too much on my plate

I haven't posted in over a week! Yikes. There's been a lot going on outside of blogworld that has taken my mind off of things over here and likewise off of actual creating. Now, I'm left with that feeling of "too much on my plate." 

And I don't mean in the literal sense. I can handle the yummy stuff. 

Like this delicious end of summer pasta. Really, that's it's name, and it was so yummy. 

Or some homemade banana pudding- mmm.

And of course, some more cupcakes - The Atlanta Cupcake Factory, The Highlands

(yep, there was a 4th one, sorry it didn't make the pic)

I know, I know, this isn't a food blog. But a girl has to eat, right? I mean, we all eat, so what's the harm. And well, when stepping out into the world after some rough days, what's also the harm in looking cute?!

Excuse the messy bathroom. I am linking this to Lindsey's wiww (what I wore Wednesday)

(sorry I only have one day instead of a week)

shirt - target

flowers on shirt - petal pushers from the pleated poppy

pants - old (not old navy, just old)

shoes - nine west, dsw

ring - awesome, a friend makes them

Hopefully now I can get back to creating...thanks for staying tuned through this brief interruption. :)

new necklace and fabric flowers

I did it. I finally sucked it up and gave it a whirl! I read blog post after blog on how to make fabric flowers. I filed them away. I reread them. I watched any tutorial I could find. I still never felt confident. But then I saw this necklace at Just Another Day in Paradise.

Isn't it beautiful? I fell in love. And then Larissa posted that tutorial. Well if you notice in her tutorial, she even says when she starts explaining how to do her flowers that this is the part that gets tricky to explain -- well leave it to me to have this be the method that worked the best for me! Go figure. I'm not even positive that I did it exactly the way she meant for us to, but I wound up with what looked the most like rosettes of any other way I have tried. I have since also tried it with grosgrain and satin ribbon and they also look AWESOME. 

I then did the big felt flower exactly how she said, well sort of. I used my Sizzix to cut the circles. So that went super fast and easy. But for the smaller flower I didn't have enough circles left, and I didn't have enough of the same color material left to make more circles. SO I used the circles I had to make a flower like this: 

If there was a tutorial out there on blogland let me know. I didn't use one though. I just glued and folded. I can make a tutorial if people want one. 

My whole necklace came out like this and I have gotten lots of compliments. 

Thanks again, Larissa for the inspiration! You can find her tutorial here and here.