Today I am Loving...

... this awesome wrap bracelet found here...

It is bright, colorful, and the elephant is a symbol of good luck!

(however, the $250 price tag is a bit hefty so I am making my own with these beads:)

and this little guy

Isn't it adorable?!

I have been making practice wrap bracelets and

I must say that it is a pretty time consuming project but a lot of fun 

and the end results are worth it. 

Here is the original design by Chan Luu, which are over $200 each:

and here is my bracelet that I made using this tutorial:

It cost about $6 to make and took about 2 hours all said and done...

There are tons of these tutorials flying about Pinterest and many that you can buy on Etsy,

 but I am a DIY sort of gal and love that I can customize my own to fit my teeny wrists.

What do you think about this trend going around?

A Nesting Giveaway

Well I am pretty sure that the whole nesting thing has begun with me. I feel like I can't get the house clean enough, I am in a decorating frenzy in Miss M's room, and I am already thinking ahead to packing my hospital bag. Lol, and I still have exactly 3 months until my due date!

So, instead of driving my hubby nuts with my cleaning and such I decided to celebrate my nesting urges with a lovely giveaway- A Sweet Little Nest Necklace!

The winner of this giveaway will receive one Sweet Little Nest Necklace with 1,2,or 3 blue eggs in it,

complete with a dainty silver chain!

(If you want different color eggs I am sure that can be arranged!)

And guess what? I am picking 2 winners this time!

To enter: Simply leave a comment about this post by Sunday, September 5th 11:59pm EST.

You can tell me about your own crazy nesting urges, cleaning frenzies, or just plain nuttiness!

Two winners will be chosen at random... 

please make sure that I have some way to get a hold of you if you win! 

Winners will be announced on Monday, September 6th! 

Eat Pray Love

Even though I have seen this book at the library and passed by the preview without a thought, I wasn't really interested in anything about it until I saw the Eat Pray Love collection from Dogeared Jewelry. And then my heart skipped a beat.... this jewelry collection is everything that I love about my spiritual beliefs. Simple, colorful, balancing, and mindfulness.... (And luck has it that AJ just recently broke my lucky necklace by Dogeared so I am looking around for something new!)

Anyhow, after drooling for a few on Dogeared's site I hopped over to check out this movie that has everyone talking. How the heck did I miss this one? I guess that is what happens when you don't have TV and pay little attention to current media.

Eat Pray Love is one woman's true story about her personal journey to bring balance back into her life, find long lost passions for food and spirituality, and maybe even some love along the way. It is a journey I think each of us hopes to take at some point, a rediscovery of the person we were when we thought anything was possible. I can't wait to see this movie and will be reading or listening to the book asap! Oh, did I mention Julia Roberts is the starring actress? Now, you KNOW it is going to be good!