Holiday Shopping

Holiday Shopping Season

                     is in full motion! 

I hope that you make that choice of staying home with your families this Thanksgiving. I mean, I get the discounts and saving- trust me I do! Although, when you say it out loud, " I left my family to go shopping". Come on! most families are together like this not all that often- suck it up stay together. At least until everyone is sleeping, than go do what you gotta do. 

okay end vent sesh on black Friday.

With shopping season in full motion I wanted to be sure that you all knew about my own shop (that I bust my ass off on). Everything to do with my shop is done by me and only me. Of course during prime shopping time I will be gone but I am not sad really. I will be in Thailand, I can not complain!

Tom & Orrow TRENDS now has a Brushes & Bolts shop section. It includes some on the DIYs I do on my blog. Don't miss out on one of a kind, handmade home decor & more!

Paint & Pour has been a huge hit with the Windsor Communities. we are having a blast with this event. You can see what we make by following me or any of the Windsor Communities properties on social media. I have loved seeing the different locations and their great spaces for living!

Here is a peak:

Now see how we did the Angled For You painting!

You can purchase this piece of art by clicking right HERE

No, directions with this one. Let us be honest. You are either crafty & have it together or just drink some wine and you'll do great! 

Ta Da! Here is the end result! Cool right? 

Oh ya, If you are planning on shopping with us this holiday season be sure to read the following: 

Here is the run down for SHIPPING over the holidays:
- November 24th @ 2pm will be the last chance to complete your purchase and have it shipped
  before December.
-Nov. 25-Dec 6 there will be no activity or shipping with TOM & Orrow
-ALL purchases made between 11/24 2:01pm - 12/6 will be sent out Dec. 7th
-this applies to all emails as well. If possible, I will answer emails when I can but if you receive no reply, your email will be answered on Dec 7th 

Don't forget to show your love Saturday, Nov. 28th for Small Business Saturday! 

back off ladies- this fella is my annoyingly attractive husband.

Okay then, that is all for today! 

Have a great Monday people!

America Recycle Day 

Yesterday

Nov 15, 2015

Get your recycle on

To show my love for the love of earth I did some 

DIY recycle projects of my own.

I already love to DIY, reuse, re-purposing and recycle but when Cotopaxi shared their mission with me, my love and passion became even greater. 

You can see their re-purposed packs right here as well. 

I have added their KPONG SATCHEL 

to my Pinterest Wishlist!

Wait until you see how they are made! 

Watch the video 

I decided to reuse some flannel from pj pants, re-purpose vinyl & recycle some leather. With those materials I created this bag

I didn't stop there either. I had some left over felt that I had kept about a year ago. I knew I would have a purpose for it down the road somewhere!

I used the felt to create an elephant head cutout.

I see it onto the center of an old sweater.
BAM! New cut out sweater just in time for peak sweater weather!

How do you take part in 

America Recycle Day?? 

Do you reuse, recycle & re-purpose? 

If you do, show us! We would love to see!

If you want to take a better late than never part in recycling, reusing & re-purposing here are some ideas from Cotopaxi.

Hope everyone had a beautiful 

American Recycle Day.

Today, I submitted a cute little photo to the TODAY Show @Seasonofkindness Instagram

 #SHAREKINDNESS

I sure hope they show it! I shared it to spread some laughs while telling them my mom is the kindness person I know. 

Follow @TOMANDORROWTRENDS on Instagram to see the cute (embarrassing) photo

ah, screw it, here it is:

Love you...

Check out what is blogging over at 

TOM & Orrow TRENDS today

Subscribe today to get a $30 off code! 

HAPPY MONDAY.

Playing Dress up

Oh, Halloween. The time to eat heaps of sugar, scare the shit out of people and play dress up.

This year Ryan knew I would love to get out and do something. Just a few days before Halloween he asked if I wanted to go to Halloween on the Harbor with some of his co workers- well DUH, of course I wanted to go! I assumed he would get stuck at work late that Friday (the night of the HOTH) and than say have to work on Saturday- BUT NOPE, it all worked out! We got to go out-whop, whop!

Luckily it was too too crazy the night out for the night before Halloween. We had a good time, didn't get too crazy which was great considering 3 glasses of wine normally knocks me on my ass and ruins the weekend. But we are learning, we can not handle drinking and mixing and all the stuff we some how survived in college. Blows my mind thinking about how we did that and could wake up earlier than ever and do it all over again. Not anymore that is for sure! I am not even that old!

This year we choose to use what we had for the most part to try and save money since our rental situation is taking us for a ride :) I will have lots to say on this once it is over with.

Back to our costumes.
Here is a look at what we were.

Can you guess who we were?

Here is a comparison.

Amy Adams and Christian Bale from American Hustle
hey, we did our best for what we had.

Ryan did get me the wig and I found the coat at Goodwill for $15 bucks!

The wig...oh my! That thing had a mind of its own. I looked up how to style a synthetic wig and Ryan had a good laugh thinking I was crazy.

So for those of you who want to try and style your synthetic wig- YOU CAN TOTALLY DO IT!
Not heat though- lie seriously, do NOT use heat. Common sense people.

Okay, so first wet it with your hand. Don't just stick your wig in the water but have the water running (if you don't live in Cali) and wet your hand repeatedly and just run your hand over the hair of the wig.

I separated the hair into sections and while wet I brushed the sections. Once I brushed the section, I clipped them off to the side until I did the entire wig.

Now, wet you hand again, grab a section and twist the hair like you would your own. Using a bobby pin, pin the twist to the mesh part of the wig so the curl sets. Do this for all sections, A good way to section your wig off is to follow the seams of the hair in the mesh.

Once you have pinned and twisted all the sections, add a bit of hairspray. Being synthetic, your wig is already super flammable, now adding hairspray, well you are creating a walking ball of fire if you get too close so be fricking careful with that shit!

Find somewhere to hand this ( I used my towel rack). Leave this pinned up until right before you put it on. Use the bobby pins to secure it to your head as needed. You can pin it back like I did or however you want it styled. Once you have it how you want it, add another layer of hairspray to hold your finishing touches.

Bam! There ya go! Hope ti works out for you. I had a lot of compliments on how "real" it looked for a synthetic wig.


November trends and fall fashion is in full motion. Be sure to take a look at the new fall trends with TOM & Orrow TRENDS. We are now offering our TREND ME BOX. The first box to be sent is DEC 15th and it will have a FAUX FUR VEST in it!!! Ah! So exciting, it is the trendiest accessory at the moment!

Alright, enough for now. Have a damn good Monday.