stripes & Sequins; all images by HonestlyWTF)

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Awkward.

Hello lovelies! I am so happy that I can finally post up an outfit post. I practically had to beg my brother though to take my pictures and I didn't even use my camera since I had no idea I drained out the battery (I left it on since the last time I used it. Boo.) So this isn't exactly my usual standard outfit shot but hey nevertheless still an outfit post. Hehe. 

Anyways it took me a while to figure what to wear considering the fact I have a very minimal wardrobe at the moment. When I found out I was pregnant last December, I pretty much jumped on a plane back home and only had a small (really small) luggage to bring thus only bringing clothes I needed & could use. Not to forget, most of the "clothes" I did buy during my pregnancy are all maxi dresses. Well with the tummy flab finally gone, I wanted to dress up sexy but not too sexy thus this outfit. Now my skirt is actual a maxi skirt and with the heat nowadays, I didn't exactly feel like wearing something constricting or long. So what do you do with your maxi skirt? Fold it up tuck it in along the waist and ta-da! A nice short skirt. In my case, the skirt was fitted so when I folded it up it sorta look like a bandage skirt. Quick tip/idea for those bored with the current clothes in their closet.

You can barely see my earrings in this picture and I forgot to ask my brother to take a close-up of my necklaces. Boohoo! Lesson learnt! Haha.

Fifi decides to make a special appearance on my outfit shot and also my son's diapers. Haha! Oh the joys of having my brother take my photos.

As ecstatic as I am to finally be able to put up an outfit post, the highlight of my day (as always) is my son. He wore his first outfit today! Usually he goes out wearing a onesie and then pajama bottoms to keep his feet covered, well today after buying shorts a couple nights ago (because his dada "grand-daddy" wanted them for him) I decided to dress him up. The whole show: onesie, shorts, socks and shoes! Good thing my lil one was a trooper this morning. This is my lil guy's ootd. Haha! (Can you believe it but his onesie is sized for a 9 month old and his shorts are sized up for 6-12 months. He's only 2 1/2 months old and already wearing clothes meant for older babies! Thank you Lord for a healthy boy.)

To end my post, showing you my lil guy all smiles at the camera. He is like this every morning. No joke! Such a blessing to be a mom and to a kid who is as joyful as he is. Have a great weekend loves!

DIY: Jewelry Holder

Every woman has a fascination for accessories and usually it's something we put on our bodies, may it be these beautiful diamonds on our fingers, dangling chandelier earrings or a gorgeous statement necklace. Now with the endless supply of jewelry every where, it makes it hard to keep track and organize what we pick up time after time. In my case, my mother and I have this love for jewelry especially earrings, but we can never find a jewelry holder that could fit everything. So here is where DIY comes in hand.

Our original earrings holder was an iron board base that was put up on my closet door. It was efficient, simple and pretty much held all our earrings, the only problem was our necklaces didn't have a place; so jewelry was still cluttered around my room. Of course with a baby coming around that time, jewelry scattered in the room was not an option so we had to think up of something better. And I must say we definitely came up with something better, thanks to my dad for being the amazing, handy dandy carpenter of our household.

So basically with a couple of items found at home and/or at your local hardware store, you can come up with a beautiful, functional piece in your room. 

Now I unfortunately don't have step by step photos of how my dad assembled this, but I will do my very best in explaining to you how he did it. So basically all you need to do is cut the perfboard into the size of your frame and nail it into place. Now for my case, we used a dresser's mirror frame. Yes it is quite big and that's what we were aiming for. It's up to you what size of frame you want to work with. After securing the perfboard onto your frame, you may now place your bolts and nuts on the perfboard. The best part of using a perfboard is because of the pre-made holes on the board, you can adjust how many bolts and nuts you want to put for your jewelry. It could be systemically placement of every 4 holes or it could be random placings. It's all up to you. After that you're pretty much all set to go. You can either hang your frame on the wall, place it against a wall or table or even place it on an easel. Anything goes and now you're free to hang up your jewelry!

This is how we first arranged the jewelry.

And this is how it looks now. We adjusted the placement of bolts and nuts so that it could fit more of our necklaces and even our bracelets. What do you think? We can't wait to put up more jewelry now!

Well I hope this DIY jewelry holder has inspired you to go creative in how to store and organize your jewelry. Happy DIY-ing!