Here are a couple projects of mine. The pictures are I took on our vacation that I thought were so pretty that I needed to frame them and hang them up in our bedroom. Our room is the only one with blue in it so I thought they'd work in there. Aren't they pretty! And finally, we have the unveiling of the curtains I sewed. I think they turned out really nice. They go perfectly in our livingroom and Nathan and I love them. I think the easiest part was sewing them. The hardest was picking out the fabric. I think I made a good choice though. I still need Nathan to take down the awful blinds we have hanging up in both the rooms. He's been really busy lately though and I feel like the time he gets to spend at home should be spent relaxing. Oh, we also finally got our bed in. I'll have to take pics of our bedroom and office after I get it all done. I decided to make our bedroom into an actual grownups bedroom. So, I packed away all of my bears and super girly stuff. Surprisingly I didn't have as hard a time with it as I thought I would. I want to make curtains for our bedroom now. I think I've found a fabric I like but I want to wait till it goes on sale. I'm really excited about painting Alex's room. I think that when we get back from our trip we'll have to go out and pick out a color. We leave for Florida on Wednesday morning. I can't wait! It's coming up so fast. I just hope that I don't miss Alex too much.

Okay this is the best makeup tip I've ever gotten! Are you ready? Yesterday, I was watching Tyra and her friend Jay Manuel was on. He does makeup and about everything else to do with fashion. Well, he was giving tips to different girls on how to get the celebrity look they want. He was working on this one girl. He was giving her Lucy Lu cheek bones where he was using a bronzer around the temples and cheek bones. Tyra said that Jay runs the bronzer up around her hairline to diminish her big forehead. And, I think everyone knows that I have always had a giant forehead and have always worn bangs because of it. Well, recently I've gotten a little braver and decided to try and grow them out. I was like man this tip is like meant just for me. So, I don't have any bronzer so today I had to run out to Sally's anyway so I picked some up. I just tried this trick and it totally works. You have no idea how excited this makes me. Now, I feel like I can grow my bangs out with a little more confidence. So, if any of you have a giant forehead like mine you should totally try this. You just take the bronzer on a brush and brush it up from your temples all along your hairline on your forehead and you can use it as blush also.

Okay, so these are pics of a new project of mine. I think it turned out pretty good. Nathan had gotten me these flowers about a month and a half ago. I loved them and didn't really want to throw them away. So, I pressed them in my giant bible dictionary. Then, I glued them to a piece of cardstock and put them in a picture frame that was half off at Hobby Lobby. Love that place. I got the matting, backing, and glass there too. It was a fun project. Originally I was going to hang it in our bedroom, but Nathan thought it was too cool. He thought we should hang it in our livingroom. That excites me that someone else thinks it's cool enough to display and for everybody to see too. I've been working on my curtains now. I've had a few creative holdbacks. But, now I just need to get some more fabric to finish what I'm planning on doing. I'll have to share those too when I'm done.

Okay, so here are a bunch of pics from our Seattle trip. Actually, we were on Whidbey Island in Washington. It was so cool! The first picture from the bottom is the house we stayed in. It wasn't as nice as the other one, but we spent most of our time at the other one anyway. Alex was really good on the trip even though he was stressed and worn out most of the time. You walk out of the house onto the beach. It was awesome. It had rocks all along the whole beach and a lot of drift wood too. We went on a fairy(don't know if that's the right spelling) one day to another island that was close and did some shopping and eating. It was way cool. We took some rocks home with us to display from our trip. It was one of the prettiest places I've been. Wouldn't mind living there, except it's a little cold. Well, anyway, I've got to go try out our new bed that is uber comfy. Adios!

So, we're out in Dodge city right now and there haven't been very many new posts for me to read from people. So, I thought I'd do one. It's kind of boring out here sometimes. Well, Nathan's making a bunch of extra money since he's working all these extra weeks out here. I thought I'd tell you what the plans are for it. We're planning, of course, our honeymoon we never had/anniversary trip. We're going to Florida in August and it's going to be awesome. We're planning on getting me a dishwasher, finally. A new bed. Fabric for curtains. Oh, and we're going to be painting Alex's room. And, of course, the sewer line. Well, I'm pretty excited about it. I think I've decided, after very long consideration, to find some dark brown fabric for the curtains and get like a shear fabric for the inside. We'll get one of those double curtain rods so that we can have both on there. And then, we can finally get rid of the aweful blinds in the livingroom and dining room. They're so dusty and dirty and just won't come clean. We're planning on getting a wrought iron bed and nice new queen mattress set. I think it'll be nice because we have a few different colors of wood in our bedroom and I think it would be hard to decide on what color of wood to choose. Oh, I'd also like some input on color for our livingroom, diningroom, and hallway. I'm thinking either orange or green. Nathan really likes green. I had been thinking tan, but our couches are tan and I don't want them to blend in with the walls. Also, I think that our house needs a little more color because we have a lot of neutrals, but I don't want a dark color. That's why I thought an orange, but Nathan doesn't know about that one. I think he's worried it would be to bright or something. We'd definitely have to choose the right color of orange. But, then you can't really go wrong with green. Anyway, I need to get to bed. Adios.

Well, I got so much feed back from the shirt I made that I thought I should post about it. I don't really know what to write, but here it goes. It wasn't a patern. I have been watching "I have nothing to wear" on TLC and it is such a cool show. They have these design students take a bunch of old clothes that you don't wear anymore or don't fit you and they recreate them into new outfits. I haven't gotten any fabric to make the curtains I've been wanting to cause I found out that kind of fabric is kind of pricy. So, I decided to kind of practice with my new sewing machine. I just kind of messed around with it and I think I might mess around more with other clothes I don't wear. This could be a pretty fun, productive thing. If I don't buy new clothes in the mean time. I'm so glad I got a sewing machine because I kind of think that as a mom and wife it'll really come in handy. When did I become so domesticated? The good thing is that I do think all this stuff like cooking and sewing and decorating is a lot of fun. It's a lot more challenging to me than actual jobs that I've had in the past. I guess I like being creative and pushing myself rather than having someone else telling me what to do. It's so funny, because I think that moms that go to work totally don't get how challenging and hard it can be to stay at home. It really is like a job. Only it's way more rewarding. Well, anyway, I'll have to post other creative things I do on here in the future.

Okay, so I had a little trouble this post. It wouldn't let me delete the sideways pics of my shirt, for one. Two, our hot water heater was out today so you get an up pic of my hair. But anyway, let me tell you about the shirt. Anyone remember an old skirt of mine made out of this fabric. Well, I've been wanting to try out my new sewing machine and I highly doubted I'd ever wear the skirt again. So, I made this shirt. It took a lot longer than it probably should have, but I was just figuring out how everything worked again. It was fun. I think it turned out really cute too. And, hey, I can wear a bra with it. Isn't that awesome! I have so many tank tops wear it either shows or I have to wear a strapless one. So, this is nice. Anyway, everybody has to tell me what they think of my hair color. Oh, and Jillian, I colored it when I got home. So, it doesn't look green anymore.