Crazy California

For a Florida girl this California weather is difficult to deal with! It's 50 in the morning and evening and 75 at 2PM. To me, that's the difference between winter and summer in FL. I don't know how to dress for this weather, so most of this week I have decided to just try to look good and freeze my butt off. I'm tired of wearing winter clothes.

Since my dad is here on business for a while, he has been renting a truck, which becomes our mode of transportation when we visit and he is at work. Over Christmas he had a Nissan Titan that I was forced to drive for the first time in Downtown LA. Now, he has a Silverado, which I have taken quite the liking to.

I was proud of myself for backing it in like a pro. I'm thinking I should trade the mini in for a truck and go full on country girl. Yes, no, maybe so??

Yesterday, it was warm enough to enjoy the pool, well until I got burnt...

Tried working the camo hat again....I'm still not so sure I can pull it off. lol 

 Belmont Park and Mission Beach

I was determined to get to the beach at least once this week, so we headed into Mission Beach and Belmont  Park. It was a nice little beachy/touristy area to hang around right on the beach. 

They even had a roller coaster!

Palm trees on palm trees on palm trees. Yes, I'm obsessed with them.

Top: Forever 21 

Purse & Sunglasses: H&M

We ran out to the beach to snap a quick picture, but it was freezing!

It actually was 62 out there was no way we were going to be able to enjoy the beach today! I was so disappointed, I just wanna be tan!!

La Jolla

With all day to kill we decided to head to La Jolla, but the drive there was a foggy one?

After stopping in a couple of stores in La Jolla Village we dropped in Cups, an organic cupcake shop/lounge! I'm not really sure what made them organic, but they were good! (I don't really ask questions, I just go with the flow)

I went for the PB Cup! It was delicious even though it was melting from the long car ride home. San Diego traffic is no joke!

Momma indulged in the Bunny Love cupcake!

Oh and one more thing! If you all haven't checked out Luke Bryan's 'Spring Break...Here To Party' Album, you should! I am obsessed, all of the songs are funny and pretty dead on to a college students life. I have had it on repeat all week!

Love, 

LST

Braid. Beach. Bum.

Hey ya'll!

So, I am a member of the Collegiate Merchandising Association and I got the chance to be a guest blogger for FSU's fashion magazine, Clutch's, blog this week! Super exciting, even though I always lack all creativity when I need it the most. Anyhow, I saw the idea of creating designs with bleach. I came up with my own anchor bleach dyed spring break tank for their blog which you can find here.

For them I kept it short and sweet, but I really wanted to braid the straps as well for a cuter more detailed look. So, I'll show you all how to do that!

First, using your scissors poke a hole in the fabric at the top of the horizontal seam, and cut downward along the neckline hem about 6 inches. Make sure you don't go too far because you will end up with an awkward gap in the braid.

Next, poke another hole along the horizontal hem and the arm opening hem on the opposite side and cut down as shown below until you reach equal points on both sides.

Repeat first two steps on the other side. Be careful not too cut the straps too far or cut through the back, cause that would be bad.

Now you should have three strings to your strap. Braid these together. 

Hand sew a couple of stitches across the braid to keep it in place. 

Ta-Dah! :) 

Have a good and safe spring break everyone!

Love, 

LST