I’ve been wanting to make an inspiration board with a “partridge in a pear tree” theme ever since I saw the picture of pears dipped in glitter. Super easy/cheap DIY, anyone? I like how this board has a bird theme, but with a winter twist, since birdcages and the like are done so often in […]

If you’ve been reading Something Pretty since summer, you know about my fun summer job–working at Gigi’s Cupcakes! I’m back there helping out during this busy holiday season, so for this week’s Weekly Sweet, I thought I’d show off a few of my favorite new holiday flavors. Gigi’s is the biggest cupcake franchise in America, and […]

Good news, y’all…I have found the PERFECT winter bouquet! And thanks to the lovely ladies over at The Wedding Chicks, I also have the recipe for re-creating it. I wish I knew the names of more flowers so that I could write bouquet recipes myself! Is there a flower encyclopedia or something, and if there […]

I’m making a few little updates around here, and one of them is changing Thursday Love Lists to just “Love Lists” which will be posted on Friday. The main reason? I want to include things posted on my favorite blogs on Thursdays! :) Plus, it’s just a nice way to wrap up the week. There […]

In these last few days of November and the beginning of the Christmas season (Michael Buble Christmas CD…we finally meet!), brides planning a wedding for this time may have a tricky task of narrowing down colors and a concept. Do you hang on to the last few days of fall with gold and rust colors, […]

Better late than never! :) Between some big tests this week and more coming up, the stress of registering for classes (and student testing services LOSING one of my test scores that I needed! As in, “We don’t have a record of your score”…cue freak out. It’s all worked out now, but boy was that […]