The highly-anticipated PSL season is here and we are pretty excited about that. To be honest, we’re part of the population who look forward to seeing ‘Pumpkin Spice Latte’ on the Starbucks menu every year but we only get around to picking it up once the whole year. Don’t get me wrong, we love the spicy, warm, sweet goodness that is the PSL, but we’re not going to order one every week. This year, we really wanted to make some…
DIY projects are hard. Most of the time it takes a lot of effort and creativity to create something that looks store-bought. And while we consider ourselves creative people, and enjoy a good DIY, it’s often times hard to think of something that hasn’t been done that we would ACTUALLY use. Many times on this blog you’ll see home decor or beauty DIY projects since these are two of our passions. We’ve been in a little bit of a creative…
A few weeks ago we purchased some fresh flowers only to find out that we didn’t have a vase to put them in. Of course we have decorative vases that live on our carefully curated living room shelf, but we don’t own any useful vases. How crazy is that?! Instead of just running to Target to get a boring glass vase, we decided to make some DIY versions. We absolutely love how ceramic vases look but they can be costly…
You may remember when we made Fir & Grapefruit Candles on the blog. It was definitely one of our favorite DIY projects to date because of how useful they are. We are candle addicts and it’s so much more inexpensive to keep refilling one vessel than to continue purchasing candles. So of course when we were thinking of projects for A Beautiful Mess we thought of candles right away! For this post, we went the route of “turn any jar…
We’ve probably never voiced this here on our blog, but we’ve always wanted to start our own candle company. In fact, we plan to do just that at some point down the road. We’ve been obsessed with candles basically our whole lives. We have vivid memories of going to the local “candle” store and stocking up on Yankee Candle’s ‘Home Sweet Home’ as kids. So our obsession is really just a side effect of our parent’s addiction to candles. We’re always…
