Happy Birthday to my Hubby!

I know I already posted about glam cocktail rings today, but I could not let this day go by without giving a birthday shout out to my awesome husband, Dan! Here is wishing him an amazing 27th birthday.


Tonight I will be cooking up a special, vegetable free dinner (the boy hates veggies but will eat them if I cook them) and then taking him out for Frozen Yogurt at our favorite spot, Penguins, in Redondo Beach.

Happy Happy Birthday Babe!

Instant Glam with Cocktail Rings

I adore cocktail rings because they seem to dress up any outfit or day. I even like to dress up my hands for work. I spend most of my day on the computer and a great cocktail ring adds some bedazzle to your keyboard and desk.

I am only recently returned to the ring trend as I only wore my engagement ring through our entire engagement because I hated stealing its thunder. My hubby picked out an amazing sapphire and diamond ring that makes me smile everyday I put it on.

Who could say no to this!

While it still has its moment in the sun on a daily basis, my right hand was getting jealous of all the pretty jewelery and as a result I started dressing my ring finger up on both hands for some bedazzling sparkle. Personally I look for rings that are similar in size to my engagement ring/wedding band set without letting either ring overpower the other. Sometimes I will go for a bigger ring on my right hand but then it needs to mirror color style, etc. Here are some of my go to pieces, and they all look great whether you are sporting rings on or left hand or not. My go to designers for cocktail rings are Margaret Elizabeth, based in San Francisco, Kate Spade New York, Piperlime, J.Crew and the kick ass Street Jewelry vendors on 5th Avenue in New York City (I always make a stop when I am home).

What I'm Loving.. Cocktail Rings by preppy-lizzy featuring rhinestone jewelry

The Easiest Christmas Decoration

I love to decorate for the holidays but while we live in an apartment I try to not do anything to permanent. Besides putting up our tree (unfortunately its fake because we are with my family the week of Christmas and a live unwatered tree is a fire hazard) and the stockings on the fire place, one of my favorite decorations (and probably the easiest), is wrapping the three white doors in our living room to look like packages. Personally I just wrap the doors with ribbons, but you can also wrap them with wrapping paper if you would like, its just more labor intensive and not as reuse friendly.

Our lovely plastic tree.
Have to use Bath and Body Works Candles to fake the smell of evergreen.

I save my door ribbon from year to year which means its green as well as simple. Step one is to take a long ribbon and run it from the top of the door to the bottom of the door and attach with either staples or tape on the back of the door. Make sure your ribbon is long enough to run over and under the door. I love this plaid ribbon with gold details as my long ribbon. It really stands out.

Step 2 is to take 2 ribbons that match and attach them to the back of the door on the left and the right. Then slide the ribbon around the sides and to the front, where you tie the 2 ribbons into a bow over the long ribbon. And voila! Christmas presents for doors. The great thing is you can mix and match your ribbons if you want and you can attach the Christmas cards you receive to the long ribbons to double as a great display of your friends and family.

Here is the finished product as well as the rest of the living room all spruced up (pun intended)!

 

What great holiday decorating tips can you share?