Sunday, January 23, 2011

Can you Help Me...Please!




I have been searching for hours upon hours on the internet for bridal shower ideas and then I thought, "Hey I bet all my creative friends (my blog followers) could help me!"

I know the wedding is not until Sept and the bridal shower probably won't be until August...but hey I'm a planner, I can't help it! LOL


I know I have seen some awesome posts on bridal showers from the blogs I follow, however I can't remember who posted them. UGH!

If you know of any blog posts or website showing great creative bridal showers...please let me know.

Thanks!!

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Bartering for a Wedding


Have any of you bartered for your wedding?
Definition of Barter:
Barter is a method of exchange by which goods or services are directly exchanged for other goods or services without using a medium of exchange, such as money.[1] It is usually bilateral, but may be multilateral, and usually exists parallel to monetary systems in most developed countries, though to a very limited extent. Barter usually replaces money as the method of exchange in times of monetary crisis, such as when the currency may be either unstable (e.g., hyperinflation or deflationary spiral) or simply unavailable for conducting commerce
This just seems like such a SMART thing to do! Our daughter just recently got engaged and planning on a Sept. 2011 wedding. It is CRAZY how much weddings cost nowadays! So..... we were thinking perhaps we could Barter to cut down on some of the expense.
She needs the following:
Invitations, save the dates, etc...
Flowers (either Hot Springs, AR or Fayetteville, AR area)
Muscians in (same area as above)
Limousine (same area as above)
Videographer (same area as above)
Photographer (same area as above)
We are custom rug manufacturers, so we can trade for equal value a custom rug or rugs. We specialize in baby & kids initial rugs, although adults love our rugs too! Check out our work at www.creativecarpetdesign.com
Anyone interested in bartering??

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Winter Wonderland

We got SNOW!

We are on our 3rd day of enjoying this glorious white stuff! Normally, we get a small dusting of snow every year but it usually only lasts for 1 day....so this has been a real treat for us! We got 6-7 inches. Schools have been closed for 2 days so of course my daughter loves that!

Here are the pics of our winter wonderland.











Jumping for JOY!




My turn to jump for Joy!


Well Hello sweet hubby! Go get a jacket on...silly.


Time to make a snow angel

Snow Angel


Pull faster Dad








My snow bunnies



How do ya like the snow kitty?


Brrr.....I need booties on my paws.

Peek a Boo I see You





Did you get any snow?

Sunday, January 9, 2011

A Hello Kitty Birthday Party...not just for young girls!

January 7th, 2011 was an important day in our family!


Our youngest daughter turned 14 years old!

We had a birthday party for her with 4 of her friends. I surprised her with the "theme". I was going to do a sock monkey theme, but changed the theme to "hello kitty" when I was at the store shopping for her party decor.

Kids go through these phases where hello kitty and such is considered babyish, then they hit the teen years when it becomes "cool" again. Have you noticed that?


So instead of buying the typical hello kitty party supplies I just did a light pink & zebra print decor and hello kitty was the accent. She loved it!

I made the cupcakes and they were DELISH!!




The Hello Kitty Cake Pops were a HIT! The kids loved eating Hello Kitty's head...I know, kinda wierd. LOL
These were fun to make!















and...this is the sock monkey I ordered for table decor when the theme was going to be sock monkey. This was her Favorite present! Oh and the highlights/lowlights and haircut she got the day before.


Happy 14th Birthday my Beautiful Daughter!

I Love You!

Friday, January 7, 2011

A New Year's Proposal

On 1-1-11 our oldest daughter got engaged! Her boyfriend (now fiance) took her geocaching and he had the geocache box set up for her. When she opened it she found a ring pop which she was thrilled with (she loves ring pops) LOL Then when she turned around to show him the ring pop he was knelt down on one kneee with the engagement ring and asked her to marry him....and in between crying she said, "YES"




We are all very excited for her! Oh and here's the beautiful ring...blessed girl!!


Both of them will be graduating this may with degrees in Registered Nursing.


They are planning on a rustic garden September wedding. I'm excited to decorate! I'll be sure and show you what we come up with here, but if you all have any ideas or inspiration pics...please let me know!!

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Look what I made!

Hope you all had a fabulous Christmas! We sure did!

I wanted to show you all something hubby & I made for our daughter for Christmas. It is for her apartment when she moves out this May. It is to hold anything from bills, photos, recipes, love notes, etc.....

But we presented the gift to her with one of her favorite sayings as a little girl (from all the Disney movies she watched)








And this is what it looked like when we started..........

She bought this at a garage sale for $1. She intended to make it into a chalk board, but found a larger frame for the chalk board instead. So......... had to find a purpose for this frame and this is what I came up with.
Took the ugly picture out and trashed it. Then spray painted the frame and hubby added the chicken wire and my younger daughter and I decoupaged the clothes pins with scrapbook paper to make them prettier and Voila!


By the way.....she LOVED it!