Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays! I will be away for a few days, spending Christmas with my family, so excited! I'm still in the high hopes of a white Christmas but decided not to wait for the weather and created a Winter Wonderland on my own, wearing my soft creamy white tights for tonight. I hope everyone will have a truly lovely time infused with everything that makes this season such a gem; food, family, gifts and snow!
xoxo

wearing: Choies bull terrier sweater, flare skirt, pom pom heels, H&M soft white tights, Scotch&Soda blouse




FOLLOW COCOROSA ON INSTAGRAM BLOGLOVIN' FACEBOOK AND TWITTER

Favorite Holiday Home Decor Tutorials

photos by Country Living, Henry Happened, Flair at Home, brit.co, the Sweetest Occasion

With only a little over a week before the holidays, there's nothing I love to do more than to transform my apartment into a beautiful winter wonderland and to infuse my home with whimsical glitters and understated glam. For today's post I just had to share a list of over 15 of the cutest and most gorgeous DIY Holiday Tutorials in home decor and beauty to brighten up the cold seasonal days!
xoxo



1) Coffee-Filter Garland

This gorgeous ruffled garland is such an eye catcher, I still can't believe its made out of coffee filters!

http://www.countryliving.com/crafts/projects/holiday-craft-projects-1209#slide-6





2) Holiday leaf crown

This pretty gold crown is the perfect Winter accessory to make you look and feel like a Christmas angel!

http://www.thehousethatlarsbuilt.com/2012/11/how-to-make-holiday-leaf-crown.html?m=1





3) Snow Globes

These adorable Snow Globes take about 30 minutes to make!

http://www.brit.co/snow-globes/




4) Pine name sign

This little pine together with neon pink or metallic paint is perfect as a name sign or menu holder to host that perfect Christmas diner!

http://www.flairathome.nl/zelfmaken/tafelschikking-kerstdiner/





5) Firefly Christmas lights

Deliciously cute and very easy to make are these tulle ruffled Christmas lights!

http://www.hayseedhomemakin.com/2011/11/firefly-christmas-lights.html





6) How to make a Hair Bow

Such a beautiful Hair bow tutorial perfect for seasonal diners and parties!

http://www.100layercake.com/blog/2013/05/30/how-to-make-a-hair-bow/





7) Instagram Marshmallows

How cute are these? and how perfect for a Holiday cup of cocoa? Is it a diy? yes and no, you can order Instagram Marshmallows for aprox $20 for a box of 9, printed with your own instagrams of course.

https://boomf.com/





8) Holiday gold stars

These lovely little stars are just too cute! 

http://strawberry-chic.blogspot.nl/2011/11/diy-tuesday-holiday-gold-stars.html





9) DIY gold leaf pine cone garland

The golden pine cone garland is such a lovely and easy home decor diy for the Holidays!

http://www.thesweetestoccasion.com/2012/12/diy-pine-cone-garland/





10) DIY Elk Antlers

Simple branches with a few ornaments make for perfect holiday home decor Elk antlers!

http://www.101woonideeen.nl/zelfmaken/gewei.html





11) DIY Melted Snowman Cake

Oooooh Frosty... My favorite tutorial is a tad bit sad but also hilariously cute and perfect as a Holiday desert! 

http://www.handmadecharlotte.com/diy-melted-snowman-cake-decorating-tutorial/





12) DIY Holiday inspiration

Gorgeous diy worthy inspiration! I just love the ornament and the wooden gift tags, both easy to do yourself!

http://www.gina-michele.com/2013/11/diy-holiday-decor-inspiration.html





13) DIY Christmas ornaments

This post guides you to gorgeous diy Christmas Ornaments! I absolutely love the glittered, ombre glass and clothespin ornaments! and Oh, these paint splashed ornaments are totally worth checking out too!

http://www.thesweetestoccasion.com/slideshow/diy-christmas-ornaments/?crlt.pid=camp.Ui7HQl6ZlKOL





14) Toy Ornaments

These little glittered plastic toys just became the cutest ornaments for in the tree or as table decoration!

http://www.sweetpaulmag.com/crafts/toy-ornaments 




15) Lace twinkle lights and gold dipped feathers

Leave it up to freepeople to come with delicious crafty holiday diy's, the lace twinkle lights are totally cute for all year round while the gold dipped feather mobile is perfect for a bohemian infused Xmas!

http://blog.freepeople.com/2013/11/diy-lace-twinkle-lights/ 

http://blog.freepeople.com/2012/11/diy-holiday-mobile/





16) Favorite Glitter and Glam tutorials

Last years favorite glitter and glam tutorials, still totally Whimsical Winter worthy!

http://mypreciousconfessions.blogspot.nl/2012/12/favorite-glitter-and-glam-tutorials.html



FOLLOW COCOROSA ON INSTAGRAM BLOGLOVIN' FACEBOOK AND TWITTER

Gifts

Hope everyone had an amazing Holiday! I'm so Gift Curious! I was dying .. in a ~Skip the damn food I want gifts already~ way... This year I actually had no wishes, I just had no idea what to ask but I got some great surprises anyway! First of all (like some of you have seen on my facebook and instagram) there was a surprise package from Valentino with a little bag and bracelet! and then Christmas itself; I actually got a new Iphone and an Ipad! swooon! I'm now 'padding away non-stop ;)
So curious what you guys got!
xoxo

FOLLOW COCOROSA ON BLOGLOVIN' FACEBOOK AND TWITTER

Favorite Glitter and Glam Tutorials

photos via makeupbox, ybs Beauty, katOsu (youtube channel), whimsicalwonderlandweddings and dearfriend

