one.

A year ago today we were gettin' hitched!

I'm so glad I found such an awesome person to spend the rest of my life with.

I couldn't think of anyone to match me more perfectly.

Excited to spend many more years as wonderful as the first!!

I love you, Mister!!!

wedding picture project

Mister got me this distressed frame when we got married and it has been so naked for the past 10 months so I decided to dress it up.

I used Picnik to edit some of our wedding pics into a cool retro black and white, then I cropped them into squares.

It cost less than $5 (including shipping) to print them on Shutterfly as 4x6 prints (not bad considering some other sites who would charge at least $1 per print.  I had 16 printed.)

Still have a ton of leftover jute twine from the big day.

yay!

cutesy pootsy!

2011 memories.

January - a special party just for my man and me.

these girls are the most incredible hostesses anyone could ask for!

February - lots of wedding prep.  Don't know how I could have gotten it all done without my friend Bethany.  This is not Oscar, by the way.  Her kitty is his doppelgänger.

March - the most amazing day of my life.  I got married to my best friend.

April - I got chosen to be the page turner for Pete the Cat, a book reading and signing that my brother and I took my nieces to.  This is my awkward face.

May - we were kinda boring during May.  However, we did make it to a party.  So here we are with our friend Burgin.

June - at the park picnicking and listening to the symphony.  Ah.  We're so cultured... haha.

July - I got a stress fracture.  Rocked the boot the best I could.

August - hit lots of rocks floating down the river.  

September - the mister's birthday... his cake ended up looking like a glowing orb.

October - cheeky pumpkin month.

November - I took some fun pictures of the mister.  He started a blog.  AND he got a real grown up job!  It was a good month.

December - my family.  I love them.  I especially love cooking with them.  

It's been a spectacular year filled with love, new beginnings and great experiences.  I hope you have a really wonderful New Year filled with light and love.  Happy 2012!

our first Christmas.

So Thanksgiving came and went and it was a glorious feast... now I need to run 100 miles this week to make up for all the junk I ate.

My brother's mother-in-law gave us an "our first Christmas" ornament this weekend and it was so nice.  I was excited because I wanted to have one to hang on our tree... when I pulled it out of my suitcase to show the mister, it fell off of the hook and shattered.  Sad day!!

So I decided to throw together an ornament for us to have on our tree.  We happened to have some clear balls (ornament balls, sickos!) and some old programs from our wedding.  So I cut up a program (minus the front piece with the birds and the date) and stuffed the ball with the cut up program.

it was a fast project... and sentimental!  Can't beat it!

paper cranes

 for our wedding, we folded 1000 of these things...

and we hung for the ceremony...

and I didn't want to fold another paper crane for a very long time.  

However, my sweet nieces asked me after the wedding if I would make some cranes for them to hang in their bedrooms.  And this weekend I finally got a spark that made me want to fold cranes again.  So here they are... a little more exciting paper for little girls' rooms!

still need to be strung up to hang...

cake topper.

I'm trying to duplicate this.

more pics and crafts to come...

wedding plan.

After some thought about how to share our wedding planning with the world, we decided to forego The Knot and make a blog.  Soooo... I may be spending more time here and less time here... I'll try to not play favorites, though.

come over and find out how things are going on the planning front...

daveplusal.blogspot.com

engaged!?

I got engaged today.  I'm still in shock a little, but took some time to take some pics of my ring.  Let's get ready for some crafty wedding blogging!  woo!

my latest project.

my cousin is getting married next month and my aunt asked me if I could make lip balms as favors.  I was excited to make something for his wedding, so I have been working to make them look just perfect for the special day.  I just finished with my first batch... here's how they're looking.

only 225 left to make!

message in a bottle...

coming in from the gym today, I opened my mail receptacle (it's not so much a box so we have to call it something else) and received probably the most unique piece of mail I've ever received.... a wedding invitation to my cousin's wedding in Hawaii.

a message in a bottle...

message delivered!!

pretty awesome I must say... I have to give credit to my lovely cousin Doobie (yes her name is actually Doobie!) I'm glad to be related to creative people!!

mexican wedding cakes or cookies??

I don't know if they should really be called cakes... they look and act like cookies to me. I made some for a party the other day... here's the results.

doughy.


ready to bake.


STEAMIN' HOT!!


this one took on it's own form in the oven.


a delectable treat!!