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loving life!
So life is fantastic right now! It has been a while since my last post, but things have been a little crazy! At the beginning of May, I went back to school for Graphic Design. I am going to Utah Valley University and I hope to graduate in Spring 2012! I am loving school, there are some classes that I need to take that aren’t related to my degree, but the one’s have been taking this semester are awesome right now! I am learning so much!!! I left my job at Tanner LC last week, so I could focus on my educational goals. It was the end of a great era but I am really excited for all the stuff is going on right now! With all of these changes, I am learning how to live very cheaply! We made homemade chocolate dipped pretzels and Stephen is loving this cheaper version of our lives (and his snacks)!!
Craft Fever!
Here you can see the rest of the set, you change out the middle piece each month!
Easy Valentines Day project
I am always competing with my neighbor for the best front door display, I don’t know why but I just feel the need to beat them and be the better looking house! My mom and I were shopping at Gardner Village and saw this really cute heart at Upon the Shelf that would look great on my front door…. the only problem was it was $47 which I am not about to drop on something like this, when I can easily make it. The only difference between mine and the one at Upon the Shelf, is that they had wood on the back (which made it heavy) and then at the top of the heart instead of ribbon to hang it, it had a metal decorative piece to hang it (again that was heavy). Overall, I think they look very similar (sorry I don’t have a picture of the original) and mine cost a fraction of the price and took maybe an hour!
This is the final product
1/2 yard of fabric
Assorted Ribbon or fabric scraps (I used 2 varieties – 1 was about a yard and a half long and was 5 inches wide and the other was about a yard long and 2 inches wide)
1 – stapler that opens and of course staples
1/2 yard of batting
1 foam board (I used 3/4 thick but there are thinner options that are a little cheaper
A needle and some thread
Large bread knife
Draw a heart on your foam board, make sure that it can be completely covered with batting and the fabric can wrap around to the back edge.
Then place your cut out heart on top of the batting and either trace the heart and cut the batting or just cut the batting around the foam heart.
Look at those straight lines! HA!
Place the fabric right side up over the batting and foam board. Flip it over and start stapling the edges. I did a few staples on one side and then switch to the other, keeping the fabric pulled tight so it had a nice even look on the fabric.
Wedding Pictures
I have hated my wedding pictures since the day I got the disk in the mail. I cried for a day and a half, and I had to leave work early the next day. One of my coworkers said later that she thought someone had died or something because of how I looked that day. Now maybe that was a strong reaction but I was truly and deeply upset. [Read more…]
Head Case
Recently, I contacted one of Stephen’s old coworkers, who now does hair, for a cut and color. Stephen has been growing out his hair and he was thinking about having it cut by someone for the first time in like 10 years. He said he would like to go to his old coworker and I thought, I need a trim and kind of want a different color so I might as well go to her as well. This was the worst hair experience I have ever had and I will spare you the unprofessional email I received from her but it was just an overall awful and an experience I am glad has finally been resolved. The cut was uneven and more than a little trim, after getting that fixed, my hair is about 1 1/2 inches shorter 🙁 which sucks because I am growing out my hair, I guess it could have been worse though. Here are some pictures to show you what happened with the color:
The color actually looks kind of pretty on the top. I had to curl it because it was the only way to cover up how uneven the cut was!
Again, on the surface the color is okay and actually kind of pretty in some spots.
Look at my hairline as it frames my face. So gross!
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