Focus... focus.. focus

I am not in the focussing and full school mode right now. During this summer I have the take 2 classes: mental health and pediatrics. Both are interesting subjects and lets face it, I am an over achiever sometimes .. BUT I can not focus with the sunshine to play in and all the crocheting I can do at work. Yesterday I made a hat and I also finished a heart pillow this week. It is so relaxing and more fun than stupid studying.. ugh.

p.s. by the way I am trying to get in shape for the wedding aftermath of our honey moon.. double ugh.

Things I Loved this week..

So i decided I want to do this segment too.. so many fellow bloggers do it. i will list 5 things that I loved this week.

1.  The Sunshine
2. Running my stress away
3. Girl night/talk x2

4. skinny cow ice cream sandwiches
5. when my future husband says I love you first

J is for..

my friend Jesse. She is awsome and without a doubt one of our best friends in town. She also looks like Justin Beiber too which is just funny that they have the same wardrobe. Well she is constantly telling me she wants me to make her something.. so...... i made her this:

Its a pillow! with the letter J as well as an 8 to be symbolic of a scrabble letter because we play words with friends all the time. I did a single crochet all the way across and did the J from a free hand pattern. I did the back as an envelope so that she could take it off and wash it, because she owns quite a few animals. I used some of her girlfriends buttons to close it up and viola!

Bridesmaids

So i was asked by a friend to talk about bridesmaids. So this is a post to answer her questions about the subject and anyone else who cares.

I have two very different (body) type of girls and I allowed them to pick the style and shape of the dress. Kristie is flat as a pancake and looks good in anything, where as Hayley is more voluptuous  (not FAT!!!) just curvy and more shaped like me. So i told them to go to David's bridal and pick out a dress at or below the knee in pewter.

So this is Hayley: She is my best friend. I met her in High school where we hung out in the same group of friends but never really got to know each other. Than after high school I reconnected with her when I was visiting my sister in Santa Barbara (coincidence, I think not). She is pretty amazing and one of the people I miss most in California.

When I asked her to be my maid of honor (which I did thru the mail and cards I customized from theweddingchicks.com) she was ecstatic. I told her what I wanted and she said not a problem because she already had a dress from a wedding she was in last summer (pictured below she is on the far left)

As for shoes, I want my ladies to be comfortable. In this wedding she wore heels, but bought the same shoes in flats to wear at mine. Which is just fine. I don't like matchy matchy anyways. Its not me. 

(I couldn't find this dress on the Davids bridal website)

So this is Kristie: my seester. I have know her since she was born and although we do not always get along lately its been awsome to have her around. I could not do any  of this without her. 

Kristie went to David's bridal and picked out the below dress and heels that look great on her and makes her look skinnier than she already is, if that is possible.

This is the her dress from the davids bridal website. http://www.davidsbridal.com/Product_Short-Satin-Dress-with-Pleated-Bust-and-Ruching-F13277_Bridal-Party-Bridesmaids-Shop-By-Color

I am going to include earrings and necklace in my gifts for the ladies and they can wear it or not and that is up to them. 

Invitation breakdown

Its INVITATION TIME!!

As mentioned before I got second place in a diy wedding card making competition, which I am pretty stoked about seeing how I have been a little bummed that I didn't get picked to be a budget bride for a different blog and the main person of that blog was one of the judges for the invitations.. oh well

So Anyways, Lets break it down. 

I bought the brown natural-esque card and envelopes already pre-made a pack of 50 at Hobby Lobby is $ 9.99 and with a 40% coupon I bough 2 packs which came to $12

The white pieces of paper used for the post cards and invitation portion were 0.50 for a stack from Habitat for Humanity thrift store used for ALL the invitations

The Atlas behind the invitation was $3.00 also from Habitat for humanity

The airplanes were made at a book pages, the book was a $1.00 also from Habitat for Humanity

The brads were $3.99 or less (depending if I had a coupon or not) and I bough 4 packs for a total of $16

The blue paper was one of the most expensive things. I bought most of it on sale for 0.25 cents for a total of $17.50

Than theres postage.. ugh. postage is so expensive.. each card had a 0.64 cent stamp and a 0.29 cent stamp for the postcards which came out to be $65.10

So in total I spent $115.10 on invitations (just slightly over the 100 I wanted to spend) so broken down by 70 invitations I spent  1.64 an invitations. 

Thats not too shabby and I won a prize from them too.

How did you do your invitations?

what the f-- BLOGGER..

So, I lost the post on my invitations and another post I worked on yesterday before blogger decided to take a dump for a whole day, thanks.

so.. 2nd place

I entered in a DIY wedding card contest and I won second place.. thats awsome. I am so happy. 


here is the website.. http://www.do-it-yourself-invitations.com/contests.html


pretty awsome.


more about the invitations on the next post.