50 reasons...

i decided to try my hand at digital scrapbooking for a Christmas present that my mom wants to make for my dad.... a scrapbook of "50 reasons why we love Dad" since he turned 50 this year and this book did not get finished for his birthday.

anyway... we decided we would print it with a bookmaking company and since I was the one who has photoshop.. i got to do all 50 pages.

Merry Christmas mom.

These are some of my favorites. they don't have the right pictures or labels added yet but they are just the backgrounds/basic ideas.

coming soon...

I am making curtain for our bedroom (its about time we took down the blanket...)

Well. this dress was my inspiration for our curtains...

stay tuned and you'll see how..

citron.

humanities....who knew

me and humanities, we're not fond of each other.

there are bits and pieces that i like/are interesting....but as a school subject I could do without.

however.. i found something I actually really liked in class.

this is the month of february in the gothic calendar made by

the Limbourg brothers for the Duc de Berry.

I would like to have a framed one in my house someday. The original is somewhere in France. Except i would cut off the actual calendar (blue part) from the top.

and yes... this does mean i should be studying for my humanities final.....

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last but not least

i am so equipped for winter now because Andrew got me uggs!! I am excited to have a pair of these warm and snuggly boots. we had some gift card money to dillards and we put it towards these lovely fuzzy boots.

this is me and Christy up at Urban Outfitters at Gateway in Salt Lake. Over Thanksgiving break the Webers invited us to go up to Salt lake with them to Cheesecake factory and we walked around Gateway afterwards. it was a really fun night. this is Christy and me trying to be prissy i think...... ha ha .

apartment continued

a couple little updates to our apartment.

i was hoping to get a little bench for the end of our bed. but i ended up going with this old trunk I found at an antique store. My mom's friend gave us a gift certificate to it that we hadn't used yet and I thought it fit in pretty well with the room.
I am going to make a cute little cushion for the top. I just haven't decided how to make it work with our busy busy bedspread (that i love).
I used these little vintage price tags just for fun
i think the bird is so cute ha ha

this is hanging in the bathroom. it looks cuter in real life

and this is on top of the toilet. ha ha

and this lovely shot is the real stumper left to figure out in the apartment. this quilt has been hanging as our curtain for months (I am planning to make one) and we don't really have room for the TV in our room. to be continued.....

have I ever said how much I love Christmas?

I really do. When I was little I'd do a countdown nearly all year I love everything about Christmas. Even though I like Thanksgiving a lot, I am always a little happy when it ends because Christmas music and decorations start.

I have been working on a couple projects for Christmas. First of all, we didn't have any stockings...... so I made some that I am pretty happy with.

this is in my parent's house right after I finished them...

and we just hung them up in our house! I love them. Even though it has trim, I think Andrew's is still masculine, ha ha.

I chose burlap and added a doily / trim. The inside is lined with red ticking.

I also bought two wreaths today. I don't have a tree up yet so I made sort of an ornamented wreath.

this wooden circle is the top of an old electrical spool. I fixed it up and we have been using it as a coffee table top, but in our crowded little family room it was getting to be really annoying cause we never finished it and it was all skiwampus. we would bump the table and the top would come off, etc. So we bought a new dual purpose ottoman/coffee table for the family room off of Craigslist......

long story short, we decided to hang up the spool on the wall as kind of art instead. it is the perfect background for the wreath. I really like it.

the wall behind our couch (finally not empty!!)

when we do get a tree, I have been working on a few ornaments.

i got a couple trinkets at an antique store...dominos, a tea tin, and an old key. I made the dominos into ornaments that turned out cute.

here's a little ornament I stitched.

here's the other wreath:

just simple but i like it too.

merry christmas!!