fun wedding gifts

I guess I'm at that age that all my girls are getting married.

I spend my Saturdays at wedding showers or weddings.

It's such an awesome time in their lives and I'm very pleased that I get to share in their special day.

I got the idea of giving a "pizza dinner in" to my friend Meredith and it

was a huge hit.  Everyone was talking about it and she told me how excited

her finance was about it and they had used it several times

even before the wedding.  So I decided to use my idea again

for Amanda....

Pile of gifts (notice the SUPER cute Popcorn night

gift basket with popcorn flavor, bowls, etc).

This is the wrapped pizza pan, with one of my memo boards, pizza sauce,

and a recipe for pizza crust.

This is Amanda saying "this is like the memo board on your blog!"



She also received this super cute antique box filled with custom

scrapbooked pages to set on each place setting at her wedding

so that guests can write her personal notes!

ADORABLE!!

And the super funny card I found her...

Me and "Amanda Panda"

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Antiqued Wooden Crosses

Awhile back I got crosses at Canton First Monday Trade Days and here's my post

about my first cross I made, I plan to hang it in my bedroom or bathroom when my

house is finished being built.

I got a few more crosses at Canton and used Antiquing glaze (the same

glaze I used here on my chair).

The metal crosses I got were white so I added some distressing,

on the white & brown cross I used wood stain on the higher areas

while on the black & red cross I used the antiquing glaze.

To apply the antiquing glaze on the white wooden cross below I used a

wet old t-shirt scrap (play with how much glaze you want, if you

put on too much, you can wipe it off, just work quickly).

Pretty excited about them!!!

The black & red cross is for my kitchen and the white and brown is for

my parents bedroom!

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grill'n apples

For Memorial Day we grilled out followed by homemade ice cream.

Nice and fun family time!

I've seen Food Network people grill pineapple and peaches, so I was like why not .... APPLES?

So here goes my own recipe of apples on the grill....

Cut apples (I used two that I happened to have in the fridge, probably weren't "baking apples"

oh well!!)

 

Put a couple slivers of butter, spoonful of sugar, and a little Cinnamon.

Wrap in aluminum foil.

(got everything else ready for the grill)

(Put apples right on the heat in the foil)

Ready to eat!

Dad's AMAZING mango salsa

Apples were DELISH!!!!

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Memorial Day SALES!

Okay so Memorial Day Weekend was full of SALES...

I thought I would show off mine, like that crazy show Extreme Couponing does

(although I do think they are crazy and have hording issues!).

First up, I went to a model home sale and bought this coffee table for $30, yes $30,

heck yes & so I went home and looked up the model number and

its $850 online, I'd say $30 new is a great deal.

 Up next is lighting fixtures at Lowe's, they were on sale and the

top one was half off because the box was "opened" so I got it for $25 and it was originally

$142, I got the bottom one for $15 because it was the last one.

Good Deal? VERY MUCH SO!

 Okay next up... Probably the best deal... It was tax free for washers, and refrigerators.

I need a washer, dryer, and refrigerator for my new house so GREAT TIMING.

Lowe's price matched Home Depot's price for Samsung's Washer and Dryer and

Lowe's had the best price for the Fridge :) super exciting!! here's the proof

with my purchase of the lights, appliances, and a can of "OOPS" red paint...

YES I SAVED $1,067.35 cool!

and while i was out shopping these are things I want!!

Tile for my entry way...

This ceiling fan for my living room... 

AND I bought a bed at a garage sale a few weeks ago for $20

here's a picture

and I saw this beauty... this is my inspirations! (I already have a close match to

this paint color).

 Can't wait!!!

running tonight thinking about WHY I cant wait until I have my house

So I went on my run tonight and thought about a

few reasons of WHY I'm so excited to own my first home :)

To mount my TV for Cowboy's, MAVS, & Ranger games :)

To display the furniture I've purchased!

(this is my first piece I bought and I bought it from a patient who

refinished it, this was the piece that made me want

to start refinishing things).

Because ALL of my new stuff is shoved in boxes in the extra room

and my parents deserve their room back!!

(blushing for showing this mess!)

Because my BRAND NEW RED KITCHEN AID hasn't

been out of the box yet! And will look GREAT on my granite

counter tops :)

Because my heels deserve better than reusable shopping bags.

Because I have some REALLY cool

western things for my living room that I can't wait to show off !!

And lastly, because I NEED a bigger closet :(

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Pillowcases for Kenyan Orphans

My dear friend Tasha, you may remember her awesomeness from here. Asked me if

I'd like to help her make pillowcases for Orphans in Kenya! And of COURSE I said

yes, but realize when I volunteered I didn't realize it was 41 pillowcases!!

She and her husband are very active in the college bible study at our church so she

recruited some of them, and she was VERY pleased to have 18 people

show up to help us, with sewing machine malfunction and that many people

turned into a very fun social night! haha!

But they are all completed now, thanks to the awesome college group

 and I know the kiddos at the Orphanage will be

 excited to receive them!

Here's the tutorial!....

start with 3 fabrics

Fabric A: 3/4 yard 42 inches wide

Fabric B: 1/4 yard 42 inches wide

Fabric C: 1/8 yard 42 inches wide

Wash and Iron all fabrics. 

 Lay out fabric A right side up.

Iron Fabric B and C wrong sides together {hot dog style}.

Lay fabric B along the top of Fabric A.

Lay fabric C along the top of Fabric B.

*All seams are sewed 5/8 inch*

Sew the three together along the top of the fabric (this is the top boarder).

Now iron up OR down fabric B.

Sew the remaining side and bottom.

Flip back RIGHT side out, and your done.

YES its THAT simple!!

My fabric..

The fabric table.

She was explaining to the group!

As you can see the layers ironed and ready to pin.

One finished one! SUPER CUTE!!

College group working hard!!

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