JESSIKA REED

Hip & Simple Creativity

Happily Ever After

We had the privilege of attending my friend’s wedding on Friday, January 13. It was a beautiful wedding. The vows were great – Sara got us all by saying she had prepared a song as part of her vows and even had the piano player play along, but unfortunately it was just a joke. It did get some good laughs and was very memorable. I love weddings, you can feel the love in the air and the happiness surrounding you. It always makes me remember my wonderful wedding day and I get mushy and will admit there are always tears, especially when the groom gets choked up.

I brought my camera to the wedding but somehow ended up right in front of one of the two photographers almost the whole night. Knowing how annoying it can be to have someone in your shot or a flash interfere with yours and ruin the picture, I snapped very few pictures. This one, I had fun editing and I just love the pure bliss you can see on their faces!

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Table Reloved

I have this wonderful table that I got from my mom. It has been around since I was like 6. It followed me to my first apartment and now to my first house. It is just a good sturdy wood table full of memories and it fits great in my house. (notice this was done before the swag light fix in our dining area!)


I painted it red shortly after moving in to our house about 3 years ago. It has been good but I was growing tired of it. If I had a larger kitchen where an island would fit, I would pick a butcher block island so I thought why not get the look with the table? [Read more…]

Bama Tshirt Blanket – Roll Tide

If you don’t already know this, Stephen is a HUGE Alabama Football fan, it is his alma mater. I wanted to make a quilt for him but the only quilts I know / feel comfortable even attempting to make are rag quilts. We have so many tshirts that I wanted to incorporate, but tshirts don’t rag well. So I made up a pattern with a 3 inch boarder of black and houndstooth strips with a 14 inch tshirt in the middle, there are 9 squares like that that were sewn together and then ragged. It took about 15 hours to complete.

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Christmas Pancake Mix Gifts

This year for coworker and neighbor gifts, we are giving my favorite pancakes ever! We used to only buy mixes but one day we ran out and found a recipe online that we have altered to our own personal perfection! We have never looked back, no mix compares! So why not jar it up and share it? [Read more…]

Yummy Bags of Candied Pecans

I adapted the Kevin & Amanda recipe for candied pecans found here. I added an extra egg white and 1TBSP Vanilla to the egg & water mixture and then added a 1/4 cup of brown sugar. The original is great but I love the extra goodness that comes with these.

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Homemade Tear Off Personal Notepad Tutorial

One of the ladies I work with has a note pad that says “from the desk of” with her name on it. I thought about ordering a notepad like that from our print department but wanted something a little more custom and more me. I love the owl design from my gift tags so I decided to use that.

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Swag Lighting

The lighting in my dining area has been driving me crazy. It isn’t centered over our kitchen table. I have thought about moving the lighting but that would require some electrical knowledge and to fill a hole where the current light is coming out of, which is not something I really want to do.

I had an idea to try what is called “swag lighting”. I knew what I was looking for but not what it was called. The very helpful man at Lowe’s explained to me how it works and what to get. This $5 kit would fix everything! [Read more…]