DIY Glitter Booties.

I've always loved glitter, sparkly things (diamonds - yes please!), and well, basically anything that catches your eye. There's something just so fun about living in a fantasy land filled with all things shiny. In my world, it's L M N OK to strut in crazy ass disco balls for your daily a.m. iced soy mocha. If you feel like sharing the same morning glory, here's a little glimpse into  how to create fantastical Disco Booties yourself:

1) First find cute, comfortable(!), inexpensive booties. 

Mine are from H&M and cost about $35.

2) Find some spray glitter in the color of your choice.

I picked silver and bought mine from Michael's. 

3) Put masking tape around the areas that you don't want glitterfied.

4) The fumes of the glitter spary are horrendous so make sure you're in a place that well ventilated, like outside. Then spray evenly from about a foot away. Let dry for 15 minutes, then add 1-3 more coats, depending on how sparkly you want your tootsies to be. 

And Voila!

Mutha F*ckin Sparkle Party. (part 1)

Last night I got glittered out for the insanely kick ass  Mutha F*ckin Sparkle Party and it was awesome! It was just what I needed - glitter, insanity, solid beats, good company and a dance floor. I decided to create my own blinged out attire. Got myself some white hot pants with rainbow colored pinstripes, a white tube top, nude fishnets, white leg warmers and just glitterfied the hell out of all those pieces of clothing. FUN!!!

A little noise to get you in the mood: German Sparkle Party (on repeat!)

Fairy dusticles!

Before.

Sparklified!

Um, excuse me but your booty is glittery.

Glitterfied chesticles.

The whole shebang.

With Amanda, at the Mutha F*ckin Sparkle Party!

Waiting on more blinged out pictures from my good friend, Erica Bowman. 

In the meantime... here are some party shots from official photographer, Luiza Leite.

Thank You, Come Again Cookies.

As a thank you present to our dinner guests, I put together homemade chocolate chip oatmeal cookies in jars to seal the deal of bestest hostest in the whole widest worldest award. Not only do these cookies guarantee repeat dinner guests, people will be begging for an invitation to the next soiree. Well lucky you, I'm in a sharing mood today so I present to you the too good to be true recipe. Boo ya!


Yields 3 1/2 dozen cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup salted butter, softened
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3 cups quick-cooking oats
• 1 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs one at a time, then stir in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda, and salt; stir into the creamed mixture until just blended. Mix in the quick oats and chocolate chips. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheets.
3. Bake for 12 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

Gather ingredients.

Put it all together and whaddya got?

The best mutha bakin' cookies.

Reduce, reuse, recyle: cleaned out candle jars. 

Dress 'em up and they're good to go.

Thank you,

Come Again.

Deconstructed Bouquet.

I've been a little down so my husband got me a couple of bouquets of flowers recently. Isn't he sweet?! :) Sometimes a girl just needs to be surrounded by beautiful flowers! So the bouquets have been around the house for a few days and some of the flowers were looking a little less than fresh. What I normally do is deconstruct the bouquet and save the good flowers and re-distribute them using vases and an assortment of glassware.

Purple daisies in a large red wine glass.

White hydrangeas in a tall rectangular vase.

Pink rose in a blue shotglass.

White daisies in a stemless cocktail glass.

Red gerber daisy in a small shotglass from Australia.

Altogether now! 

A gorgeous everyday flower arrangement for your home!

Manning Up.

Before I start this post let me just say that looking on the last few posts I realized that I guess I'm kind of obsessed with white! White pants, white scarf, white make-up and am currently painting an old desk white (but more of that in a post to come). You can't go wrong with white, it's nice, clean and classic.


So here we go -- Manning Up. I'm a lot handier than people give me credit for. Honestly, I act like a damsel in distress about half the time because I know I can get someone else to do it. Manipulative - I know, I know - but hey - it works! But recently I've discovered that I actually like to do manual labor. I find it to be very therapeutic and relaxing.


Yesterday I took in my dilapidated screen to Orchard Supply Hardware (O.S.H.) in hopes of getting an instant replacement. But alas! OSH does not carry pre-made screens. Oh no, no, no! They sell kits so you so you can make it yourself. YIKES! What was I to do?! I did my best attempt to be a pathetic girly girl so that I could have one of the employees build it for me. Sadly, it did not work. :( However, one gentleman did go above and beyond helping me - so I got as much out of it as I could but still had to build a screen all by myself.


Ch-ch-check it out!

Easy as 1-2-3 - ha! Yeah right.

Easy to build - NOT. False advertising!

Assemble all the materials.

...including this fine toothed hacksaw. Intimidated yet?!

Measure the length of the sides of the old screen.

Breaking out the hacksaw -- feeling dangerous!

Feeling cornered... (lame joke, I know :P)

Add corners to perfectly hacksawed metal sides...

Part deux of corner adding...

Assemble all the sides together and...

Ta Da! A well shaped window screen frame. Yay me!

Time to add the metal thingamabobber boos to one side of the frame to ensure a snug fit.

Actually I forgot to put this in first so I had to take apart the frame with the help of some dude walking by. He felt really bad for me. I made sure to sound extra pathetic and weak ;)

Screen time! Put the screen over  entire frame with 2 inches to spare on all sides. Place rubber string thinger in place...

...using this fine tool that the OSH team let me use to make things easier for lil ole me.  ;)

Sweet Jerry from OSH inspecting my work. 'Wow, you've worked with your hands before haven't you?,' he says, 'not everyone can do this.' Best compliment ever! Thanks Jerry! :D

Jerry shows me how to cut the excess screen and lets me use his razor to finish the rest.

All done! Look at me Ma! I'm a man!

And that concludes this portion of The Man Show. Thanks for watching! :)