wedding cake toppers

yay the cake toppets are done i cant wait to pick them up!!!

giveaway

Kirsten is giving away an $60 gift card to Jess LC jewlery

go there and enter i loooove the diversey collection :)

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thanksgiving day!

This year as I celebrate thanksgiving I am thankful for so many things. Not only am I celebrating with my family this year my future inlaws will be joining us :) I have the most amazing friends and family and have been blessed in so many ways.
Happy thanksgiving everyone!!

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Ps. I made meatball appetizers and pumpkin cheesecake! Yummy!

I got an iPhone

Blogging from my iPhone > blogging from anywhere else

one of the kindergartners wore this...

...and i love it. It looks just like Stella!!!! Too bad it's not for sale anymore I would totally buy it and frame it or make it a pillow or something.

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ps. is it weird that i looked at the tag so I could google it??? probably. do i care? nope.

More changes..

I got the pattern for making the pouf pillow in the mail on friday and got to work. Yesterday I made one pillow and will finish the other one up later this week. (my sewing machine is acting up..grr) It turned out super cute and looks just like this one for $265.00 yikes! I got the fabric from joann's it is a faux leather that is actually a table cloth material so it should be easy to wipe off and clean. This allowed me to get the white with out fear of it looking dirty 24 hours after I made it. The pattern comes with instructions for two sizes an 18" and 24" pouf. I went with the 18" and really like the size of it. I wish it was taller though :( its a little short to use as a foot rest. Robby thinks I should have gone with the larger one but it would have been so huge!

Also we went out and got a rug. I found this one at target and love it! it is super soft and really makes the space feel so cozy! Mav loves it too!



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ps. tomorrow we are off to the pumpkin patch!! yayayayay!!!

Busy weekend...

So this past weekend I decided that I wanted a bar cart. I love the idea of them and they can be super cute and fresh when done correctly. I was looking at them on ebay they were in the $100-$150 dollar range plus shipping...boo. So I looked on craigslist and found nothing :( then I tried craigslook.com and just typed in cart....(craigslook checks all of craigslist and you can set it to show you up to 200 miles away from your location. It also shows pictures right next to the title for easy viewing) And TADA!!! I found the cutest brass vintage "tea cart" and i wanted it...needed it. I looked at the price and... $10 YESSSS!!! it was going to be mine! I sent off an email hoping to be the first person interested. I was and Sunday this little beauty made its way into our living room.



Now I am on the hunt for some vintage barware/decanters. I found this cool guy in a thrift store today for $4


Also I have seen a tutorial for making this "inspiration board" (basically a bulletin board) on Bryn's Blog. I followed it and made this nice little one to put up lots of fun pictures and notes!

Desk Before: (not bad but I wanted a change and a place to put notes)



Desk after: Wonderful!!

Now that we have finally settled into our place I am feeling the need to tweak things and really add more little touches around the house.

Also I bought some nice faux-leather to make some pouf ottomans for our two chairs using this amy buttler pattern! Super excited to get the pattern and will post that later :)

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Long time no see....

why hello blog. i missed you.

Lots of fun updates today. I have been super busy student teaching but I really love it. I am so hoping that when I get a job it will be with the younger grades!

Also I keep looking at the slip covers I made for the bar chairs.... and cannot decide if I like them or not. idk. We have pillows of the same fabric on the couch and i just dont know. So i took the original slip covers that had paint smears on them and decided to paint a faux bois pattern on the back of them. Which one do you like better??? hmm...


Also still on the hunt for bridesmaid dresses. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this one from jcrew in the "winter mint" color, but im thinking it's a bit pricey... good news is they always mark down their winter colors in the spring so i might just play the waiting game for those.

Hmm also just found this one on sale at jcrew... wish i knew what the color looked like in person becaues i really like it but they have no returns on sale dresses :(


Also some nice random pics from Robby and my trip to the Zoo a month ago :)






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ps. we are going to have date night this weekend!!! im excited :)

Wedding shoes...

I found these from a wedding website today and I looove them! They are so pretty, now I just cant decide if I would rather have these or the seafoam flats that I already purchased...hmm (the seafoam ones were so cheap I would't mind just keeping them and wearing them whenever) The inside is so pretty and they have a blue sole!! lol

Thinks im looking at online..

After the failed ModCloth dress I am still on the hunt for bridesmaid dresses. Seafoam is such a hard color to come by, turquoise no problem, tiffany blue there are tons!, aqua still lots of options...but Seafoam? nope. nada. zip.

