DIY Monday: Cake Stand!

Hi everyone :) Sorry I've been a little absent from the blog, but my day job has been keeping me busy and my computer broke down! I've been a little bit of a victim of Murphy's law lately, but whatevs.. I've you've got a pinterest account, you must have noticed by now a lot of random pins featuring lovely dessert tables. Most of them are for children's or bachelorette parties, and while I don't have kids nor am getting married yet, that hasn't stopped me from wishing I had a cake stand, aka an uncomitted girl's dessert table. If I can't have an entire table, at least I'll have a cute place to put my weekly cupcake. 

This reminds me of a Sex and the City episode where Carrie so wisely points out "Think about it. If you are single, after graduation there isn’t one occasion where people celebrate you … Hallmark doesn’t make a “congratulations, you didn’t marry the wrong guy" card. And where’s the flatware for going on vacation alone?" Albeit we do celebrate birthdays every year, we only get one tiny celebration a year?! So join me and make your own cake stand and have some cake and celebrate "I am fabulous" day! :) 

(Boyfriends, husbands and kids welcome but not required) 

Sorry, but I had no cake this weekend to top it off

Materials: 

1 candle stick 

1 cute plate 

Glue gun 

It's a no brainer to make, you just take your gun and glue your candle stick to the back of your plate. You have to be somewhat careful when handling it, because the glue gets hard and breaks with time, but it's not like you use a cake stand every day, so it should last you a while. And if it breaks, you just take your trusty glue gun and put it back together again, it's no Humpty Dumpty!

I bought all my materials at a hardware store (Vidri) for less than $10. Beats the ridiculous prices of over $35 I found for cake stands at our local shops and online.

Pick me up!

How's your week going?? I hope it's great, but if you're having a bad case of Murphy's Law like me, I leave you with a little inspo to cheer you up :)

All quotes are from Real Simple magazine, I love it, it speaks to my inner grown up. 

Store Spotlight: Anthropologie

I'm a terrible procrastinator when it comes to my crafty projects. That's why most of the time I'll have about three of them going on at once and I'll just skip from one to the next until FINALLY one of them gets done. Because of my terrible procrastinating habit, it took me almost three weeks to download and edit the photos from my Miami trip. This week I'll be sharing my favorite ones on the blog :) So to start things up, I want to share with you some pics of The Greatest Store Ever: Anthropologie. 

I love its boho-chic vibe, the store displays are always vibrant and gorgeous, the music is girly, this store even smells nice. Like walking through a field of flowers. You no longer feel like you're at the mall, you feel like you're walking through a quirky market, full of delicate home-wares and beautiful dresses. 

The only thing I don't like about it? The prices. Oh bohemian lifestyle, why must you be so expensive. No matter how much I tried to channel my inner Jedi mind powers to make myself not buy the quirky (but incredibly difficult to carry in a suitcase) flower vase and those 50's inspired day dresses, I just couldn't help myself. I don't know how anyone could be a sales associate there and still have a paycheck left over at the end of the month. I'd probably end up paying them to let me work there. Head over to their website, I highly recommend their monthly catalog. I dare you not to fall in love. 

instagram I love you

I'm a huge huge huge instagram fan. I know I'm more than fashionably late to this photo snapping party, but I couldn't afford any instagram-supporting gadget until about a month ago that I finally had saved up enough money to buy an ipad. Victory dance! Instagram was the first app I downloaded (or was it angry birds? I can't remember, but it was in the top 3 of my first downloads), and I haven't been able to stop snapping away! Right now I'm guilty of the cliche of posting a lot of food pics, but cooking is one of my favorite activities so I just can't help myself. You can find me @bloom503, and I'll be sure to follow you back!

Don't have and iphone or ipad? No problem! You can still follow me here :) 

Sunday must reads!

So, that was fast. I really can't believe it's effing july. In honor of having survived the first six months of 2012, I've decided that today I'm staying in bed and having nutella. Everything is better with nutella. 

Because I'm not tired of these yet, here are two more top knot tutorials!

The cutest hair cut gone wrong...

The BEST cookie baking tip I've learned this year

Here's a cute dog for you, like a sir

In this heat, I've been craving ice cream sandwiches!

For the men in your life, the rules to always being a gentleman

MORE nutella! This time, in cups.

Have a great july! :)