Wedding Invitation Ornament 2013

Not knowing if any of my friend's friends were crafty too, I decided to go ahead and make her an invitation ornament and give it to her at her second shower. I had asked her for an extra invitation which probably seemed weird, but I assured her she would get it back one way or another...ha ha. You can check out the other one I made and how I made it here!

Bridal Shower Cards

I bought this bride and groom stamp over two years ago and finally got to use it!! The idea for this card came from one of the Stamp It Up books Erica found while cleaning out her house...yay for friends moving!! There was definitely a lot of cutting and sizing with this card, but I love how all the layers turned out. And this was all done without using my Cricut!!

The idea for this card also came from one of the Stamp It Up books given to me. The original card had polka dot paper on top, but since I'm obsessed with my new paisley embossing folder (the card above has the same pattern as well) I decided to use that instead. I absolutely love the simplicity of this card.

Bubble Burlap Wedding Wreaths

My friend who is getting married in October was talking about wanting burlap wreaths for her wedding and me being the crafter that I am offered to make them for her! I finally gave them to her last week at her showers so now I can share them with y'all! Let's start from the beginning...

Supplies...two 12 inch wreath forms, 2 yards of red burlap, 2 1/2 spools of red ribbon, sewing pins with the big heads.

I then cut the the burlap into 4 inch strips.

Then the strips into 4 inch squares.

Then it was time to make and pin the "bubbles" on to the wreath form that I had already wrapped with the ribbon. I took the right top corner of the square and brought it down to the bottom left corner. Then you take the right corner and fold it to the center and repeat with the left. Stick the sewing needle through all the layers and then on to the wreath. Repeat until your wreath is nice and full!

Yay! All the burlap is on! Now it was time to start gluing rhinestones onto the wood letters. I gave y'all a sneak peak of this process a month or so ago.

Before I glued the rhinestones on I had to make sure they would all fit right. So this picture that I previously shared is of the unglued rhinestones. Once I figured out the placement of all the rhinestones (over 1,160 5mm rhinestones) I glued them all on using E6000 glue. Unfortunately, during the gluing process some shifted on me so they don't look as perfect as before...ha ha. Once all rhinestones were secured I glued small wood beads on the back of the letters and ran jewelry wire through them and tied the onto the wreaths. 

Drum roll please.....I present you the finished wreaths!

I can't wait to see these hanging on the doors of the wedding venue...I may just have to get my picture taken by them!! ha ha.

3 Ingredient Healthy Pancakes

Another recipe from another pin! I don't know why I thought it would be a challenge to complete 5 pins this year (aka one of my goals from my 13 in 2013 which you can find over on the right).

This recipe comes from the Undressed Skeleton...which is a tumblr account so my peeps at work, we can't click on the link.

The pancake batter consists of 1 banana and 1 egg. You pour that into your skillet and then add a few blueberries.

I had some difficulties flipping the pancakes and finally realized the smaller the better and the less blueberries the better. Those suckers like to roll!

Overall the taste was pretty good. A couple of bites tasted a bit egg-ish, but other than that I think it mixed fine. However, I could tell I wasn't eating a real pancake...mainly because I make my pancakes pretty thick (my dad calls them man-cakes) and these were super thin. Also, instead of blueberries I will probably use mini chocolate chips in the future.

One last thing...these don't fill you up for long (or at least they didn't for me) so I would definitely add a side of bacon or breakfast sausage.

Birthday Card for the Future SIL

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My future Sister-In-Law's birthday is the day after mine, so even though we were celebrating mine a week or so ago we were also celebrating hers. So of course I had to make her a card! Once again, I think I got the idea for this card off Pinterest, but didn't actually Pin it. There were suppose to be cut outs at the bottom, but I made a boo-boo and did the punch one too many times so the bottom was chopped off, which is also the reason the card can't stand...ha ha. The "happy" I cut out using my cricut.

I have 3 more card posts coming soon and none of them involve my cricut!! I can't believe it!!

July Meal: Turkey Tacos with Clean Eating Taco Seasoning

I actually thought I missed making a new meal in July, but turns out I did and didn't even realize it. I'm sure we've all seen the make your own clean eating taco seasoning floating around Pinterest and after realizing I had nothing but turkey meat to make for dinner one night I decided to give this taco seasoning a try.

All of my ingredients minus chili powder (turns out I didn't have any) but I added red pepper flakes instead.

Note to self...next time just mix it in the container you are going to keep it in to avoid extra dirty dishes...ha ha.

2 T ground cumin, 1 tsp paprika, 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper, 1/2 tsp onion powder, 1/2 tsp garlic powder, 1/4 tsp black pepper and 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes (should have been chili powder). Once blended, I used 1 T of this mixture for my 1 lb. of turkey plus 3/4 cup of water.

I let it boil for a few minutes and then simmer for few more and ta-da your done.

Like I said at the beginning of this post...I didn't have much in my fridge, freezer or pantry. However I did find two tortillas left over from my chicken enchiladas. So I had turkey soft tacos with no extras...ha ha.

My notes on this...the original recipe says this has a little kick to it...um not to me. I figured it was because of the lack of chili powder so I just recently tried this seasoning again but made sure to pick up some chili powder before hand. But still...not enough kick for me. Since I still have some seasoning left, next time I use it I'm going to add in some more red pepper flakes.

Oh yeah...here's the pin I got the recipe from... The Gracious Pantry

#MB20GoosTour!

Tuesday night Barrett and I saw The Goo Goo Dolls and Matchbox 20 in concert. This was actually his birthday gift from me even though his birthday is still weeks away...ha ha. It was an extremely hot Texas summer night, but the performances were definitely worth it!!

Kate Earl opened the show

I couldn't really understand her so I can't say if she's good or not

Right before the Goo Goo Dolls came out someone in a bear costume came out and did a little dance for everyone

Goo Goo Dolls

Goo Goo Dolls

Goo Goo Dolls...the sun finally went down!

my favorite instagram picture!

Matchbox 20

Well hello there Rob...

By this time the sun was completely gone so that means the spotlights came out and washed him out...so the best pics I have of him are when he's at the back of the stage.

Crazy eyes!

Piano

The concert was awesome! I didn't know many of the newer songs, but I sure did like them!! Of course the old stuff was still just as good!