I have found one or two that look promising and just recently found this beauty on Etsy.com They are custom made! and look so cute for such a reasonable price!




We shall see, it looks kinda seafoam... but im not sure if it is exactly the color i want. I might pay for a color swatch or something so I can double check but right now im really liking this option. Bridesmaids any comments?

Also I want this skirt...it will be mine. If I can find the damn thing in forever 21 I hate how jumbled everything is.



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A rather blustery day

Well i guess this weather is a good excuse for me to stay inside and study for my comps exam :( boo. I really really don't want to study for it but I must. Instead I would rather own a pair of these and be out playing in the rain!


Also I LOVE KINDERGARTEN!!! I have had so much fun with the kids and love helping to teach the class. Its going to be a lot of work but I am looking forward to having 2 awesome classes to work with :)

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flowers, fall, and furniture layouts

Yikes! Today is the last day of freedom tomorrow its off to school! Im so excited to be with the little kindergartners! Yesterday I wanted to get the house ready for fall and get out my pumpkins!! I will post more pictures later but here are a few cute pumpkins and an owl candle holder that I got out and ......drum roll please... THE BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS!!! Robby brought them home for me yesterday when he came home from playing golf :) Yay! I was so excited they are beautiful and was such a sweet gesture. We have both been so busy I feel like I only see him for 2 minutes in the morning before he goes to work these days. Hopefully that will change a little bit once I get into a routine with teaching.



Another thing I did today was a furniture layout for a friends mom. I loooove doing stuff like this and find it fun to give her a layout option to consider. Unfortunately I didnt get to measure the room or the furniture so I don't know if this plan is 100% realistic but I think it looks cute.

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ps. GO HOKIES!!! Hopefully I can stay awake to watch the game tonight!!

Wall collages make me smile

I love wall collages and I know that in the interior design world they have been around for a while but they are just so pretty. To me displaying lots of art really makes a house a home. And it helps that I love to paint so lots of the art I made myself :) Another thing I like about them is that they can add a lot of impact to a room with out costing a ton of money.
This collage is in our hall and the robot picture is actually a post card that I got from zazzle.com for $1.50 is a picture from vol25 That was a great solution for me that was super cheap :) another cheaper alternative to make art was my "Keep calm and carry on" poster. I have been looking at them on etsy.com and they are $11-$20 not too expensive but still for me I would rather have a less expensive solution. Well i was walking with Robby in Barnes and Noble and I saw a red gift bag that had the slogan on it. I checked the price and...$4 ahh this was better I started thinking if i could use it, the only problem was that the handle was on the bag so I couldn't cut out just the rectangle and frame it. I bought it anyways and when I got home I decided to cut out a circle shape on the top and bottom so that I could cut the handles out :) perfect. The awesome painting i bought from Brittany Johnson after seeing her work on the granby street window art show. Her work is amazing and she did this custom painting for Robby and I! The colors are so vivid and the texture is awesome too!!


This next collage is the living room and it was a great way to play up our super high wall. Since we have cathedral ceilings we definitely had to put something up there to really draw the eye up and make a statement. Thanks to frames from the dollar store!! and Micheal's with 40% coupons we were able to amass our art collection and get it all up on the wall. Robby and I did all of the paintings and my mom actually did the lion sketch when she was my age. My favorite of the pictures is the three photos in one frame in the center. They are pictures from the 4th of July when Robby proposed. <3!! There is one of the fireworks, one of the lights at the boardwalk and then one of us :)


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ps. my mom's boss is letting me borrow her daughters wedding veil! its perfect and im super excited to wear it!!!

hurricanes and open houses

Sooo tonight is meet your teacher night at my school! I'm so excited to meet our kindergartners!:) but this is currently headed towards us....

I don't want to meet Earl tonight.. just the other 25 children.

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ps. growth chart is done. Will post pics of all the baby goodies finished tonight. (providing we have power and such)

I want this purse....

...but i just spent a crap ton of money at forever 21 buying the cutest (work appropriate) silk shirts and a super cute (work appropriate) dress!
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Some projects

Well after an eventful day yesterday complete with me locking myself out of the house.. ugh. I didn't get to blog but oh well... I wanted to share a project that I tackled last weekend. I love sunburst mirrors and found lots of pretty ones online. But the price tags...Yikes!! most are at least $200 bucks for the size I wanted.

