Sea World

Last week Danny and me went to Sea World with his sister Julie and her Husband Ryan and their two very cute girls! It was so much fun!! I had never been to Sea World before and I LOVED it! How do they make these big mammals do those crazy tricks!? I am truly amazed, I would go back in an instant to see them jump around. My favorite was the Clyde and Seamore show, but I think it was because of Biff, he was very funny (the first time). I also LOVED the pet show! Whenever I get the chance to see cats do tricks I am there! My least favorite was the Blue Horizons "Dolphin" show. I say "dolphin" because there were hardly ANY dolphins in the show!! I think they should rename it to the Weird Bird People show! I see dolphins do more tricks laying out in Leo Carrillo.

PS: I also loved the ice cave! (Julie took a better picture I have to get it from her!)

Ho Ho Ho

Everything is hung in it's place!

We decorated the tree with trains, dinosaurs, ballet slippers, and some home-made mushrooms I whipped up before we put up the tree. I think they are my new favorite ornament! That and the "G"s I think they're so cute and bright!

The wreaths and banners are up in there place, I didn't take pictures of all the banners, there are 10 banners around the house and I didn't want to put up pictures of all of them!

I love wrapping gifts!

Wrapping Christmas gifts is like my passion! I haven't wrapped that many yet cause it takes me forever to wrap them! I put way too much time into wrapping gifts, it's not the actual wrapping part that takes time, but the process of picking what wrapping paper with what ribbon. That takes me forever!! I can't wait to wrap more presents!! I think I have a problem...

Wreath Fixed!

Okay so the wreath that I had made before with the little red and white ruffle now looks like this!

I did not like how that ruffle looked, my friend Mary pointed out that it looked like a garter and it really did! It looked awful (you can see a picture of it in my previous post), so I fixed it today and I LOVE it.
My house is all ready for Christmas! I am just waiting for a couple ornaments from Anthropologie to get here so that my tree can be finished. Once they arrive I will post some pictures! Yay! It's officially Christmas!

Christmas Crafts

****Disclaimer this is not the final placement of my decorations I just put them up to take a picture!

Well the Christmas decorations go up in less that two days so I had a lot of crafting to do these past couple days. I have been sewing and gluing and pinning for what feels like forever and I am almost done with all my decorations! These are the things I still have to make:

1. Wreath
2. Table Runner
3. Mini Tree
4. Re-Do Stocking garland cause I sewed them too close together
5. Make felt ornaments/snowflakes to hang around the house
   

All that has to be done by Thursday when the decorations go up! I think I can do it!
I think I can I think I can!

In the mean time here is the stuff I already made. I can't wait to see it all in it's place on Thursday!

This year I wanted to make a Christmas banner out of burlap! I wanted to make something more rustic looking since all my other decorations are so green and red and bright! The picture didn't turn out that great, but you get the idea.
Then I made a wreath to go with it, but I don't like how the ruffle looks so I think I am going to change the ruffle to flowers this week too. The ruffle really does look like a garter.

Here are some regular triangle banners I made to go up around the house on shelves and on the piano. Then I made these little leaves and tied them onto a metal circle to make a leafy wreath! I made one in traditional Christmas colors and another in some snowy shades.

This is my favorite! I got the idea for this and the wreaths above from Gifted Magazine. It took me forever to find thicker bakers twine, but I finally found some at Anthropologie the other day! So I could finally tie my little stars to the twine! I can't wait to loop this around the Christmas tree! Maybe even hang some of it around the house. I just think it's so simple and cute. I love it!
http://www.creaturecomfortsblog.com/gifted-magazine

This year I decided to make stockings! Here is my first attempt at trying to make these little suckers.

I love Martha Stewart and when I was trying to find some templates to make some felt ornaments I found a template for this little stocking garland! I think it's so cute! I sewed the stockings too close together though so I need to fix that before Thursday too!

I can't wait to see how all these decorations come together!
I hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Don't eat turkey and drive!

Happy Halloween!!

Wishing you a Happy Halloween!!

Boo!

Pumpkins Galor!

Remember all those pumpkins in the previous post? Well this weekend we carved them ALL! Including a couple more pumpkins that we just had to have, one being a beautiful 120lb big mac pumpkin! Danny has always wanted to carve a big mac pumpkin, but they are always so deformed, then one day we saw the most perfect big mac pumpkin so we knew this year would be the year that Danny would get to live out his pumpkin carving dream.

Here is a picture of his big mac pumpkin. What a beauty.

On Friday Jessica and Tarrin came over and carved pumpkins with us! Our little lot looked good! I carved a couple of owls on my pumpkins, Tarrin carved a raven, and Jessica made a Jack-o-Lantern! Danny made some very crazy Jack-o-Lanterns. My poor Martha Stewart exacto knife was ruined in the process (but it's okay I got a new one ha ha).

Then on Saturday it was time for Danny to carve that big mac pumpkin! He did a wonderful job! I thought it looked amazing! This time he even bought his own exacto knife kit so that my new Marthat Stewart knife wouldn't get orange and gross. What a great man!

Danny says you always see big pumpkins eating the small pumpkins but this year was the small pumpkins year for revenge! So the small pumpkins attacked!!

Halloween Time!

It's Halloween time!! I love decorating my house for the holidays! Right now we have 14 mini pumpkins inside of the house along with a few more decorations. Out on the balcony we have spider webs, twinkle lights and banners, plus 10 pumpkins that are waiting to be carved! The front door has some glittery tinsel, spider webs, and an autumn wreath (made to look like it's for Halloween by adding some spiderwebs). Danny and I are still looking for the perfect haunted house to add to the decor, I figure if we buy a few things every year by the time we are 50 it will be perfect!

Happy Halloween!!

PS: Here is a tutorial to the Boo! banner I made in the first picture ... http://www.designhousedigital.com/content/classroom/boo-spooky-hybrid-halloween-banner/

Primas Come Over...

My cousins came over last Sunday to celebrate my birthday with a good ol' fashion slumber party! As soon as they got to my house we took off to Jo-Anns to get fabric so that we could make yoga bags! Then we ate some pizza and a ton of junk food. After we were all stuffed with grease and sugar we watched Teen Witch & Hocus Pocus while we made our yoga bags! It was so much fun! I love them so much! Yay for slumber/sewing parties!! : )

(Here is a picture of the birthday banner I made, my friend Tanne helped me by cutting out the letters, I can't wait to get a Cricut! I am awful at cutting things out.)

(Here is a picture of all the yoga bags we made!)

Happy Birthday to Me!

Well I have been 24 for a full day now and I feel old. I had a little party at Shakey's to celebrate. I am so lucky to have such wonderful friends and family, they make me feel so special and loved!! Also, Shakey's is delicious. Even though my birthDAY is over, my birthday week is still going strong! Danny is taking me to Santa Monica for a little shopping spree on Friday, then on Saturday my beautiful cousins are coming over to celebrate with me!
The only thing that could make this week better is getting my 15% discount from Anthropologie before I leave for Santa Monica! Oh please please USPS make your way over to my house and drop off that oh so important letter!

PS I have been crafting a lot, I will take pictures of the stuff I've been making some time this week and post them. My friend Tanne came over today and helped me make a birthday banner, it turned out really cute! Although it is quite large since I cute really big triangles. I also made a Fall wreath, right now it is decorated for Halloween, then in a couple of weeks I'll add some leaves to it and make it a Thanksgiving wreath. We're all about repurposing in this house!