Grad Party Decorations

Well, it's finally over. Katie's graduation and the party. I couldn't be happier. Now I can return to all of the other things I need to do.

I was mostly in charge of decorations for the party. This is what I came up with...

Flowers using my i-Top to make the centers. I used my i-rock to put "KT" on this one. KTO wouldn't fit.

Ray-Pec colors are black and gold..so that's the theme here. I glued all the flowers into glass flower pots and we filled them with black white and gold M&Ms. Yum.

The panther logo.

We also payed tribute to the college Katie is going to in the fall...UCM.

She's going to be a Marching Mule, so we'll have to go to a few college football games to see her.

I didn't make the cake..but it was tasty.

The glitter paper was really hard to use for the brads. But it looked so good...many of them are glued together...anything to make it work.


What's that? You always wanted your face on a brad in the center of a flower?

That's what I thought.

The party was a success, I think everyone had a lot of fun. I have tons of pictures, but I will spare you the details.

We will now return to our regularly scheduled programming. I have a birthday card in the wings, one I'm getting ready to make, and a baby shower card in the works.
This Sunday is Oliver's big test...yeah, the Canine Good Citizen test. We've been working very hard to make sure we pass...but I'm not sure. At any rate he will graduate from Advanced Training on Sunday whether or not we pass the CGC test. We can take it as many times as we need to pass...I think he'll be very close, but it's all or nothing..no 90% or anything!
I think I also promised yard photos...man I've got a lot to do.

Jessica

Wedding Anniversary #2

I've got a pretty picture heavy post today. I've been busy working on things for our second wedding anniversary, which was yesterday October 18th.

We decided that we would participate in giving the traditional wedding anniversary gifts, because it would be more challenging. The first anniversary gift is paper, which you think would be easy, but I've got a cheater on my hands. He gave me a Kindle (which I love)...electronic paper..funny right? So this year we had a long chat about not cheating. The second anniversary gift is cotton. I did get some things made of cotton, but I also got a iPod dock that lights up and charges my iPod (also love it!) however..it is in no way made of cotton. Big. Fat. Cheater.

I had some help with my idea this year (thanks mom!) So here's what I did.

I made this card, it's a secret message card..but more on that in a few.

I used the broken glass technique on the front panel. And lot and lots of sponged edges.

When you open it you can see the first message.

Then here's the secret part.

Then some magic happens...(I had to take this picture out since you could read what I wrote..and this being a secret message card and all it was really only meant for my husband...watch Dawn's video to see how it works. It's totally awesome and I plan to make several more of these)

You can open it the other way to show a different message. It's really pretty cool. The idea and how to came from Dawn's Stamping Studio of course.

But this is what took the longest. It goes in a shadow box, it's like a scrapbook page, but instead of paper, I used cotton fabric! My mom ordered some cotton seeds for me.

I went and picked out a bunch of fabric that I thought went together, and when I got home I saw that this one had a cute boy and girl holding hands! I just had to use that part.

I printed a picture of cotton and put the seeds on a little wax paper pouch.

I'd never seen cotton seeds, they're really fuzzy. I have some extra in case anyone is interested in growing their own cotton.

It's been a really busy weekend. But now I have a whole year to think about what to do for our third anniversary...which is leather.

It's my Friday today since I have to work this weekend. I have some more exciting pictures to bring you..it's Halloween time and that means dressing our poor animals up in costumes..more on that later this week.

Jessica

Delayed Projects-The Story of My Life

So I feel really bad I haven't been able to scrap very much lately. We got all of our stuff moved (thanks Russell!!) and it's a total mess around here.
We've decided to have an open house in June, I was thinking that would give us plenty of time to get everything organized..now I'm not so sure. But anyway, I had intended for these invites to go out last week..but they're going out now..which is better than never.

I think the final total was 32 of these..which is A LOT! The stamp is from The Greeting Farm, and it sort of looks like our house.
The edge punch is Martha Stewart. The blue edge we cut by scissors..Jon helped with that part. Some of them have bows, and some don't. It's not because I wanted them to be different, it's because I ran out of ribbon..so sad.

It doesn't look that complicated but it took forever to color all the houses.

Once everything was done gluing them together was a piece of cake.

Also, I have a before and after for today...
I finally got the upstairs bathroom painted, which is so nice because now we can actually use it.

It was a not very nice brown..

And now it's a very dark blue.

With bright green accents..as if you couldn't guess.
It was the color scheme we had at the apartment, just without the wall paint. I really like it. It is really dark, it was suggested that we'll be needing flashlights..it might be the truth.

We're well on our way to unpacking this place. The cabinets are still in limbo..I'm told they'll be up when I get home from work today..not sure if I believe it..but if they are that will be the next round of photos...the white cabinets look so great I can't wait. And I need my kitchen back so I can do some cooking!

Jessica

Flower Flower Pot

Today, I bring you the art of someone else.
My husband made this flower pot. It's his first mosaic project...but probably not the last.
I have a flower pot in the works, which I might finish before I die. We started these last year for spring/summer flowers to grow on our deck...since we killed our hanging basket.


Here are a few shots of the pot. I'm not sure what we should plant in it. Something that you can't kill is important.
It's another week before we can seal the pot and plant stuff in it...plus I want to make sure this wonderful warmer weather is here to stay.

Jessica