Accessorizing Your Room: State Decor

Bringing back the little series I did last summer, Accessorizing your Room for another DIY for your wall or drawer. State decor to represent where you are from!

Supplies you will need:

Canvas

A print out of your state and where your town is located

Watercolor Paint, Paper, and Brush

Newspaper

Cup of Water

Mod Podge 

Sponge Brush

Ruler

Scissors

Pencil

Step 1:
Start painting the whole page with analogous colors: The colors located close together on a color wheel. This way the colors can easily blend together. The more water you add, the more the colors will look faded. The painting will look a little different once it starts to dry so, you can always add more layers until you love it. Here is the process of my watercolor painting!

 

Step 2:
Cut out the outline of your state but keep the inside part. Also, cut out the heart where your town is located.


Step 3:

Trace the outline of your state with a pencil on your dry watercolor painting and cut it out. Notice that I painted with the paper horizontally but ended up liking the colors vertically. So, don't be afraid to try all different angles with your outline to see what you like best. 

Step 4:
Then, trace the heart on the pink part of the paper and cut it out. Place the inside part of the state on top of the cut out watercolor, so you can get the right placement of where your town is located.

Step 5:

Mod Podge the heart down first and let it dry. Then, Mod Podge the whole state down onto the canvas. And you are done!!

Hope this DIY will help change up your wall.
If you have lived in multiple different states you could make them all and line them up across your wall! I think that could be so cute to have each state be a different color.

I would love to see your pictures if you do make your state decor! Tweet me @fashionx16

Happy Crafting,
Kara 

Getting Ready to Pack?

Summer is right around the corner, are you thinking about taking a fun, tropical getaway? Well, HomeAway can help you find the perfect place to stay in on your next vacation. 

HomeAway is a vacation rental company that allows you and your family to find their own home away from home while on vacation! They connect homeowners with renters in order to find affordable homes for you and your loved ones to stay in so that you can focus on relaxing. HomeAway has connected with homeowners all over the globe; you can go anywhere you have ever dreamed of!

Are you still thinking about where to go on vacation? One of HomeAway's most popular destinations this time of year is the Florida Panhandle with sunny locations like St. George Island, which is home to some beautiful lighthouses, and Panama City Beach. 

At any relaxing vacation the beach is a must. I have created a list of five essentials that I think will be great to have in your beach bag!

Beach Towel / Water Bottle / Sunglasses / Sunscreen

I have always wanted to travel to Bora Bora or Athens, Greece. Maybe one day I will be able to!

Let me know where you are planning on going to in the comments below!

Hope I gave you the travel bug ;)

-Kara

Fashion Designers Wanted!!

     This year, I took on the role as the Fashion Show Coordinator for International Fashion Society at my college, Johnson & Wales University. We put together a fashion show every year of student and/or local designers. All the proceeds from the show with be donated to the Susan Joan Cox Revocable Trust and Ethan Henry Lecours Foundation. This year our theme is going to be whimsical, romantic and fairly like.

      The show will take place at Pespi Forum at Johnson & Wales University on March 11, 2016 from 6-9pm. We are in the works of finding designers for the show who are willing to showcase any pieces that they have ready to show! 

       We are looking to have at least 7-8 looks per designer and we are going to have a model casting of student models but if you are more comfortable with bringing your own models that's fine! We would like for the designers to attend the fashion show dress rehearsals but if you can only attend the actual fashion show date, March 11 we can make accommodations! 

So, if you live or are near the Providence, Rhode Island area we would love to showcase your fashion pieces in our upcoming fashion show! All of the designers must send me pictures of their looks (their sketches or their final designs) by email by this Sunday.

Please contact me at foreverfashion1618@gmail.com if you are interested! 

Thank you,

Kara

Outfit of the Day: Photoshoot Style

I am one of the E-board members of the International Fashion Society club on campus. Couple weeks ago we had a photoshoot just to bond and have fun. One of the members, Alison Rugg, took all the pictures she is amazing definitely go check out her Facebook here. We walked over to Brown University and shot over on there beautiful campus. Here are the pictures that Ali took of me!

Dress

Necklace

Bralette

Sandals- Similar 

#alisonruggphotography

It was fun being shot by a real photographer!

 Hope you enjoyed the pictures and my outfit!

Check out Alison's Facebook page she is great like I said!

Have an awesome Saturday!

