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I've been working on a project for what feels like forever now and no, it's not our wedding scrapbook (although that took me more than 3 years to finish).  Jordan and I have been planning to make a quilt of all our college t-shirts!  Well, technically Jordan wont be doing any sewing, but he did wear a lot of the shirts and helped me figure out the placement of the "squares". I've always thought that a quilt would be lovely to have some day. Jordan and I participated in so many different things while we were in college and all the while I've had this idea in the back of my mind.  Personalized quilts are so exciting but they are most definitely a lot of work! If you've read this blog before, you know my knitting/crocheting friend, Wendy.  Wendy is such a talented person and makes some amazing things!  You can peruse her work and fancy creations by visiting her online shop, Peas & Carrots .  Trust me, you will end up marking everything as a &q

I worked on a little project this week that I thought I would share with you all.  You see, there are tons of Pinterest projects out there that you can do with wine bottles.  I think/thought so many of those craft projects are/were fun, so I started saving empty wine bottles as I came across them/emptied them.  After months of saving the empty glass bottles, I now have a whole box full and I've totally lost my motivation to do these wine bottle crafts.  Not that these projects aren't interesting and creative, but there are only so many projects you can do with wine bottles before your house starts to look like a wine cellar.  As such, I'm looking to get rid of all these glass bottles somewhere.  Of course, I can recycle them, but surely someone out there needs them for something!  The moment I recycle them, someone will need them! At any rate, I decided I would do this one small project since I was home and had all the supplies on hand.  Sorry to disappoint you guys, but

As you all know, the Spring season is here!  In Texas, the weather has been confusing (per the usual MO).  We've had 70 degree days this past week but we've also had very high winds lately.  Hehe...the weather is like a dramatic teenage girl! Despite the unpredictable weather, a friend of mine decided to host a "Pot Party" last weekend!  It's not what you think folks.  It's a flower pot party! My friend invited close to 20 people, but because of the high winds and chilly day, most folks bailed.  It worked out okay though because those of us that showed up realized just how much work it takes to decorate a flower pot!  We also had more fun in a smaller group setting I think. We started by sanding the entire surface of each pot with an SOS pad.  This smoothed everything out and helped us get the sticker residue off.  The next step was to tape the edge of each pot so we could put a coat of sealer inside.  The idea is that we needed to seal the inside of th

The last month or so I've been reading the Divergent book series by Veronica Roth.  For those of you who've never heard of it, that's not a big deal.  Most people will tell you that it reminds them a lot of the Hunger Games series which makes sense because the book's setting takes place in the future and society is divided up into "factions" (known as "districts" in the Hunger Games series).  The books also seem to target the same audience and age groups. I'm not typically "hip" to what kids are reading these days, but I do like a good book series and I'm especially a sucker for books that will be made into a movie.  If you know me personally, you know that my favorite book series and movies are the Twilight Saga books even though there is debate on the merits of the movie verses the book (books are way better).  While Divergent doesn't really hold a candle to the Twilight series in terms of character development and love stor

If not for the crazy animals in our house, it was a pretty uneventful week.  I don't have much to share with you guys but Jordan and I had some good laughs. The last two weeks we've been babysitting my parent's pup, Sophie (aka Sophia Maria Consuela Gonzales, Rodriquez).  I'm not quite sure how she ended up with that nick name....  Her nick name at our house has been "Sophie the Grouch".  I truly love this pup, but her constant growling is very confusing.  Little Soph has a sort of "love growl" that she voices whenever she's happy, being loved on, being played with, etc.  Yes, Sophie is complicated, but we love her. It was fun having two dogs for a while.  We took them on walks and they didn't even drag us!  Sophie has her own harness when she is at our house.  It is just easier to control her without hurting her but she kept trying to shake it off. Here is a picture of our ladies on a recent walk.  Both were happy to smell new

My weekend kicked off very well when I got a quick text from my brothers.  About a month ago I'd crocheted each of my brothers hats for the winter.  I'd made them in February and was about to drop them in the mail when I sprained my ankle.  And so the hats sat for a few days  weeks. Friday, I got these hilarious pictures from my brothers and thought you all might enjoy! Left : Scott deep in thought while wearing a grey and white hat. Bottom Right : Scott and Andy both wearing the hats.  I seriously thought they might be big, but they look a  little tight.  And why isn't Andy wearing a shirt??? Top Right : My foot as of Friday.  Layers of bruising is still coming in and I still have some swelling but as you can see, I can put weight on it and walk without pain.  Still hurts a lot to rotate, point, or flex too much. We've been babysitting Sophie for my parents and it has been a wild adventure.  Every moment they are jealous of each other for eith

This has been quite a filling week so far.  As you might have read in my previous posts, my department at work is pretty enthusiastic when it comes to events and FOOD.  We have food around us allllll the time.  Fat Tuesday is the perfect excuse to round up our friends, make some delicious food and raise money for the Seven Loaves Food Bank, a charity that we like to regularly donate to.  For those of you who don't know, Fat Tuesday actually has religious roots.  Fat Tuesday is actually the day of celebration prior to the fasting season of Lent which begins on Ash Wednesday.  You mean it's not all about the "king cake you ask?"  Yup, there's more to it.  Fat Tuesday also just happens to be our National Pancake Day!  This is a good thing because every year my department and I stuff ourselves.  Our department organizes everything and we all pitch in for the supplies.  We get a couple of chefs and do it right folks.  We don't just make plain old pancakes.  Th

Last week Jordan and I had quite the experience with our car.  While I will admit that our car is getting pretty old (2001 model) the age of the car had nothing to do with the Thursday fiasco.   It all started in January when I needed a simple oil change.  Jordan took the car to Firestone and they quickly handled the oil change and did the usual cursory review of the vehicle.  Per Firestone's recommendation, we needed a new serpentine belt (among other things according to the paperwork).  We talked it over for a few weeks and set aside a little money so we could have the maintenance done on the car.  We feel very fortunate not to have a car payment but we also know that with that comes a little extra maintenance on our vehicles.  In February Jordan takes the car in to get the new serpentine belt, new belt tensioner, state inspection, new spark plugs, new fixed a flat (had a tiny nail in my tire), and we were on our way!   That's when the trouble started...  Now, if you