Veteran's Day

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Josh!

Happy Veteran's Day! I don't have digital copies of me in my Navy uniform. I do have some gross old I.D. cards! We're going out to Applebee's to celebrate tonight with our free dinner! If you have a chance go to the VA's website and look at all of the old Veteran's Day posters. They are really interesting. I think that it's interesting the battles that they choose to put on this year's poster.


I love the picture above because when I was showing my nephew Trevor Josh's Iraq pictures, there was a picture of him giving candy to some kids. When we got to this picture, Trevor asked if Josh had enough candy for all of those kids. He was really concerned. Such a thoughtful guy!

Crafty Cricut Fun: Making Lettered Signs

My amazing boyfriend Josh bought me a Cricut cutter for my birthday. It was a total shock! It was like getting a bike for Christmas when you're little. You're the best Josh!!!

I have enjoyed playing with it and trying to figure out everything that it does. Our fun friends Jon and Sarah are getting married this spring at the Outerbanks in NC. I decided to make them  a sign with their last name on it. They are big Hokie fans so I used the cutest maroon, orange and polka dot paper.




I cut out the letters using the Keystone cartridge

 

I used Elmer's glue and a older paint brush to lightly brush on some glue to the backs




I arranged the letters on a $ Tree platter that I spray painted black.




I am going to seal this before I give it to them but I think it turned out pretty cute!



My sister Emily is getting married next month. She was going to order some vinyl letters to make a family name sign. She's going to use the sign as part of her wedding decor on one of the larger tables. Good idea! She emailed me this picture to use as a guide. I am not sure whose ETSY store this came from. Let me know if you do!

I think that I did a pretty good job with the limited amount of fonts I have!

I used a patterned paper for the last name. Josh looked at it and thought it was too busy. I love him and respect him but I am not sure if he's right but I am also not  too sure that he's wrong. I am sending these pictures to Bride to have her decide. She can always use the letters for another project. What do you think? Straight up black and white? She's going to modge podge the letters on to a painted blue background.


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What happened this weekend!

I had a good weekend and I needed it!! I just had a hard week dealing with my job and I needed to just relax! The Hokies played on Thursday night so no football hogging up the whole weekend! Here's some of the highlights for my low key weekend!

I re-did a monogramed Christmas Ornament for my sister. She's getting married Decemeber 18th and she is having a Christmas tree instead of a gift table! How cute huh? Anyways I bought this ornament from Kirklands. The ornament is pretty but the tirm and ribbon was a bit cheap-o!

Removed the ribbon and added a wire with some beads to form the "loop" to hang the ornament on.

topped off the loop with a clear bead and made another loop to thread the ribbon in.

I used a white organdy ribbon. I wanted to add more to this but I don't want the ornament to clash with her other decor.

Tia and I went to go watch our first fly ball tournament.  It was really fun to see those dogs in action. There were a lot of Jacks competing. Tia got into it watching too! Hopefully she'll be ready to run at the next meet up!

Tia was barking her head off and pulling at the leash most of the time.

This is a "box". The dogs have to run up and make the ball pop out and run back. Poor 9 lb Tia has to have a good running start to make this happen!

I just liked this little Whippet.

I got a brief explantion of the different ribbon levels. The dog who won the big maroon and white ribbon has been doing flyball for 6 years.

Something totally random and awesome happened at the flyball tournament! There was a book exchange table. In the midst of How to deal with Menopause and a lot of old religious books there was the book that I had been really wanting but was to ashamed & cheap to buy!

Lauren Conrad

I really miss The Hills! I checked out Lauren's blog the other day. She has a really pretty theme. Go check it out!

LC at a recent book signing!

I ended the weekend by making English Muffin Pizzas and salads for Josh and I. My weekend included crafts, dogs, relaxing with Josh and a little eating/cooking so I worked in all of my favorite things. Here's hoping that I have a better work week! I hope you have a good upcoming week too!

Make Something Fun Today!

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Whatcha Think?

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I am a Weiner!!!

My sweet officemates keep winning things in blog contests. Tons of books and a ritzy chandelier!  I think that they could tell that it was starting to really bug me! When I came back from my class today, I found this amazing gift basket!

It turns out I won a very exclusive blog giveaway from Acting Up With Books and My First Home!!! I couldn't believe my eyes!

This sucker is burning a hole in my Coach purse already!

A joint giveaway with even a non-blogger joining in?

I have been looking for this key all my life! THE KEY TO MY DESTINY!!!

Thank you Holly, Joli and Janice! This gift basket blew me away!

 

In other big news! My Dad sent me a Amazon gift card for my birthday! I used it to buy a bulb for my 

OTT lamp that I bought at the church garage sale. You can read more about that here. I popped the bulb in and it WORKS!!!! 

I love the look on little Tia's face! It's so dramatic! It's like we don't have any lamps in the house!

In not so lucky news! My laptop is dead! Lucky for me, Josh loves me and is letting me use his laptop. I hope I win a pink laptop that I can't break sometime soon!

Wild Wednesday! Fancy Dog Crates

Tia Mia & Tre locked up!

On my birthday weekend, I went out and bought new wire kennels for the dogs. I won't show pictures of the travel crates that they used to stay in because they were le ghetto and my dogs would probably get taken away from me! So new crates that match each other was a huge improvement! I currently have these crates out in the middle of the living room. In the next house the crates will be in the garage or in one of the extra bedrooms. I was interested in masking the "cages" I have in my living room. I am going to just live with it for now but there are some really cool dog kennels out there that are really stylish if you want to spend the money.

credit: Den Haus

This is a great crate makeover idea. The owner incorporated the crate into a support for her desk. I really like this idea! I got two dog crates to work with too!

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Ha! My dogs would never lay nicely in their kennel like this! Credit: Cratehaven