Letter-stamped Necklaces

I recently fell in love with the style of these pieces! I love the pure yet raw appearence of them and how personal they can be. I've always admired letter and image stamping. It's something I've always loved to try but it's a very expensive hobby! I can promise you those plates don't come cheap so if you (like I initially felt) think these pieces are a lil over-priced, the quality of the pieces and the work put into them they are at a fairly reasonable price. That being said, of course we'd all love if they weren't quite so high but maybe we can at least appreciate how gorgeous they are! (I'll link to all the pieces below the image incase your interested in purchasing any!)

This one is my absolute favourite that I've spotted so far!

This piece is available here.

I love this piece! I love swallows and combined with the word soar just gives such a sense of freedom. It's so pretty! The same artisian has many beautiful pieces..

Available here.

Available here.

She's so incredibly talented =) I love her pieces! I love how versatile letter stamping is. It can be used on almost anything and look so pretty! Here are some more examples of this gorgeous art from various artisians

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The last are great ideas for a present for a boyfriend or a male friend or anything. I love these items and I would definitely love to try letter stamping sometime in the future! I hope you guys like these pieces too! I am in no way affiliated with the companies above, I just wanted to share these with you =)

DIY Love!

This is my first post of a series of DIY projects that I hope you all love just as much as I do! =)

In case you haven't heard, I've decided that every so often I'm going to feature a craft project from different places (with lots of pretty pictures of course!)

Today's post feature this adorable little handmade origami paper heart and envelope. Perfect for Valentine's Day! I made this a few months ago for my boyfriend and he thought it was really cute! Maybe it's just me but I love handmade things. They always have so much more meaning and I'm always grateful for the time and effort someone would put into a handmade gift.

This amazingly talented girl made these as invitations to her engagement party initially.

She was so kind to make a generic version for people to download from her blog and you can edit and personalise the message on the inside simply by downloading her template.

The back of the heart has this adorable intricate looking design. And it comes with a template and instructions for this adorable handmade envelope as well!

To DOWNLOAD the templates for this origami heart and pocket visit Amy's blog here

For INSTRUCTIONS on how to fold the heart visit here

We've got a flame

Hi =)

I came across this song today and I cannot stop playing it! I wasn't sure at first but I just loved it once I got into it! Very Micheal Buble meets Katharine McPhee (you might remember her song with Zachary Levi from here) but don't judge it from that! It's very unique still. A very relaxed, happy song!

I showed this to my boyfriend earlier and, well, he's really not into this kind of music but when I showed him the adorable lyrics he got why I loved it and now totally agrees! Check em out:

written by: Jesse Barrera & Melissa Polinar

We’ve been at this for a long time

Keeping me alive - a lifeline

When I’m too high you keep me grounded

When I’m stuck on the ground, you take my mind somewhere

Far from here

 

We can’t quit

It doesn’t matter

I promise everything’s gonna get better

They’re not part of this

Chorus:

I don’t care what they’re talking about

We’ve got a flame

I’m not afraid

Of what they say

I don’t care what they say because…

I’m absolutely sure

I won’t need anything more

I left loneliness outside of your door

One step closer to the boundary

Between what’s certain and the maybe’s

We need to cross that line where no one’s

Got nothing on us

They don’t understand - where we’ve been

We can’t quit

It doesn’t matter

I promise everything’s gonna get better

They’re not part of this

Bridge:

I’m not afraid, i’m not afraid of what they say
I know that we’ll be ok

I love this song! I love finding 'undiscovered' talented people on youtube!! If you like the song be sure to go to youtube and like it over there. Show some love <3

So what do you guys think of the song?

Happy New Year & More to come!

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I'm a lil late buuuut... HAPPY NEW YEAR!! =)

I know I've been silent on the blogfront but I'm hoping that's going to change! I've decided to do shorter blogs more often rather than long blogs because as much as I love them they can drain me! I've been so busy and so exhausted lately that I never have time or the energy to blog and I never want to do a half-assed post! That wouldn't be enjoyable for you or me! So I'm making sure I'm gona do it right! =D

So just as a quick update I wanted to let you guys know that I do have posts planned! Unfortunately I haven't had any spare time to make new pieces which makes me sad! So there wont be any of those posts for awhile but I do plan on showing you lots of other pretty things and I'm thinking about incorporating a sort of 'featured DIY' post every now and then! I'm excited! Aren't you?!

Here's wishing everyone the best for 2011. Especially in health and happiness!

<3