darlings

J'adore:

This "What's in my bag post" post via A Beautiful Mess

Braided top bun via A Cup of Joe

BIG bows. also, this blog. SO many cute clothes to make!

Awesome suitcase chair via Julia

This amazing polyvore post inspired by Chuck Charles ♥ Pushing Daises

Oy, this picture is perfect.

The fact that it is finally officially spring!! (source)

This outfit post. swoon

This book. double swoon

That's all for now! 

♥

"mill-e-wah-que"

We're back from our little road trip to Wisconsin! It was so much fun. We did all of the things on our list. Milwaukee is a nice city, very clean, very friendly and easy to navigate. We liked it a lot and we'll probably go back soon. It's only 2 hours away from Chicago so we could go anytime. I would recommend a trip there to anyone! 

Here are some pictures I took with my phone on Friday and Saturday:

We spent $30 on cheese at Mars Cheese Castle! That's a lotta cheese! 

The view from the art museum facing the lake

Sol Le Witt's instructions to the MAM for one of his hand drawn wall works. 

Milwaukee has wonderful architecture. The art museum is Absolutely amazing!

The view from the hotel room. I always love a good view. 

Day view of the river on our way to dinner. 

We ate at this nice German restaurant, Mader's. It was rated the best in Milwaukee. We ate traditional German food and had some beers. It was really yummy. It was kitschy too, in a good way. The menu had pictures of celebrities who had eaten there over the years. They had head shots with handwritten notes from some celebrities. They had Cary Grant! I was in awe of that one :)

The city is so pretty at night with all of the lights.

On the brewery tour, this is where they make the good stuff. 

Coffee stout, SO good!

On the brewery tour, the guide picked two guys to reenact the opening theme from Laverne and Shirley. It was so funny and reminded Doug of this scene from Wayne's World where they visit Milwaukee. 

Wisconsin Love ♥

Spring break is almost over :( I'm sad about it but its back to the real world tomorrow. I have a lot of things to get done today because I put them all off until the last day but everybody does that, right? It was a really, really great break!

busy having fun

I haven't blogged since Monday because I have been super busy. I'm on spring break and it has been wonderful! I have been so busy doing fun things. It's about to get even better because tomorrow my boyfriend and I are going on a road trip to Milwaukee. I'm excited! We're going to load up the car and drive in the morning and stay until Saturday night! We're going to a brewery tour (a must in Milwaukee), eat German food (another must), eat yummy yummy frozen custard, stay in an old hotel and go to the art museum.  I can't wait! Sunday morning I'll be back with pictures from the trip :)

We're going to stop at one of my favorite places on the way there too, Mars Cheese Castle! I LOVE cheese! I couldn't go a day without it.

Some of my favorite cheesy things:

Mmmmm....chhheeeessssseeeee (hahaha)

Happy St. Paddy's Day too! I live in Chicago where people go crazy for it even though most are not Irish. We even dye the river green. I think it's so cool looking.

♥


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handmade skirt love

I made the Simplicity 2258 skirt last night! It was easy and I think it came out well. I had never sewn with rayon fabric before so I didn't know what to expect. It was actually not bad at all. I bought some more on clearance last night when I went to buy some elastic. I think I'll make this skirt or a swingy-er skirt out of it. That's really my only complaint is that it's not as swingy as I would want. Do you know what I mean by "swingy" or do I sound crazy? haha 

And it has pockets! Not really sure what to do with the ties yet as far as tying it the "right way" to have it lay flat against the skirt. I'll figure it out but if you have any suggestions or other skirt patterns you would like to share, leave a comment! 

Skirt love ♥

colorway (friday) sunday!

colorway friday sunday is here! this week my color is lime!

What a cool lime VW bus. 

Lime kitchen

Lime Barbie hair

What a pretty room. I like the interesting corner the ceiling creates.

Lime means glow in the dark!

Lime also means margaritas!

Cool hair color! It seems like every week I found someone who has the colorway color :) 

Mmm...cupcakes

Pretty moth

I love this cowl!

I love wallpaper! I don't have any in my house but I wish. 

Wow

Lime shutters, swoon

I like this quote a lot. 

Last but not least, lime cat.



What are your favorite lime things?

♥


all images via weheartit

sewing my own clothes again.

I saw a post over on I Go By Katie about patterns and sewing your own clothes. I have been wanting to get back into making my own clothes for a long time. So, I went to Joann's and got some new patterns! They were on sale for $1.99 each, some of them regular $17! I got a steal! I also looked at some clearance fabric they had even though I do have plenty of vintage fabrics. I like to look anyway. I found two different ones that are perfect for the projects I'm planning. One is a red rayon with big pink flowers. Perfect for a skirt to wear with a tucked in white top. I also got a mustard yellow with a winter flower pattern that will be great as a sleeveless blouse to wear with linen pants this summer. I can't wait to get started! I can add another to-do on my spring break list.

I'm making the "C" skirt with this fabric. 

I'm thinking "C" blouse on this one. 

Oh, and Sadie came over to say hi while I was taking photos :)

Happy Sunday!