Billabong European Road Trip

Hey dolls!  So in my aimless summer blog browsing I stumbled upon this gorgeous documentation of the Spring 2012 Billabong Summer Road Trip, by the photographer.  So far I've only read about her and looked at the campaign, but she is very interesting and certainly talented.  Take a look through all five parts of the road trip- it's worth it, trust me.  It's the sort of thing I can only dream of doing!

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

Here's a little sample...







Happy daydreaming,  xx

Summer 2012: a countdown to my top 5 clothing obsessions.

2.Nail Polish

 This Summer funky and colorful nail polish is so popular! This makes me so excited since painting nails is so easy and you can stay up with the summer trend for almost no cost at all! Here are some cool styles that have been popping up everywhere:

sail on sailor.

neon.

glitter blocking.

favorite.

owls.

stripes.

normality.

Good nail polish brands:Essie, OPI, and Sally Hansen

polishingly,

cat

chambray creations

hello!

reading about all the creativity chloe's been feeling, i decided to post a little something i did over the weekend~ 

ombre bleaching!

start with a denim or chambray shirt; really, anything works but i find the effect on denim to be absolutely charming. i found a shirt at forever21 for $15, and also an old denim vest at a thrift store for under ten dollars. you can also use this effect to spice up old cutoff shorts or tanks that need a new take!

before: ordinary

now, dilute a few cups of bleach in a bucket of water. i didn't use any specific ratio, but i'd start with not much bleach, because if it's too concentrated it'll eat holes in your shirt! you can always add more bleach or just be patient.

now here's where you get to be creative. dip the sleeves, dip the collar, dip the torso, do whatever! i decided to create a gradient from dark to light-they call it an ombre, and you can do it with your hair too! but anyways.

this one went for $39-you can do it at home for a fraction of that!

those shorts might have been a bore once, but not anymore!

ombre hair

i let the bottom half of the shirt and cuffs soak until they were significantly lighter, then slowly pulled more and more of the shirt out of the bleach, leaving the shirt alone for fifteen to twenty minutes each time to let the bleach do its work. 

when you're satisfied with your shirt, put it straight in the washing machine! be careful not to drip on anything, and wash it by itself so you don't bleach out the rest of your clothes. hang to dry and enjoy! here's how mine turned out:

bonus pic: cat and kelly! 

look what I did!

It seems to be a reoccurring pattern that every summer I get the itch to be creative.  As far as I see it, that's not too bad of a way to get rid of my summer boredom!  You see, though, the itch usually doesn't happen till late June, early July.

It came early this year.

So after deciding on like SIX or so diy jewelry projects, I grabbed the car keys and headed over to Michaels to purchase the supplies.  (They almost all required polymer clay, so it was pretty easy).

After that, I set to work on my first one!  My inspiration was:

from Dismount Creative (a Houston blogger, in fact!).

And although the end product isn't the spitting image of the inspiration, I kinda like it!

I positively love doing this kinda stuff, so I'll keep posting my creations.  Maybe we can get together and make some as a group, Birds!  

here, here, here, here, here, and here are the other polymer clay projects I have in mind, if you want to
take a look.

Xoxo, Chloe

just a quick note

Happy Summer, lovelies!