Bun Love.

Buns are the perfect daytime hair-do.  Especially when it's hot, and your busy lifting heavy things, and moving around a lot.  It's easy to make a bun look cute too.  Simply add a cute hair clip, like a bow-tie barrette.  Sometimes it's fun to tuck the hair clip up under your bun, for a fun surprise when you turn around.  

I especially like to wear buns during the day, because after a long day, and I'm ready to let my hair down my hair looks awesome, when I shake it out.  I love how full and wavy my hair is after wearing a bun all day.  

If I were to wear my hair down all day it would be super straight, and slightly greasy looking by this time of day.  

If I wore it in a plain ponytail I'd have a big crease in my hair.  A bun is the only way to go, when it comes to keeping cool with long hair.  Hope you're having a good Wednesday, and happy DIYing, chris!

Mini Staycation for Our Anniversary

I've been working on the blog a lot today.  I thought it was time for an update, and time to learn some new tricks.  I have a few more things I want to learn/make on my To Do List.  Then I want to post about how it all came together, and what brought about the changes.  For now I'm way behind on my stash of photos for posts.  These photos seemed appropriate to post today.  This is what Aaron and I were up to last Sunday, which is when we celebrated our anniversary.  Since the actual date was on Monday, and we both had to work ::poo::.  Aaron had to work on Saturday until five, so we drove down to the beach around seven.  

This is Aaron pretending to use the awesome old style phone in our hotel.  We stayed at The Boardwalk Plaza Hotel in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.  The hotel was Victorian and they had parrots.  It was amazing!  I can't believe I've never stayed at a hotel on the boardwalk in Rehoboth before.  I grew up going to the Delaware beaches with my family, but we'd always rented houses outside of Rehoboth.  It was fantastic staying on the boardwalk!

I made Aaron take some outfit pics of me, which I'll show later this week.  This is me showing Aaron how'd I'd like him to frame the photo.  I usually use a tripod and timer.  However, I spent all the time I was supposed to be packing making/scheduling blog posts, and in my rush out the door I forgot my tripod!  This was a pretty successful technique though, and it might have been even faster then the tripod/timer routine.  

He's so cute!  I love that he plays along with me and all my silly blogger games.  :)  Even on our anniversary date!  It was a great way to kill some time.  We are early risers, and we were waiting for 10 to eat brunch.  I had the most amazing frittata from our hotel's restaurant.  They called it a Delmarva Frittata, made with eggs, Canadian bacon, tomato, baby spinach, and Swiss cheese baked into a puff pastry.  The cheese was melted to perfection, and mmm, just talking about it I'd like to eat another right now!  

We took a walk down the boardwalk, and Aaron asked that I take his pic with this famous Dolle's sign.  He loves that sign.  I took his pic with it once before, but it didn't turn out too hot.  This sign is super iconic of the Delaware seashore, famous for their saltwater taffy and caramel popcorn.  Though Aaron's never eaten anything from the store before, or even stepped foot through their front door!  When I was a kid my Grandmom would always have us grab a box of taffy before we headed home from the shore.  

After brunch we sat on the beach for a couple hours.  Aaron was terrified I'd get burned, which is great, because I'm terrible at remembering to reapply sunscreen.  I ended up with some strange little splotches, but they didn't hurt too bad.  

This was our view from our towels.  The water was too cold to get in, but it was perfect for laying out.  I love pics of the beach like this. 

Me on our drive home.  I love my hair after being in a bun all day.  I've always wish for naturally curly or wavy hair.  I spent ages 3 through 12 constantly curling or perming my hair trying to achieve this effect.  Good thing I learned to let my hair dry in a super messy bun, otherwise I'd have some damaged and tattered hair!  

Hope ya enjoyed our little staycation as much as we did!  Have a lovely Sunday, and happy DIYing, chris!

Scanned Kid Pics

It's funny I've been saving up, and planning a post with scanned kid pics, and then Elizabeth over on the wonderful Delightfully Tacky beat me to it!  She has some totally cute kid pics, and perfectly awkward preteen/teen photos, you should definitely check it out!  So I took that as a sign not to put off this post any longer, and what a perfect pairing for my Saturday Blogger Love.  

1.  I'm the baby in the middle, and those are my two cute older brothers.  This is Kris' (the one on the left) sixth birthday, which makes me only 18 days old in this photo!

2.  Easter with my hair in foam rollers.  I loved that pair of stuffed chicks.  I still have the mamma bird!

3.  I loved getting my picture taken at this age.  I even went through a phase where I thought I wanted to be just like Shirley Temple.  

4.  This is a Christmas present photo.  You can see how much purple my mom used to make me sport at that age.  Purple is my mom's favorite color.  I loved those shoes too, I still think about how awesome they were. :)

1.  This is the same Christmas as number four in the last set.  That umbrella, heart purse, and heart sunglasses rocked.  If they were in teal I'd totally still wear those sunglasses.  

2.  This is just a classic Santa photo.  I think I'm almost five in this photo.   My birthday is five days after Christmas.  

3.  I loved this outfit.  You'll definitely see me in it again.  Another pair of fantastic shoes.  Even though I've never been much of a girlie-girl, I've always had a thing for shoes!

You didn't have to wait long to see the black and white outfit again!  Not sure the date is correct on these.  I don't think I would be wearing  long sleeves and pants in August.  I love the photo of me on the right.  I'm definitely rocking a mullet.  I'm pretty sure my grandmom gave me that hair cut.  

1.  This is from my third grade graduation.  That's my mom with me, as you can see she is wearing purple from top to bottom.  

2.  This dress is classic -- shoulder pads and a crazy floral print!  I loved getting my hair curled.  This Christmas my mom gave me rag curls. 

3.  This is from a trip to Atlantic City with my grandparent's.  I loved that jumper.  I wore it every other day that summer!  

1.  This is just after a perm.  I used to get a lot of perms, professionally and at home.  My mom thought that perming my thin hair would make it thicker and fuller.  I'm also sporting a Girl Scout DIY t-shirt.  The bottom is cut into a fringe with plastic beads tied on.  I wore those railroad pants a lot.

2.  This is the end of eighth grade.  At this age I started wearing Kris' hand-me-downs.  With the changes puberty brought I used my brother's boy cut clothing to cover myself up.  

3.  This is a photo from eleventh grade.  I'm wearing another hand-me-down sweater from Kris.  

Obviously this my graduation photo from high school.  I cut off all the hair I had in the last photo and donated it to locks for love.  I've kept my hair short up until recently.  I'll show some photos from college, and bring ya'll up to the present day sometime in the future.    Until tomorrow, Happy DIYing, chris!