A Wedding Shower

Today we're having a wedding shower for one of the girls in the office. For the past two weeks I have been getting together the favors and decorations. Here a little bit of my handy work:

These are the favors. They're heart shaped cookie cutters. I used green cardstock to make little tags and attached them with brown ribbon. (Those are her colors).

Here are some of the signs I made to hang up around the room. There are about 15 different signs with different sayings. It's a kitchen shower, so all of the quotes are food/kitchen themed.

I will try to post some pictures from the shower, so you can see how we used these items. I had a lot of fun being creative with these and am looking forward to the shower.

Happy Valentine's Day!!

J and I celebrated our Valentine's day on Friday night, because I had to work on Saturday. He took me out to dinner at TGI Friday's and then to see the movie Taken. I'd been dying to see it and it was really great!!

Even though we were supposedly done with our celebrating, I woke up to this on Saturday morning:


He made me breakfast! YUM!!

Early Valentine's Treat

I came across a really yummy looking recipe on one of the blogs I read and decided it would make a great little Valentine's treat to give my hubby. Thanks to my busy schedule, however, the only time I had to try out the recipe was last night while J was at church. I convinced my little sis to help since she knows how to cook and I do not. After a quick trip to Kroger and an hour in the kitchen, I ended up with a batch of these:


They're red velvet cake cookies with cream cheese icing in the middle. Red velvet cake is J's favorite. Jen supervised and I actually made these things entirely by myself and they were GOOD! Click here to get the recipe from Bakerella's blog.

Being Crafty

I may not be doing a good job of keeping my resolution to post more often, but I have been much better about keeping the one about being more crafty. A few weeks ago I bought my very first sewing machine.

This is what it looks like. Nothing fancy, but it does its job and is easy to learn on. Jen and I are taking a sewing class once a week and so far we are loving it. We spent the first few weeks learning the basics and making pillows. Here is my first ever project that I made on my new machine:


Again, nothing too fancy. At least I kind of know what I'm doing now. As soon as I get the time, I'm going to use what I learned from here and make a better one. :) Next week we will begin making our very own taxi tote. I'll keep you posted on how that goes.