Come August 28th, my sister and brother-in-law's little baby will be here! I am so excited to be an aunt as having a baby around will be so fun:) For her shower I made these fun cookies. Ben says sugar cookie decorating is my second calling as I just also finished making 100 Bridal Shower cookies in the shapes of wedding cakes and bridesmaids dresses, so if you need me to make sugar cookies and freeze them for you, it's my new obsession!
Check out this little garage sale treasure my mom found me.
$0.50 for this adorable tea pot...which was really exciting to me because it is my second tea pot to add to my tea pot collection (one day recently I decided to start collecting my favorite tea pots, random? yes.) Here is my first tea pot we got for our wedding, on the stove next to the strawberry rhubarb pie we just took out of the oven. It's our first rhubarb pie so hopefully it's a good one!
Since my thesis is officially submitted (Praise the Lord) and I am essentially done with graduate school (today I did pilates in the kitchen, chatted with Elizabeth in Ethiopia:), went to Meijer because I was bored, thank you Grant County, baked, and am now watching my husband excel at playing the Bull's in some basketball video game, he also is bored almost daily)....long tangent.
Since I am always bored, I have been crafting some and dreaming of our new apartment in St. Louis a lot! Here are a few little projects that have kept me busy, along with assembling my friends wedding invites!
In celebration of Spring and the completion of my thesis on the topic of mating signals among birds, I decided to make some paper mache birds, wrapped with strips of my thesis! I don't burn my 2-year projects, I craft with them! the left one below looks like alien bird, but oh well:)
I needed to change out our coffee table centerpiece so I made these twine balls. You blow up a round balloon, wrap twine around it, and paint it with modge podge. Hang the balloon and pop it once the glue is dry, and you have a cheap centerpiece.
Ben and I needed a desk with drawers in it, so I painted my childhood desk I played "teacher" in cream and white and painted an old Olson chair. Rm 318, never forgotten.
I found new fabric I fell in love with, so I decided to make a knock-off Pottery Barn pillow with the flap down to a button....made with my new sewing machine:) (hand-me down, but new to me!)
I will probably make some for the couch next!
Also used the same fabric to cover a navy blue lamp shade that didn't match our room. Now it's my favorite lamp shade in our apartment:)
Sorry that this was a blog overload- I just always forget to blog....which is okay because I kind of don't like the idea of blogging. ha. Not enough to remember to do it consistently at least.
