Friday Favorites #86

In case you missed it this week, here's what's been on the blog.

Monday: August in Numbers
Tuesday: What's In My....Pantry
Wednesday: A Fun Date Night Outfit
Thursday: Fall/Back To School Wreath

Happy Birthday to my baby girl. Mini Fox...today she turns 3, what?! When did that happen? It feels like just yesterday she popped into this world in a blink of an eye...seriously, click here for her birth story where I almost had her in hospital parking lot had Mr. not convinced me I didn't in fact need to take my nail polish off before heading to the hospital. haha.

Notice the orange nail polish I wanted to take off

She is my mini-me...seriously have you seen this picture? Guess who is who?

She loves anything girly and princess but can take a licking and keep on ticking...seriously she'll get knocked down and she jumps backs up, brushes off the dirt and keeps on going. She loves wearing my shoes and almost walks better than me in heels. She's my adventurous one, who adores her big "broder" (brother) and would stand up to anyone she thinks his hurting him. (When Baby Fox is wrestling with Mr. she'll run over, jump on Mr.'s back and start waling on Mr. scream don't hurt my broder!) Always wants one extra hug and night and likes to listen to both her Elsa Doll that sings let it go and her Minnnie Mouse ballerina musical figurine...at the same time. Loves to read and is sharp as a tack, we are going to have problems with her!

  

I won another giveaway! I need to go play the lottery, or something like that, maybe a scratcher, that's probably equivalent to entering a giveaway right? What did I win? I super adorable Keepsake Mother's Necklace from Journey Lockets. We just got our family photos done, so I'm thinking I'm going to use two of those for the locket. I am so stinkin' excited to start wearing it!

Today Sheila is have her very first link up for Read, Watch, Listen, Follow...

Reading....Harry Potty with Baby Fox, and thoroughly enjoying it, both of us.

Watching...currently in front of me now, I'm watching If I Stay while writing this blog post.

Listening...not listening to anything right now, just stuff on the radio, no pod casts for this girl.

Following...my good friend on her new journey making jewelry, go check out her new line, Shop BEXO or follow her on IG @SHOPBEXO. She creates handmade accessories that inspire individuals to "BE XtraOrdinary" BEXO (get it?). I know you'll love her as much as I do! Go check out her IG and follow along on her journey too.

Last but not least, the most exciting news of all...The Blended Blog is hitting it's One Year Blogiversary! And guess what? The ladies and I have a fun scavenger hunt giveaway for you! It's a week long giveaway with new entries everyday. Go check it out, I know you're going to love it as much as we did putting it together!

Linking up here 

Fall/Back To School Wreath

Hello Foxy Crafting Friends! I'm a little late with this tutorial, seeing as that everyone seems to have started school 3 weeks ago, but I figured since I took picture I would show you how I made this simple Fall/Back To School Wreath.

A while ago, I wanted to have wreaths on my door, but I just don't have the storage for all of those wreaths for every season, so I set out to make one Burlap Wreath and then each holiday I switch out the extra stuff, but leave the base wreath there. To see my other holiday wreaths, click here. So let's get started.

What You'll Need:

Burlap Wreath (Click here for a video)
Red Burlap Ribbon - 1 Roll ($5.99, but used a 40% off Coupon)
Chalk Board (I found mine for $3 in the Target Dollar Spot)
Felt Apples (I found mine for $3 in the Target Dollar Spot)
Wire

Directions:

This was the wreath that I had on my door for Summer/Baby Fox's Birthday Party

When I striped it all down this is what I was left with:

So now that you have a blank wreath again, let's get started!


Step 1:

First you need to intertwine the red burlap ribbon throughout the wreath. This is the same technique that I have used for all of the other wreaths. I start from the back and push the ribbon through to the front. Or if you don't want to look at the picture I put together a video that shows you exactly what to do.

 

Always start with a loop.

Turn to back side and push the ribbon through to the front side.



Front Side, pulling the loop through

If you want to put some ribbon in the middle, don't be afraid to push some of the brown burlap aside  so you can get the ribbon where you need it.

 Then continue to do that all around until you have use all of the ribbon. Confession: I got the end and realized I used too much in the beginning so I just undid some of the beginning part so I could space it out a little better.

Now your wreath looks like this:

Step 2:

Next, I took the red apple garland and cut off the string part, so I just had the apples.

Since I want to keep using this same Burlap Wreath base, I knew I didn't want to hot glue these guys onto the wreath, instead I glued on some flower wire to the back sides of the apples.

Once the wire was on the apples, I just had to put them through the burlap and push down, no need to twist them since the putting them through the mesh of the burlap is enough to hold it down.

