I Think I'm On A Silhouette Kick

My friend Bethany recently got married and being that she is a graphic designer, she had a very creative wedding. I love the use of her and her grooms silhouettes and the blue and yellow colors through out the wedding. Enjoy!




I die for this cake!


The beautiful and very happy couple!

Elsa Mora also does some interesting silhouettes and other fun artwork.


I love her her homemade clothes as well!

Stationary Reuse

So I once got this box of stationary from an old childhood friend a long time ago. I had used it a lot, but it always seemed to mysteriously refill itself. It's made out of nice thick paper, but has my pre-marriage name printed on the front. I needed to come up with a solution so I could keep using my never ending box of stationary.

Well easy peezy, I just used an engagement photo attached over the name with rubber cement for extra wedding thank you cards.


And used images from Silhouette masterpiece Theatre to make my own everyday stationary. I find them exceptionally hilarious and will be posting a new project that I used with them soon.

Home Depot VS Pottery Barn

James and I found these great pendant fixtures for our kitchen from Pottery Barn that were $99 each. They actually looked so simple that we were confident we could make our own with the help of Home Depot for half the price. And we did! We got a pendant light kit at 2 for $80, found two similar looking glass covers at 2 for $14, picked up some neat light bulbs and called it a day.

Pottery Barn's version at $99 for one


Our version at $100 for two


Oh yeah, that's gangsta savings!

Back To School

James' mom is a 1st grade teacher in the St. Charles school district. She is highly praised not only for her teaching skills, but also for her creative classrooms. I recently dropped in on her at school while she was redoing her classroom for this upcoming year. Besides decorating her own room, she did another teacher's room as well. I truly wished I had been lucky enough to have her as a teacher. She is so talented that I just couldn't wait to blog about her!

Her room drips with charm and love for what she does. She says she still is doing more to her room when I came in, but I think she could walk away now and still be incredibly proud of what she gives to her students.

Even the marker boards are adorable

James playing with the new markers

Organizational unit for the students glue, tape, scissors, extra

For extra chairs she spray painted tan wicker stools and added the red button and trim

Reading bench

Her classroom roman shades

The classroom mailbox

Pinwheels that weren't up yet, but I loved them anyways


Trash cans she turned over for seating in the other classroom she decorated

Reading area illuminated with paper lanterns

Roman shade that she made out of Ikea fabric

Welcome Board she created for another teacher (you can see the roman shade in the background)

Close up of the Welcome Board

Another shade Mrs. Reed helped do for a teacher in the building

Rascals

James and I had a little date night this Thursday in O'fallon, Missouri at the River City Rascals baseball game.Definitely not the St. Louis Cardinals, but way cheaper - $10 tickets for third row seats behind home plate and beer was around $5.

This game just so happened to be our first baseball game of the season! Only took us until August to go to one.


Right off the bat (Ha!) in the 2nd inning the umpire and the coach had a little tiff.

Then we got to watch QT snacks run around the field.

The old school scoreboard was also a nice treat.

Anyways, to keep this short we left before the 7th ininig, which is pretty good for two kids with self-prescribed ADD. We are going to a Cardinals game on Tuesday so that should be fun, but I doubt it will hold our attention any longer than the River City Rascals and $10 will only gets us a parking spot.

Baby Aiden Came!

After a long night and day in labor, my sister and her husband are proud parents of a beautiful, healthy baby boy! Could you image this attractive couple not having an adorable kid?

Here are just a couple of pics that I, Aunt Megs Megs, wanted to share to the world.

Little Aiden weighed 7 pounds, 1 ounce

I'm awake!

I'm asleep!

Picasso's

Would Starbucks heart it up for me? I seriously don't think so. James and I recently went down and worked outside on the patio at one of our favorite coffee shops called Picasso's, which is located off of historic Main Street. It's a nice place to people watch while pretending that I'm working hard on my laptop.


They make delicious smoothies and James seems to be a big fan of their pecan cinnamon rolls. Please don't make fun of the below photos too much. I realize James and I look dumb, but we were kinda tired and not being the best models. Plus it would have probably helped if we both did something with our hair and if I had put some makeup on. Eh, oh well.