Fridays Fancies #57: Pretty in Pastels

It is fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinally starting to feel like Spring around here! 

With Easter right around the corner I've rounded up some pretty pastel dresses for you all! I know it won't be warm enough to wear these around the Midwest for a few months still, but a girl can dream, right?

Row 1:  Textured Cream // Striped Tangerine // Blush Lace

Row 2:  Draped Pink // Pretty Periwinkle // Bright Floral

Row 3: Aqua Dots // Sailboat Scoop // Minty Zigzag

Which of these pretty pastels could you see yourself in?

The textured cream and bright floral might need to accompany me to a few weddings this summer...

xo, lp

** did you enter the GORGEOUS giveaway yet? if not, do so here! ***

Need more pastels in your life? Check a few more of my favorites:

GORGEOUS GIVEAWAY! (The First Snow)

 Happy Thursday, friends!

I rarely, rarely do giveaways.  It's not that I don't love sharing opportunities with you all to win fun things- I mean, who doesn't love that? I just want to make sure that anytime I do a giveaway, it's for a product/shop I fully love. Besides- if you all just hung around for the giveaways...well...that'd just hurt my feelings. 

That being said, believe me when I say I am SO excited about this giveaway...and seriously jealous of whoever wins. Allow me first to introduce you to the shop, The First Snow!

Darah is the sweet Colorado shop owner behind The First Snow- a shop full of some of the most beautiful paper goods you could want! While she specializes in custom wedding invites/cards/etc, she also has an array of lovely prints and stationary.

First- for you engaged or soon to be engaged, you MUST check out her customizes save the dates, invites, thank you notes, cake toppers, and stickers. My all time favorite? The personalized "will you be my bridesmaid?" paper dolls. Stop. So. Cute.

Next- a ton of colorful, happy & sweet prints! My favorite is the Lumineers quote- I actually randomly repinned the print on Pinterest, which led me to her shop! (psssst: you have a chance to win one of these!)

Finally, her selection of cards is top notch. I haven't fully hopped on the France/Paris obsessed, macaron eating, "Oui!" necklace wearing train- but these cards have stolen my heart. The gold foil "Merci" is my favorite! (pssssst: yup you have chance to win these too!)

So now that I've rubbed all of this beauty in your face, let me tell you what you have a chance to win!

1 person will win either a set of stationary or a print shown above (up to $50 value!).

Calm yourselves. I know you're all jacked! If you can't wait to see if you win, just head on over to The First Snow and treat yo'self to something pretty right now- tell Darah I say hi!

ENTER USING RAFFLECOPTER BELOW:

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Good luck!

Giveaway will close 4/3/13

xo, lp

 Oh- and so we're clear, this giveaway is all just for you. I'm not getting paid for this or anything fun like that. 

**all images in this post are items and images from The First Snow. If you pin, please give the shop proper credit!**

#PantonePairings

Have any of you all ever been groupies of something?

Anything?

A show? A band? A celebrity?

I rarely get overly giddy about such things (except Adam Levine. mm-mm tattoos have never looked so good), but watch out kids, here I go, babbling about something like a little kid. 

So a while back I started following one talented dude on Instagram. Crazy creative pictures, quirky sense of humor, and sweet Pantone play with food. Sold. A week later, Instagram featured him. Boom. Double sold. 

A week after that, I find out my sister KNOWS him. Evidently the Minneapolis art community is smaller than I thought, because my talented photographer sister is friends this guy! Yes, I WARNED YOU I was going to get all 6th grade giddy, so don't act annoyed right now. So, I did the thing any mature adult would do - I told her I was a groupie and asked her to ask him for permission to use his images on the blog. Spoiler alert: he said yes!

Allow me to introduce you to a small portion of the cool art of David Schwen (or @dschwen, for you instagram fools). This is just a small window into his talented world, but I love these! He takes food pairings & turns them into Pantone gold. What's even cooler is he's offering signed, limited edition prints in his shop.

Check a few of them out:

Which of these pairings is your favorite?

I love the cocoa & marshmallows and the wasabi & soy!

(but let's be real, i'd take them all)

xo, lp

***If you plan on pinning this image, please give credit to David Schwen or DSchwen! As much as I'd love to take credit for this idea, I just can't. Sad day. ***

Don't believe me? Maybe you'll listen to Huffington Post , FoodBeast , Design Lovefest, or the 34,000 people who follow him on Instagram.

Pantone Pairings Shop //  Dschwen LLC website // DSchwen on Facebook // @dschwen on Instagram