New Blog

Surprise its me! I haven't posted anything in so long its pretty sad. I do have projects to post but haven't dedicated the time required to complete the task. That and I'm starting up a new blog! Yep, turns out although I love my blog name I don't think it works well with the things I'm posting. Having said that I will try my best to work on the new blog {transfer info, add new post etc.,) and come back and share the new blog information here.


Until then I hope to not lose the two readers I may have. LOL seriously -- thanks to those who take the time to check out this humble beginners blog.


Until the next post
Lucy

What's With The Blog Name?

This my friends is the question of the day.  "Wanna hear it? Well here it go" -- my name is Luz Elena yeah a simple name that tends to get massacred.  So, I keep it simple by using Luz and even still that isn't good enough.

"How do you pronounce that?" you ask yourself -- well its quite simple actually -- let's say the word "Lucy" out loud. Now let's say "Lucy" without the "e" sound.  And there you go that is the way you sound out my three letter first name Luz.

Now pronounce Elena which sounds like this "eh-leh-nah-That's pretty simple right? Yep, that's my whole name Luz Elena. Although in the American culture Elena is considered my middle name in the Mexican culture Luz Elena is my name period! No middle name just plain old fashion Luz Elena. And yes, I'm Mexican-American born and raised in the windy city.

Any way I figured I'd use my initials LEA in the blog title. Now, in spanish "luz" means "light" and if you translate "light" in French it is "Lumieré". 

And so the title for this humble blog was created "LEA Lumieré". I'm still trying to figure out what I want to add as an underline sentence to break down what my blog is about. I have no clue as of now. I'd like it to be catchy but not corny. And eventually have a super cute blog like the ones many popular bloggers have-- that's my goal.

And here is a picture of me Luz Elena aka Lucy -- I don't always look like this (hahaha) its a head shot I took with my pooh-pee quality cell phone camera in which my makeup and hair are done and it is the perfect camera angle hahaha.  I normally have my thick, frizzy, curly, wavy, kinky hair down and a bit of makeup to help contour my round face.

Until the next post

Vintage Foot Rest To Cute And Chic

Hello everyone! Hope you are doing great. As for myself I've been super! So much that I have been M.I.A. for a really long time {or so it seems}. At any rate I really need to keep this blog business current and post DIY projects and maybe some picture makeup tutorials.

But enough of that lets get crackin' on the good stuff. I came across this little guy some time ago and I'm not going to lie it was in the trunk of my car for about a month! Yeah I know a month who does that? Oh yeah I do. When I finally decided to give this little guy some love I had the urge to get it done 'pronto' and put it to good use.

Here he is in all his old vintage glory

(Sorry for the poor picture quality these were taken from my bootleg cell phone.)

I removed the lovely box that was covered with that fabulous pineapple fabric and reupholstered it with a beautiful $4 a yard fabric I got at Hancock Fabrics.

Then I grabbed my ever so loved spray paint in a glossy black and went to town.



(Can you tell I got spray paint happy and sprayed a little too much?! whoops)

And here he is all cute and done up

(That's just a little left over fabric I tossed in there.)

And there you go --that's the tale of an old vintage foot rest that became a cute - chic foot rest.  By the way without even planning it out this little guy matches perfectly with my living room curtains. I'll be posting that project tomorrow. Unless I get anxious and decide to post it later today, we'll see.

Until the next post