A few more days before Christmas (and New Years Eve) so it's the perfect time to share my 10 favorite Glitter and Glam tutorials! I just love Whimsical Sparkles in these cold winter days and love to give my apartment that perfect glittery touch! Hope you love these beauty and home decor tutorials as much as I do!

xoxo

1) Scarlet Slippers: Red Glitter Eyeshadow Tutorial

Totally bold but oh so good!

 http://makeupbox.tumblr.com/post/19447497908/scarlet-slippers-red-glitter

2) '50s Glam Waves

Although not a full tutorial, just a simple how-to description these '50s Glam waves would make such a perfect Holiday-do! I still need to learn how to work with rollers.

http://ybs-beauty.com/50s-glam-waves/

3) Glitter and Glam Eyes

This Polish girl really knows her eye-make-up! The video's are (sadly) in Polish but I'm glued to them anyway just to figure how how to get those perfect eyes! (I kind of skip back and forth in the video's towards the steps)

http://www.youtube.com/user/katOsu/

4) DIY Glitter Jam Jar Snow Globe

A beautiful Whimsical tutorial and finally something to do with those jam jars!

http://whimsicalwonderlandweddings.com/2012/12/diy-glitter-jam-jar-wedding-snow-globes-tutorial.html

5) DIY Glitter Garland

This is just such a fantastic home decor tutorial and you really have to go and check out how the final result came how to see how brilliant it is!

http://dearfriendblog.com/2012/11/diy-glitter-garland/

6) Watercolor Glitter Illustrations

Another brilliant glitter tutorial, this one by Paper Fashion for those of us who love to draw! I also really love this tutorial because its not only perfect for illustrators and artists but for applying this to notes, cards and letters as well!

http://paperfashion.net/2012/02/24/paper-tutorial-3-glitter/

7) DIY Glittered Wine Bottles

Not only jam jars can be transformed into glittery pieces, wine bottles too! Just such a spark of pleasure and no need to say; a good reason to finish off that bottle of wine ;)

http://www.jennyonthespot.com/crafty/tutorial-for-awesome-diy-glittered-wine-bottles/

8) DIY Magic Bottle

Swirling, twirling and sparkling indeed plus this tutorial gives us that feeling of whimsical snow!

http://artsyants.blogspot.nl/2011/11/make-magic-bottle-tutorial.html

9) Christmas lyrics banner tutorial

This is exactly what my apartment needs and not only for Christmas but all year round!

http://www.katiespencilbox.com/2011/11/christmas-lyrics-glitter-banner.html

10) Glitter Gradient Nails

And as finishing glitter touch today I will close this post with 2 Gradient Nail tutorials I love!

http://jelly-nails.blogspot.nl/2011/03/glitter-gradient.html

http://www.makeupsavvy.co.uk/2011/01/stippled-glitter-tips-nail-tutorial.html

FOLLOW COCOROSA ON BLOGLOVIN' FACEBOOK AND TWITTER

Favorite Holiday Tutorials

photos by Running on Happiness, the Beauty Department, ShannonPix fine art photo (great last minute presents!) and the sweetest occasion

With the Holiday's around the corner I thought it would be a great time to share my all time favorite Holiday Tutorials going from my favorite Holiday hair-do's to Gift Wrapping (I just love gift wrapping) and even one tutorial that would make that perfect very special gift!
Hope you have a lovely weekend!
xoxo

1) The Bow Bun

I cannot think of a better occasion then the Holiday's for this amazing Bow Bun! I love it and the Tutorial is amazing!

http://www.runningonhappiness.com/2012/06/bow-bun-how-to.html

2) A very Vintage Vibe

The Beauty Department never fails when it comes to perfect hair tutorials and this is one of my Holiday favorites! The 1950's inspired ponytail!

http://thebeautydepartment.com/2012/09/1950s-inspired-ponytail/

3) Lush Low Ponytail

This is such a beautiful and classic hair-do for the Holidays! I really would like to know the original credits since I doubt the source where I found it and I would really like to know how to do these last few steps in the tutorial!

http://fashionworship.com/2069/

4) Tiny Bow

The Bow Bun a bit too much Bow for you? I really love the tiny detail of this simple bow from We see Rainbows! It's just delicious!

http://weseerainbows.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/find-me-here-wedo-a-hair-bow-for-benefit-cosmetics/

5) Sparkly DIY Giftwrap

The Sweetest Occasion comes with an amazing Sparkly Ribbon DIY! I have to say that when it comes to gift wrapping this website has really a lot of amazing tutorials and they are really all worth checking out!! 

http://www.thesweetestoccasion.com/2012/11/sparkly-diy-gift-wrap/

6) How to make a Perfect Bow

Maybe you are already blessed with perfect bow making skills but I am most definitely not! Flights of Fancy's Bow gift wrapping tutorial is simple but ohhhhh so perfect!!

http://www.betsywhite.com/flightsoffancy/2010/12/diy-tutorial-how-to-wrap-a-perfect-present/

7) DIY Paper Bows

Milomade has this amazing tutorial on how to make your own paper bows out of magazine-and-recycled paper!

http://www.milomade.co.uk/blog/2010/12/wrapping-it-all-up/

8) DIY Teacup Candles

And last but not least for that perfect little gift; Martha Stewart's DIY Teacup Lights!

http://www.marthastewart.com/273016/teacup-lights



FOLLOW COCOROSA ON BLOGLOVIN' FACEBOOK AND TWITTER