The Brown Owl

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

All I Want For Christmas

My favorite holiday of all time is almost here and I am determined to make it the best yet... hmm hope I didn't just jinx it... My family is usually running all over the place for Christmas, we usually go back to Jersey and do the marathon family visits, but this year we are staying home. I will miss our big Christmas Eve dinner (we're Italian so we have the whole Feast of The Fishes... and then some!!). Hopefully we will still be going to NJ just later on maybe in January, everyone will just have to save Christmas for when I get there! Anyway we are finally going to start some of our own Christmas traditions! We haven't decided all of them yet but we have decided on a gingerbread house contest, a day full of baking delicious italian pastries (recipes to come!!), watching It's a Wonderful Life, making our own garland (from cranberries and popcorn), and that's all we have so far! If you have any traditions you would like to share I would love to hear them! And finally here it is, my Christmas list this year...

Antropologie Blouse $88

F21 Cuff $5.80

Cashmere Gloves $19.99

Anthropologie Dress $188

Anthropologie Owl Switchplate $18

Anthropologie Tights $20

UO Owl Ring $18

Yorkie Puppy $Priceless!!!

UO Watch Necklace $28

UO Saddle Shoes $48

AA Circle Scarf $28

Urban Outfitter Boots $58

Anthropologie Belt $38

Vera Wang Princess $45

A Hard Days Night DVD $11.36

Cannon Rebel T1i $799

Graphics Tablet $99.99

And today I leave you with a Christmas clip from my favorite show of all time (really ask any of my friends I quote this show entirely TOO much)...

Saturday, November 21, 2009

The Brown Owl Shop

The Brown Owl Shop is officially open!! Check it out HERE!

So excited!! I just have a couple of headbands up right now but I am furiously working on some more which will be up soon!!

Friday, November 20, 2009

Inspired by It: Chanel Spring 2010

So I have to say my favorite designer of all time is Chanel. Original, I know! But I believe if something is this popular it must be some kind of awesome!! I was looking through the Spring 2010 Ready-to-Wear Collection and was definitely inspired. Thanks Karl you never let me down!!

This is my FAVORITE color pallet ever! I just love pastels! Almost a little Marie Antoinettesque...

If I could live in a movie it would be this one!!

Monday, November 2, 2009

Want It: Brilliant Bicycle

I want this for Christmas sooooo bad

It is finally cold out!! I love the cold maybe because I am from New Jersey and am used to it or maybe cause I just love Winter clothes!! This Fleet Foxes song always makes me think of Winter so in celebration of this cold delicious day here it is...

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Headbands

So I have been working on headbands lately and even some hair clips. They take a little while to make which is why I don't have a ton of colors done yet. I think I am going to start selling them on Etsy very soon!!! Each flower is hand made by me and then fastened to a headband I have made with the coordinating color ribbon. Here's what I have so far...

Sunday, October 18, 2009

DIY: Make your own Mustache

I am always changing my room and putting new art on my wall. I love mustaches, not real ones they can be creepy, but felt ones well they are just awesome! Anyway I got to thinking why not combine these two amazing things? And that is when I came up with this new art for my room...

All you really need is some black felt, white paper, a black shadow box frame and a pair of scissors.

I decided to do all the same style of mustache in my frame but I think mixing it up with a few different mustaches would be cute also. Let me tell you cutting out mustaches is not an easy task! I think making a cardboard original to trace would be the best way to go.

The finished project...

And I just LOVE Beirut....

Thursday, October 15, 2009

A -Z

So I got the idea for this post the other night while watching The City (I know! I know! but one of the main characters works for Elle so I HAVE to watch it). Anyway Elle puts out a spread of what they believe is in style for the season titled A-Z with each letter representing a different trend. So I thought why not do my own, here is Nicole's A-Z...

Applique