Firday Confessional #2

Starting things off with a little Disclaimer: I love my sweet husband and could not imagine my life without him and have absolutely no regrets of marrying him.

With that said...
I HATE living in the SNOW!

Playing it...love it

But, I hate living in it.
the roads suck
people don't know how to drive (I don't either so I DONT)
it's too freaking cold
and I get super grouchy if I am indoors for a long period of time. 

You must realize I grew up in Gilbert, Arizona My blood is thinner than water and I LOVE being outside A LOT.
I could spend a few months dealing with the snow. But, come on, its April and we still can't go outside and play! Can we say Prozac, people!

The most time I ever spent in the snow was a day or two skiing in the Mountains. Then it was back home where it was nice and warm, ok even hot!

I miss having my AZ tan! The sun just doesn't do it for me in Idaho.
 (which is where my hubby is from)

Everything is so ugly right now...the trees still don't have buds on them, no flowers, no green grass...nothing

but brown dormant yuckiness!

Oh, yes, and I haven't mentioned yet that Tuesday morning we woke up to 6 inches of new snow on the ground. They had to cancel school because they took all the snow tires off of the school buses.. AARRRR!

Sigh,...deep breath... I'm ok

I feel a little better now. That was a much need Friday Confessional.

There are countless beautiful places to visit in Idaho. There really is some beautiful land up here. But, for me, more like the visit it, enjoy it and then go back to my big city, warm weather.

Happy weekend everyone!

fabric flower headband

I have seen these all over the place I love them. My little sister made me a cluster to wear with my Easter dress! They are so versatile and darling! I wasn't able to find any tutorials, I must be blind, so decided to google them. Maize in Montana was were I landed, she has a super easy tutorial to follow (which she did in August of 2007) Wow am I behind!
For step by step instructions on how to make these go over to her tutorial. She did a great job with pic's and commentary. But, here are how mine turned out. I used fabric I already had on hand. The black and white flower is left over from my living room curtains, the red and white from a dress I am making my daughter and the burlap I picked up at the Walmart scrap counter for $0.75 for a yard and a half.
This four pack of head bands (2 black &2 brown) I picked up yesterday at the Dollar Tree.
I used my trusty hot glue gun to attach the flowers to each other and then to the headband. I next took a 1"x3" grosgrain ribbon and hot glued that to the underside of the headband and the bottom of the flowers for some stability.

I am excited to wear it this afternoon to our family Easter party.

NFF

Free hair bow

I found this on craigslist in my area and had to post about it on here. Jessica over at the Ruffle Bottom Bowtique is giving away one free bow to each person who posts about her give away and puts her button on your side bar. Just do that and leave her a comment and wham! you have a free bow on the way!
She has some pretty cute bows. So, hurry over and check it out before the promo ends.

modge podge clothes pins

I was out of town all last week and haven't done any projects. So, I am going to use this one I did two weeks ago with my nieces.
Yolanda over at Monkey See-Monkey Do posted this darling project that was perfect for my two nieces I have staying with me this weekend.

Friday Confessional

• I gained 50lbs during each pregnancy of my two children
• still trying to loose all of the extra weight, but then again aren't we all?
  
• I loved growing up in the desert, but am getting used to the mountains...ssshhhh don't tell my husband.
• I am a tom boy who loves to dress up for a hot date.
  
• during the winter I only shave my legs on Sunday mornings before church...maybe that is why both of my children were conceived in the Spring?!?
• I only get dressed in the morning if I know I am going somewhere that day...other wise its jammie day.
• I love teaching my 9 year olds on Sunday's (would rather do that than teach the adults.

Ok...that's enough for one day. I don't want to give away too much :)
Happy Spring Ladies!

New Friend Friday

This is a fun way to meet new gals in the blogging world.

Wordless Wednesday

I'm linked up for Wordless Wednesday.

$5 Dollar store challenge

I was excited to read about this decorating challenge in blogland a few days ago. With my brain working in over drive I went to the dollar store a few times and couldn't come up with anything containing WOW reactions.
One night I was blog stalking from some link parties and ran across this project Nicole at It's a Sweet Life did last week.
I had just the right piece of wood sitting in my basement that would work perfectly. A few weeks ago I picked up some moss and pink ribbon at the Dollar Tree. I just needed to venture back to the Dollar Tree to pick up a green wreath! Woot woot!
Nicole used her hot glue gun, but for me it wasn't working very effectively so I switched to the 3M spray adhesive and it worked like a charm.
Here is the wreath completely covered waiting to dry.
Silly me didn't take pictures of the wood process. I painted it a light yellow, lightly sanded it and finished it off with MinWax Dark Walnut stain. Hot glued the ribbon to the back after wrapping it around the wreath. Tied a separate bow and got glued it on.
Voila!
I will be linking it to the 5 dollar store challenge next week. So excited to see all the fun things everyone linked up creates.
Here is the link to Lindsay's blog to go look around: