I also set up a few good ones from those younger years by the cake.
All in all it was a great party. Happy 50th Dad! 
We received some wonderful wedding gifts during our engagement and wedding but some of my favorite gifts are my China and Crystal. I LOVE all of it! My problem though, was that I had no way to display it all. I wanted a China Cabinet but nothing I found really fit me. So I was on a mission. Mom had already promised me a china cabinet for Christmas so when I saw this old cabinet for sale on the side of the road, I just knew it would be my diamond in the rough. I say rough because it looked just that... rough! I don't know why I didn't get a before picture. It was darkly varnished, drab and just sad but I saw the potential! Using all the elbow grease I could muster up I sanded the bad boy down. Spray painted it white then painted the inside of the cabinet with a blue that reminds me of the ocean. Ahhh... now, thats me!
I have some projects going on this week that I should get posted next week. 
This horribly unattractive thing is what was in our dinning room when we first moved in... Luckily it didn't stay long. We received a beautiful Tiffany style chandelier as a wedding gift so we were happy to put it up... quickly. I decided to keep it for what ever reason and it's been up in my attic for almost 2 years. I came across a Better Homes and Garden magazine and found an article about 'rescued treasures' and thats when I pulled this old ugly chandelier out of the attic and decided it needed to be 'rescued.'
They are wrap around mailing labels with a return address area. A Very Chocolate Wedding has an easy to do printable templet here. These would have been so cute on those party invites I sent out a few weeks ago. I'll definitely use them for the next time. 
The Tutorial called for tissue paper and I immediately thought of gift wrapping tissue paper... and thats the Blue flower - not so 'tiny.' Then I remembered I had origami paper left over from an Asian themed baby shower so I made the pink and purples ones out of that. And I will be making more! But the hubs is here so i'm off to dinner. Night! 
I'm happy with it! Its just scrap book paper mod podged on the plate. It matches our room and it will match another project I'll be working on soon. It's still a secret but I'm sooo excited about it! While at Hobby Lobby I came across an unfinished wooden trash can. It was only $5 and even in its unfinished state is way cuter then the current walmart-bag-hanging-from-the-desk-knob trash can that is in our office. So I grabbed it! Also used scrapbook paper on this project as well and some left over spray paint. I was a little rushed doing this one - trying to get done before my oven timer went off for my chicken pot pie. So I made some mistakes BUT they are good mistakes to learn from.... wait for the base coat of mod podge to dry before putting on a second, otherwise it bubbles. I just put the side towards the wall :) Problem solved and it still didn't turn out to bad.
This is from Easter. They are showing off the treats and toys the easter bunny brought them - see I told you they were my children! Sophie is a Malti-poo and Harley is a Dudley Yellow Lab. I couldn't imagine life without them as this point. And of course there is my H-man, my Hubs, and I wouldn't be where I am without him.
We've lived in our home almost 2 years now and I feel like I'm finally starting to get everything the way I like it. My home actually fits me now. It's rewarding when you can turn a house into a home. One of my plans for this blog is to share my ideas and my projects. I've been running into a lot of both of these recently. Some I have recently completed so those will go up soon, but of course I already have others in the works. So I will keep everyone updated here. Hope to have you back soon!
