Goorin Bros. Hat Shop

Hey guys, I didn't think of a devotional  for today, but I did find a subject for today so lets get to it!!


As you may know hats where pretty big for woman's fashion in the 1920's era.

Oops how did this get here........

If you know me well, I am obsessed with the beautiful style of the 1900--1960's and while I was spending the weekend with my lovely Aunt and Uncle, we went of a walk through downtown Nashville, Tennessee.  I love the old feel of the buildings and the unique things that are sold in the shops.

 One store I particularly loved. It's called Goorin Brothers Hat Shop. It is filled with gorgeous hats in all kinds of colors materials. All of them are styled like back in the 1920's.

Me and my Uncle both bought hats here.

Here's some pictures of my new Cloche Hat. I also bought a hat feather for it at that same shop.

I'm not sure where the white gloves came from, but they are my sister's, and so are the costume pearls. The beautiful brooch is my mothers and I think that she said that she got it from a yard sale a long while ago.

I hope you guys enjoyed this post as much as I enjoyed taking pictures for it!!

Until later!!

Friday

Sorry for the late post today, I hope you all have had wonderful days I spent it with my lovely grandmother. We went birthday shopping. It is a tradition to go out with my grandmother before our birthdays to buy our own birthday gifts. This prevented ill fitting clothes and we got things we really needed and wanted then we have lunch. It has happened since I was around 7 when my Granny didn't know what to give my older sisters and me. I love my grandmother so much and it is an pleasure to be with her!

Until tomorrow!

DIY Tie Dye Notebook with Quote

 Hey guys I had  a really fun time doing the notebooks so I made a few more. Here is a tutorial for another notebook.

Grab a composition notebook and tape up the binding with any old masking/painters tape.

Then grab a large brush and some white paint to create a nice white base.

You will need several coats paint so it looks like this

Before the last coat drys rip up that painters tape.

 Then what I do next is go on Google Drive or whatever document you have on you computer and type out a quote on a sheet of paper then I cut it with a paper cuter write around the words. The quote I chose was 'Don't try to comprehend with your mind, minds are very limited. Try imagination." So you have to print it like this;


                                           DON'T TRY TO COMPREHEND WITH YOUR MIND,



                                                       OUR MINDS ARE VERY LIMITED



                                                              TRY IMAGINATION.

Make plenty of spaces between the word in you quote. Make sure you cut your quote with plenty for space when you make it.



 Place one of your quote clippings in a sink or on a Styrofoam plate.

I forgot to take picture of this but get three different blobs of paint that can blind well with each other and add a little bit of water.

Then stir till the pigments is evenly distributed in the water.

Do this with the other two colors

Grab one of your paint and water mixture and the paper clipping on the plate

Pour your color of choose onto the clipping, be sparing it should look something like this.

You can also pour a bit on the plate and lay it face down on the blob of awesome.

It will look like this.

Dip or pour the rest of the clippings to look some thing likwe this and lay them out to dry. ( if you want it to go quicker, you can grab a hair dryer and blow dry them on low with a warm or cool heat setting.)

Get the same paints as you used earlier for the water/paint mixtures. (You don't need white paint.)

( The next step works best if the white base coat is still a bit wet so if completely dry add a thin coat of white to dry for maybe 5 minutes) Add another strip of painters tape to the book and Then make a squiggle line with your paint of chose and fill in the corner you created repeat all over notebook  alternating colors and move to next step with out letting dry. Also don't worry about the appearance you painting.

 Now take your finger in a circular motion to smear paint and create a tie dye affect. Take off the painters tape from the binding 

 (By the way, if you where wondering, I am doing another quote be cause I forgot about taking the rest of the pictures when I was do in the front so I have a different quote for the back but it with be the same instructions.)

Get your dried clipping and figure out where you want them on the cover. If you want to paint around the quote like in the picture near the bottom do this now. I just used a pencil to make a rectangle about a half an inch bigger all around the clipping them took away the clipping a messily filled in the rectangles the let ththem to dry.

Then put glue on the back of the clippings and place them where you want on the notebook. (Or in the white rectangles.)

Then put stripes of glue over the clippings, and use a large brush to spread the glue thinly over the paper clippings.

Then add more stripes of Elmer's glue on the rest on the rest of the cover,
spread it out as well. Let it dry and your journal is done!

This is what it looks like when you put white rectangles around it.

This what it looks with out.

I hope everyone enjoys this post. 

Here's an updated picture of my precious nephew!!!!!

                                                                       Until later!

Becoming Numb to Sin

We, as Christians, are increasingly becoming numbed to sin in this world.  We find it everywhere we can look.

On TV we see so many sinful acts and sinful language. Commercials are addressed to the "gotta-have-it" natures of us as humans in this world. Society addresses love as a momentary thing. We hear people falling in love, then moving on to the next love.  How often do we shy from all of this?

As a kid, if you had siblings or a relative that you admired strongly, you would start to mold your self to be like them. Say what they say, like what they like you try to be like THEM. You can even do this unconsciously too!

We are putting ourselves in the perfect place to change our mind set on things that we as Christians know is sinful and wrong.

Psalms 14 "Fools say to themselves 'there is no God.' These fools are evil and do terrible things; there is no that does any good. But all have turned away. Together everyone has become evil. There is no one that does any good. Don't the wicked understand? They destroy my people as if they were eating bread. They do not seek the Lord. But the wicked are filled with terror, because the God is with those who do right. The wicked upset the plans of the poor, but the Lord will protect them. I pray that victory will come to Israel from Mount Zion may the people of Jacob rejoice,  and the people of Israel will be glad!"

We need to break away from the loop and from the sinful things that have turned God's people numb to sin.


I hope all of you have awesome Mondays! Until later!  <3

Happy Halloween!!

Hi guys! Happy Halloween! I hope everyone has a good one! My big sister Amber, just got her wisdom teeth pulled yesterday. So we didn't make any big plans. But I might Trick or Treat with a friend of mine tonight.  I'm dressing up as a bumble bee here's a pic.

Ha ha ha you know that's not me! You have to say that is funny though, forget what I was doing lets look at cats dressed up as bees!!!!!!

THAT. WAS. AWESOME!!!! Until later! 

Cat Notebook

I made this adorable cat notebook and I love it dearly! I hope you all have as much fun making it as I did!

You will need:

Black, gold metallic, and white acrylic paints

A composition notebook

A large paintbrush 

A tiny paintbrush 

A pencil with a eraser

and a ruler 

First grab you large brush and paint your whole composition notebook black and let it dry. 

  It will take quite a few coats to get a good coverage. (Make sure you paint the back cover too.)

 Take a pencil and sketch a simple cat. Make it look as close to this as possible. (You can add more fur in the drawing, it added it in the painting process.)

Then get a really, really tiny brush that looks like this.

Then grab the white paint and brush.

 Run it over the sketch you already made. Now let it dry and erase any unwanted pencil lines them and sketch on some hipster glasses.

Then grab a little dab of gold metallic paint.

Then use the tiny brush and metallic paint to create these super awesome gold hipster glasses.

  

Now grab a pencil and ruler, and make a pencil line across the front like in the picture below.

Use the thick brush and fill in the rectangle that you make with the pencil line with the same metallic paint as glasses.

Let dry and add one or two more coat depending on you paint.

(Quick tip: use small brush strokes near pencil line and binding.)

  

This is what it looks like when done add more if you like but I really love this book and it cost me only the notebook which if you buy around back to school time you can get for SUPER cheap! 

Until later! Happy Wednesday!