So now the wreath looks like this:

Step 3:

Now to add the cute crayon chalk board that I found. When I initially found these, I thought that I would be using them for a 1st day of school chalk board, but I ended up getting something else for that, and saw that they were the same exact size as the inside of the wreath, perfect! I used the plastic tab at the top to string some ribbon through it so I could attach it to the wreath on the back side.

I then googled some back to school phrases, I ended up picking one of the very first ones I saw "Let Today Be The Start Of Something New" I just love that, the beginning of a new school year, Fall, all just reminds of me starting over and getting a fresh start.

The finished product, in total I think this took me about 40 minutes to do, and of that had to do with having to stop to take pictures after I did everything.

I just love the way it looks on my front door, with the black background. Perfect for the start of a new school season.

There you have it, three steps to creating a Fall/Back To School Wreath.

P.S. Don't forget to enter my $1000 giveaway to ASOS, who couldn't use a $1000 to spend on clothes and accessories! I know I wouldn't! Today (Thursday) is your last day to enter, so what are you waiting for, click that little blue link and hop on over there.

Linking up here

Date Night Outfit and Knotted Updo

Hello Foxy Fashion Friends! Happy hump day, I get Friday off, so really it's like my Thursday, woo hoo! Today I have a date night outfit. This is one of the things that I got when I won that $100 giftcard to LuLus, I already showed you some of the stuff I got, and this is the last thing I got. I am in love the stripes, I mean you can never go wrong with stripes right?

I did my hair in knots, so super simple, I did it in 5 minutes and I was out the door.

I didn't know what necklace to choose, but the first thing I grabbed was this necklace that Lana got me for our Christmas in July Blogger Swap. It's so dainty and just perfect. My current go to necklace, it says "Unlock Your Dreams", what you can't see is a small key that's attached to the necklace, how cute is that?

No hair styles of substance to report this week, just the usually half top knot and a few buns and braids.

Before you go don't forget to enter my giveaway for $1000 to ASOS...that's right $1000!! Lot's of spending cash and it ends on Friday at 12am CST. You can't win if you don't enter! So go do it right now!

What outfits are you styling to get you through till Fall? Link up below!

An InLinkz Link-up

Linking up here

$1000 ASOS Giveaway!

Happy Giveaway Day Foxy Friends! Today...I'm teaming up with some other awesome bloggers to give one of you $1000 to ASOS, who couldn't use that? I know I would be spending in on all things Fall and maybe some off the shoulder numbers so I could try that trend out.

So we'll just get right to it.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

So get to entering and you could be the $1000 winner winner chicken dinner!

What's In My....Pantry

It's the first Tuesday of the month and you know what that means right? Okay you probably don't, it means we're getting nosey and looking into random places. Last month it was What's In My Make Up Bag, and this time it What's In My Pantry. It's the last month of fun, so make sure you link up for the fun! Click here for all of the other prompts.

Lucky for you...or probably me that we just had our house fumigated so I had to clear out my pantry and in putting my house back together I got to organize my pantry. So here's my pantry and all of the staples that we have in it.

A close up of our favorite food stuff:

Steal Cut Oatmeal, Organic Raisins (they are not sticky like other raisins), Kids Cliff Bars, Trader Joe's Microwave Popcorn, Annie's Cheddar Bunnies

Olive Oil and Vinegar from my favorite shop, Trader Joe's Sunflower Seed Butter, Frontera Salsa

What's a favorite pantry staple in your pantry?

Linking up here

August in Numbers

Happy Labor Day Foxy Friends. For those that are in the U.S at least. I hope you are enjoying your day off with family and friends. I'm writing this on Sunday and my plans are to take Baby and Mini Fox to Disneyland one last time before our passes expire...but we'll see how that goes. Really depends on how I wake up tomorrow morning.  Anyway, thought I would do my August in Numbers today for the Lovely Deena's link up.

24 The number of selfies I took this month, actually that is a lie, but 24 is what I am showing you.

3 - The number of days Baby Fox went to Kindergarten and is loving it!

3 - The number of days we had to leave for fumigation

3 - The number of MNO I got, amazing and much needed!



4- The number of times we went to get frozen yogurt or ice cream

6 - The number of times we went swimming

1 - The number of birthdays we celebrated, MINE!

6 - The number of miles I hikes with friends.

100 - The number of cute moments Mr. and Mini Fox had.

1 - The number chipped teeth this girl got.

1.5 - The number of hours we had to wait to get the tooth fixed.

1 -  The number of x-rays she had to get

3 -  The number of minutes it took to file down the tooth

2 - The number hard working kids we have.