by sunnyslideup | sunny slide up
We have a very exciting GIVEAWAY starting today!
Apricot Lane is a popular national boutique featuring celebrity-inspired affordable fashions for the everyday woman. Offering styles from the L.A. fashion district and a personalized shopping experience, it’s the coolest boutique in the Carolinas. New women’s clothes, handbags, jewelry, other accessories and gifts arrive daily.
Charlotte readers, be sure to go check out their StoneCrest and Birkdale Village locations! Now, on to the GIVEAWAY!!!
One lucky reader will receive this lovely handbag shipped right to their door!
To enter the giveaway, simply leave a comment on this blog post below telling us what outfit you would wear with this bag.
For extra entries, you may do the following, (please let us know about each of your extra entires in comment below):
3) tweet, link, pin and/or share this giveaway!
Giveaway closes on Friday, July 19th at 9:00am EST. Winner will be chosen by random draw and announced on Friday, July 19th in our guest blog post by Apricot Lane Charlotte!
*Winner must provide shipping address and live in the Continental United States*
by Mandi | diy
A good friend of mine recently had a beautiful baby girl! We are all in love with her already!
The nursery is adorable and has a bird theme… so it was easy to pick a theme for her shower! We wanted to get a bird cage for her nursery so we decided to have a bird theme shower focused around the bird cage! I was so happy with how it turned out!
Here is the invitation that I did for the shower…. A little birdy told me…
We had an ice cream social party and decorated with birds, nests, eggs, bird houses, cages, etc.
Here is a look at the ice cream toppings. This was so simple to do – glass bowls and inexpensive tags we picked up at a craft store worked perfectly. Gotta have pickles with your ice cream for the pregnant girl!
Here are a few pictures of the tables decorated for the shower. This was a simple, inexpensive solution to decorating a large amount of tables. All of the girls that hosted brought in things from their homes to keep the cost down. We also tossed in a few candy eggs for people to snack on at the tables.
Finally we added in some fresh cut flowers from our yards and local grocery store, and the decor was complete!
I am lucky enough to have an amazing woman I work with on all of my cakes! I trust her completely and have NEVER been disappointed! I emailed her a copy of the invitation and she created this cake and matching cupcakes…. LOVE!
My advice for your next shower… pick a theme that you can work with using pieces from your homes to give it a personal touch while saving you money.
What have you seen work well for baby shower themes?
by jenn_davis | fun finds
I know I post a lot of videos on this blog, but I would really like you to take the time and watch this interview with Dustin Hoffman that I recently came across. He describes something we have all experienced, but in way that made me realize just how right he was. Beautiful words.
