An anniversary

Today, baby boy and his bride have been married for 5 years!

I've probably shown most (if not all) of these pictures before, but we are going to walk down memory lane a bit today. Well, I am - would love for you to join me!


We will start with their wedding day

Then back up a bit to high school

MORP (high school Halloween party)


Senior ball


High school graduation


College


Baby boy graduates from college


Spent a year in Minnesota


Ashley graduates from college


Moving to New York


Last summer, right before they went back to New York.

Miss them every day.

Happy anniversary, Jason and Ashley!

Bummer

Don't ya hate it when you don't notice a mistake until you look at the picture? As in after it is completely finished? Not taking it apart. Nope.
Misc. fabric from stash (32ct) with DMC336 &3865.
Have no idea who the designer is - found the chart in my stash - no identifying information. If you know who should get designer credit, let me know and I'll edit it in.

A tad late. . .

or really, really early?


I finished the stitching on Three Blox (Lizzie Kate) before Christmas 2010 but I didn't get them 'finished' until after Christmas 2011. I got as far as getting the blocks made and stacked only to find out I didn't have enough green ribbon so I've been hunting green ribbon for over a month. I can find green, just not the same green so I gave up and bought red for the bow. Now that I see the picture I think I need to a) take them apart and re-stack them, they look crooked and b) wrap them together with the red ribbon. I should have taken a picture of the fabric I made the blocks out of - maybe I will do that when I re-do the ribbon - sometime before Christmas 2012!

Have a great weekend!

Burp

We have neighbors that are expecting their first baby this month (a boy!) I wanted to do a little something for them so I made some burp cloths.


There are tutorials all over for making these - I read several then just kinda went with it. I used pieces of fabric I already had in my stash and the pre-folded diapers. (which there is apparently no quality control on - not one of them actually has a straight edge on the ends!) I even already had the diapers since I made some last month (but I forgot to take pictures before I delivered them) and they come ten to a pack. (remember when there used to be a dozen in a pack?)

Hopefully I will get some more sewing in today. Working on a quilt but I also want to do the February block of the month - the March block is already up and I haven't done February yet!

Stuff that works

Nothing pretty about these pictures but I'm going to show you them anyway. Just in case you ever need to remove an oil stain on concrete.

You know how you buy stuff wondering if it will actually work like it says it will? Well this stuff works! I should have taken a picture of the container but I didn't and it has been thrown away, but it was either Oil Spill Remover or Oil Stain Remover. We will go with OSR. We got it at Lowe's over by the paint. (obviously I'm not being compensated for this or I would take the time to make sure I had the name right!) It said it wouldn't harm pets or the environment and it had a citrus smell to it.

I should have thought to take a before picture but again, epic fail. Anywho - after we swept up all the sand (we had poured sand over the oil stain when the guys were hanging Christmas lights, then just kept adding to it when it soaked through) and poured out the first jug of OSR this is what it looked like


Just to kinda give you an idea of the scale - I'm guessing this stain was around 2ft x 4ft - and the worst part is covered by the OSR in this picture. Trust me, it was large and I'm sure that stuff was deep into the concrete. The mom-mobile had been leaking for a couple of years. I had given up on buying oil by the qt and started buying the 5qt jugs. Anyway - the stuff pours out kinda like weak glue. As you can see, we should have bought two jugs - one wasn't enough to cover the stain.


After roughly 24 hours. Our driveway has a slope so it spread a little but not too bad. You can see it was pulling the oil up. The instructions said to let it sit until it was dry then sweep up. It gave no drying time but with the mild temps and high humidity around here it took about 48-72 hours. (would probably not take so long in the heat of the summer or if it had been sunny)


This is what was left when we swept up the first round. I would say it worked pretty good! We went back and got another jug to pour on the parts we missed the first time.


We got a little misty rain one day while the second batch was down so there were some places that weren't quite dry when we swept it up but over all I would say it was a success! Hubby took the power washer to it over the weekend and that took care of the white spot/outline that was left behind. Just water - no detergent of any kind. I didn't take another picture after he washed it down. I'm sure the neighbors think I'm a little off anyway what with me out taking pictures of the driveway!

Well - enough of that. I did some fabric cutting yesterday and now I'm going to sew some of it back together!

A few eggs

Thought I would get a little start on Easter. I don't do a whole lot of Easter decor since I don't have kiddos at home but I thought I would do a little.

I picked up a package of eggs at HL(on sale, of course) not knowing exactly what I would do with them. Dug through my scrap bin and found some fabric from the quilt I made for the guest room last summer so I got out the mod podge and covered three to put on the bed tray in that room.

Kinda messy but I think they came out kinda cute.


Swapped out the Valentine magazines for some spring ones.


For the twin room I used some leftover pieces of scrapbook paper but I only did one egg per bed. (the fabric was easier to work with)


I seriously need to replace those fake flowers. They will have to still be fake, but at least I could update them a little.




Swapped out the magazines in there too. Good way to use some of those magazines I moved! Can't make myself part with them. :)

I spray painted and glittered the rest of the ones in the package. They are in glass jars downstairs - I'll show them later. I'm still cleaning up glitter!

Wanna come for a visit?

Time flies . . .and pie!

Wow - last week really got away from me! I don't even know what happened to Wednesday. Thursday I was out all day with appointments then Friday the hubby took the day off so I never got around to posting.

Hubby had an errand he needed to run in Houston - he only goes into Houston occasionally on business, I rarely go and you will never catch me attempting to drive there. It is crazy and I'm lucky to not have a panic attack just sitting in the passenger seat. I can manage the two/four lane, 50 mph traffic around where we live, but that six-lane going 70+ mph, change lanes, exit, merge, exit again stuff is just more than I can deal with. If that wasn't enough we had to park in a parking garage to take care of his errand. I hate parking garages and this one had an extra low ceiling which makes it worse. I was seriously wishing I had just stayed home!

Once that was taken care of we decided we needed a treat so we went in search of this


We have been hearing about this place ever since we moved here but like I said, we rarely go into 'Houston' so we hadn't searched it out yet. (they always show it on the news around Thanksgiving - lines out the door and around the block!)


Anywho - hubby asked what was their best seller and the girl didn't hesitate to say 'strawberry' so that is what we got.

We ate the whole thing. Just the two of us. Not at one sitting, but over the course of the weekend we ate the whole thing! Hubby isn't really that much of a pie person but I will tell you he ate his share! (he prefers cake - me, I rarely meet a sweet I don't like)

Good thing it is gone and double good thing it is not on a regular route. I would be out in the garage digging out those 'too big' clothes I packed away last week!

How was your weekend? Did you have any pie?