Friday Finds: Memorial Weekend

Each year Memorial Weekend is the bookend holiday that marks the beginning of summer. Weekends are soon filled with BBQs, long days at the beach, lemonade out of mason jars  with cute straws and ice cream...lots of ice cream. 

One of our favorites ice cream places has to be Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams. The flavors her and her wonderful team come up with are to die for. To name a few of her amazing creations: Black Coffee, Brambleberry Crisp, Pistachio and Honey Mint and Cherry Lambic. Since her shop is in Ohio, we have to find alternatives. (Jeni's is sold at certain locations, *thankfully* you can find one near you here)

If you feel adventurous, Jenis also has a book for at home recipes! A fun way that we've discovered how to make ice cream is with this ice cream ball. It's perfect for kicking around while chatting around the BBQ, all while it churns your delicious treat. 

To top it all off we found the perfect All American star serving stand and in my opinion my fave no fuss ice cream scoop. Don't forget to show your patriotic stripes in our Lost Control wedges. 

Aside from the great time to spend with family and friends Memorial Day is a day to remember and give thanks to all the men and women who gave their lives in the service of this country. 

Happy Memorial Day :)

xo

photo credit: http://eastonway.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/jenis.jpg

Crafts and Cocktails with Zooey Magazine

Thanks to the lovely ladies at Zooey Magazine, Ruche and Elsie and Emma from A Beautiful Mess. We had such a great time at this weekend's Craft and Cocktails party. Sneak a peek at all the adorable DIY craft tables, we couldn't tell which we loved more!

Seychelles home office got some cute decorations for the party.

The Cake Bar was a hit, our favorite were the lemon bars!

Thanks to The Impossible Project, we were able to have vintage polaroids for the cute Ruche photo booth. Our guests definitely had fun with the mustache props!

Our little DIY table included pom poms, wild (plastic) animals and some cute fabric for Shoe Clips! We'll have a tutorial up soon so you can make your very own.

For all those nail art entusiasts, Nicole by OPI had a great table set up. 

The girls at Ruche had a fabulous idea for jazzing up your every day coat hangers. With some colorful fabric strips, they transformed the hangers into colorful pieces to decorate your closet. Guests had a great time wrapping coat hangers with their own combinations of fabric strips.

How could we say no to decorating our own cupcakes! The Goodie Girls definitely had the tastiest DIY table.

Guests were asked to fill out our little raffle of "What's your top 3 favorite pairs?" The winning raffles would win a free pair of Seychelles or BC shoes! You can never have too many shoes.

Bethany Joy Lenz had a great time trying on some new flats in our Seychelles Showroom. 

 

Elsie and Emma from A Beautiful Mess gave a great tutorial on how to make some adorable bows. Guests wore them as hair bows and even as bow ties for the guys! We loved the versatility from such a small bow.

Last but not least, guests got to take home the adorable goodie bags from Zooey and Shop Ruche. You can never go wrong with some cute washi tape!

Crafts and Cocktails was such a fun party, we just didn't want it to end! Thanks again to the girls at Zooey Magazine, Ruche and Elsie and Emma from A Beautiful Mess for hosting this wonderful event. 

Nutella Rolls with Cream Cheese Frosting

Nutella makes the world go round. Fact. 

Now that this has been established, we are drooling at even the mention of this rich sugary recipe for Nutella rolls with cream cheese frosting. We're not sure if we should be condemning our friends at Ruche for unleashing Pandora's wrath on us, or establishing that we are now forever indebted to them for the introduction. In either case, we can't wait to time how quickly it will take to consume every succulent drop of sugary goodness, and then attempt at beating the score when we do it all over again.  

Ingredients:

Rolls:
2 cans Pillsbury Grands Biscuits
2 cups Nutella
Flour and Sugar for rolling

Cream Cheese Icing:
4oz Cream Cheese (softened)
1 tsp Vanilla
1 1/2 cups Powdered Sugar

Makes 16 rolls, Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Directions:

1. Lightly cover your surface with flour and sugar, then roll each biscuit out until it is flat and double in its original size.

2. Spread the Nutella on the flattened biscuits until they are completely covered.  The more Nutella, the better!

3. Roll up the flattened biscuits and cut them into three pieces.

4. Place the three cut pieces into the cupcake liners.

5. Bake for about 15 mins.  After they are done in the oven let them cool for about 5 mins before putting the icing on. 

A House Full.

So many of our favorite places to shop are becoming one stop destinations for anything lovely and SHOP RUCHE is no exception.

Above we included some of our wish list items that are sure to make it into our closets and homes by the end of Spring. How adorable are those Owl salt and pepper shakers!!

Shop RUCHE bridal.

We're so excited to be included in the launch of the RUCHE Bridal collection. Their new look book is stunning and features both our PETUNIA heels in Coral and our JUST BECAUSE heels in White.

Have you checked it out for yourself yet??