Ultimate Beauty Giveaway: The Busy Girl's Guide to Makeup from Girl Loves Glam!

I'm so happy to announce my bosom friend McKenzie, has published her own beauty book!  I'm so excited for her!  It's been over a year in the making and am so proud of her.  She's one of the most down to earth gals and I love her style.  She's so eclectic!  

Anyway, I'm so happy to let you know that you have a chance to win a copy of her book, a $200 Sephora gift card, $25 gift certificate to The Ribbon Retreat, and a 14 piece makeup brush set!  Don't worry, there's three chances of you winning prizes in this giveaway.

This book, giftcards, and make up brush set is a great way to start the fall!  Make sure you check out McKenzie's guest post she did on our blog about a chalkboard folding chair while the three of us sisters vacationed.  Scroll down to learn more about McKenzie and how to enter to win these fabulous prizes!   

Neova Face Sunscreens and a Giveaway!

This post is sponsored by Neova and all thoughts and opinions are my own.

If any of you read our blog for sometime you can tell by looking at our blog us three sisters are white as humans come.  With our really white and sensitive skin, and we burn really easily.  We've been taught by our mom while we were growing up the importance to take care and protect our skin so we can prevent cancer and premature aging.  Thanks mom!

How to: Clay Wall Planters

We are so excited to share a guest post for you from the two masterminds of Irrelephant-blog.com, the lovelies: Joanna and Molly.

"we are two stylists that decided to collaborate to push ourselves creatively. we are located in birmingham, alabama, where we are styling, shooting, creating, and living. we hope you leave inspired!"

How to: Clay Wall Planters

 

We have been obsessed with plants lately, and we have been keeping them alive!! It is always so fascinating to put greenery on your wall, but sometimes the wall planters are a bit expensive... So we tired an alternate solution.

What you'll need: 
Air Dry Clay (I used Stonex- I bought mine at Michaels)
Water
Paint brush
Foil or wax paper

Start with laying down your foil or wax paper (clay can get sticky if pressed onto its surface) Cut about half an inch thick piece for your back. Cut another slice about the same size and start making the second slice a little thinner by working it out wider with your fingers. Cut out a small hole on your back piece for easy hanging. Connect your front piece to your back. (you can mold the front piece any shape you want, you can use a cup or a bowl to help as a mold- make sure to put some wax/foil in between the mold and your clay) When connecting your 2 pieces, use the brush and the water to blend in the cracks. Try not to use too much water, just enough to soften the clay. 

This is one of those projects that you can be as perfect and sleek as you want, and as messy and texture as you would like. Take the basic instructions and have fun with it! explore different technics and shapes! 

Allow at least 48 hours to harden.

We would love to see your creation if you tried this! tag your process and end result on instagram as #irrelephantclaypots

Photo by Emilie Online Class Giveaway!

It's been my New Year's Resolution to understand and know how to use a DSLR camera.  I wanted to be able to capture precious moments in a beautiful way and wasn't feeling like I was achieving this with my snap and shoot camera.  I used to work as a photographer at a studio in high school and at a college newspaper in college and used a DSLR camera, but never had the chance to really learn how to use one.  I felt really intimidated by all of the components like: f-stop, aperature, ISO, white balance, and didn't understand how they played a part in taking pictures.  I didn't know where to start!

Nursery update and some pregnancy brain ramblings

It has been a few months since I posted anything about the nursery.  When it comes to decorating, I always have the ideas in my head.  Then when it comes to actually implementing them, it's harder then I thought it would be!  It's overwhelming to undertake a whole room of baby stuff.  We're starting from scratch here!  We don't have any family close to borrow things from, and at times I have been overwhelmed by how much we need to buy!  When you're doing things on a budget, you have to get creative!  See what I've been up to after the jump...

Bra Guide: Learn How Bra Sizing Works!

Hey out there!  I'm really excited to be talking about the next topic in my blog series, "Bra Guide".  My first post was about How Bras Should and Shouldn't Fit and received an overwhelming amount of response from ladies around the world asking me their bra questions, concerns, and issues.  It was so exciting!  I've had a lot of questions asked about bra sizing and so that is what I'm going to be talking about today!  Yahoo!

Jane Austen and the reactionary plight of expectations.

I think it's safe to say that here at Fry Sauce and Grits we are pretty much obsessed with Jane Austen and all things period.  I mean who doesn't love the costumes, the formality, and the romance?  Oh and did I forget Colin Firth in the role of Mr. Darcy?  (Swoon!)  So naturally, when it came time for me to write a persuasive essay for my English class, I picked the most controversial of subjects: Jane Austen's male protagonists.  Can you relate?