Bucket List

• Visit every state
• Visit every country
• Visit Grand Canyon
• Visit New York City
• Visit our sponsored child in Bolivia
• Help my parents retire
• Buy a huge house with 2-3 acres
• Be in a movie
• Volunteer
• Visist Disney World
• Swim with Dolphins
• Fly in a hot air balloon
• Own and operate a (successful) business

DIY Shadow Box

I found this beautiful thing not too long ago at a yard sale!

Isn't it sweeeet?

I have no idea what it is but i thought that it would make the cutest shadow box ever :)

I had seen this cool art piece on Two Girls Being Crafty and decided to incorporate that into my shadow box, however the word 'family' wouldn't wasn't big enough for all our names, and yes i included the dogs :) how could i not?

I had bought two old scrabble games, one at a yard sale and one at the thrift store, i needed two cause i added alot more letters :)

Before

Lined with scrapbooking paper :)

Getting everything ready

Laying everything out

Ta-Da!!

 

Isn't it cute? So excited to hang it up today!

1st Year Anniversary!

This past weekend my husby and I got to go away for our 1st year anniversary :) We went to Niagara falls ny side and canada side

Here are some pics from our trip!

To Canada!

View from the Skylon tower

Skylon tower for lunch :)

View from Skylon tower

Flea Market

I had a wonderful and very fun weekend!
Friday, a friend and I got to go to Rogers, Ohio for their huge fleamarket.
We were both very excited to go, plus this is on of the things on my 20 before 25 list :)





We really didn't go with anything certain to buy, I was keeping an eye out for some pretty plates, and pretty much anything that looked good. Unfortunely neither me or my friend ended up buying much. Actually all I ended up buying was strawberries :) There was alot of nice antiques, but nothing that stood out as a good deal.
Oh well, at least I know what its like now :)

What I've Learned From My First Year of Marriage

Today is my 1st year wedding annisversary

I. Honestly. Can't. Believe. It.

I do not know where the time has gone.

I didn't know that a year could fly by so fast.

It seems like just yesterday I was stressing over wedding planning.

Does time speed up as you get older?

In honor of my first complete year of marriage, I would like to share what I have learned.

•  Chill out
•  Pick your battles
•  Don't try to be perfect
•  House cleaning can wait
•  Cuddle time is important
•  The way to a mans heart is through his stomach.
•  Since his mom never really 'cooked' anything all my stuff is great
•  Do what you say you will
•  Its the little things that really matter
•  My hubsy is a bed hog
•  I'm not as good as sharing as I thought. lol.
•  Communciate, when in doubt say it again
•  Always say thank you
•  Bite your tongue
•  LAUGH

Trash-Treasure Find

Please tell me that some of you reading this have found a treasure in the trash before? Anyone? Was out with my friend the other day, we were driving home and i passed a gorgeous shelf out for the trash. I said to my friend 'omg did you see that shelf? that was soooo cute' she had totally missed and we turned around, and after about twenty minutes managed to get it into my car. We know we want to refinish it but haven't started yet, but here is a sneak-peek.

Decorating

So I have been bothered by this blank wall in our bedroom for some time now. I don't like blank walls, I think walls should be filled. Maybe a little toooo filled, but whatever. A couple of weeks ago I spotted this frame out for the trash, i drove past it a couple times and decided to pull over and pick it up.

Isn't it pretty? If you could see it for real you would see that it is hanging by a few last nails. But I love it! So it hung on the wall for a little with nothing in it but I had an idea what to do with it.

Enter these wall decals I found at Michaels awhile ago:

 Aren't they soooo cute?

I wanted to use them more then once though so I taped the picture to the bank of the frame and then sticky tacted the frame to the wall.

I had to move them around quite a few times to get them just right, also ignore the some of them aren't smooth (welcome to a renters life ;)

Whadda ya think?

I'm loving it.

For right now anyways.

Songs in My Head

"And I've had that song in my head all day"

Watch the Wind Go By - Tim McGraw

You are God Alone - Philips, Craig and Dean

Arms That Hold the Universe - 33 Miles

Rolling in the Deep - Adele