The King's Speech

Friday night I had a dad and daughter night with homemade sweet chipotle chicken cheese-less nachos (any waiter at a Mexican food restaurant: “No cheese?!?!” me: “No cheese”) and a good movie. The movie of choice was "The King’s Speech."

My Dad and I opted out of going to see it with my Mom, Aunt and Mimi earlier in the year and when the Oscars rolled around we were really wishing we had gone with them. Especially since it won and was now part of my “Bucket List!” Ha ha

I can’t express how much I enjoyed this movie! The acting was phenomenal, the story was great and hadn’t really been told before (or at least to my knowledge) and it had its funny parts. I had seen Black Swan as well and really thought it would win the Oscar this year for its “artfulness”, but I’m so happy “The King’s Speech” won instead.

If you haven’t seen this movie, I would highly recommend you rent it…maybe even watch it with your own dad!

My Craft "Room"

You may notice that some of my crafts will be photographed on the carpet, couch, pillows or the kitchen counter. This is due to the fact that my craft room is a small corner in my bedroom. One day though I will have an entire room dedicated to crafts! (One can dream right?!?!)

I should also say that all my photos have been taken with my iPhone 4...and since I never remember to hook it up to my computer to upload pictures, I'm hoping that keeping up with this blog will help me remember.

Cricut Expression

Speaking of Christmas...I mentioned in my "I'm Back" post that I received a Christmas present that really got me in a creative mood. So here it is..my wonderful Cricut Expression machine given to me by 2 of my Aunts!

Isn't it pretty?!? It came with two cartridges and then I decided I had to have more! Here are all of my cartridges (minus my brand new one...Ashlyn's Alphabet).

I have to say my favorite one so far is the Wild card cartridge.

These were the first cards I made with the Crucit...pretty plain jane

I tried making cards a little more exciting for the next go around.

I think the owl card is really cute, but my favorite has to be the star one. But anyone who knows me knows how much I love stars!

Christmas in June?!?!

I made these little suckers Wednesday night. They are called Rolo Pretzel Turtles (mine are with out the turtle part...)

The first time I had these was when my neighbor made them for a Christmas party and I pretty much ate the entire plate that night. Then I saw them again on the site howdoesshe.com and decided I wanted to make them for myself.

They are super easy to make and only require 3 ingredients!!

1. Tiny twist pretzels
2. Package of Rolos
3. A nut or little candy to put on top (or nothing if you forget like me)

Place the pretzel with an un-wrapped Rolo on top of it on a cookie sheet and bake for 3 minutes. That's right only 3 minutes!!! Take them out and smush the little topper on (or if you don't have a topper smush them with a spoon) and that's it! I literally made these while my dinner was heating up in the microwave.

I wanted to plate them all pretty like but then decided on just using a paper plate so it would be easier to transfer them to work to share and I wouldn't have extra dishes to clean. Well in my search for a paper plate the only ones I could find were Christmas ones...so I was like why not?!?! The first time I had them was at Christmas so let's just pretend it's Christmas all over again.

Something Borrowed and Something Blue

I borrowed these two books at the beginning of the year from one of my lovely co-workers. She said her and her daughter absolutely loved them and if I like chick-lit with lots of craziness then I would love these too. She was right! I couldn't put them down! Seriously...I was thinking about pulling an all-nighter just to finish even though I was working the next day...ha ha

I'm not going to go into detail about what they are about (just in case you haven't read them yet or you are in the middle of one...don't want to give anything away) but what I will say is that they are very easy reads and all you need are the first few pages and you will be hooked!

Then the movie adaptation came out and boy was I excited!! I love chick flicks (especially anything Kate Hudson related) and this was a good one, but I will say that the book was much more dramatic. However, I still enjoyed the movie and loved John Krasinki's character...he really does steal the scenes sometimes with those one liners.

p.s. I would have done each book in its own post but I can't talk about one with out talking about the other one...it's like I think they are one book or something.

Mud Bugs or Lobsters??

Way back in April my brother and I headed out to "Get shellfaced" at Willies and these fellas were part of our 2nd batch!! These were the two big daddies in a batch of what were already pretty good size crawfish. Oh how I love crawfish season...yummy

I'm back!!!

Ok well I didn't actually go anywhere...ha ha. It's been well over a year since I've written anything on here, but I'm back to give it another shot!

For those who read this blog the first time around can probably tell that I didn't quite complete my 365 photo project. That happened for a couple a reasons. First and foremost, my camera stopped working!! I haven't replaced it yet, but I know which one I want (I think...I can never fully make up my mind). Secondly, it became more of a chore and I just wasn't feeling the creativity with the project anymore and I didn't feel like my photography skills were improving. I do hope to give it another go one of these days (maybe when I get my new camera or learn how to use my Dad's fancy one).

Since I last left y'all...I've become little miss crafty thanks to a great Christmas present I received and some wonderfully creative blogs and people to inspire me! I've taken pictures of most of the things I've done or started working on and will be posting them soon (hopefully)!

I've also started baking more! AHHHHH! I've never been too keen on making sure everything is measured out to the tee, but my sweet tooth is getting the best of me. I will defintely keep y'all updated on how my baking adventures go. Wish me luck!

Other than that, life has pretty much been the same. I still have plenty of random things happen to me and will gladly share those stories once again.

I hope y'all enjoy!