Filed under: general goods
sooooooo sad!
it’s time to retire plastic cupcake.
it’s been amazing, but since dan and i got married in february, i want a space that reflects us both.
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love to you all!
i was presented with the task recently, of helping with games at a wedding shower for my fabulous friends, camila and steven. i am not a game person, so this was a total challenge for me. ha! i tend to be cynical, especially, when it comes to wedding or baby shower games, because they are usually just a big bunch of cheese. CHEESE!
i wanted to do something special and unique…and something guys and girls could both participate in and have fun with. after much research on the interwebs, i decided to make up my own game. i remembered playing this type of ‘human bingo’ game before, where we were given a list of qualities or traits, like, ‘blue eyes’ or, ‘born oustide of Texas.’ we had to find people within the room who matched these descriptions, and have them sign our bingo card.
this was so easy to make, in photoshop and it only took me about an hour. i had a lot of fun thinking up the clues, and although i was unable to make the shower, i heard it was a great hit! and the couple got to keep some of the bingo cards for a keepsake. i should mention, that they are having a destination wedding in florida, this july.
here is the card, ta da!
(photo compliments of jana gross)
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we had a little get together with our neighbors last night…that ended up be the un-get together. so sad! we had been planning it a little over a week, and even confirmed and reconfirmed…when 7, 7:15 and 7:30 rolled around, we got a little worried. about 7:50 we started eating, and at 8:45 the doorbell rang.
one of our neighbors ended up bringing a gorgeous cheesecake and 1/2 a loaf of banana bread that he had made. they were both SO tasty! we never got a straight answer for the nonattendance, but we were really touched by these amazing treats!
i think we kind of realized that, you know, our circle of friends that we regularly have over, are people we work with or go to church with…aka people we see every single day. although we (i) have been building relationships with these guys for almost a year…we definitely don’t interact every day and will go weeks without seeing each other. i think it sort of dawned on us that, especially in our neighborhood…people are really skeptical, and it might have been a big deal to actually show up and show trust in being invited into someone’s home. the truth is, they DON’T know us. kind of sobering.
we hope to have them all over to the new place, as we are running short on time. totally a crazar evening, and hoping that they will welcome our continued outreach.
i made some last minute centerpieces for the table last night and couldn’t go without showing them to you. :)
ta-da!
i picked up the flowers yesterday at whole foods for $4, and already had the dried beans (about 60 cents in bulk at whole foods). i just used two drinking glasses from my cabinet, and voila….a cheap, but fun, centerpiece!
i paired them with some yellow bird tea light holders (love!). we were totally set.
dan and i enjoyed a delish dinner for two and it was nice to catch up. :)
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so dan and i busted out the tape, brushes and paint cans this weekend and got after it! we got our bedroom completely painted, the kitchen, and part of the living room. my man is awesome…he had never painted before and just jumped right in there. he was really good at the details, so i was very thankful for that!
i wish i would have taken pictures, boo! i was so tired by the end of it, that i just forgot. but i do have one to share! i picked out a really pretty turquoise blue, called ‘lagoon’ that i wanted to do a few accent walls and the backsplash with, in the kitchen. here is my inspiration picture:
i am thinking about painting our laminate counter-tops a flat silver (or grey, whatever you want to call it, ha!), because thanks to dan’s parents having this recently done, i found out this was actually possible to do! but we have also talked about replacing the counter tops soon too, so i might wait, but i love how it looks in the picture. anywahooo…this is a picture of the beginnings of my attempt to mimic this awesome design.
i gotta say, in person…that blue really helps the cabinets stand out! they look much more rich with a little color.
that’s all i have for now. i will post more pics as i remember to take them!
Filed under: fill in the blank friday
(thanks tara!)
1. if i could get away somewhere for the weekend i would go to MARFA! i have never been and i mean my fam owns land there and it’s just rad looking from all the pictures. and i would bring lots of snacks bc i heard the restaurants and lack of grocery shopping can be tricky.
2. something i often rant about is gosh, i don’t know? maybe you should ask my hubs this question. he’s pretty cool.
3. one item i need to have in my fridge at all time is–i don’t know if these are “NEEDS”, but i always have kale, cream cheese, and milk. always. #random
4. my “life-saving” product is olive oil. i use it for everything. cooking, my nails, hair conditioner…
5. a friend is someone whose wounds you can trust. an enemy will only multiply kisses.
6. if i could write my own blank it would be, “if i had a million dollars the first thing i’d do is ____” ha! i just want to see what everyone would put.
7. my favorite kind of art is kid art, hands down! my fridge is full of things my little buddies have colored and drawn for me. it’s so expressive and wonderfully outside the lines.
Filed under: thirty in 30
ok this blog post is just going to be FULL of confessions. here we go.
sometimes when i get sick, i make weird purchases. probably the craziest one, was i bought some horrible green rain boots from target one night when i was up late, suffering through food poisoning from eating ceviche. but sometimes i do other weird things, too. like back in march. i decided in my feverish haze, that it was a GOOD idea to pay a lot of money for two tickets to see celtic woman.
i really don’t know why i did this. i really can’t explain it to you at ALL. it took almost 24 hours for the confirmation to arrive in my inbox, and when it did, i was immediatley filled with regret and horror….they were NON-REFUNDABLE. haha.
i waited a good three days before i confessed this to the man. HA! i felt so terrible..we had been budgeting very tightly post wedding/europe. he, rightfully and gently so, talked with me about how this wasn’t a good decision and that we needed to sell the tickets, so i immediatley put them up on craig’s list to see what kind of offer i could get.
about thirty minutes later…i get a g-chat, and dan asks me if i’ve sold them…i hadn’t. he decided we were going. HA! he just said we would have to sacrifice somewhere else (which we did), but that he really wanted to go to the show. it made sense…we both love celtic music and he is really into it. ha! so we decided to see the show.
i have to say, that it was very americanized, and upstaged. (warning this next sentence will sound snobby.) for someone who has seen and experienced and participated in singing old irish folk songs IN ireland…it just wasn’t as magical. it was kind of like if the tv show glee, was in ireland, i think. but musically, it was pretty fantastic. they had a HARP!!!! awesome! and 2 bagpipe players…one who played amazing grace as a solo. totally beautiful.
so that’s my story. that’s how we fulfilled our ‘going to a concert’ in my 30th year.
thanks for reading!
hello, hello and hello.
well we bought the paint for our house this weekend. yay! i’d like to thank home depot, martha stewart and memorial day sales.
the three colors that will mostly be covering the house are: (from left to right: popcorn, spring melt, and anvil).
we also, bought a few accent colors. (left to right: lagoon, mossy rock, azurite)
the lagoon will be painted as a back splash in the kitchen and one accent wall. (i think.) the green will go in the downstairs guest bathroom…it’s must greener and amazing in person…it looks kind of goldish on my monitor. lastly, the azurite will be an accent colour (probably in the form of some sort of stripe) in dan’s office.
i’ll let you know how it turns out! :)
