A piece of cake....

Well.... Today's been a piece of cake! :o)

Really! It has! :o)

We're busy making my cousin's wedding cake for this weekend. We've baked 6 cakes... With 4 more to go...

A few days ago, we did all the little flowers.... Over 1500 of them to be exact! :o)

And.... Now we feel like we have carpal tunnel! :o)

I'll be sure to post pictures of when it's done!

Here's to hoping it turns out! lol

Thanks!

I just have to say THANKS for all the comments!!!

Margo, my favorite blogger-friend mentioned me on her blog and I've never had so many visitors! :o)

Thanks Margo.... And welcome to any new visitors!

Just give me a glass of lemonade!

Here's something I did last night whilst watching a movie.

By the way... I think I must warn you... I think there's something wrong with me. I can't just sit down and watch a movie like normal people. I always have to be doing something. Jewelry... Sanding picture frames that I painted... And my next "movie-project" is putting the glass panes back in a cute window that I just got done painting! I guess that's not that strange though... Ladies used to knit and embroidery to keep busy. That makes me feel better!

Anyway! Back to my project!

This was just an ordinary, plain glass pitcher. I took copper wire and some of my beads and randomly wrapped it around and around the handle. The curlies are my favorites. Here and there, I'd twist the wire and get a cute little curly thing. It's adorable! A perfect "lemonade pitcher!" And while I was on a role, I made six matching napkin rings too. I'm really excited how they turned out!!!

I already had all the beads... I just had to get the pitcher and the wire... And it didn't take long at all! :o)

Just had to share!

Projects... Projects...

Hey Ya'll!

Here are some pics that I've worked on lately! I'm really kind of into red accents right now. I love them! They just "pop" in a room. In fact, my dream kitchen right now is taupe walls and deep red cupboards. *sigh* But not "orangey" red... more towards the Burgundy red... Like the red I'm using now.

Anyway... back to my projects!

I got this trunk at a garage sale... I know, I know... ANOTHER trunk?!?! I think my obsession with glass bottles has turned towards trunks. I just got 3 on an auction this spring for 1.00 each. Another one on an auction for free. And now this one. But it was only 5.00!!! "And hey... I've spent 5.00 in worse places, right?!?" :o) (That's my pat answer to myself whenever I see some more junk that I don't need! :o) lol) It really was quite the steal! I'm very happy with it!

Empty distressed picture frames are "in" right now and I must admit, I love them! Just randomly arrange them on a shelf or mantle. Have an arrangement in my head for the livingroom... I'll be sure to post pictures when I do it!!! :o)

Random letters are "in" right now too and they're growing on me as well! I got these at a thrift store for 1.00 each. So I brought them home and hit them with a coat of spray paint and then distressed the edges. I love how they turned out!

I got this lovely box at a thrift store as well for 2.00. Let me re-phrase that... I got this now-lovely box at a thrift store! :o)

It was black, ugly, and chipped. But I don't know... There was something charming about it. I loved it's little glass knob. And all it's pretty details. So I got it figuring, "hey... I've spent 2.00 in worse places, right?!?" :o) lol (Told you it was a good answer!)

But I hit it with 2 coats of my new favorite red spray paint... Sanded the details to bring them out... and TA-DAA! I LOVE it!!!

So that's just aa bit of what I worked on this week!

More coming soon! :o)

My bucket lamp...

Due to popular request.... Here's some close-ups of my totally cool bucket lamp!





Dad made it for my birthday a couple years ago and I LOVE it! (Thanks Dad!) I ended up making one later for Caleb too.

I have it hung above the side of my bed, so I can read at night and then easily shut it off without getting up to go across the room and shut it off. (I know, I know... sounds lazy... But I prefer to look at it as "resourceful!" lol)

So there you go! My bucket lamp! Let me know if you ever make one! I'd love to see it!!! :o)

My Bedroom....

Hey there!

Everyone else is in bed and I'm just sitting here working on my laptop... Listening to sweet old love songs just for the fun of it.

I was looking through old projects that I had done and thought I might start posting them! ;o)

Last winter was my bedroom project. I had been in the bedroom downstairs, complete with a fireplace. It is a HUGE room. But, as time went on, it became less and less my room. Half of it was the office and everyone who came to do candles walked back and forth through that room. So we moved the candle storage down to my old bedroom and I moved up to where the candles had been.

Happily, I decided it needed a makeover first!! YAY!

Here's a BEFORE picture... Excuse my very unmade bed! ;o)

It wouldn't have been so bad except for the very nasty green woodwork. And besides... I was just looking for an excuse to redecorate something!!! :o) lol

I painted it a darker brown first. It was a terrible color! :o) lol Doesn't look quite so bad in the picture, though! Thankfully I knew I'd be painting over it!

I did the "dragging" thing and I LOVE how it turned out! The woodwork is white now.

Painted it dark brown... Let it dry... Painted it Taupe in 2-3 ft. wide sections and ran a long wallpaper brush through it... (hence the term "dragging!") Word to the wise.... Work fast!

