Today is the day for relaxing

Been out camping this weekend with the husband and the scouts. Lots of fun but next time I camp I'm definitely bringing one of these...
Back pain is no fun. With that said, I'll be relaxing for the rest of the weekend. Back tomorrow with more craft projects. Have a great Sunday!!

Show Us Your Life- Wedding Ceremony and Wedding Party

Kelly over at Kelly's Korner is hosting "Show Us Your Life- Weddings" today and since I loved everything about our wedding including the photos I thought I would share again.

This is my husband. We started dating while we were in college although we were close friends throughout high school. We tied the knot on July 14, 2007 and just celebrated our 2-year anniversary. It's been amazing. He is truly my best friend. I knew as soon as we started dating that I would marry him. And there have hasn't been any doubt about that since then.

I knew immediately who I wanted my bridesmaids to be. Here is a picture of our wedding party. Our colors were pink and green. The guys wore green vests and ties to match the girls. Daniel wore ivory to match me, of course.

These are my girls. I love the all so much and wish I got to see them more. They all live far away so we don't see each other very often. We were all college friends. My maid of honor was Alison. She was my college roommate for two years and also one of my sorority sisters. She's the one picutre in the front on the left. They are great friends and were wonderful bridesmaids.

This is one of my favorite photos. This is my flower girl. She was the daughter of one of Daniel's cousins. She is so sweet.


Here's the groomsmen. Daniel's brother was his best man and is picture on the far right.


Here's another photo of the guys looking very manly. What is it with guys that they can't stand too close to each other? Oh well.

This is another of my favorites. It makes me laugh everytime I look at it.



This is the ring bearer. He's my cousin's son. I was so happy that I got to include him in the ceremony.


This is Daniel and his brother, the best man.


Here's my dad walking me down the aisle. I had to keep telling him it was okay. He was pretty much teary eyed the whole time. He would probably kill me for say that but he'll never know. I'm totally a daddy's girl.

I walked down the aisle to "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" by Bach. The girls walked down the aisle to "Canon in D." We had a pianist play all the music. She was amazing. She's the same pianist who plays in the praise band at church with Daniel's dad.

I had to throw this picture in so I could tell the story. Our wedding went off with out any kind of hiccup. Well to the audience there were no problems. I'm glad I wasn't facing the camera while we lit the unity candle. As I was picking up the taper candle I dripped hot wax all over my hand. You can imagine the face I made. I almost said a word that shouldn't be said in church. When I saw the wedding photos I was so glad that the photographers had to stay at the back of the sanctuary, then I watched the DVD. The camera man was positioned perfectly to catch all the excitement of my little incident. I didn't see the camera anywhere near us and now wish that I had. If I had seen him maybe I wouldn't have made such an unpleasant face. Daniel laughed when he saw it. I don't blame him. It was funny.

We used bubbles for our send off. It was fun.

The ceremony lasted about 30 minutes. We had two ministers. One was from our church and the other was my college chaplain. I loved that she could be there to help with the ceremony.

Well I guess that's about it for the ceremony. Next Friday will be all about the reception.

Productivity

It's a great feeling. I love feeling like I've accomplished something during my day. Today has been very productive for me. I worked on several small craft projects for my craft room and cleaned the house. I even got the laundry done. If you know me, you know that's a big accomplishment for me.

This morning I reorganized the utensils in our kitchen. A task that has been needed for some time. After that I made these cute pencil holders to hang on my peg board.

This project is so easy. (Those are my favorite kind of projects.) I made spaghetti for dinner last night and saved the cans I used. I cleaned out the cans and peeled off the labels. These are the supplies needed.
I used a paper trimmer to cut the paper so the edges would be straight. I used scrapbook paper that I already had and spray adhesive. I simply sprayed the outside of the can and after measuring and cutting the paper, wrapped the paper around the can. That's it. Easy, right? Tonight, I will get my husband to drill a small hole in the back side so I can hang them with a hook on my peg board. Perfect storage for pens and pencils. Here's a close up of each of them.







I love this paper. I'm definitely using it for other projects.

I also made these paper clips today. I'm planning on using some craft wire to hang things on and saw this project on one of the blogs I follow. Check it out. It's a great blog.


I plan on making more but I had other things I had to get done so I decided to take a break.



It just keeps coming. I'm telling you, I don't think I've done this much in one day and it's only noon. I made this pillow for my chair. It's a little big for the chair but I'm planning on using it as a cushion.

I really like how it turned out. I had the fabric left over from a quilt I made and it goes perfectly in my room. It was a little darker than I was wanting so I turned the fabric inside out. Here's a photo of the original fabric and how it looks wrong side out on the pillow.


