Makeup Makeover

My friend Sabrina (Shiny Happy Pretty) is practicing to become a freelance makeup artist. She came over last Friday to play around with makeup while our kids played play dough.

I'm being pretty brave today posting this "before and after" split image of my makeover.

The left is freshly scrubbed, broken out, zero makeup face. The right is Sabrina's masterpiece.

Sabrina has so much fun makeup. It puts my little teeny bag of makeup to shame. She went with a pop of purple to bring out my green eyes. And Armani mascara! WHAT?!

And here is the finished look. So much fun!

Here is a rundown of what I'm wearing:

Moisturizer: Embryolisse Lait-Crème Concentrè
Foundation: Eve Pearl HD Cream Foundation in Fair/Light
Concealer: MAC Studio Finish Concealer - NC15
Setting Powder for Foundation: MAC Mineralize Skinfinish Natural - Light
Setting Powder for Concealer: Ben Nye Luxury Powder - Buff 

Highlight: theBalm Mary-Lou Manizer
Bronzer: MAC Mineralize Skinfinish Natural - Medium Dark
Blush: La Femme - Stormy Rose I think
Eyes: MAC Eyeshadows - Texture, Soft Brown, Vibrant Grape and Carbon
Liner: Clinique Gel Eyeliner - True Black
Mascara: Giorgio Armani Eyes To Kill
Lips: blend of Bare Minerals- Strawberry Creme and Bare Escentuals- Buxom Lips Celeste

Garden: Before & After, ranunculus and other beauties!

My garden/patio was in much need of a mini makeover! Check out this before and after picture of our covered patio area. Eww, that brown bench is just horrible. 

I was going to throw it out, but decided it wouldn't hurt to have some extra space to sit outside. So, I spruced it up. Choosing paint was fun since the base has NO selection and German paint, well it's not the same, and plus we can't read the can!

A lot of sanding, priming and painting later, I had this! Beautiful isn't she!? I'm proud. Not only because I love the bright summery color, but this was my first project of repainting furniture. Nothing spectacular, but to me it made a huge difference. And of course, flowers never hurt!

Ariana and I (and Rich) have been doing some gardening the past week or so. Her are some peeks of the flowers we have planted.

Ariana picked these yellow ones by herself. She insisted on getting some yellow flowers! 

And, you may have seen the flower below on my Scavanger Hunt the other day, but I loved it so much I decided to share it again! I love that you can actually SEE the pollen specks on the petals.

And this baby is my favorite flower in my garden. It's a ranunculus. It's my new favorite flower. I finally figured out what kind of flower it was this year. I scooped up the last 2 that the base had for sale the other week. Love it!

Plant a garden was one of my April Goals! Check!!

xo's 

Cat

Studio Tour!

Step inside and take a look around my craft room/guest room. 

This is where the magic happens. Haha!! Ok, I had to, cheesy I know!

Anyways, if you're like me, you like seeing other peoples spaces, especially their crafty ones. I thought I would share mine with you.

This flower is my favorite paint palette. I love the colors all melted together.

 Here is my desk. This is where I sew (rarely) and do most of my painting. Sometimes I lay on the floor like a kid.

 

My sewing machine (don't worry I've got a project in mind for you soon!) See my adorable painting my friend Maggie made me! Right next to it is my inspiration notebook. Sometimes I jot down ideas for blogs or paintings or doodle out some designs.

 Pretty threads, they inspired this painting.

These flowers used to be in the kitchen, but when we bought some herbs, I moved them in here.

Mr Frenchy!! My plushie that I used to sell in my shop. This one is mine!

Some paintings and a mirror I thrifted.

 It was an ugly color so I repainted it this fun turquoise. Still need some hardware so I can hang it.

 I store my paintbrushes in recycled glass jars.

And I use a Cambells soup mug for my water cup.

 My chair that I finally brought in here. It used to me my Moms makeup chair when I was little. I think she thrifted it way back when.

Another window. My dress statue, buttons in a jar, and ribbon in a vase.

 This old jar is my absolute fav!

 Don't you just love furniture for free? Someone left this behind. I'm hoping this summer to re-do it but for now it holds my yarn and other materials. Seriously though, tons of yarn.

 Some thrifted hoops that are waiting to be turned into a project I've had in my head for months now but can't find just what I'm looking for.

AND, since you've made it to the end of this post you get a little bonus picture! 

I try to keep it real on my blog, so I'm going to show you the disaster area that was my craft room. 

If you are a neat freak look away now.

Consider yourself warned....

 Somehow (I guess because it's right by the front door) this became the room to dump junk in. If we got a box in the mail we just threw the box in here with all the packing materials. Random stuff from other rooms slowly made their way in here somehow too. It was a huge chore getting it re-orgainzed but I did it and I'm SO PROUD!!

Now, it's so neat and tidy I don't want to go in there and mess it up.

It's bound to happen though!

xo's

Cat