Date Night

Jake called me at work on Tuesday and told me not to plan anything for supper, he was taking me out.  So sweet!  He knows how much I love spontaneous surprises:)  So after Chinese he took me here...

Why have we never been here?  Seriously?  They have 16 different flavors of soft frozen yogurt.

It is self serve so you can have as many different kinds as you want.

Such a neat place.  I highly recommend this if you have never been to one.  You get your own cup and put whatever you want in it, add toppings (they have a huge selection from candy bars to fresh fruit), then pay by the ounce.  It can definately add up in a hurry with the toppings.

They have the coolest spoons too!  I was feeling kinda fruity and tried orange, pineapple, and peach.  I was a little disappointed in the peach- not as flavorful as the other two, but still good.  We are already contemplating our next visit.  There was a coffee one I would love to try and a passionfruit that sounded interesting.  They said they change out one flavor per week...hmmm... maybe we need to start making this a weekly trip honey?  Or not, our waist and pocketbook would never forgive us.  Thank you so much for an awesome evening!

 

Sympathy Tile

Just a tile I made for my sister-in-law who lost her Grandfather.  I put a picture stand backing on it so it does stand up for display.  Disclaimer:  I did not spell good-by wrong, that is how it is spelled in the song. :)

Layered Cookie Bars

The original pin from Picky-palate.com

These sounded absolutely divine!  I mean, what could possibly be better than all cookies rolled into one bar.  You start with a layer of sugar cookie, then double chocolate cookie, then peanut butter cookie, and lastly chocolate chip cookie.

Here is mine:

Verdict:  I had trouble getting all the different layers done at the same time.  The outside edges were getting way too done by the time the middle was even close to being done.  I even tried Picky Palate's trick of covering it with foil for the last 10-15 minutes.  Don't get me wrong, they were delish, but I'm not sure if they were worth all the work of layering all the sticky dough or not.  Also, they are super rich, so make a pot of coffee while these are baking.



Birthday Card

I had 2 birthday cards to make this weekend and I always find that masculine cards are harder for me to do, so I somewhat dread them.  They were for my brother-in-laws so I knew there had to be some humor involved or they would glance inside to see if there was money and promptly put it in the trash... (mild sarcasm, I should prolly give them more credit than that)

 

So, I put this on the inside.  I seriously wish I would have had my video camera ready for this one.  Matthew was a bad actor but it was kinda cute to watch him fake shedding a tear.  Nathan didn't have to act or fake it.  He literally laughed so hard he did cry :)  Mission accomplished!

Hall Closet Reveal

This project started off as an accident.  I was just going to reorganize the shelves... 1 week later and I have a new closet!

I made this curtain (which is why there is no close-up for you to see) out of burlap, then deicded it wasn't long enough so I added on some brown polka dot fabric.  It covers our ugly electrical box.

On the left side of the closet is 3 shelves that hold my paper products.  I fell in love with these chicken wire baskets from worldmarket.com (fabulous website by the way with reasonable prices).  I still plan to make some tags to hang on the front of the baskets as to what is in them.

On the right side there is only one shelf that I put all my baskets on.  I also store my mop/broom/vacuum in this closet.

On the left side on the floor, I covered this cardboard box with the same fabric I used for the curtain.  This is my "Donate" box.  As I come across things I just toss it in there and when its full it makes a trip to Salvation Army.

We also use this as our coat closet.  I am not a good photographer, so just imagine that I was and you can see how much more organized it is now!  Of course, I didn't even think about taking a complete before picture, but if I would have you would be able to agree with my husband.  The first words out of his mouth when he saw the finished product was "Wow!  How come there is so much empty space in here?"

Spring Wreath

My inspiration from Shanty 2 Chic

 My tulle and burlap flowers.  These colors inspired me.

The finished product.  A few things I wish I would have done... 1.) a bigger letter
2.) more flowers on or around the bigger letter.
I wrapped the wooden letter with twine and hot glued it about every third time around. 

Sneak Peek

 A little sneak peek of our front hall closet.  I was just going to reorganize it Monday and took everything out and decided it needed a little TLC.

Not sure if you noticed or not, but I didn't until after I painted my stripes.  One of my strip of painters tape went below the marked spot instead of above it, so my stripes didn't match up around the electrical box.