This was the summer of weddings and this post is a mashup of us and friends from all the occasions. :) The Smiths and The us @ the Gaither's rehearsal dinner.
My friend Casey... AMAZING wedding and she did it all!
Her photobooth wall was awesome!
My SIL and I @ the Gaither wedding.
The boys from the wedding. I LOVE this picture. :)

shirt refabs

This summer I found a bunch of white tank tops for 97cents each. I bought like 15. I split them between me and my girl. Here she is modeling one pre-dye! :)

I bought a bunch of colors for under 2 bucks each.

We did 2 colors at a time. Lots of stirring...


And rinsing.... It was hot.

Here is our finished rainbow. I wear mine under stuff and BAT sleeps in hers :) (I shortened her straps a little.) Teal and Green are a little splochy but not bad for a first shot.

Spring

I did the font for the Kindergarten bulletin board and was happy with how it turned out :) My kids and I spent quite a few days at the zoo this summer :) We had dinos visiting the zoo.

The K/1s do a big derby parade here for school. Kindergartners ride stick horses and 1st graders make floats or sandwich boards. My girl and I made her a jockey hat and then decorated. The back has "thunder over Louisville" which is our big derby kick of fireworks show, and the Belle of Louisville which is the famous riverboat.
The font has a horse and a hot air balloon, (Derby festival has a balloon race too)

Happy Derby! :) (way way late... or early!)

Home Sweet Home

In August I got to go to Colorado for the wedding of a dear friend. The weather and views did not disappoint. It was so beautiful!

It was at a beautiful chapel in Estes Park. They even rang the bell.

Here is me and Jonathan. I was soooo glad I got to go. Check out the amazing view from their reception. He broke both his arms a few days before the wedding, which made for some laughs. poor guy.

Kelly was an amazing wedding date!
I made them a subway art wedding gift too. I LOVE the black and have since made one for us...
They had a fingerprint guest book. They are both artists and painted the tree together. I LOVE IT. Words fall short of how awesome I think it is.

It was my parents 29th Anniversary too. We celebrated by going to cheesecake factory. cheers mom and dad!

I think I giggle more with kelly than anyone else on earth. There are quite a few outtakes of this shot. Thanks for being awesome kelly!

It was such a great trip.

Long Time Gone....

My sister asked for a blog post.. and Britton is off to the midnight showing of Ghostbusters. I also had a ridiculously productive crafty day. :) Here's to catching up on some fun stuff.

I bought 2 of these tank-tops on clearance @ Target. ($1.87 each). I cut one and used it to make the pleated collar. I love it! :) Its more ruffled after washing if I don't iron it, but either looks fine.

Thanks for pardoning the awkward pic :)

polaroids

I was tired of this generic IKEA art. (excuse my doorbell) This is the "hallway" (its more square) between our bedrooms and bathroom and the dining room/ studio.I had seen a generic heart made out of polaroids in the window @ fossil around Valentines. So this had been stewing in the back of my head for awhile. I downloaded and used a free polaroid program and converted a bunch of pictures of us into polaroids. It makes them a little off center sometimes and makes the colors more like a polaroid too. I waited for Walgreens print 25 free, and printed 25 free. Britton printed 25 free for me too :) They ended up with the top and bottom correct, but the sides were not right, so I cut white cardstock and used a glue stick to make side borders.

It takes up a much larger part of the wall and it's so fun to see all of those fun memories and experiences all the time. :)

I tried to used double stick tape, but quickly realized that wouldn't work, so I used a small rectangle of foam mounting tape to hang each picture. The tape and my time were the only costs : )

Yay for being married to my best friend!

Happy Graduation!

A kid @ school and I had our schools "party" together. He was 7, I was 27 :) We had Lego cupcakes. It was awesome!! They had lego rings... :) His mom had hot glued one lego to a large flat ring and then stuck a few more legos on top. It made for lots of fun!!May always seems to soar by with weddings, graduations, and recitals, spring concerts, etc. I had 2 graduations that needed gifts. :) My sweet SIL (Britton's littlest sister) graduated from High School- she's headed to Knoxville, TN and I'll help craft stuff for her dorm room later in the summer. I mad her a gathered clutch ala Noodlehead. I loved how it turned out and have a few ideas up my sleeve for more gathered stuff.
A friend from work has a daughter who's headed to UK, I don't know the graduate well so I went with UK pillowcases :) I used a tutorial and they went together pretty easily. :)

Happy Father's Day! Maybe I can get caught up soon, Blogger was giving me grief this week.