Project 365: January 5th

Monday - January 5th, 2015

Project 365: January 4th

Sunday - January 4th, 2015

Had a hard time picking a photo today. Thought I would share my favorites. We have a bunch of bushes flowering right now. They are beautiful. I might offer prints of these photographs. If you are interested please tell me. Also I'd love to hear what your favorite is.


Emily

Hello 2015! January 1st - 3rd

Hello! I hope everyone had a great New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. With the beginning of a new year the idea of a new photography project has come to mind. Last year my project 52 was put on hold when I started a new job and got my own place. Life happened and I had a lot of changes over the last year. Needlessly to say I did not finish the 52 week project. This year I really want to put a lot more effort into working with my camera and doing more of what I love. My goal is to post a photo a day for the next year. I want to realistic and I know not all of the photos will be from my DSLR as much as I hope some will be from my iphone. (Upgrade to the Iphone 6 coming soon!! woot woot!) Also there will be times that I post all of the photos for a week in one post instead of one each day. I have seen a few people do this with their 365 projects and I believe it will help me in mine. With all of that said now I hope you enjoy my photographs!

Day 1: Thursday - January 1, 2015

Day 2: Friday - January 2, 2015

Day 3: Saturday -  January 3, 2015

Emily

H&M Shoes

Very rarely do I get an email that makes me actually click to go to the website. Today though it happened. I received an email from H&M that said they were releasing more shoes online. Instantly I liked at least 4 of the pairs of shoes on the ad. I thought I would give them a browse and now I want them all. There is a bit of a pattern to the shoes I picked mostly boots. It is supposed to be getting really cold in Georgia this week. A little preparation never hurt anyone right?

 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Beautiful shoes. I am especially in love with 7. I have wanted some harness cowboy boots for quite a while. And while these are ankle boots I think you still get the right feel. And now I actually can not find the link to these boots they must be sold out. My second favorite are 2. the two tone swede biker boots. To be honest I love all of these. Check out their site and let me know what your H&M favorites are right now. Does not have to be shoes!

Emily

Bar Cart Part 1

Hello! I am on a bit of a home DIY kick at the moment. I have so many projects that I want to do and need to finish. My most recent one is my metal cart that I got this week. Needless to say it has jumped ahead a few of my others...

Recently, I was perusing the Antique/furniture section on Craigslist which of course is what a normal 23 year old does on a Tuesday night. And I found a metal cart for sale on the other side of Atlanta. I have been wanting a metal cart to turn into a bar cart for quite a while. Ever since I saw this post on A Beautiful Mess on Elsie's Bar cart. On our thrifting/yard sale adventures I have been keeping one eye open for a cart and found nada. So when I found the cart on Craigslist I showed it to Steve and said when are we leaving.

We headed off to Clarkston, Ga and ended up meeting one of the sweetest ladies. She is retired and to make extra money she hunts down vintage/antique items at estate sales then resales them on Craigslist. I could have sat there and talked to her for hours she was great.

 

And here it is! Nothing to fancy but I have found quite a few on pinterest that seem to have used this exact same cart. 1.2.3.4.

I am a little unsure on whether or not I really want to paint it. I cleaned it today and then took a find sanding block to it. I was able to make the white legs pretty white with the sanding block they did look quite dingy. The yellow and white look really cute to me on the cart and I kind of want to just clear coat it. I like seeing the rougher spots and age on it. I think I am going to set it up with it how it is now and then decide if I want to paint it later.

We have been slowly collecting vintage bar items. I have a couple of shakers and glass decanters that have been sitting on my hutch that I can not wait to put onto the cart. Now we just have to figure out what we will put in the decanters.  There are a few things that we are missing. I have found two posts that are really helping me think about what I want on the cart one is by A Beautiful Mess (here) and the other on Mint Love Social Club (here). Looks like we definitely need a wooden muddler.

Let me know if you have seen a great cart redone! I would love to check out pictures. My twitter is @emilyvannah if you see one please tweet it to me!

Until next time,

Emily