DIY Cactus Flower - Hair Accessory // Halloween 2015

Hello lovely people of the Internet,

I am back today to show you how I made a cactus flower to go along with my cactus Halloween costume. Let's just dive into this DIY project!


Supplies: pink foam sheet, pipe cleaners (yellow), hot glue gun, scissors, a pen, a paint brush, and paint (white, pink & yellow).

1. First, I started with just sketching out a simple petals design. I did this in two pieces so I could stack them and give them more dimension. The petals are three to a set so you can overlay them.

2. Cut out the petals. Mix white & red paint to get a pink that is a darker shade than your foam petals. I am just randomly painting on the petals to give it a textured look. I recommend loading your paint brush with only a little bit of paint so your strokes aren't so harsh and more "air brushed".

3. Stack your petals and glue the sides together. I am trying to get a cone-ish shape similar to how the flowers would grow verus just a flat flower.

4. Next, I cut two small pieces from my pipe cleaners, ~ 2 cm each. I folded the pieces in half to make a V shape.

Note: if you have yellow pipe cleaners then you won't need this step. I only had white pipe cleaners, so I had to paint them yellow to recreated the Stigma/center of the cactus flower.

5. Lastly, I glued the edge of both the V shaped pipe cleaners together and then glue it into the center of the cactus flower. Ta da, a cactus flower! (A simple version based off of this photo)

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In my video, I just used fake flowers to make it easier. However if you have the time, I think a DIY cactus flower would make a great addition to your already amazing DIY cactus costume!

Another floral option is using your floral crowns! Many of us probably have at least one floral crown somewhere in our room. Instead of waiting for a music festival, bust out that bad boy & rock it this Halloween.

If you would like to learn how to make this floral head band then please [click here].


Thank you for stopping by <3
Until next time, let's be fronds!

Favorite Pastime ... Thrifting of Course!

If I'm not curled up in my bed watching movies, I'm probably thrifting. The thing I love most about thrifting is that rush you get when you find an amazing piece. Recently I found a retro black romper and I wished I could wear it every single day! It's chic, versatile, and BLACK - enough said. Sorry for this tease, but I will share this romper in a future post. Today I wanted to showcase a few thrift finds that I shared in a lookbook on youtube: [Thrifted // Summer Lookbook 2015].

Wrinkles for texture? Irons are overrated? I would like to apologize again (sorry not sorry), I was too excited to share this post. Therefore, I didn't take the time to iron the pieces after wearing them for my lookbook haha.

Navy Crop Top - basics from a retail store
Colorful Summer Skort - thrifted
Liz Claiborne Crossbody Bag - thrifted 

White Blouse - gift from a friend
B&W palm leaf print skirt - thrifted
Black & Gold Clutch - thrifted

This amazing mural was created by Jeff Soto & Maxx242.

I shared more outfits in the video so check it out: [click here]. Please like & subscribe to my channel if you enjoy my content. 

Until next time, have a wonderful day and thank you for stopping by!

BTS: Making Valentine's Day Conversation Hearts

Hello Lovelies,

I wanted to share a few behind the scene photos in the making of my recent YouTube video.

Milk Chocolate Heart - BAE (before anyone else)
White Chocolate Heart - I SHIP US (SHIP - to endorse a relationship)
Peanut Butter Heart - OTP (one true pair)

Here is the tutorial:

Ingredients:
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1/8 cup - white chocolate chips
1/4 cup - milk chocolate chips
2 tbsp - butter
2 cups - mini marshmallow
3 cups - crispy rice cereal

Note:
- For the white chocolate heart, you will need 1/4 cup - white chocolate chips & 1/8 cup - peanut butter chips. This is as follow for the peanut butter heart, your base will be 1/4 cup & lettering will be 1/8 cups.  

- Double this recipe if you are using a bigger baking pan/ making more than two heart at a time. 
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BTS: prepping & getting set up to shoot! 

 Let me know if you give this a try! Happy Valentines Day! (:

What's up San Francisco?

Hello beautiful faces,
How are all of you? I hope you guys had a fun-filled and cozy winter break!

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Here are a few photos from my SF trip. I actually enjoyed the car ride more than sight seeing in San Francisco. This is because there were so many amazing landscape to experience, from mountains, lakes and flat farm lands. Don't get me wrong, San Francisco is a beautiful city in it's own right and I probably need to explore more than just one day. So SF was freezing, I didn't expect it to be so cold! It was overwhelming since there were so many tourist including ourselves haha. I think the bike ride to the Golden Gate Bridge was the best part of the trip for me. All in all, I think it was a successful trip and it was my first time really leaving SoCal. I also have a video recap of my trip so please check it out here: [click here].

Until next time, I hope you all have a wonderful year filled with happiness & love!

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China Town

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Stanford

New Journey - What Am I Doing?

Hello again,

I wanted to share with you all a new journey for me. I started a YouTube channel!! It is exciting and terrifying all at the same time. I wanted to jump for joy for mustering up the courage to finally post a video, even if it's just a short introduction to what to come for the postcardsfromliz YouTube channel. But being super shy it's actually very paralyzing as well, not knowing what to expect and if internet meanies will be, mean. Sigh, whatever. I am doing this for myself, because for many years now I wanted to start a channel just for fun. This is me not letting fear hold me back, so here's to a step forward to living the dream!

Below is my intro video:

Thanks for reading & watching! (: