Hot Air Balloon Baby Shower

Hot Air Balloon Baby Shower

I am prefacing this post with an admittance that this is over 3.5 years late.  As Kev and I are on the brink of welcoming our own little one into the world, it seems that we’ve got all things baby on the brain these days. 

Totoro Cake Toppers

Totoro Cake Toppers

Writing my not-so-recent paper post reminded me that I needed to share this other little DIY from our wedding!  Kevin and I don’t have an aversion to wedding cake, but I think majority of wedding-goers aren’t typically into it. In menu planning, we challenged our 

Year One – Paper

Year One – Paper

Kev and I have been in the thick of home shopping the last couple of months and decided to take a break with a trip up the central coast.  Our first wedding anniversary last month was the perfect excuse for a little food and wine adventure 

Learning to Watercolor

Learning to Watercolor

Thought I’d share a little DIY work I did for our wedding, now that we got our photos back. Kev and I DIY’d whatever we could for our big day, including our invites. I didn’t like any of the “free” or “close to free” printable invitation 

Shower Favors – Potato Chip Cookies

Shower Favors – Potato Chip Cookies

Shirley wanted a sweet-and-salty dessert for her bridal shower favors last month, so I made a couple batches of the Potato Chip Cookies that I had brought to her Super Bowl party back in February.  I made all the cookies the night before, and dipped 

A Day of Kitchen Failures and Craft Fail Blog

A Day of Kitchen Failures and Craft Fail Blog

This blog makes me feel better about all of the unfortunate baking/crafting failures I’ve had in the last year, including the one I’m now going to write about.  I highly recommend bookmarking it for those inevitable failures we crafter/bakers are doomed to experience (unless I’m 

Lace Earrings (For Sale)

Lace Earrings (For Sale)

For the entirety of the time I’ve been crafting or baking, I’ve listened to familiar sounds to help me focus.  At first, I would defer to having one of the Star Wars episodes playing on DVD.  I can’t tell you what it is – it’s 

Utility Apron

Utility Apron

Some photos from a utility apron I made for Jamie to give as a Christmas gift to a fellow elementary school teacher… I like to call it my first “paid gig”.  After countless arguments about how much to charge for my labor (I insisted on 

Baby Gift Set

Baby Gift Set

It never fails to surprise me when my peers get hitched and then have kids – I guess I’m just getting to that age where everyone is really settling down.  I think I’ve gotten over the once-frightening idea of marriage, but children are a whole new 

Lion(ess) Costume

Lion(ess) Costume

In light of it being Halloween weekend, I thought I’d dedicate this one to the lion costume I made Charles in 2008.  I bought my first sewing machine for my first real sewing project.  Aside from making small throw pillows as Christmas gifts in high