Holy Moly! It’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything. Sorry about that. Last week I was feeling less then inspired so I opted out of posting on my blog. But, I’m back and ready to get this show on the road! Who doesn’t love the clean feeling of a white room? I know many think padded cell when you hear that, but I love how fresh a white room can look, with little pops of subtle color. Mm..makes me think of Spring and the fresh feeling!

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I hope you all are having a wonderful week thus far!

I hope everyone has a wonderful and Loving Valentine’s Day!

Gather your supplies. You will need party streamers, and scissors. I found streamers at Target for $.99. Next you will need to find the item you will use to wrap the streamers around. I found paper mache hearts at Michaels for $1. In the tutorial that I had found she used cereal boxes and cut them out and taped them together. Next take your streamers and start folding them in half. Once you have folded them in half then cut into the streamers without going all the way through. So you have a fringe like texture. (As pictured in the first photo.)

After you have cut enough pieces of streamers for however many little hearts you plan to make you are now ready to begin. Lay out your items and start to making your mini pinatas!

Glue around the top of your item and start to place your streamers around on the area you glued.

Next glue under your first row and start to place your other color of streamer. And then keep repeating until you are satisfied with the number of rows you want.

And you have the final product!

Tomorrow is Monday..There will be no Mentoring Monday post, but get ready and stay tuned for a great Giveaway coming up this week!!!!! I hope you all have a great day! Now..Back to the Grammy’s!

Who’s ready for another Style File!! Meet my friend Theresa, you might remember her from her Mentoring Monday post. Since Theresa has started working with us over here at Fox her and I have become great friends. I’m really excited to have her as my second victim! hehe!

In my eyes, I’m probably the WORST person to ask about personal style, being that I wait until about 5 minutes before I have to be somewhere to throw something on! I spend so much time (for work) researching fashion and art that when it comes down to dressing myself I’m usually on the back-burner. Most importantly I try to be comfortable. I am definitely a jeans and t-shirt type gal, but I do love to dress up for a night out and I have way more heels than any one girl should own. (my weakness) I would say if I had a style icon, it would probably be an edgier version of LC, (Lauren Conrad for you non Laguna Beach watchers ). I love her classic, understated look, mixed with great hair and just the perfect amount of makeup.

I’m wearing Forever 21 ripped, colored skinnies and grey lace tights. I am also wearing the Sleep & Pretend Deep V by Hips & Hair (hipsandhair.com), a plaid flannel shirt and an Obey leather jacket. (it’s soooo comfortable and warm, I wear it with everything!) I’ve stacked up a Nixon Kensington watch, a Harajuku Lovers ‘LOVE’ ID bracelet, a Marc Jacobs Latin Veritas Inlustrat leather bracelet, and a 2 finger stud ring from (of course) Forever 21.

Thanks so much for showing us your stuff girlfriend I hope you all have a wonderful Friday!!

Holy Moly! Please tell me you all have seen the Spring campaign for Kate Spade? I don’t own anything Kate Spade, but I should now! I was looking through the site the other day and stumbled across the new campaign and fell in love! The bright bold colors, the prints, the advertisements! It is a dream come true!

I love love all the bright colors. I’m sort of obsessed..yup!

Head over and check out all of the amazing new items on Kate Spade! You will not be disappointed!

Hope you all are having a great day!

*All Images are from Kate Spade.com

A couple months ago, I attended the Patchwork show in Santa Ana and I stumbled upon this booth called, Sewn Clever. These three mommy’s came up with a little side business. They had the cutest items at their booth. I am so excited that they decided to take part in this today!!!

Name: We are SewnClever. Comprised of three mommies of different talents but with the same love of creating and crafting. Our names are Michele, Karina, and Carly.

Hometown: We are based out of Orange County, CA but we were all born and raised in different atmospheres. One of us grew up in Lake Forest, CA; one in Orange, CA; and the other all the way in Brazil!

Turn Ons: Karina gravitates towards eco and people friendly design, Michele a good balance of order and chaos, and Carly likes all things cutesy fuzzies particularly with jagged teeth.

Turn Offs: Karina is not into overdone and unpractical design, Michele just can’t stand clutter, and Carly is not into forced art.

Favorite Food: It looks like with this one we all favor JAPANESE food!

Favorite food now: Karina has got the chocolate bug, Michele has been guzzling green juices and smoothies, and Carly is pregnant now so whatever is in arms length!

Favorite place you have traveled to: Karina loved visiting Itamambuca, Sao Paulo/ Brazil, Michele took an amazing trip to Paarl, South Africa, and Carly once visited Japan and is still in disbelief of how amazing that country is!

Favorite Albums: Here’s a quick list from us: Slings (Old Hopeful Trail), Band of Horses (Cease To Begin), The Moon and Antartict (Modest Mouse), Universo ao meu redor (Marisa Monte), Zao (All Else Fails), No Doubt (Tragic Kingdom), She & Him (Volume One), Joy Division (Permanent), Sufjan Stevens (Songs for Christmas), Joanna Newsom (The Milk-Eye Mender), Neutral Milk Hotel (Aeroplane Over the Sea), Old War Shirt (Symbols&Jibberish)

Books or Magazines: We are all inspired by these publications: The Bible, Chicken & Egg, Domino, ReadyMade, Cookie, Whole Living, Nylon magazine, any home decor magazines, I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen.
What Inspires You: Karina gets inspired by one’s personal style, exotic plants, different cultures, and urbanism. While Michele gets her inspiration from each other, nature, music, and anything pre-1960. Carly gets her inspiration from her childhood, other artists who push the envelope, animal’s human characteristics, and her daughter and husband.