So i got crafty.

I was going to go with silver since we have silver accents in the room but instead I thought that drift wood might tie in with the grey in our room while adding some nice texture to break up all the smooth lines of the room. Now we live at the beach so you would think that there would be tons of free driftwood. but nope no driftwood sticks. So i went to look online and all the driftwood was so expensive :( but then... ETSY! I looked on etsy and found a person that would ship various sized driftwood sticks for super cheap! I calculated that I needed 90 sticks for my 14" mirror and i was exactly right (if i was doing this again I would order 100 sticks so I would have a few to pick and choose from)



I used foam core board and a round mirror from Michael's and lots of hot glue. I simply cut the foam board to be about 1 inch larger than the mirror and hot glued it together. Then I just went around and glued the sticks on. (Sorry I wish I had taken pictures of the different steps but oooh well)

Mirror Price Break Down:
Mirror $7 but had a 40% coupon
Hot Glue sticks $2
Foam board $2
Driftwood sticks $10.00 + $10.00 shipping

For a Grand total of... ~$28.00 Not too bad! And I think it really works in the room.

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ps. here is another sneak peek of the growth chart I am making for baby Suri :)


pps. The jogging part of this "blog and jog" is definitely slacking

ppps. ROBBY COMES BACK TOMORROW!! yay :)

So tired...

But im not the only one. Robby's on a mini-vacation so tonight the doggies and I are taking over.

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ps. My wedding dress looks very similar to this fabulous Grace Kelly dress from To Catch a Thief. I love that it is so vintage looking :)

The mail came!

My stuff from ModCloth came and I am really glad I went ahead and ordered the dress to see what it looks like in person. It is pretty short and also doesn't really fit how i thought it would. The straps are pretty short so the bodice comes up very high. So live and learn I will show nicki and see if she likes it but im pretty sure its going back. Meanwhile i googled seafoam bridesmaid dresses and found a really cute one from Alfred Angelo and quite a few of their styles come in "sea glass" which looks like the perfect color. Here is one that I like it just looks so pretty :) So we will see, they have a store in Richmond so I might go up there and take a look sometime.

I also got the seafoam flats in and I LOVE them!!! they are perfect and would look awesome with a white flower on them. I am super happy with them and wish i could wear them all the time and not wait a year.

Ok well now off to love on robby and thank him for cooking a wonderful dinner for my parents and I :)

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ps. Here is a sneak peek of the name letters im making for Sarah's nursery!

Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!

25 years ago today my parents Robert and Elizabeth tied the knot. That was 4 houses, 8 cars , 2 kids , 2 cats, and one adorable grand-doggie ago.

Now that im getting married I know how excited they must have been and hope that in 25 years Robby and I will be as happy together as they are. My brother and I have been so lucky to have such wonderful parents :) Happy anniversary mom and dad!

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ps. yes i know this pic is from our Christmas card last year...i wish i had their wedding pic but i don't :(

E is for (super cute pink) Elephant

So Sarah emailed me back with her color scheme and a super cute picture of some fabric that one of her sisters-in-law is making a baby blanket out of found here I was super lucky to find the same fabric at the Joann craft store near me! I also found several other fabrics that were buy the same person and part of the same collection and..ta da! I made a super cute elephant for little baby suri!!! The other two projects are in the works but this one was just sooo cute I couldn't wait to finish it :) The body is super soft and the star fabric matches the stars on her baby blanket!! I hope that Sarah likes it (sorry sarah i was just going to send it to you and surprise you but i couldn't wait to share it) Hopefully I get the other things finished in the next few days so I can mail it off to Cali :)

Also my modcloth order was shipped today so its en-route. Yay!!

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Baby Suri and Seafoam flats

Soo Sarah told me she is going to name her baby girl Suri Jean Capehart!!! Ahh so cute. Its absolutely perfect and I'm currently obsessed with the idea of painting stuff for her nursery. I cant wait until Sarah emails me back telling me what stuff she wants so I can get started!!

