Monday, February 14, 2011

Valentines

I had a wonderful Valentines Day with a wonderful valentine. I am so lucky to have such a wonderful husband.

He had some delivered beautiful flowers delivered to school today


The card reads, "all my love to you babycakes." One of my favorite things about Todd is that he always comes up with sweet and cute terms of endearment. He also bought me chocolates and wrote a really sweet card - but I'll keep that to myself.


I also came home to cards and chocolate from Morty and Zatara. I think it is really funny how Todd picks out cards from them. I mean, I know they're animals and Todd picks them out - but if they were to pick out they own cards... they totally would have picked these.

Morty's card



Inside it says "I want to lick your face! I love you! Hold me! I love you!" which is totally what he would say if he were a person.

Here is Zatara's card:


The inside reads "It just means I'm a cat" and it's signed "Thanks for keeping me around - Zatara"

I like Valentine's day, not just because I have a valentine, but because I fee loved by him and my loving family [ok,  and Morty and even Zatara] each day of the year.

Friday, February 4, 2011

The after Christmas decor lull.

After Christmas I waited patiently for Target's Christmas decorations to go to 90% off. When the day came, I pounced! I bought up every snowflake I could find and even a little "let it snow" sign. I had high hopes of making something like this  but I didn't find any snowflakes that big. In addition, I have really fallen in love with the look of our red poinsettia wreath against the sage green of our front door. (I have decided that poinsettias are a winter flower and therefore not just for Christmas) I'll probably keep it up through Valentines since it is red and I don't really decorate for valentines.



Once I had my snowflakes home I let them sit in the bag  next to my computer for a week just needed a little inspiration (read: deadline). My inspiration came when we I found our we had guests coming up from Texas who were going to see the house for the first time. Getting out of rehearsal late and needing to clean the whole house did not leave much room for crafting or going to the store. But while cleaning out our "Nooooooo don't go in there!" storage room, inspiration struck as I found two snowflake printed gift bags. As one of my new favorite bloggers suggests: I decided to "Rock what you've got". I took the prints out of two frames that weren't currently being displayed, cut up my bags and put the snowflake paper in them. Then I took the eyelets and ribbon off of the "let it snow" sign. I tried to put the sign on the paper but it was too flimsy. Instead, I just put a glob of hot glue on the sign and stuck it right to the glass! Here's how they turned out:








I didn't have enough snowflake paper to do this frame too, but I think the print I already had in it goes well. It is also sort of valentines-y. It reads "you are the one I want most of all".

Again, I left my poinsettias up. I didn't feel like changing them, and I can't think of a "more winter" flower. I added the candle holders this weeks since I have been snowed in and bored. I made them  using Epsom salts and mod poge. I got the idea from this tutorial. I did two coats of epsom salts to make it seem more snowy.  here is a close up:



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Thursday, February 3, 2011

Ok, so I skipped the month of January...

January is a busy month! Apparently so busy that I can't even find time to blog.

After Christmas break we hit the ground running with the spring musical! We had auditions and immediately start rehearsals. It seems I kinda fall of the face of the universe during January and February. I think I am much more tired being an [assistant] director than I ever was as a cast member - and I'm not the one dancing for 2 hours a night!

I did have a list of things to blog about - but my computer died with all of my pictures. I did back them up so they are on a hard-drive.... somewhere. But really, who wants to hear about Christmas posts and whatnot in February? I'll answer that - nobody! Rest assured we had a wonderful Christmas with both sides of our family.

I will touch briefly on a few goals for 2011. Because I read somewhere that you have a higher chance of not quitting your resolutions if you make it through till February.Personally, I feel that I have a higher chance of not quitting my resolution if I start in February.

In no particular order:

1. Blog more. I want to make an effort to post more. Even if it's quick, or without pictures or not "blog worthy".

2. Learn to knit.

3. Sew something for our house. I have a sewing machine that I bought for my birthday nearly two years ago. I've sewn one very unsuccessful dog coat. Which, looking back, was an insanely ambitious project for someone who never finished sewing her bunny in 6th grade sewing class - and whose only truly successful sewing projects include a pillow made with the help of her mother to earn a girl scout badge.

4. Start a vegetable garden. I missed out on gardening last year, but I am already thinking about my garden for this year. I hope to grow summer squash, zucchini, potatoes and anything else I think I can manage.