A New Year

Happy New Year, my dears! I hope you all had a lovely New Years Eve and are getting into this new year of 2013. I'm really excited about this year as it will bring my one year wedding anniversary and hopefully good times and adventures aplenty. I really am not one to make resolutions, but I do like the idea of making some goals for 2013. So, I thought I'd share some of them with you.

1. I want to buy more intentional vintage this year. Really look through my closest and see what I'm lacking and build that up. 

2. Our apartment needs to be kept tidier. I really tried for this goal this year, and it was more of a success towards the end of the year, but it makes life so much happier and stress free when your environment is tidy.

3. I want to scrap book more! When Tyler and I were dating I started a scrap book for him of photos of us and wrote down memories and such, but I'm really behind, as I don't think I've even done our engagement nor anything after.  I think it'd be such a special thing to have, especially when we have children.

4. To fit back into all my vintage clothing. I didn't want to give myself a number goal for loosing weight, as I don't want to become obsessed with being a certain number, but I know I will be back to my healthiest me when I can fit back into all my old vintage. Also, I'll have so much more variety in my closet!

5. Put more in savings (for our Europe trip especially). Ty and I have done very well with savings this year, but we really want to make a trip to Europe in the next 2 ish years, and it needs to bulked up.

40's dress hip zipper

shoes nine west

belt thrifted

I think those are all reasonable goals, nothing crazy, but good attainable things I can concentrate on this year. 

Have you made any goals or resolutions?

xo,

 Em

Recently

This last week has been filled with travel, Christmas-ing, family, and lots of love. Here are some of instagrams of the last week:

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 I got some seriously amazing gifts this year. I felt completely spoiled what with two Christmases and then Ty's lovely gifts he got me as well. We spent Christmas and the few days leading up to it at my in-laws in Alabama and then came back up for Christmas with my family.

My Christmas-ing was also filled with loads of goodies and foods (probably a bit too much) and I had the best time making sugar cookies and icing them with my family.

 

  

By far the best thing about this lovely holiday season is that it is my first being married. This year has had many ups and downs, adventures, and exciting what nots, and I'm so very blessed to have an amazing man by my side. I can't wait to ring in the new year and see what new adventures it will bring for us.

I hope you all have had an amazing holiday season and that the new year will bring you many blessings.

xo,

 Em

 

Tutorial: Simple Foam Roller Set

Simple foam roller set from Emma Litton on Vimeo.

I hope this helps some of you who asked how I did my tighter curls. It's so incredibly simple and versatile. If you have any questions let me know. Also, if you have any requests for the next hair tutorial let me know so I can start planning the next one.

I hope you all are having a fantastic Holiday season!

xo,

 Em


P. S. This was the basic set for these hair styles:

Cocktail Party

Out and About

Thanksgiving Overalls

Work Times 

Cocktail Party

The other night I attended a blogger cocktail party, and it was so super lovely. I adore any excuse to get really dressed up. I met some lovely new blogging ladies and I can't wait for us all to get together again.

 I bought this dress over a year ago and had never taken it out for a spin, so I was so excited to be able to wear it. Even though it was made in the 70's I think it has a lovely look of the 40's about it.

  

70's dress flash backs

50's fur coat my grandmothers

shoes not sure

pearl necklace gift from my father

30's bracelet flea market

Please excuse the odd look of these pictures they were taken inside at night so I worked with what I had.

I hope you all have been having a fabulous week!

xo,

Em

Out and About

This was an outfit I wore out and about this weekend going to antique malls and such. I found several lovely things I'll have to show you all later and finally got some frames for some beautiful prints I've been wanting to hang. If you follow me on instagram (emmyrenee) you'll have seen some of them.

 I also went to a lovely cocktail party last night, and can't wait to show you the dress I wore! It was a really lovely time and I got to meet some more wonderful bloggers from Nashville. Tyler and I also went and saw a midnight showing of The Room (which he loves and I had never seen). Crazy for sure. Have any of you ever seen it?

vintage 50's dress pre to post modern
vintage 40's jacket hip zipper
shoes modcloth

Ever since graduating college I'm not much of a night owl, so the midnight movie really did me in. I've been lolling about the house in my pjs most of the day and am trying to get up the gumption to do some laundry. Ok, I can do it! Here I come laundry!

How was your weekend? Any good lolling about?

xo,

 Em

Gal of the Month

I was super excited when Adored Vintage contacted me about doing an interview, but little did I know I was gonna be Gal of the Month for their site! It's something they have just started doing, so I'm really honored to be the first gal chosen. You should check out their site, which is not only super lovely, but is also filled with lots of vintage goodies. I've added a button to the side bar where you can look at my interview on their site or go here!

I hope you all have had a happy Monday!

xo,

 Em

P.S I have some tutorials coming your way my hubby just has to edit them :)

Recent Finds and Photos

I've been doing more antique shopping of late, which is so wonderful, it's been a while since I had been going regularly. Here are some of my finds and whatnot.

 These are some of my fabulous finds from the Nashville flea market. I got some amazing deals. One of the venders gave me about six vintage hats for $10 and I got all these lipsticks for just a $1 each. Yeaaaah.

I also went to a local antique mall with my lovely sister Sarah. I wish we could have bought this beautiful 40's mink! But alas, it was too expensive.

But by far this was my greatest purchase of the last week:

 Tyler and I have been on the hunt for a lovely art deco armoire. We were looking at several but this was an amazing deal. And here's a bit of the top in our room:

I hope you all have had a wonderful week!

xo,

 Em