Getting organized

I am finding that getting the motivation to organize my craft area and spare bedroom is harder than i thought it would be. I want to have a great place to be crafty and a cute little spare room so guests can visit but I am just too tired to get any work done in those areas. I am still trying to organize our clothing situation (to many clothes, not enough closet space). I am also trying to effectively decorate our house to make it a home. I'm going to need some help in that area.

Super hot this week 90's all week, yuck. My husband will be happy to not hear me complain about having the air on for once.
Off to work I hope it will be an easy night so I can be motivated to get our house together tonight.

-Katie

Just Married!

Shawn and I have recently returned from our gorgeous wonderful honeymoon in the Dominican Republic. We loved it! and would definitely return someday. We had a beautiful wedding on June 18, 2011. After a year and a half of planning it all came together for our big day. I couldn't imagine our wedding any other way. I will always remember it as a perfect day. We feel truly blessed to have had such a wonder day with all our friends and family there to celebrate with us. I am anxiously awaiting our pictures and trying to be as patient as possible (a trait God has been teaching me an awful lot lately). I will post more pictures and stories later but here are a few pics.

Our Wedding Ceremony

Our Honeymooners dinner and a pic of the scenery. It was so beautiful there! More pics to come...

In Need of a Post

So I am in need of a good vent. And because I'm pretty sure no one visits this blog, here I go...

I am trying to loose some weight before my wedding which is two and 1/2 weeks left. No, I do not have a lot to loose but I do have some. All it would take is getting moving more and eating less and a bit better. I'm kind of doing both...but then we order pizza. Pizza is my weekness I cannot seem to resist it. So today I did better than normal and only had one and half pieces but i still feel like I failed. I don't know how to eat, food options for dinner or lunch. Everytime I think something is right it is gross or someone else says its bad. AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously who is right who is wrong! I just want to eat right.
Okay, I want to dance again but where. I am an advance dancer and now that I graduated there is no where to go. I just feel like I'm mushy and fat. GRRR and seriously the gym, ya not fun.

Okay i'm done cause otherwise I will be repeating myself over and over again. SOOOOO Frustrated!

Sorry for anyone who did read this, its a pretty sucky post.

"Our Wedding Day" Frame

A successful morning of garage sale shopping resulted in many new crafts. As I am increadably bad at remembering to take a picture of the materials and original items before I start making my new crafts (I'm just too excited for the end result!) I have a kind of pre-work picture.

I started with a green frame that held the lovely picture on the left. I was debating whether or not to buy yet another frame (I have way too many as it is) and apparently I was standing and stareing at the frame way too long because the lady selling it said I could have it half off if I really wanted it. So I got my new frame for only one dollar! I was pretty excited because it is in such good shape and it is a big frame, which is hard to come by in my price range.

So I started by removing the insides and the glass and setting them aside. I then started to paint the green frame black. Two coats of paint and it was done.

Next (not pictured) I used mod podge to stick the scrap book paper to the old matte that came with the frame. To do this I lined up the paper glued it down, then flipped over the matte and used an razor blade to cut off the excess paper. I was sure to line up each section of paper so the words somewhat matched. Then I cut an oval piece of tan paper that I printed  "Our Wedding Day, June 18th, 2011" on. It was then placed at the top to cover a not so great paper seam.

Next I made two paper flowers by cutting a spiral out of a square piece of paper and then winding it up.

Finally I put the frame back together and glued the flowers to the front of the glass.

 Now I have a beautiful frame for a wedding picture! And the best part is that it only cost me about $3 for the supplies! Now I can't wait for our wedding so I can add a picture to the frame!

Dance Accessories

Last month my dance students performed in their year end recital. To a little extra to their costumes I made a few accessories.

For my 5 and 6 year olds I made shoe bows to be pinned to their shoe elastic. Their song was On The Good Ship Lollipop and they had a red, white, and blue costume. To make these bows I used three piece of ribbon, made a loop out of each piece then overlapped the three ribbons and glued them down in the center. Then I added three rhinestones to each for a little sparkle!

My 3 and 4 year olds danced to Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo. They had pink and mauve costumes, so I made little bows to be pinned to their shoes. These were made with two pieces of ribbon one smaller than the other. then I looped each piece and glued the shorter one on top and added a rhinestone for sparkle.

For my 9 and 10 year olds they danced to Red Robin. Their costume was sequined dress with a feather skirt. The feather head piece came with the costume so I added the mini veil to the feathers so their would be sparkle at in their hair. They are a bit old for shoe bows so I skipped those.

As you can see sparkle is very important when it come to a dance recital :)

All my classes did very well and everyone had a great time. It was a very successful recital!

Favorite dance

I love this dance, I know it is from a while back but it is just soooo good I had to post it. And i think there was no other dance that could be a better first dance post! Enjoy...

Blog Remodel

I am working on fixing up my blog so it is partially under construction. I am trying to figure out how to place blog buttons on my link Love page. Any suggestions?

Check back soon I have more projects that need to be posted!