Treat Yourself: Homemade Pizza

 Over the weekend I treated myself to a special homemade pizza that I absolutely love.

It is so much better than anything delivered to my doorstep.

Here, I'll share with you my pizza concoction:

Ingredients:

canned artichokes

sliced black olives

goat cheese

marinara sauce

pizza dough

sundried tomatoes

sharp cheddar

Follow the ingredients on your dough package but usually it suggests that you bring the dough to room temp.*super key point* if you don't it will be really hard to spread your dough out onto your baking sheet.

Spread your toppings as desired, a little too much cheese or light on the sauce, it's up to you!...I'm mostly too much everything! mmm! 

Sometimes something as simple as treating yourself to a special meal will make you feel that much better, and not to mention fuller! 

Have any special toppings for homemade pizza? 

Thanks for stopping in!

Lo

Photo Wrap Up

 ..love the simple beauty in this photo..

 ..i never get tired of my kmart shoes, so cute (yup, thats right I said kmart)..

 ..my sweet boy is gone on a business trip and I treated myself to my favorite homemade pizza..

 ..since the boy is away i also decided to treat myself to anthro (I had a gift card)..

 ..inside anthro fitting room, I had never been in an actual anthro..I just always loved the store since forever. If you've never been to a store, go it will change you. I absolutely loved it! ah! And sale items are so wonderfully priced, I was surprised..

 ..the animals keeping me company, I love it..

 ..this was a discarded space book and I knew I could use it in some way..

 ..this is what i came up with // more to follow this week..

..i've been having severe tattoo fever and I may need to share with you more of my tattoo ideas soon..

..the light on saturday made the colors outside pop so beautifully, don't forget that you can find beauty everywhere especially in your backyard..

Valentine How To & Free Printable

Hi wonderful people! I'm here today with such an amazing DIY valentine from Steph of Giveable Greetings. She was one of my awesome sponsors! Check out all her great greetings, she is so fantastic! Enjoy this tutorial & the super cute freebie!!

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Valentine's Day How To & Free Printable:

                                         Create a cute little Valentine card in Adobe Illustrator
I don't know about you, but I found Illustrator to be completely overwhelming when I first started using it.
Turns out, it's really not hard to master. I thought I'd outline the steps I took to create this 3"x4" Valentine card so you can make one yourself, or use the link for the free page of printables at the end! 

 

1. Create your document: 
   
   For this card, I made the size dimensions 3" x 4" and the color mode is CMYK (which you always want to choose for things you'll be printing).
2. Draw a red rectangle to fill the artboard.
   
3. Draw a white rectangle overtop of that so you're left with a red border.
   
4. Next you want to create a scallop edge around the white. Start by drawing a red circle.
   
5. Open the SWATCHES panel from the Window menu, and drag the circle you just drew in there. You'll see it appear next to anything that is already in your swatches panel.
   
6. Next, open the BRUSHES panel from the Window menu, and drag the same circle from your artboard in there. A new options panel will pop up like below.
   Choose the New Pattern Brush option, and click ok. This will bring up another menu of options.
   
7. The first box will show your circle already placed there. This means anthing along a line will have a circle on it. Since we're making a rectangle, we'll need to take care of what appears in the corners too.
   
8. Click the 2nd box, then select 'New Pattern Swatch 1'. This is the circle you added to the Swatches panel earlier. You'll see it fill the 2nd box. Do this step again for the 3rd box.
   
9. Click Okay, and you'll see a new pattern brush with 4 red circles in it in your Brushes panel.
   
10. Next draw a rectangle within the white one you drew earlier. Click on it once to select it.
    
11. Click on your new pattern brush in the Brushes panel to convert the regular lines to the ones made up of your circles.
    
12. Ok, that's the border out of the way. Next up: Drawing the stuff inside.
    
    First, draw a red rectangle.
    
