Cutest.Little Girl. Ever.

My friend Shalene let me use her darling daughter Ava as one of my little models for my headbands/clips. Isn't she just the cutest thing?!

Hope you're weekend is lovely! Make it a good one since Summer is almost at it's end!

Kierst

Now featured in Olive and Tweed!

My 'hair raising pretties' are now in Olive and Tweed! Olive and Tweed is a boutique full of an assortment of eclectic goodies. Located on Main Street in Park City Utah, you are sure to find something lovely! Their website can be found here.

Have a marvelous day, and don't overheat! It's a scorcher out there!

xoxo

Kierst

First set of pictures for my Etsy page!

Alix Loosle took these photos a couple of weeks back. Here are some of my favorites from the shoot. Alix can be found at- http://www.alixannlooslephotography.blogspot.com/. Thanks again Alix, you are lovely!

xoxo

Kierst

MAD MEN Barbies.... Need I say more??

Anyone that knows me knows that I am OBSESSED with AMC's MAD MEN. It is by far my favorite show in the whole wide world.

Mattel has linked up with the producers of MAD MEN to bring you the Donald and Betty Draper, Joan Holloway, and Rodger Sterling Barbies!!! To put it lightly ecstatic am I for these to come out!

The barbies will be available Sunday July 25, 2010. Which, coincidentally, is the very day MAD MEN Season 4 airs on AMC at 10 pm. If you have never seen this show I highly recommend driving to you're nearest Blockbuster to rent the first 3 seasons!

24 days until then...but who's counting??? Me me me!

Kierst

Alix Loosle... Indeed you are talented!

Last year sometime my bestie Ryan had some fun vintage-y pictures taken. When I saw them I got so excited because they were just my style! I dialed her up right that minute to find out who had the talent to take such photos! She told me her name was Alix Loosle and I gave her a jingle.

Being so busy with work and such having a photo shoot with her got pushed back. Well, last night it finally happened! She was willing to drive up to SLC from Utah County (which is kind of a far drive) and take my first set of photos for my website! Some of my girlfriends came to wear my 'hair raising pretties' and be lovely models. To them all- I appreciate it so much!

Alix won't have my photos to me for a couple weeks, but I just wanted to share some of the pictures she has taken in the past. They are incredible! You can also follow her blog here. There is also a link to you're right that will take you straight to her blog! Not only is Alix super talented, she has very reasonable pricing.

Enjoy! :)

P.S.- All her photos on her website as well as blog are copyrighted (which they should be) and so I can't post any of them on here.... You will just have to click on the links to see for yourself!

Score! I FINALLY found vintage netting!!!

For the past almost year I have searched far and wide to get my hands on some vintage netting. So lucky was I, to find some on eBay after searching the internet for almost 3 hours! Since then it has been almost impossible to find any in a color other than snowy white. Well, yet again, eBay- You are my HERO! There is a lady that has oodles of it in almost every color. If I knew her name I would sing her praises. For now I will just call her the 'Net Lady'. Net Lady- you are wonderful!

For those of you who don't know what 'vintage netting' is- Here is a picture!

Have a happy hip hop hoppity day!

Kierst

Yellowfield 7.... DELIGHTFUL!

The 20's have always inspired me. Not only do the 20's inspire me, so do the 30's, 40's, and all those years in between up until the 60's. If I could take a time machine back, or have a genie come to me with 3 wishes- one of them would be to live back during that time period. Just the style and the way things were back then is breathtaking. No annoying cell phones, text messages, and a million other technological things pulling us in all directions. Life was simple. People looked forward to hand written letters coming in the mail, and something as simple as a stroll through the neighborhood.

My great grandparents met at the end of the 30's. My grandmother had come to visit some friends in Idaho (she was from Utah). She was walking down the street after church and one of her heels broke. My great grandpa happened to be driving by right when this happened and pulled over to help her. He had heard there was a beautiful girl in town visiting, but had no idea this was her. They got to talking and he started to call her Utah girl. It was love at first site. He fixed her shoe for her, and then asked her to dinner. The rest is history. They eloped in the summer of 1941. My great grandma (Esther) was only 18, and so they didn't want to tell their parents. After eloping, they both went their separate ways- he back to Idaho and she back to Utah. They communicated through letters for 2 months before they finally let their families know they were married! My great grandmother told me before she passed that her Mother had known the entire time, just from the way she had been acting. I guess even then it was hard to keep things from you're parents.

When my Bestemor passed (Bestemor means great grandmother in Norwegian) I was able to get some of her jewelry as well as some fabrics she had collected over the years. These will always be special treasures to me. One thing I wish she would have kept was the old hats she used to wear.

A few months back I came across a website of a woman who makes 20's inspired hats! I was so excited because they reminded me of my great grandmother and something she would have worn. The name of her line is Yellowfield 7. Her elegant hats can be found here. They are quite expensive, but totally worth it! She has said on her site that each hat takes her between 15-20 hours to create. In turn it will fit you're pretty little head perfectly like a glove.

Hope you enjoy them as much as I did!

Kiersten