Refurbished Earrings

I have a lot of old earrings that are either worn out or out-dated so thought I would freshen them up with a little paint job.

I grabbed the below earrings and thought, I haven't worn these in forever so I must not like them anymore, I shall paint them. I sat there for a day or two wondering what color to paint them. I had my big bin of nail polish out on my counter and happened to look down and BAM there is was looking at me, the perfect color to do them in was looking right at me. I  think I got pretty lucky on this one because of the crevasses on the metal, it turned out to make the earrings look kind of vintagy, don't you think? Super fun! I used a matte green color from Nordstrom.

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Crafting

Saturday was our second ever Portland Blogger meet up thanks to my friend Sara. She began getting Portland Bloggers together about a month ago to meet each other and talk about our blogs, life, fashion and fun. The first time we all met, there was about 13 of us and met at a restaurant for brunch. This time, we all met at mine and Sara's community room and did a brunch+craft day. There was about 25 of us this time! We had a ton of food and thanks to Jenni we had some really fun crafts to do. One of them was this simple and adorable hair accessory.

Start by getting some thin yarn that you can get from any craft or fabric store. (The same yarn we used to make bracelets out of as kids, oh ya, you remember!) Next buy some hair clips you can purchase almost anywhere.

Pick a color and begin to wrap it around two teeth in a criss cross motion (or simply wrap it around), then move down a few teeth and continue wrapping around with another two teeth until you go across the entire top with your first color. Cut it off and start your next color cinching off the first colors' end by wrapping it into the second color. Continue this with as many colors as you would like and in any pattern you like. Once you finish, cinch the last color off with a dot of glue on the back.

The top one is mine and the other two are ones that got left behind. =(

There are many ways to wear the clip in your hair, you can see two easy ways below. The bun is held there solely by the clip itself!

Have fun crafting, I know I did!

I did not have a camera but I have a few from Sara's. I will hopefully post more from some of the other girls camera's soon!