Nerd Alert! Fantasy Worlds Street Sign

I saw a cool road sign on Pinterest made up of fantasy world/kingdoms and knew there was no better homage to our nerdism than this project!! My husband and I hashed out which worlds/kingdoms/cites we wanted. We wanted to pick places we were BOTH fans of, so unfortunately Gallifrey did not make the cut as my hubs isn't a Whovian. *sad panda*
Honestly we could have had a sign with just the Lord of the Rings realms. It was so hard to pick just a few!!
I sanded some of the wood pieces and left some rough. (BTW the scraps of wood were a mixture of pallet wood and part of our broken fence! Score!)
I used acrylic paint and picked colors for each sign as the base. I found different fonts online that I felt best represented the world or city and outlined it onto the piece of wood. I then used a white paint pen or black sharpie for the letters. And voila! Nerd alert! All my neighbors know where the cool kids live now!!

School desk makeover

Just a short post on a recent project :)

Finally got a mom a break. I went to a few garage sales with some friends and scored this cool school desk.

I knew I wanted it to be turquoise and chevron right when I saw it. My girlfriend Toshia talked the seller down to $12 from $20 because I'm too much of a chicken to negotiate.

Let my just say that taping chevrons with no stencil kinda sucks lol!

But I think it came out great in the end :)

DIY Cardboard Owls

Found this adorable idea in a parenting magazine. Using an empty toilet paper or paper towel roll, make cute decorative owls. Simply push down the edges on one side making the top of its head, paint the tube, cut out the eyes, beak, and feet from construction paper and half circles for the wings from decorative paper, such as scrapbook paper. Voila! You now have adorable little owls! These will be going in Miss Salem's room.

First Post!

We close on the new house on Friday!! So excited! I will soon have so many projects to work on I will be in hog heaven :) There are several things I have all ready begun, but you'll find out later what they are.
To begin this new blog, this new undertaking, I would like to introduce my lovely daughter, Salem. She recently turned ONE.
Her birthday party was quite fun for me. I planned it all out for MONTHS ha! I spent way too much time online looking up theme ideas, cakes, etc...
I settled on "Candyland" for the theme. It was loosely based on the boardgame with more of a focus on bright colors and different types of candy in general. When it all came together, our cake table was every child's fantasy!

The "Salem" banner was made from left over scrapbooking paper :)

Cupcake tower!

Oreo Balls. MMMMMM!

Red Velvet Cookies!

The jars used were recycled jars from my G-ma :) Found the ribbon for super cheap at the dollar store, most of the decorations came from there.

A majority of the decorations were home made.

The pinata was made from tissue paper and paper mache. So much fun to do! Looking back on it now, I wish I had taken pictures of the full process.

I found a party hat print out online that I cut out and pasted over some discount party hats. Salem's hat got special treatment :)

My sister and I made pipe cleaner lolipops covered with saran wrap.

Her first party was a success!