It looks like fabric or something now... I love how it turned out!

And here's some of the stuff in my room...

The window frame is my favorite... So much so, that I still haven't decided where I want to hang it. The greenery things are just there so the dog doesn't eat them. They're for a friend just as soon as I can get them to her. The scrabble things are just something I've been playing with...

Isn't the crackling cool?!!? I love it!

This is what's above my bed. I didn't take a picture of my bed... because... well... ummm... My bed isn't made again and I wouldn't want you thinking that I didn't ever make my bed, now would I?!

So there's a VERY brief tour into a few select areas of my bedroom... Maybe, if you're lucky, I'll show you more after I clean! ;o)

Batter up!

Last Saturday night, I was able to go to an old-time baseball game that Micah and Dad were playing in. It was a blast! :o) And quite the experience! lol

The rules are very different! ;o)

For instance... You can run either way to first base or to third base... And so help you if you run into a team mate as you both round 2nd base!!!

No one wears gloves...

The women can catch the ball with their aprons...

It was LOTS of fun to watch!!

Most of the time, the women would bat with a huge rolling pin... It was pretty cute!

Scott, Micah and Dad.

Don't they look serious?

They kinda got "into" the whole not-smiling-like-in-old-photographs-thing! ;o)

Dad and Micah didn't get to play softball this year like last year, and I really missed cheering them on. So it was kind of fun to whoop and holler with Janie and Lydia for one game!

Reserve Grand Champion!

I just realized that I hadn't posted this yet! :o)

I'm so proud of him!!

A couple weeks ago, my little brother, Caleb, took his "book lamp" that I helped him make for 4-H.

And he got reserve grand champion!

WAY TO GO!!! :o)

Mount Rushmore...

Well... I just got back from taking Jenny back to school in SD. (I miss you, Jenny! *sniff sniff*)





On our way there, we stopped by Mount Rushmore. It wasn't too far out of the way... I hadn't seen it since I was very young... And Micah had never seen it at all. So, it was off to Mount Rushmore we went.




It wasn't something you'd want to spend all day looking at... But it was very neat to stop by! :o) I'd like to go back and check out some of the shops in the town we went through before getting there. They looked awfully cool. *Sigh* Maybe someday! Jenny had to get to school... And besides, I'm pretty sure Mich would've started a revolt. He's not into that sort of thing! Someday, I'd like to go on a trip, where I could stop at any cutesy shop or antique store that I wanted. Maybe I should marry an antique geek. Or a garbage man! That would be cool!



Anyway... Back to the topic! :o) lol Sorry about the bunny trail there! Another thing I'd like to do if I ever go back would be to walk the trails. I saw them, but again... We were in too much of a hurry. I guess they're really pretty. (I'm just reading about them now!) Lots of wildflowers!
But I've decided... There are 3 types of people in this world. The "fast walkers," the "slow walkers," and the "no walkers." The "no walkers" are the couch potatoes in this world. The ones that would rather die than burn calories in the form of walking. Then there's the "fast walkers." My 'tousins would be in that category. It's embarrassing walking with them... In fact, when I walk with them, I don't walk... I jog. :o) Then there's me! The "slow walkers." We like to take our time and mosey along. We might not get as far or back home as fast, but hey! That's okay! :o) I'm still developing my theory on whether your walking "type" is hereditary or learned. I think there is evidence to support both beliefs. I do believe that mine is learned, however. I'd normally think that I would be a "fast walker." Long legs... Get-it-done personality... But, I think the fact that painfully, my hip pops incessantly for each stride when I walk fast leaves an adverse effect, therefore forcing me into the "slow walking" category. What do you think? Is your "walking type" decided by hereditary genes or is it a learned trait?



Anyway... Sorry about another bunny trail there.... This was the man that sculpted the faces of Mount Rushmore. Or he was the brains behind it anyway. All I know is... He was a very bald man! :o) lol



So... That was our short time at Mount Rushmore. I know that lately, my blog has been overrun by posts of my latest trip, however... I promise... I'll be posting some of my projects before long! Just as soon as I get some time to work on them! :o)

So until then... Hope your days are bright!

Cabella's...

On our way back, we stopped by Cabella's in Kansas City.

I think it's bigger than our's in Omaha. We just tootled around for a while... Browsed a bit... Didn't buy anything... Went to the shooting gallery.... I whooped everyone in shooting, not once... But twice. High score both times! (260 and 270) Yeah... it was fun! :o)

Isn't this bed adorable?! I wish I could've gotten better pictures, but it was kind of crowded! I LOVE this! It's like a regular log bed, but it's got the canopy too! I want one for my-place-of-my-own-somwday-when-I-grow-up, however, I'm not going to pay almost 2000.00 for it! So I'll just put my hint in here for my future husband... (Hopefully he'll read my archives, right?!) Will you make me one?!?!

It was fun, just spending the weekend together!