Day 10: A picture of the person you do the most messed up things with

Day 10 - A picture of the person you do the most messed up things with: This kid. Michael. He's my cousin, but growing up, he was more like a brother. We're 3 1/2 years apart. In this photo, we were having a pixi-stix eating contest. Yes. At 12:40 a.m. :) It was a tie and it was probably one of the worst ideas we've ever had. But it was fun.

Sky-Diving Birthday Card

So, July is a busy birthday month, so I'm sure I'll be posting several of these, but here's the birthday card for Mike's cousin, Joey. :) He loves to sky-dive, so the hubby asked if I'd make a sky-diving themed birthday card for him. I accepted the challenge and ended up with this:

 I didn't have any silver paper, so I just used regular computer paper and a silver sharpie for the parts on the plane. I cut out the shape of the plane using computer paper and then cut out the wings and the nose and put them on separately, so they pop out a little bit. The little sky diver is black marker and the face/helmet/goggles are glued on so they kind of pop out as well. For the sky, I used a brush and blue food coloring to "paint" the paper. Then, I ripped it and put pieces together, making it look like the clouds were coming through as well. Throw in some letter stickers, and you got the front.

Here's a little closer view of it. :) 

The inside said: "Once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards for there you have been and there you long to return."--Leonardo da Vinci.  :) I just cut out paper clouds and used a crayon to add shadow and depth to them. I used the left over sky parts from the front as well.

Ta-Da! 

Days 5-9

Okay, I know I said I'd be back yesterday, buuuut, I got super busy again. Anyway, here's the posts I missed....

Day 05 - A picture of your favorite memory: Papa giving me away on my wedding day. I'd say my wedding day in general, but I loved having him walk me down the aisle. 



Day 06 - A picture of a person you'd love to trade places with for a day: I don't have a picture for this one because I'd rather not trade places with anyone. I love my life. 

Day 07 - A picture of your most treasured item: My husband. Even when he hasn't had his coffee yet...like in this picture. 

Day 08 - A picture that makes you laugh: This photo makes me laugh because these horses were the reason I was late for my own wedding. Yes, that's right. Horses. In the middle of the road. Blocking me from getting to the lake in time. Now they've become an inside joke because I may have freaked out a little bit at the time. 

Day 09 - A picture of the person who has gotten you through the most: My mama and the hubby. :) 

Busy busy!

I know I haven't been on here in quite a while, but this week/weekend has been the weekend of unexpected family visits! First, Gramma Geanie came up and stayed the night with the hubby's cousin, Joel. Then, the very next day, Aunt Jana came up with two of her boys. Mama#2 (the hubby's mom) came up with our 2 nephews and niece. That was so much fun! They stayed at a hotel for 2 nights and the kids had fun splashing in the pool. It rained both days though so it was mainly indoor activities for us! The only major bummer about them coming up Monday and Tuesday was that I had major homework since this is the last week of summer classes. I'm beat!

I played around with Marshmallow Fondant last night (first time making it!) and although it was a huge sticky mess, it turned out pretty good. It's wrapped up right now and the hubs and I are going to play around with it later on when he gets home from work.

I have a friend coming over today to hang out with Patrick and and I. She loves bunnies, so he should have a blast! Any attention is welcome for that bun.

Well, I better close out now. I'll be back later on for the 30 day challenge thing.

Happy Father's Day!!!

It's hard to believe that this is the 4th year that I haven't been able to call my dad and wish him happy Father's day. So I said it out loud this morning, so wherever he is up there, I know he could hear me. I miss you and love you tons, dad.

Ever since I was little though, my grandpa has been an important father-figure in my life and I am very grateful for everything that he has done for me. I've been a papa's girl from day one and still am.

Because of the role he has forever played in my life, I make him a card every year. But, each year, he expects something cooler. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to beat this one though because it's actually popping out. The whole card. I made it look like a fish basket on the outside by folding a paper bag and hot gluing twine in a weaved fashion. The twine isn't in straight lines though, making it look old, which is what I wanted. Then, I used a paper bag handle for the handle and sewed a brown button on the front for it to close. I took a piece of straw rope the hubby made and used that as the loop that slips over the button to hold it closed. :)

Yep, that's the outside.

For the inside, I put white card stock down for the base. Then, I glued more twine on by the parts that flap over. I colored white paper with a bunch of different green crayons and cut it into strips to make it look like grass. (My grandpa usually throws grass in the basket so the fish doesn't get the basket as slimy). After placing the grass, I used sticky glue dots to attach him. :) I wrote Happy Father's Day and signed it. :)

For the fish himself, I took a coffee filter and opened it up over a plate. Then, I mixed green and blue food coloring into water and used a dropper to drop the dye onto the coffee filter. I used the blue-green around the edges. Then, I made some light pink food coloring water and dropped that toward the middle (so that the fish has pink spots on its belly). I let it dry. Then, once it was dry, I stuffed it with a piece of paper towel. I scrunched up one end to make the tail fin. I used a part of another coffee filter for the top and bottom fins. Then, I took blue and teal nail polish and made scale-like dots on the top and middle of the fish, and the fins. Then, I cut up gold paper and made the gold scales above the belly. The eye is a pearl button that I made the black spot on. That's glued on there as well. :)

Here's the little guy. :) He has all of his fins in this picture, plus if you look close enough, you'll see gills. :) 

Happy Father's Day, Papa! 

Day 04 - A picture of your night.

Day 04 - A picture of your night: Yep, this is how my nights usually go. :) Snuggled up under a blanket with the hubby. This pictures is like a year old though. We were down at Gramma and Papa's house watching Kung Fu Panda with everyone. I think it was the day after Christmas because one of the kids got the movie for Christmas. :) 

Day 03 - A picture of the cast from your favorite show.

Day 03 - A picture of the cast from your favorite show.

Leverage! And it's starting really really soon! Super excited. You should watch it. It rocks. :)