Gussy's gig

Gus did an awesome job tonight playing lead guitar and singing! So fun! Dad Greg, Gus, Summer, me, and mom Steph.

Sister time

My sister Summer.

Aunt Wee (Lisa my dads sister) and Gimmie (My dads mom)

Arizona visit my cute lil' mocha niece and nephew Aaliyah an CJ.

Shopping in Vegas

Tara and I had so much fun in Vegas doing our annual post Christmas shopping! We topped it all off by eating lunch at my favorite restaurant Maggiano's! Had a blast! Got some cute stuff for awesome deals.

Merry Christmas!!!

Road trip with Ryker

I love air heads! :)

Trying to figure out technology

Grrrrr!

Handkerchief Dress

How to make:

I just eyeballed and drew the top of the dress on a blank piece of paper (I folded the paper in half and made adjustments to get it even on both sides), then cut it out. From top to bottom it measured about 4 inches. I traced this onto the back of a paper plate and cut it out so I had a heavy duty stencil to trace around the poems once they were printed onto white card stock paper.
I found the "Threads of Eternity" poem on the internet and copy and pasted it into word document, shrunk the font (Lucida Handwriting) size down to 6 and the title to 14. Put two to a page then traced the dress around the poems once they were printed.

You will need these items: white hankie, a jumbo paperclip, a bobby pin, scissors, a small rose/flower (I got mine from walmart in a small package), glue gun, and needle nose craft pliers

cut out top of dress and set aside

Get the paperclip and needle-nose pliers.

*you can watch a video on how to make a minature hanger on youtube.

Open up paper clip and make a hook going backwards with the shorter side (right side)

The hook goes towards the back

now straighten out the longer side

Hook the shorter side you made the hook with to the longer side and bend wire to make an even bottom half of the hanger.

What it should look like once you have positioned the hook to make it look even.

Then use your pliers to make the hook for the top of the hanger. This will take some working. Try to make the neck of the hanger (above the small hook) longer so you can glue the small rose there. The paper clip should be the perfect length. On the youtube video the lady cut off the end of the wire to make a smaller hook but I like it better this way.

On this little rose I was able to work the hanger behind the petals so it will stay on better

Move it down onto the neck of the hanger and position it for gluing.

Glue the flower in place

 Tadaa!

Now get your cut out top of dress. Turn it over and glue bobby pin to back right at the waist.

glue the hanger in place

                                                            

Then get your handkerchief and follow the folding instructions below

Put the handkerchief in the bobby pin and WALAA!!! 

Holy Smokes! I might be back to the blogging world!

This is all new! Crap! Now I'm gonna need to relearn how to blog...not that I knew how before! I am going to try to blog again...no promises!

In need of a vacation

I have some great sites for cheap vacations!!! For cruises we like www.vacationstogo.com and for the all inclusive resorts we have been told by friends that this site is the bomb diggity www.applevacations.com We are always up for a cruise if anyone wants to be our cruising buddies :) We are planning on going later this year with Brads sister Tara and her hubby and their friends if we can get more people to go the better and the funner it is. I think we will probably be doing the carribean cruise that goes to Roanan, Cozumel, Belize and Costa Maya. The prices are pretty good around 350 to 450 a person. Let us know if you wanna come :)

Something

I haven't gotten on my blog for a while. Well I guess its time for me to snap out of it and post something. So this is something! :) Since the last posting not a whole lot has changed. Brad and I still work work work. We are hoping to take some more time this summer to play. I need to get myself in shape. I got a steal of a deal from my friend on a treadmill and that was in January and I have only ran on it like 4 times... horrible... I know! So the plan is to do things that trick my brain into thinking Im doing something fun rather than exercise...Ha! Any ideas??? Dont say get a gym membership cuz i have one... paid 200 bucks for it... it exp in July and I have only used that 4 times :/ dont plan on using it again either! I did just get a bike and put a basket on the front :) Im trying to teach Louie to ride in the basket. Its hilarious... I look like Dorothy on the Wizard of Oz, all the little kids stop and look at me like I'm a whacko, but its fun. Well thats about it. Help me out.

Lately...

Kitchen "face lift" new kitchen faucet and black knobs

Newer and improved entryway table

Family pictures

Another day at the office

What Brad does in a day!!!

Brads little Brothers Homecoming

The boys in the Fam!

I love my fam!

We have been buisy latley.... Geeesh! Sorry for all the posts but Im catching up!