And a wedding update. My mom signed the contract for us for Botanical Gardens so the date is official 7.9.11 :) yay! I also went and picked up my wedding dress yesterday.. its so pretty i absolutely love it and it is just so comfortable! Some dresses I tried on were so tight and others were so heavy and hot but this one is light and airy (thank goodness because otherwise i might die of heat exhaustion walking down the suuuuuuper long "aisle" in the Statuary Vista. We went to a few stores looking for some wedding dress accessories before we picked it up (mainly earrings, shoes, and a longline bra thingy) well at Kohls we had a $10 off any purchase of $10 or more. So we found two pairs of sterling silver and pearl earrings that were 65% off so our total was $12.09 then used our $10 off coupon.... New total: $2.09 awesome. Next we went out looking for a bra because david's bridal bras are $80.00 bucks!! yikes I mean they are nice and all but geeze that seemed like a lot. So we went to Sears and found a bra that is almost identical for...drum roll please... $16.00 now that's more like it :)

The search for shoes was uneventful though. I really want some flats (because i will be walking in grass) that are cute in either white or seafoam with open toes...too much to ask? well i hope not and I found this cute pair on ModCloth and ordered them as long as they are comfortable i think they will be perfect. I might even glue on a flower or some sort of decoration on the toe like this but in white if they arent dressy enough but i really like them. While i was at it i also ordered this dress that i loooooove and really want for bridesmaid dresses but i just need to see it in person first before I can be sure its the right color etc. I can't wait for them to arrive!!!!

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(sarah if you are reading this email me back!!!)

I can print from anywhere!!!

So after going to best buy and asking some poor 16 year old kid what the pros and cons of the various printers were... and having him read me the description of features listed on the box out loud...(which I could have done myself) I found my printer!!

I ended up getting the HP Photosmart D110 series printer with touch screen!! They had a few back to school sales so it was $30 off putting it right in my $100 price range :) I love how compact it is (the paper tray folds up) and that it fits in my closet so I can keep it out of sight and off my desk and print wirelessly!! Btw having a printer that has access to the internet is kinda weird.. it downloads updates automatically and has its own email address so you can send documents to print out at our printer from anywhere in the world!!! that to me is just crazyness. But i love it.

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ps. SARAH IS HAVING A LITTLE BABY GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

pps. made one slipcover and it doesn't look half bad. hopefully getting around to finishing the other one by the end of the weekend.

ppps. I never went for that run yesterday. but i did go for one today.

Operation Blog and Jog

Here we go. On top of getting ready to start student teaching (read: the most work ever, and not getting paid for it) I have decided that I really want to commit to two of my favorite things. Blogging and Jogging. I love reading blogs and do daily but some how I can never seem to post on my own. That is all going to change today. I am going to start blogging every morning and jogging every morning. From time to time I get on good jogging routines but the past month or so I basically stopped. So time to get a move on. So ladies and gentlemen here we go..

Today I am off to buy a printer. I have to scan 12389723983939 things for my student teaching portfolio and I fear I would have to shoot my self if I tried to to this with my old temperamental printer. So off to the store to get a new one. Things im looking for: a scanner on top, wireless, works with a mac, not too shitty, around $100. Too much to ask? I hope not. My parents have an epson and I like them so I think thats what I want but anyone have any other suggestions?

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ps. My bff finds out today if she is having a little bambino or a little bambinette!!! YAY! Can't wait to hear the fun news

pps. Also I made a mirror for our house and im about to make slipcovers and pillows for our bar chairs. stay tuned for that post.

ppps. Already not feeling motivated to go for a jog....crap.

A boquet I love

Wedding Details

So Robby and I have done tons of planning for the wedding and we have decided on a few things. First off the date.....drumroll please..... 7.9.11 We also found the PERFECT location and thanks to my moms hookup we are getting a fabulous deal at Norfolk Botanical Garden. We are going to have the wedding in the Statuary Vista and then the Reception in Rose Garden Hall.

It has been a super busy week and I have tried on a gazillion dresses and found one that I looooooveeee so much. Its from davids bridal and if you want a sneak peek here is the link SOOOO pretty im in love and cant wait to go try it on again to show soraia :)

Im also starting to think about bridesmaid dresses and groomsmen attire. I am really inspired by this photo off of oncewed.com (i think?) I love the fact that the colors are so neutral. I plan on having seafoam green and grey be the colors but I think having the girls in a light tan-ish dress might be pretty. The colors are going to be very muted so it all blends. Since my dress has a vintage-y feel I wanted to keep everything feeling that way.

Possible Rehersal dinner dress

So I was looking through some vintage websites this morning to see what they had in the way of wedding dresses and although none really wowed me as "the dress" I found this super cute mini dress and its only 49 dollars. I was thinking it might be perfect for the rehearsal dinner.... Any thoughts?