I'm taking a break from the blog for a week or two to focus on some professional goals. I'll be back, I promise! I just need to move my brain into full-on library mode for awhile. Thus is t...
I've always loved Valentine's Day. Not because I was a girl who had plenty of Valentines but because I love pink and candy and hearts and cutesy stuff :) So here's a little view of my ...
Sheldon got me a huge amount of glitter for Christmas so I've pretty much been glittering things since December. The dogs better watch out, they're probably getting some kind of glittered a...
I saw this on Pip's and Robbie's blogs and thought what the hey, I don't show off my messy handwriting enough, So there you go. Here's the questions so you can join in: 1. What i...
I went to update the tutorials page the other day and decided I didn't like it. I'm in the beginning stages of a site-redesign right now and just decided to go ahead and update the page bec...
In my post on budgeting I mentioned how meal planning has become a big part of our lives as well. While I intend on doing a thoughts on... meal planning post in the future, I thought I'd just sh...
Since one of my big birthday goals is weekly DIY posts and it is February I thought I would start off with some Valentine DIYs. If you're not into the lovey dovey holiday don't worry, you c...
So we did it. We made it past the first month of living on our budget. The first week like with diets is always the easiest and the following weeks were a little harder. I've been using the you...
Thursday night I was at Target and saw some moccasins that were on clearance for $6. They immediately reminded me of a tutorial I saw on the Five Sixteenths blog and I knew I had to get some so I cou...
Click to enlarge It has taken me a few days to finish up my list. I'm not sure why, but this year was really hard to nail down what I wanted to put in writing and what I didn't. I'm ...
It has been ages since I have done a "what I wore" post so I thought I would share my new favorite dress with you. I wore this to brunch on Sunday. If you don't know about Red Velve...
1. #janphotoaday day 15: happiness is coming home to my boys!!, 2. #janphotoaday #morning Dash wants some gray sky action too., 3. #janphotoaday day 17: water, 4. #janphotoaday day 18: something I ...
Well I finished my birthday dress right in time for my party. Like 2 hours before the party to be exact. It was crazy to say the least. I didn't even start sewing on the dress until 11:30 on Fri...
Yesterday was my 29th birthday and we celebrated in style. Vintage/vintage inspired clothes, plenty of gin based drinks, and many retro recipes made up one of the best birthday parties I have ever ha...
1. Complete a 365 Project. Well I'm still working on this one. Because of crochet school, I took a break on the 365 project but it's going strong once again. If you're new to the bl...
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1. #janphotoaday day 8: my sky - clouds are rolling in, 2. #janphotoaday day 9: daily routine,3. #janphotoaday Day 10: Childhood, 4. #janphotoaday day 11: where I sleep - all four of us in a full siz...
So this weekend I took advantage of having three days off and came down to Texas to see one of my best friends, Bri. Sheldon had to work so this was my first solo roadtrip in 3 years. I used to take...
All the results are in, and I had 565 of you respond to the survey! Thank you to those of who who took time to fill out the survey and one of you is going to win the headband. So before I share the g...
I'm doing a fun little Photo-a-day thing on Instagram this month. Challenge created by fatmumslim While I would love to do a photo a day with my regular camera the lugging around, uploading phot...
My galley kitchen has been the most hated part of my house since I bought the place. It's small, has very little storage, and was shoddily remodeled by the previous owners. As I have mentioned b...
Hi everyone!! I thought the beginning of the year would be a great time to do my first ever reader survey. There wont be a lot of changes to come from this survey, its more of a get to know my demogr...
Happy New Year!! I had prepared to put this post up yesterday and write another post today about my goals but I got too caught up in my recent projects and forgot to post it so I'm just going to...
Apparently the end of 2011 has turned me into a "project" freak. Here's another project I started last night -- operation organize the nail polish. I have a nail polish situation to sa...
Remember back in July when I went to Las Vegas to see my new niece? Well you might not, because I totally dropped the ball on uploading photos from our trip. This is a common occurrence in my life, e...
We had a really low key Christmas at my parent's house this year. It was nice not having to worry about a whole lot of family or holiday events. It was really nice getting to spend quality time ...
As I said last week, our Christmas cards have turned into quite the ordeal over the years. The first year was really thrown together at the last minute. Sheldon had this idea to take a picture of us ...
To my dearest blog friends have a Merry Christmas weekend!!!! We're at my parents ranch this weekend where I will surely be doing lots of baking and catching up on my cable watching. I have a fe...
When I was growing up my mom used to go to ornament parties where everyone would bring ornaments and a dish (with recipe card) and at the end of the day you had like 20 ornaments and recipes to take ...
Last year, I bought a HUGE roll of brown kraft paper. It sits in our living room (mainly because it is too heavy to move anywhere else haha. I have used this paper to wrap every gift we give all year...
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