-Kara 

My New Dorm Room

Friday morning I moved into my new sophomore dorm room and I couldn't be any happier! I finally got to put up all my DIY's I did over the summer. This year I am in a quad with three amazing people I meet last year. I am so excited for the great memories that are to come! So, here is my side of the room!

Hope you got some ideas for your room!

-Kara 

Accessorizing Your Room: Mason Jars

Today on accessorizing your room, we are painting mason jars for your desk or bed side table! I did this craft last year so I don't have step by step pictures but, I can just tell you how I did it. It is super easy!!

Materials You Will Need:

Mason Jars

Paint

Paint Brush

Tape

For the first jar, I taped off half of it and paint the bottom neon yellow! I know for this color I needed to do 3-4 coats of paint for it to be this bright and smooth. But, once it is dry the first jar is done!

For the second jar, I painted the inside of the jar so you wouldn't feel the paint on the outside! All you have to do is squeeze a lot of paint to the bottom of the jar and flip it over so it covers the whole jar. Let it dry and your done! Super easy right! Haha

Than I put tape across the top so the flower would stand up straight and not fall out!

As you see here!

Here are my mason jars in action, looking cute on my desk!! 

I would love to see your pictures if you do paint mason jars! Tweet me @fashionx16

Once I move into my new dorm room I will blog pictures of what all of my decor looks like together!

Hope you Enjoyed!

-Kara

Accessorizing Your Room: String of Flags

Today, on accessorizing you room I am going to show you how to make a string of paper flags to hang up in your room!

Materials you will need: 

Scrapbook Paper

Twine

A Ruler

Hot Glue Gun

To start, fold your scrapbook paper in half and draw triangles on one half of the paper. 

After that cut out the triangles, you are going to end up with eight of each color. 

You will need to make a flap to fold over the twine and glue. I measured a half of an inch off the top of each triangle so they would be even on the twine.

I used the ruler to make the crease nice and straight. 

Than cut off the extra paper hanging off 

And this is what all the triangles/flags will look like!

Once you are done folding and cutting the flags you can glue them onto the twine!

Give each flag some space in between so it will hang well. 

This is what it will look like! 

Now you are ready to hang up your string of flags!

I would love to see your pictures if you do make a string of flags! Tweet me @fashionx16

Once I move into my new dorm room I will blog pictures of what all of my decor looks like together!

Have Fun Crafting!!

-Kara

Clinton Outlets

Over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, my sister, mom and I went on a little shopping trip at the Clinton Outlets. Going into to this I said to myself, "I'm not going to buy anything" in my head I was just going to hang out with my mom and sister. Needless to say I ended up buying more than expected! I should have guessed, obviously I would buy stuff! I'm me haha I shop till I drop and I never drop! Lucky for me we went to the outlets, my favorite place because there are always awesome sales!

The first store we went to was Polo Ralph Lauren. Here I got two plain striped v-neck shirts. Why I got two striped shirts I don't know! I loved them both and they were 50% off and when I got to there register they gave me another 25% off! So each shirt costed me ten bucks! Score!

Next we went too J. Crew my favorite outlet store because I can never afford there clothes full price!

I got these great distressed white boyfriend jeans original at $88 found on clearance for $49.97 than was another 50% off. Brought them for $24.98!!!

Finally, we stopped into Ann Taylor where I found this super cute black jumper on clearance for $24.99 original price $49.99. Also, shorts were on sale for $24.99 original price $54.99!

This looks super with heels, I promise!!

Yes, I have a shopping addiction but I'm okay with it!

Hope you enjoyed!

-Kara

My Birthday Outfit!

      July 1, 1996 I was born at 12:58pm just a little baby; fast forward 19 years and we get to two days ago! Yes, it was my birthday and I turned 19 years old!! I can't believe that I'm on my last year of being a "teenager". I'm getting old, next year I'm going to be in the category of "in her twenties" lol.
       Well, I went out to dinner with some of my friends and I had so much fun! We haven't gone out to dinner and just talked in a long time. I felt like a celebrity everyone wanting to take pictures with me haha it was great! I wore this cute little romper and it was prefect for The Cheesecake Factory, dressed up but not too fancy!

Romper- Similar

Wristlet- Similar

Sandals- Similar

 My fabulous photographer for the night and my best friend, Olivia!

Hope you're enjoying your summer!

-Kara