-- Turquoise --

Turquoise is available everywhere! Did you know that it has been considered a holy stone for thousands of years? It also is considered a bringer of good fortune! I don't know about you, but this is just what I need.  Turquoise is something you can wear all year round! It goes with any outfit - sass it up or down!  

So as you probably know by now, I'm an Independent Stylist with Stella & Dot.  So for August, we are having these 4 items featured during our trunk shows.  These are our Trunk Show Treastures for the month and since we are talking turquoise today, I thought I'd show you them. 

The Cortez Turquoise & Suede Necklace -- Turq

The GOA earrings

The Summer Soiree Pave Bracelet with Turquoise

The Soiree Pave Bracelet in Turquoise

All of these can be purchased here and if you spend $50 or more, you can take an extra 25% off of their prices!  YAY!!! 

Remember, Turquoise goes great into the fall.  It works anytime of year and with many dressy and casual outfits! 

Or, you might like this one...

It's one of my favorites!

-- Willow Art --

For the wedding, my mom grabbed some willow branches from her friend Anne's willow tree that she was cutting down.  Since the wedding, the extras have been sitting in my garage... I couldn't part with them.  And then finally this weekend, I moved them into the house.  I thought they'd be neat in some of the larger vases that I have around my house, but they didn't fit. 

So then they stayed in the bathroom leaning against the wall for a day.  That entire day, every time that Mike walked in there, he reminded me that we had a tree growing in there.  Which gave me the urge to get them out of there more quickly than anticipated. 

So.... I made this! 

Voila! 

All I did was arrange 4 willow branches how I liked them.  I basically just put one branch facing out and the next facing in and repeated with the last two branches. 

Once they were arranged and laying how I wanted them, I wrapped twine around the areas that overlapped a bit.  You can't really see that well with this picture.  But there are five areas where the twine is wrapped. 

But I think it turned out great.  Now, I have to move the artwork that was above my bed to it's new home, find a dresser, and some curtains and I think I'll be all done! 

-- Vintage Finds --

Friday I had the day off.  Usually I sit at home and clean and work on things around the house, but I had some errands to run so I thought, why not go to one of my favorite places -- Downtown Noblesville.  The downtown area is so quaint and cute that I can't resist it.  PLUS, it has some great antique shops... The Noblesville Antique Mall is my favorite. 

So I was walking around in the basement and started in the back and walked back through and saw this:

Mike and I have always been saying we wanted an old map to put somewhere in the house and now, here it is. I can't wait to hang it...not sure where yet, but it will get a good spot!  I've got to get my house in order!

Funny thing... Mike was thinking about the Maps that day too and then he came home to see this!

-- Coming Up --

Good Morning Blog-Hogs!  (That's what my mom calls me!)

Here we are.  August 3rd.  The wedding is over, but I have not spilled any details yet!  What's that about?!  I'm going to start spilling details hopefully tomorrow.  One little thing by one little thing. 

Just wanted to give you the heads up. 

Be ready, because there really is some great eye candy...or at least I think so.