Weekly Wonders: August 29th, 2012

This week, I have founds tons of inspiration in crafty things. I have been trying to stay away from Pinterest, because sometimes I just feel overwhelmed by all the crafty things there. Like somehow I am not crafty enough. Does anyone ever feel like that as well?

I found sequins in bright colors.

Glitter Paint. Enough said.

These little toys are screaming for me to do something to them.

Why do I keep finding more cards? I was finally using up a bunch and now find myself buying more.

Halloween is apparently allowed to be displayed now. I am thus allowed to by things. Right?

Lace. Be it scrapbook paper, handkerchiefs or actual lace.

So what’s been inspiring you?

Weekly Wonders: July 25th, 2012

 

I love throwing a good party, from Valentine’s crafternoons to Thanksgiving potlucks.  The other weekend, Mom decided to throw a party in honor of my graduation and B’s adoption. She even made me come home from Miami to teach her how to pin things on pinterest because she kept seeing all these ideas and did not know what to do with them. At first the theme was food on sticks, because there are so many cute ideas out there.  Then we realized not everything could be on a stick so we wanted mini things. Pinterest kept filling us with unrealistic expectations for how our party should be (Exhibit A and Exhibit B). All the bright colors made us realize that we wanted more color in our theme, so we went with rainbows. We did not have any actual rainbows just tons of rainbow colors. Later this week, I will show you how we made these delightful cheesecake sticks. They were a hit! Do your parties ever evolve like ours? They start off trying to be one thing and end up being something completely else?

P.S. It was not until halfway through the party, I managed to grab a few pictures, so excuse the half-eaten displays!

Our collection of colorful things purchased/repurposed for the party

 

 

Weekly Wonders: June 27th, 2012

       So in case you haven’t seen the news recently, Florida has been blessed to be hit with a tropical storm again. This is the first time that there have been 4 named storms before July 1st (They have been keeping track since 1851). Lovely, things are looking great for this year’s hurricane season. Anyways, we did what ever other normal person does: we went to the beach! You know, just to see how cool everything looks. To be fair, it was after the really bad portion of the storm and it was not raining. Plus, she is only a tropical storm. Anyways, enough justifying, it was one of the coolest things I have done and apparently a bunch of people decided to do the same thing. It was amazing, and I hope you enjoy some of the photos below!