Frame Turned Jewelry Holder

I bought a plain black frame at DI for $2 a couple months ago, and this is what I had planned to do with it. I didn't get around to doing it until now, though.

I spray painted a layer of white so I wouldn't have to hand paint so many layers of the cream. This is the squiggle of paint and I just used a foam brush.

this is the frame all painted.

I went outside and found a stick and broke it to the length I needed it to be. Then I painted it with some teal that we had.

I took a piece of sandpaper and rubbed on the edges and then the surface to scratch it up a little. The black showed up behind it and I think it added a lot of character.

It almost killed me to shun my glue gun, but I knew down the road I would want something more sturdy, even if it didn't dry very fast. :)

I laid the stick across and clamped it down with two of my dads clamps to let it dry.

There was a little extra because I didn't really know how much I would need so it kind of took a while to dry.

I bought this a little while back and it matched the paint really well so this is what I used for the earring hangings.

here's the whole thing (I just hadn't put my necklaces on it yet, obviously).

these are all of my dangly earrings. I just keep all of my studs stuck in a piece of foam...maybe I'll have to do something about that... :)

xoxo CPTVPT

Fashion #3

I really like this outfit. you basically can't go wrong with black and baby blue! add in a little leopard print and you've got yourself an awesome outfit! this could be used with the blazer or without it. I think with the blazer you have a more sophisticated (maybe business?) look, while without it, it's really just fun! :)

i'm all for the bold-colored pants. I love the statement they give. I like that the white bow on the shirt and I think it kind of balances out the color so the red pants don't outweigh whats on top. I thought the red headpiece was an interesting point on it as well.

hope you are all having a wonderful day!

xoxo CPTVPT

I knoooowwww...

boy, oh boy.

I got really sick for a few days, and then I didn't post pictures because I was busy yesterday. Surprisingly enough, I have actually taken a picture everyday, and plan to continue doing so. It just won't be posted today.

I also missed fashion because I was sick, so that's what this will be! :)

here's another little country number for ya! :) my style is simple, but I think it's cute. What do you think?

I'm really a lover of anything lace. I just love it. I also love me some retro-ish, oldies but not too oldie clothes. I could've done a different shoe but I think the "mary-jane" type look complete the whole look well.

xoxo CPTVPT

365 Day Project!

I'm starting a 365 photography project. Yup! One picture a day for a whole year. I thought about having 12 categories (one for each month) but decided that I would just get as many as I could think of (17) categories which are:

Close-up (outside)

Around the house

Self portraits

Landscapes

Dramatic light

Objects outside

Nature

Food

Architecture

Looking up

Reflections

Vehicles

Water

Black and white

Colors
Night
People

     RULES:

• I can't go outside of the categories.
• I may not have more than four in one category per month.
• I have to have at least one photo in each category per month. 
• I'll post once a week on Sundays. 

This is gonna be pretty challenging so wish me luck!

*NOTE: I have the right to fudge stretch the reason why a picture fits into any category.

Oh, and Happy New Year to you all! Remember that our attitudes are more powerful than our situations...make 2012 the best!

Selling...

i started selling some stuff...

my website is www.kaylas.bigcartel.com

check it out!

if you want...

or don't, i don't really care. but i sorta do... :)

just thought i'd let ya'll know!

xoxo CPTVPT

Fashion #2

This one i think is pretty darn awesome. I love the red and turquoise together because it seems to be such an unusual combination. I couldn't believe it when i found this necklace that (i think) matches so well!

here's a little cow girl outfit for ya! i love this style. i couldn't find the right sweater that was open, so i thought everyone could just imagine it in their heads! :) I think the belt would look cute over the sweater and the dress too, if you wore it right. i really love the boots with the little leg warmers, and i think the slouchy leather purse works well too.

xoxo CPTVPT

What to Work on Weekly...

My family decided to try something for this new year. because our lives are so darn hectic, we have FHE on Sunday nights instead of Monday nights.

So, each week on Sunday, we'll choose something to work on to be better for that week. My sister came up with the idea to just do it for nine weeks using the 9 be's that Pres. Hinckley mentions in his book "Way to Be."

But then my mom found this website (i'll let you know in a few days) that has 52 things to work on. (for those of you that don't know, that's all the weeks in a year...okay, okay, i had to look it up too :) haha.)

so each week we'll be working on something new. and of course that doesn't automatically mean that you stop working on all the other stuff, you just keep building and building!

by the end of this no one will be perfect BY ANY MEANS, but if we're one step closer to being like our Heavenly Father, i'm okay with that! I'll be posting each week what my family is working on, and you are MORE than welcome to join in! :)

oh, and merry christmas to you all! :)

xoxo CPTVPT

Fashion

I know this is a little random, but I am into fashion and even though I can't afford a lot of the things that I would like to, making it work with what you have is more fun.

this is NOT what I have, it's just my fantasy fashion world. oh how I love leather jackets. I also love scarves. and feather headbands. so yeah.

this is my love. not necessarily clothes, but teal. I LOVE turquoise, teal, aquamarine, you get the point. mixed with gold. it's even better. and I have a thing for feather earrings.

I think maybe i'll start doing a weekly fashion post. I'll make a couple new ones each week and post them here...yeah! that's a good idea. alright, it's settled! :)

I hope you are all having a good week leading up to CHRISTmas. don't let stress ruin the true spirit! it's not worth it! :) 

xoxo CPTVPT

Temple Square.

oh how i love the holidays! :)

i went to temple square with my three brothers, two sister-in-laws, and one sister tonight.

nothing compares with walking around in the freezing cold and seeing the light at temple square.

this giant tree always amazes me!

"who does these anyway?"

"the senior missionaries, duh."

haha, the above conversation happened however, it WAS a joke. if you don't get it, sorry. :)

you can't go to temple square lights without seeing this classic tree.

the temple! with pretty lights!

oh how i love the salt lake temple. i could take pictures of it ALL day long!

see? toldja! :) if you've never been and you have a chance, GO. it's soooo awesome! all the nativities that they have set up are awesome as well. those were my nephew's very favorite!

xoxo CPTVPT

Re-Done DI Frame

this is what it looks like in the end W/O THE PICTURE. (i'm sure you needed that bolded because you just really couldn't tell if there was a picture there or not.

i purchased this frame at DI for $1. That's right, folks, one dollar. 

i taped over the glass like so because the glass on this frame was glued in.

i did a quick coat of normal acrylic paint to kind of set it up.

because i'm impatient, i definitely use a hair dryer to dry the paint. it works, i promise.

when that was done, i painted the raised pieces of wood black.

the part that i don't have a picture of is me in the garage spray painting this frame after i had dried and taped the black strips on the frame. i also used a hair dryer out there to make it dry quickly.

on my trusty cricket i printed out different fonts of the words "stop and smell the roses"

me being the spacey girl that i am, i thought that i wanted to paint the letters on.

this is after it was painted and when i took the paper off...DUH! it looked terrible, the paint had bled everywhere, i didn't want to take a picture of it. that's how BAD it was.

so i went back to this step. i painted it again with approximately 64 layers of acrylic paint and then exactly 243 layers of spray paint. in all, i think i increased the thickness of this baby by at least two inches.

i finally just cut out the words on black paper with my cricket, and modge podged them on. it was  pretty intense. how i finished in one day, i'm still not sure.

this is the end result and i have the most adorable picture to put in it. my nephew is bending over, sticking his nose inside a flower at temple square. i'm still not sure if i should give it to my sister-in-law, or maybe my mom (his grandma). hmmm...we'll see. all the underneath layers of paint will dry before Christmas. next year. if i'm lucky. :)

xoxo CPTVPT