Wedding Pictures

This summer I was asked to take some pictures of a friends wedding.  I was excited to be asked, but nervous! What if I didn't get any good pictures......well I took over 500, so I was bound to get a few quality shots! My friend got married in a beautiful location up in the Colorado mountains.  I'm so glad she asked me to take her wedding pics.   I loved it, I think I found a new hobby!

Army Tank Birthday Cake

For my son's 3rd Birthday I asked him what kind of party he wanted this year.  He quickly responded....Army Party! Here is the cake I came up with!

Diaper Wreath

Well, here is a gift that I made for my friend that had a baby girl back in March.  I have since made another one, but not as fancy, I only used diapers.  It was still very cute and you can give the extra diapers in a cute bag!

Cakeballs....what? Fantastic!

Yesterday some friends and I got together and made over 500 cakeballs for a thank you gift to the dispatchers in our area.  (Dispatchers Appreciation Week) and here are some pictures of our fabulous day!

 

photos courtesy of Candace Allen

Flower Hat

Itty Bitty and her cousin at his 1st Birthday! Adorable!

Itty Bitty looking gorgeous!

Isn't this just the cutest hat ever!  I thought for sure Itty Bitty would rip it off of her head, but nope she left it on all day!  It wasn't even her birthday, and she was getting lots of attention.  I am definitly going to try making this had on my own, how hard can it be?  Well, I will let you know.

Dollar Store Book Finds

I was cruising the Dollar Store, one of my favorite pastimes and came across these books.  I HAD to buy them because I think they frown on me standing there for 20 minutes checking them out!  Anyway, they seem to be pretty darn good stuff in them! 

Chalkboard Decor

I have been seeing some really cute ideas for using chalkboard paint  out across the blog land!  I seem to get lost looking at all the creative ideas out there.  I saw a couple of blogs with some crafty ideas, but can't remember all of the blogs, but I got some inspiration from Little Brown House on my chalkboard project.  She painted hers and added some vintage flair to her plates with some dollar store decals.  I finished mine and thought that I should have painted them first, but they still ended up pretty darn cute.
 

Dollar Store metal plates before I painted them with Krylon Chalkboard Paint.  Sorry about the dust! I didn't even see it on the plates before I took the pictures.



Here is how the plates turned out! Cute don't you think, I know that the top plate looks a little off, but it is easily fixed.  I attached the plates with velcro to the wall, so all I need to do is move the top plate down a bit. Easy Peasy! (that is what my 4th graders would say ha.)