Lux and Lace

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Have a Safe and Happy Halloween!

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In this months Real Simple Magazine, the wearable trend is polka pots. I love that this print can be in large scale or subtle and simple. I think it's a perfect print for the fall.

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Here is an awesome DIY post from feltandhoney.com

If you are a little bit more advanced of a DIY-er

try this one from vitaminihandmade

Happy Monday!

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such babies.

Thank you for making me laugh.

for making me smile.

Making me dance

Everyday.

Happy Birthday Handsome.

I love you more than anything.

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Just heard this song again after about 10 years.

Just a little song inspired Art.

Happy Thursday!

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I am in love with Elle's Nail polish trends for Fall 2012.

I already tried the navy trend for a bit.

Oxblood will be my go to color this fall!

Deborah Lippmann was gifted to me by my best friend years ago, and I must say that i have fallen in love with her product!

No. 10 is my absolute favorite!

Deborah Lippmann

Before he cheats
Magic Man
Hit Me with your Best Shot
Single Ladies
Bitches Brew
Through the Fire
Private Dancer
Don't tell Mama
Billionaire
Waking up in Vegas

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Nacho Libre.

A M A Z I N G

Edward Scissor Hands

A chicken!

An Easy DIY from Martha Stweart!

Jack Skeleton

Max.

The sweetest Max ever I might add

Holly Golightly

The Golden Girls

This kills me.

the Queen of Hearts

Street Fighter's Chun-Li

And my Favorite...

Labyrinth's The Goblin King

I don't have nay kids yet, but these costumes make me swoon.

I love a good kids costume that is different from all the rest. Don't get me wrong, I love the adorable princesses and cowboys, but these costumes are AWESOME.

Happy Tuesday!

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strikingtruths

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Instagram is by far one of my favorite Iphone apps.

A couple of people asked me recently what apps I use to create my Instagram Photos. I had to ask someone, so I figured why not share the wealth.

Here is the original photo I started with...

Photoshop express

For those of you familiar with photoshop, this app has most of the same overlays and photo enhancement features as the regular photoshop. I only have the free version, however, you can just take a screen shot of the "upgraded" version because it still applies the affect to your photo.

I mostly use this app to make the picture look a little better. For instance, i removed a little bit of the noise in the image below by sharpening it up a bit.

Here are a few other images manipulated by The Photoshop express App.

sunburst overlay

Cinematic filter

Warm vintage Filter

Noise reducer. also known as wrinkle remover.

I did a little too much reducing here.

Brick overlay

Over

This is the app that i probably use the most. I love it!

you simply chose a photo, tap on the text and change it to what ever you want it to look like. You can use different fonts, different sizes, colors and you can darken or lighten the image. I upgraded to get more fonts, but the fonts below are all on the Basic $1.99 app.

Centered

Centered in a different font

Flanked Right

Picture Magic

This app is another free app, and for a free app it has a TON of different things you can do!

Similar to the Photoshop app and regular photoshop software you can use the multiply,overlay,darken,lighten, dodge and burn options.

You can also do other fun features like posterize and Subtense.

Below is my favorite effect. It's called Mosaic splash. It makes it look like you are censoring parts of photos.

Idiots Annonymous.

Pic stitch

Picstitch is great for adding labels, not like over, it actually has tape, colors and other backrounds for the labels. There are also a few fonts to choose from.You can also add frames and adjust the frame ratios yourself by just holding and moving the actual border.

InstaEditor

Instaeditor I use from time to time to add different effectsto my photos similar to the standard ones from instagram. It is almost impossible to tell which ones i used this app with and which ones I did not, so below are a few images that I used all of my instagram apps for!