The White House

So, did you know that I have lived in 5 different places in the past 4 years, technically 6 if you count the creepy Hawai'i house on the North Shore.  Soon, I'm going to claim my 6th home in less than 4 years. Yep 6th.
My first home was with my parents in Sparland, of course.
In 2008, I moved to Apt. 606 in Macomb.
In May of 2010, I moved to the creepy house on North Shore in Hawai'i.
Then a few days later, in May of 2010, I moved to the nice house on the mountain in Makakilo, Hawai'i.
Then in August of 2010, I moved to the house outside of Macomb.
In May 2011, I moved to my apartment in Colchester.
And now......... I will move again to a house in THE COUNTRY! I hope you read "the country" in a shouting and excited voice.  I haven't lived in the country in awhile.  Steven and I are going to rent a house from his cousin outside of Colchester.  I'm going to move in in a few weeks and Steven will join me November 3rd.  Yes its a precise date, but that's the day that his parents are kicking him out of the basement.

This house is cute and quaint. Its a good started house, oh and its very white.  Everything is white, inside and out.  White siding, white walls, white garage, white kitchen floor, white refrigerator, white ceilings, white bath tub, white knobs on the kitchen cabinets..... you get the point.  The carpet is tan though!  So the walls need to be painted because they are painted two different shades of white in random places.  Plus, I don't like white walls. 

So here are the before pictures.  I have no 'after' pictures yet because very little has changed.

 This is the 'master' bedroom. Its really just a foot wider than the other bedroom.

 the kitchen

 the tiny bathroom

 the hallway, super exciting!

 the smaller bedroom

and the living room.

The cool thing about this house is that the closets have 2 doors, each open to a different room. So you can technically run laps around this tiny home.  It also has an old stone/brick basement.  

I'll keep you updated.

Fabric Flowers

 I love Pinterest. Its great. I've blogged about it before. It's a great distraction and its a great place to borrow ideas. Especially for weddings :) So, I saw this little number on there on how to make cute little fabric flowers. You start out with fabric and cut it into little rectangles.

 Then, take those little rectangles and cut them into petals.  After that, make a running stitch (I think that's what its called) and pull the petals together.  Circle them up, attach the last petal to the first, tie a not and you're done!  It took no time at all and they are super cute in my opinion. 

These little pretties may cause me to stray from the paper flowers that I created.  You can read about it in my post about Centerpieces - Being Crafty Again .

 These two pictures above are of a test centerpiece that I made.  I liked this one so much that I just left it together and put it in my apartment.  So this let me test the flowers out.  The flowers are a little hard to see in the first photo and there are only two so far.  But I'm thinking that I like the fabric over the paper flowers.   The pictures below are from another post, but its just to give you an idea so you can compare the two.

Annnddd this is what Steven did while I made the flowers.  He loves his iPod.

Let me know what you think!

Centerpieces - Being crafty again

Planning a wedding on a budget brings out the crafty side of you. So I posted recently about paper flowers, now I've put them to work.   Last night I experimented some with branches and paper flowers.  I originally had two jars to play with (one large and one medium sized blue Ball Jars).  The wind, as good as it felt, was determined to break something and decided that thing would be one of my ball jars. It had branches in it, the wind came, and the jar went.  So, I had to develop the ideas with a shorter jar, no big, I'm just mourning the loss of 1 of the 3 big jars I had started to collect. 

Here are some of my ideas so far.

Sorry for the bad lighting in the photos, I'm too lazy to edit anything :)

What do you think?

Learning from a Gypsy.

So, as some may know, my mom makes delicious cakes.  She stayed at home raising us and baking cakes, cookies, pies, etc until I was in 4th grade, I believe. She still bakes some, but not as much.  I was always fascinated by her cakes, especially when she made flowers.  I got to play with the frosting sometimes, but usually not until the cakes for her customers were complete so we didn't use/eat all of the frosting that she had prepared.  I mainly just wanted to eat it.

So fast forward some years, stopping at least week.  I had a class project due Friday that I didn't start until Wednesday night. You see, I'm busy, but I also procrastinate.  It makes it even worse when you can't decide on a project topic either.  I was required to develop instruction and graphics for my project for a course that I am taking.  Many of the projects completed by other students in the past involved web design/use. I'm not quite that advanced yet. So, I decided to take the 'how to make something' route. That something ended up being instruction on how to make frosting flowers.  I've never really dabbled in the art, but with some memory of mom's techniques and some tutorials online, I made it out alive with some pretty posies :)

This was one of the best ones I made.

The yellow and white one was my favorite :)  I just was cleaning out the tip from the yellow and tried it. There are a few of my attempts. I also made pansies... I thought they all were kinda ugly personally :)  I also made carnations and daisies, but I thought they were too ugly for online appearances. 

 Here are some more. 

Now I just have to make a cake or cupcakes so they get eaten. :)