13. Draw a second red rectangle near the end of the first and slightly below it.
    
    
    
14. Click on the Pen Tool in the pen menu and hold it down so that the other pen options are visible. Select the one with the little plus sign at the nib (add anchor point), and add an anchor point to the middle of the right side of your new rectangle. Select the WHITE arrow in the tools menu, click once on this new anchor point, and drag it in slightly. This forms the end of your flag.
    
15. Change the colour to a slightly darker red.
    
16. Next draw another rectangle below the first, overlapping the 2nd, and change this to a darker shade than the second. This forms the ribbon portion underneath.
    
17. Hold down the Pen tool in the tool window, select the one with the minus sign at the nib, and click the bottom right anchor point on this new rectangle to turn it into a triangle.
    
18. Copy these 2 smaller rectangles, flip them, and paste them below the original rectangle.
    Add your text in your desired font.
    
19. Next up is the heart: Draw 2 circles and one square that you rotate so that it looks like below. Then using the pen nib with the minus sign, delete the top anchor point of the square so it forms a heart.
    
20. Copy and paste the heart on top, scale it down a bit, and select a light pink color for it.
    
21. Add an arrow by drawing a single line through the heart.
    
22. Click the Effect menu at the top, choose Stylize, and select Add Arrowhead. Choose a combo you like.
    
23. In the Align panel, make sure everything is aligned to the center of the artboard.
    
24. Add your 'From' field by typing From in one of the fonts used earlier, drawing a rectangle, then selecting Effect -> Stylize -> Round Corners, and choose how round you want them.
    
25. And there you have it! Your very own Valentine card.
    

Now you can make your own using these instructions and customize it as you'd like, or download this pdf page of 6 printable cards which you can cut out and distribute among your friends. Just like in junior school! :)

Printed Peaks

I tried to experiment a bit with blue stain and I got some really cool ombre looks and liked the starkness of the white against the dark blues. I have more but need to get chains on them. 

These two will be in my shop very soon! 

Check out other fun necklaces in the shop too:

..Printed Peaks..

Thanks for stopping in, I don't know about you but I am dragging through this week. I think I may do some thrifting this weekend, and not to mention I have an Anthropologie gift card that I need to spend!! I may spend it on these special little flatforms. Look forward to a special craft video, which I'm currently working on! 

Lo

eBay treasures

As you may remember I've been purging my closet and these items are all vintage, etsy or brand name items that are in pre-owned great condition, used rarely or not at all. These are all great items at what I believe to be great values because nothing is priced at original value. 

-Wicker handbag from DirtyBirdiesVintage etsy shop buy it now: $10.00 or start bidding at $5.00-

 -Southwestern Tote from FlowerontheWall etsy shop buy it now: $20.00 or start bidding at: $5.00-

 -Two knit Bow Headbands from Cristin Rae etsy buy it now: $10.00 or start bidding: $5.00-

- Oversized wool hat from Red Velvet buy it now: $20.00 start bidding at: $10.00-

 -Free People Cropped plaid jacket buy it now: $30.00 start bidding at: $20.00 -

 -Vintage plaid vest buy it now: $10.00 start bidding at: $5.00-

 - 3 vintage shirts buy it now: $15.00 start bidding at: $3.00 -

- J.Crew flats SOLD -

-Boden Top Buy it Now: $20.00 or start bidding at $15.00

 -Vintage olive green knit vest buy it now: $6.00 or start bidding: $.99-

-4 vintage dresses from local vintage shops and etsy shops (3 out of 4 are altered) buy it now: $30.00 or start bidding at: $20.00

Go ahead and check out more details or email me directly for more photos/info. 

-My ebay listings-

Thanks for stopping by! I will have to get back to sponsors today or later tonight!

Lo

**I feel really bad in a way to be selling items from people who have curated such great etsy shops or other shops esp. when the items are so cute but I just need to make some sort of profit from purging these from my closet. I hope that this doesn't offend any sellers because I love each and every piece they just don't fit or don't fit my style anymore.