How did you start Sewn Clever: We started doing a craft night every Tuesday night as a way to have some time to ourselves away from our awesome families. Eventually we began to realize that we each have such amazing talents and why not join forces and try to earn some extra money derived from our very own bare hands! So we dove right in.

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Do you have a Day Job: We are all professional mamas.

What part of your creative process do you find challenging: I think we all equally find it challenging to execute the multitude of ideas we have floating around in our heads! Carly tho, especially has an issue with just starting! She’s the procrastinator.

Any Advice for anyone who is just starting out in a career path similar to yours: Karina says, just keep moving forward…Jk. Have Michele as a partner!!. Michele says, take a risk even if it’s scary. And don’t lose sight of your priorities, we try to make sure our kids come before work….. Unless we were lazy an put off work until the last minute. and Carly says, do it because you love it. When it gets overwhelming or not fun take a step back and refresh your mind and heart to remember why you started in the first place. For the love of it. It’s my labor of love.

For more info on Sewn Clever you can find them here:

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I hope everyone is having a great Monday!

Hi Everyone! I hope everyone has had a fantastic week! This weekend is going to be another fun filled weekend with the hubs. Tonight we are attending my friend, Theresa’s art show which I’m excited about. Saturday I’m heading to a baby shower and then Superbowl on Sunday!! I’m really excited to have a fun little giveaway coming up so get ready for that!! I hope everyone has a fun and safe weekend!!

I love Mint! How bout you? We’ve been working on Spring and Summer and I’ve been falling more and more in love with this color. I can’t wait for Spring and Summer to come so that these colors can run freely! What colors are you excited for?

My friend Theresa, who I started working with not to long ago was always wearing these really cool tops with awesome images on them. I asked here where she was getting them and she pointed me in the direction of Jonathan Bussiere the creative mind behind Hips and Hair. So, I’m pleased to have have Jonathan taking part in the Mentoring Monday session.

Hometown: born in Souther Orange County, now live in LA

Turn Ons: Art, girls, hardcore music, documentary film

Turn Offs: bad art, ugly girls, pop music, Kirsten Dunst

Favorite Food as a Child: chinese food, most notably aromatic chicken from this place called China West (doesnt exist anymore so dont even try to google it)

Favorite food now: Chinese food, most specifically Shun Lee West in NYC

Languages You Speak: Ingles

Favorite Albums: They change every so often but this is my current top ten, in no particular order
1) Throwdown: Beyond Repair
2) Countervail: The Most Abused Word
3) Curl Up and Die: Unfortunately We’re not Robots
4) Cave-In: Until Your Heart Stops
5) Low Places: S/T
6) The Mistake: Fuck Everything Up
7) The Misfits: Static Age
Loftus: Demo
9) The Hope Conspiracy: Cold Blue
10) Taken: Finding Solace In Dissension

Books or Magazines: Arkitip magazine, Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis, I Bought Andy Warhol by Richard Polsky, The Worth of Art, by Judith Benhamou-Huet, Till We Have Faces, by C.S. Lewis, Survivor, by Chuck Palahniuk

If you could have a super power what would it be: Anti- Aging

What Inspires You: good art, vintage imagery, cities, film, pop culture, war photography, documentary film, old advertising

How did you get your start: I started printing stuff with the name Hips and Hair out of the screen printing studio at Loyola Marymount University in 2007

Whats your favorite Design you have created: Too hard to choose, they are all my bastard children

Who do you want to work with: living, would be Faile or Damien Hirst…dead would be Jean Michel Basquiat or Joseph Cornell

What part of Hips and Hair do you find Challenging: most of it…but if I had to choose, anything that has to do with sales. I’m a bad salesman and I hate trying to push things on people to buy.

How did you come up with the name Hips and Hair: I made a list in my sketchbook at the time of over 75 names…over the next couple weeks I whittled them down to about 15. I then asked friends what they thought of those, hand wrote the names out to see how I like the letter styles of each, and then had a corporate attorney to a preliminary search for other apparel/art brands with any names similar to the ones I was considering…Hips and Hair won out.

Any Advice for anyone who is just starting out in a career path similar to yours: Unless the survival of your being depends on creating art and or apparel, find something else to do. The market is flooded with some good, mostly bad stuff, so unless your heart is in in 110% get out before you go broke/and or insane.

Thanks so much Jonathan for taking part!

To find out more on Jonathan you can find him here:

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To order from Hips and Hair you can find his shop here.

Man..How happy are you that its Friday? Lemme tell you I’m freaking stoked!  This week was a rough one for some reason. Just really tired! Eesh! I am so excited to one have nothing to do, but things around the house.  Sounds dumb but I enjoy just doing little things around the house and just relaxing with my hubby! We have been so busy this month that this is a much needed relaxing weekend! Yay!! What are your weekend plans?