I’m so excited that today is finally here! My last few errands are to pick up some balloons and roses and bring hot water to the studio for hot chocolate.
The show is tonight from 6-9 pm at 1279 Pendleton Street in Greenville. My neighbors Crave Pottery and Stylebybecca will be open, and guest artists Melissa Blanton and Kelly Muth will be joining us; Melissa with a new series of paintings, and Kelly is debuting a line of jewelry.
I was interviewed yesterday by a local news organization for an online article about Yellow Elm and the show…If you follow Yellow Elm on facebook I’ll be posting the link today whenever it’s published. I’ll post it on the blog next week too.
Anyone…off to get some red balloons! Hope to see some of you tonight! xx
I started with some hot curlers to give my hair some texture. If your hair is curly or wavy at the moment you can skip this part.
After shaking out the curls, tease your hair at the crown just a little bit with a bristle brush.
Gather your hair as if you are going to pull it halfway up, then push it up right at the crown of your head, and secure with bobby pins. If your hair is really thick don’t grab too much hair for this part because you don’t want the top to be too heavy.
It should be very high at this point :) Give it a little dose of hair spray if you want!
Then pull the bottom of your hair up into a ponytail right underneath the part you bobby-pinned.
Secure it with an elastic.
Pull the top few pieces of your ponytail up to meet the section of hair you pinned earlier, give them a little twist, and secure with bobby pins. I pinned three strands from the top of my ponytail. If your hair is thick you’ll have to do more.
Next, pull up the bottom half of your ponytail and pin it underneath the rest of your hair. I used a tiny butterfly clip for this part.
Secure any loose pieces with more bobby pins.
All done!
My new sister-in-law 
You will need: scissors, a piece of flat felt in an earthy color, a needle, and some yarn
First, cut two identical leaf shapes out of your felt piece.
Next, sew a little line up the middle of one of your leaves.
Add a few more stitches to make the veins of the leaf.
When you are done stitching on your first leaf, cover the back with your second leaf.
Attach it with a backstitch along the outside.
Once you are all finished sewing around the outside, knot the yarn. Try to keep your knot in between the two leaves so it won’t show.
Pin a big quilting pin on the back.
And pin it to your favorite sweater, jacket, hat, vest, purse, etc.!
