Proud Business Owner!

I can't believe I'm "double posting" today, oh blog how I've missed you!

It's been two years since I've started my business and looking back at this experience and onward into my future, it's been amazing. Year 1 was all about building my business, year 2 was about refining my style, and going into year 3 has become about building my brand. I've said it once and I'll say it again, this business has changed me. It's allowed me to truly shine in a light that I could have never imagined, I've had the opportunity to work with the most talented clients I've ever met and become their day of coordinator and in the fall I will have had the opportunity to completely design a wedding. I've been featured in wonderful blogs and have certainly proven myself in a competitive industry, but admittedly I still have down days and doubts if this industry will eat me alive.

If you own a business and haven't questioned if you're good enough, talented enough, creative enough, and ready to be that 1 in 5 businesses that still stands after 5 years than you're lucky! I've thought all of these things and more and that's honestly what keeps me going.  When I've been on my feet for 16 hours I still find the strength to write, to shop for more plates to added to my well curated collection, and to reach out to my colleagues in hopes of working together again. It's work, it's a lot of work, it's the hardest work I've ever done, but I know hard work pays off. Today I was brought to tears knowing that the hard work I put in many months ago will be featured in an online digital magazine featuring my design, plates and work. My heart is swollen with gratitude.

All of the beautiful images that you will see came from Shawnea of, Don't FRETT Photography and the two of us can't wait to share the edition with you when it's out!

For now, I'm going to keep a lid on where you'll see our work but please do continue to show your love and support! I'm positive we'll both be filling up your news feed with the most amazing real weddings and inspiration you've ever seen.

Queen DIY Headboard (Creating your headboard) Part 2

Before you begin reading this post, check out the materials you'll need here! Whew ok, so you've hung in there with me, downloaded the Jo Ann's fabric App, and you're now ready to put your headboard together. Awesome!

Right about now I'm wishing I had taken more pictures while I was creating this, but I was super focused.

1.) Before you begin this project you'll want to make sure that you've covered all of your buttons with the coordinating fabric that you'll be using on your headboard. You should have done this using the cover button kit. Don't worry it's self explanatory!

2) Now that you're looking at your pegboard decide where you want your buttons to go. I used a black marker to indicate where my 9  buttons would be. I first counted the number of holes-found the middle-and then the outer edges. Basically you want to make sure your buttons line up on either side of your headboard.

3.) Measure out your foam, cut-adhesive-apply the foam to your peg board.

4.) Cover it with batting stapling all around your peg board

5.) Stand up your peg board (or drape across a saw horse if you have one) and begin wrapping the fabric around your peg board. I had my handy bf help with this part. I ONLY secured a few areas on each side with the staple gun just to hold the fabric in place. Remember you haven't added your buttons so don't pull too tightly on either side!

6.) Thread your loooooooooong upholstery needle with the upholstery thread-loop your button in and place through the foam until you located your marked area on the other side. Be patient this may take a few minutes.

7.) Once you've found it pull VERY tightly and staple! Try going in a zip-zag motion avoiding the other holes

8.) All of your buttons have gone through ,and you're exhausted, hang in there...2 steps away from beautiful!

9.) Secure your top-bottom-and sides, pulling tightly and securing by stapling.

10.) Admire your work...you've made it!

**You can certainly secure this to your wall-bed-or simply lean against the wall. It's very simple. Now for my one and only picture and finished product. I hope you enjoy!

Here's the only before picture I captured.....

And Here's the final product! I can absolutely see myself doing another post juuuuuuuust about bedding so stay tuned.

Queen DIY Headboard (Materials only post) Part 1

Hi blog world! Guess who's back with a special treat to share with you? Meeeeeeeeeeee. If you're here you know that I love me a good diy (do it yourself) project, well last winter I became obsessed with making my very own DIY tufted headboard. I found a bah-gillion tutorials, like this one from Centsational Girl which was a really good jumping off point for me, it helped me to see the shapes and styles I liked and well didn't like. I certainly toyed around with the idea of having a curved headboard  but my boyfriends said it would be too feminine for his likes. Somewhere down the road I also decided that I really wanted the upholstered button--not so tufted but slightly tufted look....I must have read about 20 tutorials until finally deciding to get started.  Fair warning this post is going to be long, so I've decided to split it up into two parts. This post is what you want to read before you begin your project to make sure you have everything.


Fabric: The very first thing I did was pick out a fabric and color that would compliment my room and bedding, my room is painted in a gorgeous color called davenport tan by Benjamin Moore. The fabric I chose is a heavy weight velvet in a deeper gray, I purchased it from Jo Ann's fabric from the final clearance sale section for $4 a yard! I couldn't get to the register fast enough to purchase 5 yards, but please keep in mind that while this was a steal it was also a gamble because it couldn't be taken back.  If you don't already have the Jo'Ann's fabric app, get one and NOW! I signed up while I was in the store with my I-Phone and there were tons of coupons that I could use right off my phone, for this I used a 40% off your purchase.

Fabric Price=$12.00

Batting & Foam: This was by far the most expensive part of the project! Once again using Jo Ann's fabric's I purchased the most inexpensive batting (trust me it's just going to cover you foam) and 4'' thick foam.  I kid you not I almost had a heart attack when I saw how expensive the foam was going to be! I already had foam at home so I only needed another two. Using the Jo Ann's fabric app I used a 50% off regular price item AND a 10% off your full purchase, I was absolutely extra cheap and paid separately for each item.

Batting & Foam=$25.00

Headboard: After reading a bah-gillion tutorials I decided this is where I was going to take a big risk, everywhere I read kept telling me that I needed to get a piece of plywood...my genius moment was when I discovered I would use Peg board instead. I mean why not right? Peg board comes in a variety of size sheets and already has the holes....um GENIUS! Thanks to my local Lowes store I was able to get a large piece for  $14.98 and have them make one cut for free. I obviously needed a shorter length, but I still wanted it to be a bit over sized for my queen bed. If you're going for a standard queen size 62'' width should be fine.

Headboard Material= $14.98

Additional Materials: For this project you're going to want to make sure you have the following: a staple gun, staples, scissors, LONG upholstery needles, upholstery thread, button covers, button cover kit, spray adhesive, patience, and a hand to hold your headboard! Some of the things I had on hand and any others I had to purchase I again used the 50% and 10% off! I saved a lot of money like this and time but having the app right on my phone!

Additional Materials=$15.00

Total Project Cost=66.98 including tax, probably closer to $75.00

Ready to begin assembling your headboard? Head over to the part 2 version!