Swim little fishies

Me and my Mod Podge strike again! This is my latest project, our medicine cabinet. Ander found this thing out by our dumpster in near perfect condition. All I had to do was decoupage the crap out of it and we finally have a place to put all of our medicine! We've been storing it all in a shoe box in the kitchen... that needed to end.

I found the cutest little fish collage online and decided to use that for the shelves and the outsides since our bathroom is fish themed. "La mer" is "the sea" in French

For the back of the cabinet I actually used my OWN artistic talents! I drew different sized bubbles all over sheets of white paper

And ta-dah! The final finished project!

I believe I have an addiction to decoupaging, but I feel like that's okay. It gives me something to do while I'm home in the evenings. I feel the creative tingles all over my body. What to do next? Nothing is safe from me and my Mod Podge...

Roses are pink

I have just finished literally crying a river...

When Ander and I were in high school we hung out a lot during lunchtime. I was head over heels for him and he knew it, but we never talked about it. We were just friends. One day I was having a seriously bad day and told him that in our 2nd period class together. I think I had failed my written driver's ED test, and blah blah blah, high school girl drama. He wasn't around at lunch, which bummed me out even more, until the very tail end: he caught me on my way to my last class and handed me a single pink rose. " I knew you were having a bad day, and I saw that rose at the store and thought of you." I was rooted to the spot and positively beaming at him. I've never forgotten that day.

I had a dream while Ander was away on his mission that he came home early and came to surprise me at school. In this dream, when I saw him outside I ran to him as fast as I could, and while I was running he opened his arms wide and was holding a bouquet of pink roses in one hand. Right before I got to him I woke up. I wrote this down in a letter and sent it to him.

When Ander came to visit me AFTER he came home from his mission he parked right in front of my house and called me on my phone, telling me to come outside. I hadn't seen him in two years and I ran from my front step to his arms. He opened his arms wide, and was holding a bouquet of pink roses.

I had a bad day today. I don't feel like my work out is doing anything, I need some new clothes, I don't have anything to wear to Joe's wedding, and so on and so on... I told Ander about some of these things earlier but I cleaned the house and felt a little better. Ander left for work at 5 and I decoupaged my next project. When he came home...

I burst into tears.

Me: *sob sob sob sobbing sobbing sob* "Is this what took you so long to get home? You bought me these?"

Ander: " Yup, I started thinking about it on the way home and decided you needed them today"

Me: *sob sob sob sob sob* "This reminds me of when you bought me that single pink rose in high school"

Ander: "That is why all of you roses will forever be pink."

So...

MY roses are pink, violets are blue,

Ander, you are my prince, and I love you.

Happy Easter!

Easter was so wonderful this year! General Conference, a relaxing weekend, and a huge Easter dinner with my good buddies! Plus Ander's gift of Bluebell Cookies and Cream ice cream... it doesn't get much better than that. I hope everyone's holiday was full of love and yummy treats, colorful eggs and spiritual food. I know mine was.

My Texas family! Starting from left to right we have: Trevor Walsh, Ander, me, Taylor Hartley, James Hartley, Radge Harrison, Amber Harrison, Joe Lowry and Tracy Lowry. Michelle is taking the picture. We were all stuffed by the end of that dinner!

I just realized my shirt in this picture makes me look pregnant, which I'm NOT. Anyway. In the back to the right we also have Jen and Danny Rich who just had a little boy recently. I didn't want to leave them out.

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!

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Enjoy.

Mod Podge once again

This was a really quick little project but it was a lot of fun. I found a vase at Goodwill for 99 cents and Mod Podged yarn around the outside. I bought some cute silk flowers from the craft store and made my own little decorative vase. What do you think? Since I bought a silk flower bouquet the project cost me a whole four dollars. And, I bought the flowers in a bouquet, so I'm using the leftover flowers to make hair accessories too. Yay for cheap crafts!

Behold...

It is FINISHED! Ander and I finally finished our dresser that we bought from DI! We bought this bad boy three years ago with the intention of refurbishing it somehow, but never started on it until we moved here. We just put the finishing touches on it this morning. I'm so proud!

My good friend and talented artist, Amber, taught me how to decoupage the sheet music onto the drawer fronts. Sorry about the flash reflection, but this is what the drawers look like.

It was so much fun decoupaging those drawers and I've now become obsessed with Mod Podge. It was 6 bucks at Wal-Mart and you can completely transform anything with it. I'm currently keeping up with the blog modpodgerocks.blogspot.com for ideas. Some people are just so daggum creative it makes me angry. I have noticed that when I'm looking at other people's ideas I begin to form my own, so I guess my creativity just needs a little bit of exercise.

Ah, sweet release

I have been released from my calling as Ward Chorister of the Anderson Mill Ward. I am now back down to only one calling, Primary Chorister, and I feel pretty good about it. I must admit, I am pretty relieved to be released. This last Sunday was my last day leading the ward. I did it for over a year and really enjoyed it for the most part... unless the Music Chair decided to have us all sing really awkward hymns nobody knew, or the substitute for the organist couldn't play the hymns to save his life. Those things did happen occasionally. Overall I really enjoyed that calling. And it taught me discipline because I was the chorister during the entire year of 9am church and I had to be there 10 minutes earlier than anyone else. Oh but it will be nice to just stay seated next to my better half all during Sacrament Meeting. Hizzah! I was told that I wasn't going anywhere as far as Primary was concerned for a looooooong time, though. Straight from the Bishopric's mouths. But that's alright, I don't have anywhere else I'd rather be.