Every July, the hubs' family throws a 3-day family reunion. On day 2 there is always a raffle and a pretty sweet raffle, at that. Always lots of goodies and my personal favorite, the homemade stuff. I appreciate something a million times more when I personally know the person who put their heart into it. So every year I intend on contributing and I only have a few times but it has been awhile. So with Google Reader becoming a mainstay of my life this past year, I had "starred" a few wreaths that I thought were cool and I made them.
Without further ado, let me proudly introduce what I contributed this year...
I thought this one was sooo cute for if you were having a party! If I had to do it over again, I would use smaller floral pins (the ones I used were coming through the other side in some spots) and smaller balloons because some of them are a little bit big, I think. It cost less than $15 and took about 45 minutes from start to finish - not bad!
I wanted to make this one for a long time for myself but never did. So my lucky cousin was the recipient of it and hopefully I will get around to making another for myself soon. I cannot recall how much it cost, maybe $20? And this one took a bit of time with all of the fabric cutting but my wonderful hubs helped me so it wasn't too bad. With his help, probably took me an hour and a half to two hours from start to finish.
This one turned out to probably be my favorite - well, I don't know, I really liked the red one...- and was definitely the least work. And the best part is that it was all my idea! I went into JoAnn's knowing that I wanted to make one for 4th of July and that I wanted to incorporate fabric, yarn and rosettes and this is what I came up with! I got .25 yards of 3 different patriotic fabrics, a skein of cheap, white yarn and a foam wreath. It was about $15 and took me maybe 30 minutes. So easy!
I love making wreaths, I have discovered. Maybe it will be my reunion "thing" now!
And just for good measure, here is a pretty pic of Josie from this year's reunion.
If anyone can tell me how to work with the crazy spacing issues in Blogger without messing with composing in HTML, I would greatly appreciate it. :)
Check it: 101 in 1,001.
Finally!
Our super cool friends, Kevin and Emily, have lived here for four years and we are always saying how we should go visit but, for no good reason at all, we kept putting it off.
We arrived around 4pm on a Saturday in June and headed home late afternoon on Sunday so it was not a long visit but it didn't have to be - it taught us that they are not THAT far away and we can easily make this trip again.
Let me just say, I was a really bad picture taker on this trip. I have no cool pictures of their adorable neighborhood or any of the cute shops there; no pictures of their house or Emily, like 2 of Kevin and not enough of their adorable little girl. I got a couple of good ones of us, but that is really it, unfortunately!
Our pals live in the historic German Village of Columbus, Ohio. Their house was built in the early 1900's and a good portion of the house is original. I wish I had taken some pictures of their actual house but I was not in my blogging frame of mind :(. The streets in the neighborhood are even still original cobble stone! It is such a cute neighborhood and I am so glad that we got a chance to visit them there before they moved on to greener pastures.
Our visit was pretty low-key. Pretty much consisted of walking, talking, eating and attending to our babies.
Kevin and Emily have a seven month old daughter named Evie that we were so excited to finally meet! She is so beautiful and so sweet, seriously. And she literally has the sweetest hair that I have ever seen on a baby. It was so fun to see them parenting at a stage that we were at so recently ourselves but still seems like it was sooo long ago! They are still trying out new solid foods, giving bottles and not dealing with mobility. It was also funny to hear Emily asking me the very same questions I was wondering about just a few months before, like, "How did you make the transition from pureed food to table food??". It just made me laugh because that frame of mind is still so vivid for me but at the same time so far away.
On Sunday afternoon we headed to the Columbus Zoo. This zoo rocks! Apparently it has the distinction of #1 zoo in North America? This is what my hosts tell me. I have to say that it was pretty awesome. It is laid out very well and there are A LOT of animals. We were only there for a few hours so we didn't get to see everything. Our friends purchased a year pass which allows them to bring 2 guests every visit for FREE! How sweet is that? I told you that these people are cool.
Ohio actually has some redeeming qualities, after all. ;)
To check out my list: 101 in 1,001. And a quick note - if you are following me through an RSS feed like Google Reader or whatever, would you mind taking a second to go to my actual page and follow me? I am just wondering if I have picked up any new readers. Thanks. And thanks so much for reading! :)
