St. Lucia

Just made reservations for a getaway to St.Lucia next month. I am so excited to see what looks to be a magnificent place to vacation.

We will be staying at Anse Chastanet in a deluxe beachfront room "right on the beach", only a few feet from the waters edge (so they say) I would have liked to stay in one of the rooms in the Pitons (the view looks absolutely beautiful) but my husband wants A/C and no mosquitoes. I'm sure in the end I will be glad we made that choice. Mainly because I've heard to get to your rooms that are up in the pitons, you have to climb 90-100 steps (several times a day). This is a vacation to relax and do almost nothing; I certainly don't want to be walking up and down that many stairs. I think we will be found under an umbrella (drink in hand) on the beach or the hammock that hangs on the porch right outside of the room with a good book. Now I'm sure we'll be a little adventurous and check out the reefs in the area and do some snorkeling and kayaking. And of course, don't forget shopping (I always have energy for that) but for the most part we are looking for a relaxing, get away from it all, romantic, quiet vacation.

I will be posting plenty of pictures and sharing great finds, so check back at the end of July and see what we discover! Yeah, yeah, I know... I won't be discovering much if I'm just laying around. Okay...so maybe one day I'll get up and scout around. Anyway, I'm sure we'll go exploring.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=05_ppB6RhpQ

Shop a frolic

I discovered this fabulous blog "shopafrolic", (sounds so much better than shopaholic, doesn't it?) here are two ladies - Jane and Liz (self professed shopaholics)who will introduce you to their beauty, style, trends, fashion and accessorie finds. Buys and Don't buys. You'll find great fashion finds from various designers. If you join their shopping posse you'll  receive emails alerting you to their newest fashion finds.
They were also featured on Martha Stewart during a spring episode and while Liz has her own clothing line on HSN and Jane has her own jewelry line, they were showing some fabulous clothes from many other designers.

Check out their blog!





http://www.shopafrolic.com/shop/accessories/

Recycled t-shirt necklace

 This is a necklace I made recycling an old t-shirt.

Have an old favorite t-shirt you don't wear anymore? Maybe you have one that has a stain on it so you can't even donate it.

Don't throw it out.... recycle it!

Instructions:

• Take a t-shirt (works best if it has a little stretch to it)
• Lay it out on a cutting board - I use Fiskars cutting board
• Using a fabric rotary cutter (also Fiskars)start at the bottom hem and cut it off and put it to the side (who knows you might find something you can do with it)
• Using the rotary cutter, cut strips 3/4 inches wide until you have cut all the way just under the sleeves
• Once you have all of them cut, pick up one at a time and grasping each end in your fingers, give it a little tug. You want to stretch it just a little until it curls (don't over stretch it)
• Leave one out if your t-shirt does not have side seams - leave two out if it does have a seam.
• Place them one on top of the other (with the seams together - if it has a seam) and now take the strip or strips that you put to the side and wrap around the the entire grouping of strands until it holds snug. If your t-shirt had seams you will need to do this twice as I have done in the picture.
• Get creative, add embellishments to your new necklace or tie it in a knot.
• Try mixing t-shirt colors
• Use a tye dye shirt

Post your pictures after you give it a try, I'd love to see what great ideas you come up with!