I'd never even considered looking at fabric on the wrong side to see how they looked. I saw a project in a magazine once that did just this and thought it was brilliant. What a great way to make something look completely different. Amazing.

Check out some more great DIY projects over on A Soft Place to Land. It's DIY Day!!

The peg board is up!!!

My wonderful husband put my peg board up for me tonight. I really excited about it. My room is getting closer and closer to being what I see in my head.

I'm having a problem deciding on what fabric to use for the curtains and pillows. I have a valance that I bought from Walmart but now I'm thinking I want to use some fabric I bought to make a curtain for the window.

This is the fabric I'm thinking of using. The wall color is a pale yellow and the furniture is white and light green. This fabric is a pale blue with green, yellow, and red. It's kind of hard to tell in this picture.


This is the valance I'm currently using. It's yellow with green and red. I would love to hear your opinion.


I spent most of yesterday evening rearranging furniture in my room. I ended up changing every piece of furniture. I finally found a set up I'm happy with. I have to work around a full size pull-out sofa. This room doubles as my craft room and a guest room. I moved some of my wall decorations around. I got these candle holders at a flea market for $9 and the sign came from Hobby Lobby.


And here is my new peg board. I haven't put much up on it yet. I'm spray painting the hooks white. Please excuse the disorder. Not everything is in its spot yet but I was so excited about getting the peg board up, I wanted to share before it was totally finished.

New Projects and Pancakes!!!

I finally get to start my projects for my craft room tomorrow. I received my free paint from Glidden today. I picked the 'truly olive' green. I'm using it to repaint the dresser that holds all my fabric. I'm also painting my new peg board. I'm really excited about the peg board. I know it will give me so much extra storage space for my scrapbooking supplies.

I did some flea marketing yesterday and found a cute chair for my craft room. Its white but needs to be repainted. I'm just going to repaint it white and add a cute cushion. I will post plenty of pictures when they are all finished. Tomorrow will be super busy.

Daniel and a few of his scouts are selling tickets at church tomorrow for an upcoming fundraiser so we will have to be there for all three services. We usually go to the first service. Daniel's dad plays bass in the praise team during this service. Afterward we try to make it to an adult Sunday school class. We haven't been able to go for the past month or so. I'm excited about going and catching up with our classmates tomorrow.

If you live in Northwest Arkansas and would like to help out the boy scouts and eat all the pancakes you can, you should join us on August 8th at the Springdale Applebee's for a pancake breakfast. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the door the day of the event or from any of the scouts. Let me know if you're interested.

Can't wait to post pictures of all the fun makeovers I'm starting tomorrow. Until then, have a great night.

Show Us Your Life- Wedding Dress

I posted some photos of my wedding dress a last week or so but I LOVED our wedding photos so I'm using this opportunity to share more.

My dress came with cap sleeves but I didn't like them so I had them removed. It was much nicer without them. There was quite a bit of beading on the top part of the dress. When I started looking for my wedding dress, I wanted one with no train and little beading. I wanted something very simple. Or so I thought. When I actually started trying dresses on I noticed I was moving more toward something with a little more detail. I had decided on a completely different dress before I picked this one. I went dress shopping outside of my hometown with my bridesmaids and found a beautiful dress. I wanted to show it to my mom before I committed to it. When I went into the dress shop with my mom I found this dress and fell in love with it. I made my decision quickly. I tried on both for my mom and Daniel's mom and they loved both as well. My MIL Vivian asked me which I like better and I said without a seconds thought that I wanted this dress.


Here's the back of the dress. I knew I wanted a pick-up skirt on the dress years before I actually bought the dress.


Here's a pictures of Daniel's family.


And here's my family.

I've decided that I'm going to use my wedding dress to create a christening gown for our children when we decide to have them. I'm really excited about the idea of this. It's a little sad to think about cutting up my wedding gown but it will be put to a good use. I can't see any reason not to do something like this with the dress. I hate the idea of it just sitting in a box stored away somewhere.

Hope you enjoyed the tour of my wedding dress. Have a great weekend.

Craft room progress. It's getting there!

Today's been a pretty slow day so I thought I would post pictures of the progress of craft room makeover. I've added a few accessories. I'm planning on repainting this dresser. I order a quart of paint from Glidden when they were offering the free paint. It's going to be green as soon as the paint comes in. I found this at a local flea market for $60. It's great for holding all my fabric.

I found this at Hobby Lobby for 50% off. I love Hobby Lobby.


I got this lamp from Walmart for $3.00. It didn't come with the shade so I picked one up from Lowes and used ribbon to cover it. I really like the way it turned out.

I'm really excited about this room. There's still a few items I need to make it complete but we're getting there.