It’s 2014 guys, which means it’s time for a new collection of nail polish. Because if there’s anything that screams ‘I’ve got my crap together’ and ‘my New Year’s Resolutions are going swimmingly, thank you very much’ it’s a fresh manicure with some seriously tight colors. You know what? These colors are tight. ‘Tight’ isn’t normally a word I incorporate into my daily vocabulary, but I think I might start using it because it’s a new year, and I feel…
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2014 is just bursting with good things around here. Today, please meet our fabulous friend and new contributor, Carrie. Hello everyone, I’m Carrie. I’m a family photographer, and a mom of three elementary school kids. I grew up on a cattle ranch in Oregon, but I’ve lived on the east coast for the last eight years. I love exploring new places, baking, volunteering at my kids’ school, and reading. You can check out my other work at Cabesh Photography. After…
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We’ve been working on some exciting things behind the scenes here at Petit Elefant. As such, we have gathered some fantastic talent in the form of several new regular Contributors. Lovely women with smarts and style who will be sharing their mad skills right here, with all of you. The very best stuff. For reals. Let’s get to know them one by one, shall we? Please join us as we welcome and introduce our first fabulous contributor, Natalia Simmons. Natalia,…
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Coffee lovers, rejoice! Your ever-lovin-coffee-minds are about to be blown with this DIY coffee scrub. Yes, truly, today I’m going to show you how to make your own coffee scrub. We’ve done citrus scrub, regular ol’ sugar scrub, and strawberry salt foot scrub, so I thought it would be fun to mix it up (wakka, wakka) and try some coffee scrub. Let me tell you right now, if you hate the smell of coffee, you should maybe go learn how…
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Sponsored by Ricola THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNER, ANA, COMMENT 12 It’s been a while since I’ve done a What’s in Your Purse Series post, but it’s time again. Do you miss it? I kind of love the purse series and I really miss seeing what’s in your purses! Should we get it started again? I’ll be first. This is my purse right now. The only thing I edited out was an extra huge stash of…
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It’s party season, wahoo! Aren’t you so excited? For all the party-town, fancy-dancy parties of the season? I’m not much of a cocktail party goer, but I love the idea of dressing other people for the holidays. I’m more of a sweats + heating blanket + Benedict Cumberbatch (movies) on the couch kind of girl. With some hot chai tea in hand, of course. But YOU, you are a fancy party-goer! And I have 5 short party dresses for…
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I keep it real around here, if for no other reason than I *am* real and I can’t pretend to live a magazine life when I currently have 3 loads of unfolded laundry currently sitting in cube form, blocking everything in their path, in laundry baskets in my master bathroom. I have no qualms about showing you the state of my very real, very messy laundry room in the midst of the everyday madness of raising two children in…
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It’s DIY facial time. A little *me* time for you, because you’re worth it. Your skin is dry, it’s acting up and behaving like a small, angry child and there’s only so much you can take before you want to break up. For realsies this time. Because you deserve better. You deserve a glowing face with nary a flake of dry skin in sight. So here’s what you’re going to do about it: you’re going to make a homemade DIY…
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This hot nerd glasses post is sponsored by eBay. Follow my eBay collections to see regularly updated style in every category you can dream up, including an entire shrine collection dedicated to Benedict Cumberbatch Sherlock Holmes. He’s so hot right now. Your mom’s so hot right now. I’m curating collections by the minute over on eBay, and I have a couple I’m a little obsessed with. That’s not weird is it, to love your own collections? Anyway. Weird or…
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