{high five for friday}

Hullo, friends!

(Linking up with From My Grey Desk)
Let's see what's going on for me lately...

1.  I did some little pink-with gold tips nails last night :)  Love 'em <3

2.  I'm really loving the song "Background" by Lecrae right now--actully, pretty much anything Lacrae, "Background is just my current favorite ;)  "So just let me shadow you, and just let me trace your lines--matter fact just take my pen, here, you create my rhymes.  'Cause if I do this by myself I'm scared that I'll succeed in no longer trusting you 'cause I only trust in me."

3.  I've been seeing these arm-knit scarves/cowls lately and I totally want to try it!  Aren't they just CUTE?!

4.  This is totally random, but  I've been laughing over it all week--(yes, I do need to get a life, thank you)--When shopping the other day, I caught a small snippet of a conversation--all I heard was this little boy saying, with a very shocked expression, "a donut?!"  Needless to say I started laughing out of nowhere.  Oh, to be a fly on the wall and hear that conversation! :)

 

5.  AND I have a GIVEAWAY going on right now! :)  But no entries so far :O  Where are my lovely follwers at? ;)  No worries, it's still going up to Valentine's day--check it out!

{tissue paper flowers: tutorial}

Hullo, friends!

 

Today I was working on wrapping a birthday gift for a friend--which as a side note, I am quite terrible at. 

I can not do any sort of fancy wrapping--not even just plain wrapping--instead it always looks like I got something and just wrapped and taped wherever I liked...which is pretty much what I do--but while 'wrapping' today, I was messing with some little strips of tissue paper I had left and made some little flowery-things.  So I thought I'd make a tutorial to share, just for fun :)

 

 

They're amazing aren't they? :P  Before I even try to go any further with this post, though, let's talk about my nails:



 

I know. They totally rock. For those who don't know, they are Lord of the Rings nails--see it?! It's the inscription that was on The One Ring! I'll do a tutorial on that sometime :)

 

Ok, back to flowers. 

 

1.  First up, you need a strip of tissue paper--it can be as long or short as you like. 

 

2.  Crumple up the end into a little ball

 

3.  Now start to loosely twist the tissue paper, crumpling it a bit as well, and wrap it around the ball in a circle

 

4.  Keep twisting

 

5.  Once you run out of tissue paper, fold the end to the back of the flower

 

6.  Put some tape on the back to hold it in place

 

7.  Repeat with all of your scrap tissue paper

 

 

Aren't they cute?!  And it adds a nice touch to my rather crazy wrapping!

 

Much love to you all <3