just the little things

free flirty cupcakes tomorrow, 5/11

To celebrate their first birthday, Flirty Cupcakes, a local Chicago Cupcake truck, will be giving away 1,000 cupcakes tomorrow morning. Here's the schedule in case you want to check them out!

8:30 // 205 N. Michigan Ave – Fox On Air Segment

10:30 // Merchandise Mart – Wells/Kinzie

10:30 // Harpo Studios/West Loop – Washington/Aberdeen

12:00 // Rush – Harrison/Paulina

12:30 // Wacker/Adams

Follow them on twitter to get the real time estimate of where they will be. Seriously, how fun would it be if a cupcake truck showed up to your next party or wedding?

hodge podge

Did you have a lovely Mother's Day/weekend? The weather was just amazing in Chicagoland! And my sister and brother-in-law spoiled my family with an amazing meal. I'll post photos on that in a day or so.

In the meantime, enjoy a photo from my DC trip. Seriously, are there any Cherry Blossom treers in Chicago? I found them even at the gas stations in Virginia!

[photo taken by Cindy Kang]

And I just happened to love Google and the way they commemerate any holiday or special date by updating their Google search site. Today just happened to be birthday of Roger Hargreaves. Remember him and his Mr. and Little Miss books?

[photos 2, 3, 4 courtesy of google]

By the way, Pinterest launched their iPhone app. Hoping the Droid version comes out soon! Pretty please? Although this could pose a problem as I'd be glued even more to my phone than needed.

mom's day

Thoughts on gifts for moms? I always struggle with this for her birthday, Mother's Day and Christmas! What do you get for the mom who has everything she wants or need? But there's no way to just bypass the day and not acknowledge moms for their love, guidance and their never-ending sacrifices!

My default in the past has always some wrinkle cream. You know, for the added wrinkles I give her. She reminds me all the time. So I think it's nearly even when I buy her some cream for the wrinkles I cause!

But in the past, we managed to get her a beautiful silk scarf. This one is wool, but still love the modest colors.

Or a massage gift certificate always works well too! Who doesn't love a day at the spa?

And for the newly mother or grandmother, this would be an adorable handmade touch!

 

We're keeping it simple this year. An all day affair at the Botanic Gardens and dinner at my sister's. The best part is that I don't have to cook nor clean! To all the moms out there, THANK YOU!

photo display

If you have a blank wall at home work or for your event, you can set up a grid like this to display them. And the nice part is that you can swap them out whenever you want to!

Get the 'how to' here.

new-do

I often dream about chopping my hair and radically transforming my look. But I know from terrible past mistakes that I will never look good with my hair really short. The joys of having really long hair is that there's so many different ways to style it! Here are some clever and easy ways to style your own hair. You could definitely style your own for your engagement party, rehearsal dinner or bridal shower! Listen to your stylist when she tells you NOT to wash your hair the morning of your wedding day. The slight grease in your hair helps keep the style SO much more!

Okay, well with this one, I can never seem to tease my hair enough to get a nice bump in the back.

But I have seem to have mastered this one. When all else fails, tease your hair A LOT and use lots of hair spray!

I have yet to try this one, but isn't it gorgeous? It's like a sideways braid but I'm sure it's way more complicated than that!

Phew, day 4 done. Okay, I'm not going to lie, it's really keeping me accountable because I said that I'd post on the blog every day in May!

breaky time:

These days, I've been consumed with brie cheese, crackers and tea. It really is the perfect snack. If I had grapes, those would have been a great add as well! I figure I might as well as use my tea cups!

pindicted

I've been perusing pinterest for quite a while and never could really figure out how to get an account. And then a lightbulb went off and I checked facebook. And people were requesting accounts and others were gracious enough to share with them. If you ask, you shall receive, right? I did and I received immediately! Thank you so much for the invite! YAY for social media.

And now I'm addicted. It's the perfect way for me to literally pin-board a photo into categories without having to save them to my desktop now AND I know where it came from. I went through and had to find all the starred entries in my google reader. I went back about a year or two and then gave up (er, had dinner!)

 

Follow me here, if you'd like! And let me know if you need an account. I'd love to pass it on with the few remaining accounts I have!

Day 2 - CHECK!

may day

I cannot believe that May is already here! As promised, I'm going to post daily. Granted, most of these posts will be simple and just things that I've bookmarked in the past, but hopefully so habits will form and I'll post some photos from my DC trip as well as wedding/party inspirations in the midst of research!

To kick us off, I bookmarked this image months ago. I just thought it was SO clever to use clothespins to showcase an invitation. *Note, it's probably best to use really heavy notecard and an invitation that isn't too tall so that your base is secure. And, if in doubt, I would definitely position a vase of some sort behind it in case it does need some extra support.

And really, how adorable is the rest of the shower? I'd love to be a guest!