Glam Giveaway Time!

I decided to take the last week off...it was "back to school" week for here so we were squeezing every last minute of summer in whenever we could!  To celebrate my return, I've decided to do a giveaway...

One lucky glam girl will receive this mini girls night out kit with double sided pocket mirror and matching chic hair pin.  All you have to do is follow my blog and leave me a comment telling me your favorite girls night out activity.  Contest open from now until Monday at 6:00pm.  It's that simple...

Contest winner will be selected at random and will be announced Monday night!

My favorite girls night is mexican food and margaritas with the chicks :)

Good Luck

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My Poppies on Good Morning America!

My friend Alexis Tirado was named Alicia Keys new head blogger for I Am A Super Woman - IAAS.com yesterday morning on Good Morning America!  She's amazing and I'm so happy for her... and she has fabulous taste in hair accessories.  She was chosen from 8,500 applications and I met her when she worked for Martha Stewart's website.  She's such a cool girl and so very deserving of this opportunity.

I was drinking my coffee watching Good Morning Amercia and waiting for the head blogger announcement when low and behold...Alexis won!  That made me super happy, then I realized OMG she's wearing one of the glam poppy hair flowers I made for her...on TV!  This made me spill my coffee,

 it's hard to jump up and down with a coffee mug you know.

Keep an eye out for her...she's got a pretty incredible future ahead of her!

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Happy Almost Birthday To Me!

I love birthdays...my kids, my hubby, my folks, my friends, my dog and yes mine too!  Celebrating life and feeling super special is fabulous, and you should do it every day especially on your birthday.  I have made tons of hair flowers, corsages and jewelry for people for their birthdays and this year I decided to make myself a little bit of cuteness for my big day on Saturday.  I wanted to make a little something happy to wear all day...so I combined a few things I love into a cute little hair flower.  I love flowers, ruffles, polka dots, sparkles, my boys (that's why it's blue) and a little 1940's glam.  So here it is...now what to wear with it?

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Paper Rosie Hair Pin Tutorial

I just love the idea of whipping up a bunch of cute hair flowers for my friends for no reason at all, just because it makes them smile!  I created this super fun and easy tutorial for the lovely folks over at Crafty Ideas Weekly so you can surprise your friends, party guests or fellow soccer moms with a pretty handmade bloom to brighten their day too. I learned to make these fun little flowers from my mom when I was a little girl and now I'm sharing it with you. Think of all the lovely cardstock papers you could use to make these beauties fit any occasion!

Supplies -

 4x4 inch square cardstock

1.5x3 inch patterned green cardstock

bobby pin

glue gun

Matte acrylic spray sealer (I used Krylon,my favorite)

 

1- gather material

2 - draw a spiral on 4x4 carstock and draw 2 leaf shapes on green cardstock

3 - cut out along lines of spiral starting at the outside point and cut out leaves

4 - begin to tightly roll the spiral working from outside in

5 - keep spiral help tight

6 - let it go to see it uncoil ever so slightly to a natural rose (this always feels like magic for some reason)

7 - hot glue the little nub (it was the very center of your spiral) down to the rolled flower and hold in place for a few seconds

8 - slide bobby pin on to one leaf then place it on top ofthe second leaf and glue to the flower

                                       

Spray the entire paper flower and leaves with the sealer let dry 15 minutes and spray again.  This makes the bloom waterproof and allows you to wear it again and again. 

So sweet!

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Vintage Blooms for a Summer Party...

I am constantly trying to come up with new ways to combine vintage treasures into my fabric flower designs.  Sometimes I use vintage fabrics and vintage rhinestones in my blooms and recently I've been lucky enough to come across some fabulous vintage plastic flowers. I created some pretty fabric flowers with tulle and chiffon then added layers of these vintage flower finds as their centers. These little beauties are so fun and the colors are just perfect for a summer party. I am planning on having a few folks over for the Memorial Day weekend and I will be wearing some of these new flowers as I'm sipping Strawberry Lemonade (or a margarita) in the backyard!

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Shabby Chic Anyone?

I just love, love, love anything that combines a natural rustic feel with a touch of glamour.  I'm creating some new shabby chic spring flowers to add to my line of hair flowers.  The best part is these sweeties are made from recycled fabric scraps.  A sweet mix of wool felt, tulle, lace, fabric and a little rhinestone glam combine to create these little beauties.  Hope you like them as much as I do ♥

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Snow Baby!

I love snow!  We just got 32 inches of it...even though it's beautiful, I guess that's a little much.  Being snowed in is really fun though, all of the baking, crafting, snuggling...it's very calming.  I'm finding my self inspired to create new goodies and have the time to work on my "back shelf" projects too.  Here's my Vintage Snow Hair Flowers to celebrate the blizzard!

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I love Shoe Clips

Okay so it's no surprise that I love the old Hollywood Glam Style and one of my latest obsessions...these fabulous little shoe clips. They are super cute and I swear when I'm wearing them I feel an extra little confidence boost. Dressing up your toes...to cute!

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Guess Who's Meeting Martha...

Me! Okay I'm super excited about this, Poppy Chic Designs (that's me) will be part of an exciting group of women , the "Dreamers into Doers", from MarthaStewart.com who will have the chance to meet Martha Stewart, attend her show, tour her studios and help out a fabulous NYC Charity too! I will be donating a ton of retro hair flowers to the women and children of Safe Horizon Shelter as well as 60 corsages for Martha's staff and my fellow "Dreamers"! More to come...

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October Giveaway

I love fall...the colors, the scent of pumpkin pie, the crunchy sound leaves make when you run through them and most of all the start of the holiday season! To kick off the holidays I'm offering my first ever blog giveaway! All you have to do is leave a comment about your favorite part of fall and I will choose a winner at random to recieve these Harvest Spice Poppies! Winner will be announced here and contacted on Friday October 23rd...so you will have your poppies in time for Halloween! Good Luck

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