Design by Night

For those of you who follow my blog, you know from earlier this week that I had a photoshoot last Saturday. Well I got the photos today and am super excited! I haven't had a chance to go through all of them but I thought I would share these few...I can't thank Sean Scheidt or my lovely model (and cousin) enough! Not to mention my lovely make up artist, Heather.

This past Saturday I had a professional photo shoot to highlight my headbands and I was so excited! Luckily, I have a lovely model/cousin who was more than happy to model for me and my friend Heather who is a makeup artist (and does make up at Kiss n' Make-Up ). My friend Jill, from Jill Popowich Designs , volunteered some jewelry and helped out as a helper...it is nice to have great friends and family who are so talented. Because my excitement was bubbling over and I have a slight addiction to my iphone, I took some quick phone shots using Instagram showing a little "behind the scenes" action. My photographer Sean Scheidt was nothing less than charming and fantastic. He does great work and wears cool shoes as you can see below. You should go check out his blog to see his latest work.

As a child we always celebrated St. Patrick's day in my house. I remember having a collection of St. Pat's pins that I could wear on my boring school uniform...a new one for each year. To this day I love St. Patrick's day so I decided to make myself a grown up (but fun) shamrock pin. Supplies 1-bottle of Guinness beer Green felt Pin back Scissors Needle and thread (match to felt) Hot glue gun Drink beer and save bottle cap. Print out the pattern below and cut out 4 large petals, 1 pin cover and 1 base from the felt. (Use the scale to make sure the print out is the correct size). Thread the needle and knot off the end. Put a gather stitch the flat bottom of the small petals until they are all stitched together in a row. Pull the thread to gather the petals and tie a knot but DO NOT cut the thread yet. Wrap the petals around to start forming the clover and stay stitch it in place, now you can cut the thread. Glue the round base to the center of the clover. Glue on the...