Monday, July 2, 2012

I Heart Montreat, NC

 This past week we decided to spend a few days in the mountains for a mini-vacation. It was so wonderful! I love the mountains...I just wish we could have beaten the heat. It was still over 100° in the mountains!But it was still a blast. Here are some pictures:



I See You SWAN!

Mrs. Teauber playing in one of the bands

Momma playing handbells
A Picture of the crowd at the Friday night concert. It was great but it was sooo hot in there

Denny's Breakfast

Pardon the zombies...It was still really early

Tomorrow I'll post some pictures from our visit to Biltmore

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Summer Gift Exchange and 4th of July Decorations

Look what I got in the mail today!I got this super cute yarn wreath in the Summer Craft exchange. I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!It is now hanging in our family room for everyone to enjoy. yay!

Now onto some 4th of July Decorations 


Here is my Red and White yarn wreath with bunting and stars. I also made some red, white, and blue tissue paper flowers.
I had a lot of fun with toilet paper tubes this year. This is a wreath made out of the tubes, yoyos, and scrabble tiles.

Toilet paper tube firecrackers and Uncle Sam's hat.

Monday, June 18, 2012

Big Brown Furniture

At the auction last weekend, my father in law bought us a beautiful sideboard for our dining room on a whim. Of course it was Big Brown Furniture. The people at the auction helped them load it into the truck but when they got it home... it was all up to Jeremy and Daddy Fudge. So let the hilarity ensue:  

This was about the 7th or 8th time trying to back the truck up just right to the front porch.

Big Brown Furniture in all its glory
Jeremy directing...

and trying to explain how they are going to get the furniture from the bed of the truck to the porch...

over this hole.
HEAVE!

Made it to the Porch

Now trying to figure out how to get it to the Dining room


Jeremy got a booboo

Isn't it Purdy?? I Love it! Can't wait to put our china in it

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Friday, June 15, 2012

Craftaholics Handmade Craft Exchange Summer 2012

Yay! It's time for Craftaholics Anonymous' Summer Craft Exchange! I absolutely LOVE to do these things! You get to meet other crafters from around the country and you get a really cool present in the mail! Whoohoo. So this time around I was given the absolute pleasure of making Stephanie from California a super awesome present. When I emailed her to get to know a little more about her she said that she loved "modern stuff, her favorite color is silver, and she love love loves GLITTER". So I took the silver and glitter and ran with it.


This is Stephanie's Super Awesome box-o-stuff
She got 2 little bird glitter ornaments (made out of scrapbook paper, glitter, and empty cardboard ribbon spools)

She also received 2 silver glitter votive holders and a blue glitter ornament 
And finally to help her stay organized and show off some bling, Stephanie got black and white paperclip bookmarks, some glitter clothespins and ribbon, and a fabulous pink glitter ring! 


Stephanie I hope you LOVE everything!! Enjoy!

Monday, June 11, 2012

Guest Post: There are so many colors, man

Testing 123......Testing 123. Um, hi. This is Jeremy, Kim's husband and the perennially most awesome person in the room. So, Kim told me that I would "get" to dress her for a week and be my "paper doll". Now, at first I was suspect because this sounded somewhat like work, and I've never been particularly fond of that. It turned out that it was even more difficult than I thought. First of all, I never realized that so many colors existed. I mean like every color in the rainbow and 24 derivatives of each one. Half of my closet is khaki. So, after I recovered from my color induced epileptic fit, I got down to business. I tried to choose colors that I had always liked on Kim. The first day I went with blue. Kim said she looked like a kindergarten teacher, but I say if you are going to do a thing, then go all out. Blue dress, blue headband, blue earrings, blue socks and probably even blue tongue, but we didn't have the right flavor Popsicle. Still, I thought it was a pretty well coordinated effort. The next day I went with pink, save for jeans capris (and yes ladies, I do know what capris are....5 points!). Kim said it was much better. After that, I decided after so much color a little neutrality would be nice, and since it was frigid out, I chose the white long-sleeved top and jeans. After all, simplicity is usually brilliance. I almost liked this one best of all of them. Friday, it had been cloudy every day for like four days, so I needed something bright to stare at, and I figured hey, why not Kim! Again, I think she thought it looked like a teacher's outfit, but I couldn't tell since I had been blinded by my own colorful awesomeness. Finally on Saturday, I let her wear a skirt she just bought and a neutral top and headband. I think it was probably my second best. All in all, I think I did pretty good. I spent more time dressing her one day than I spend on myself all week. Which honestly gives me new respect for you, ladies. No wonder it takes you so long to dress! How you ever manage to reach into that rainbow and pull out just the right things is pretty amazing!