Birthday Craft ONE

Candy Mason Jars

This is me at the start of my project. Well after collecting all of the necessary supplies. My supplies are 1. Variety of Scrapbook Paper 2. Cupcake and Circle Template (I made this in a word document and printed it out.) 3. Mason Jars 4. Ribbon 5. Mod Podge 6. Heart hole punch And a few other usual items: 7. Scissors 8. Paintbrush 9. pencil/pen

Oh wait one more, . 10. CHOCOLATE! Yes this is a necessary supply item for me. It helps me to mark the progress of my task. Work a little, eat a little.. I can find myself many an excuse to eat chocolate and this is just one of them. ;) hmm, maybe I should apply it to my blog posts.. then maybe I would post more often.. 

This is what the jar looks like close to the end of the project. There is this cupcake shop that opened up here recently when I was browsing around for ideas for birthday party favors. I got the idea to decorate a mason jar from their cute cupcake in a jar. I love mason jars :) 

So first job is to cut out the circles. I measured the inside of the top of the mason jar, it was pretty close to 2 inches. On the computer, I printed out a couple of circles with sizes close to 2 inch diameter and then tried them out to see which fit. 

I traced and cut out the circles. 

I had to play with the size of the cupcake too, just based it on what it looked like on the circles. 

Traced them on the back of the scrapbook paper and cut them all out and played with the colors, lining them up for easy gluing. I also punched out hearts and decided where to put them. 

ModPodge the top of the jar. It gets pretty self-explanatory from there. I used Mod Podge between each layer and on top to seal it. I didn't take the first two pictures in succession so that is why the colors do not match up. 

I let them dry and then tied ribbon around the lid of the jar. I also filled the jar with candy. These last few pictures also allow for a sneak peak into craft number 2! 

Birthday Baby!

My baby is 1! We had a little party for her over a month ago! I know I am SO late posting these.. My excuses: 1. Family in town 2. Baby's first stomach bug... ewh! 3. two trips. 4. I'm lazy. 

Here are some pictures from the day! :) Actually just pictures from Adley "eating" her cake, because that is really what first birthdays are all about, watching a baby dig into a yummy cake for the first time!  

She had fun playing with her cake. Didn't really eat much of it, just smooched it around. 

In the end, she pulled it into her lap!

Time is up! Really not sure how some ended up on that little foot.. 

Thanks again to everyone that joined us or thought about us that day! 

ADLEY had a blast :) Big smile! 

P.S. I got into this little chick's birthday party. I am hoping to post some pictures of a craft or two I did for her party. Hopefully, coming soon! 

3 years!

  Surprise Ryan, this post is for you! :) Just a few of my favorite pictures of us together. I love you! 

First from our wedding day, courtesy of our great friend, Katie. A couple fun memories of that day, Ryan kicking my wedding dress train out of the way DURING the ceremony! ;) Running from water balloons that were solely aimed at my new hubby. 

Honeymoon.. Cabo San Lucas!

from a fun trip to Virgin Islands :) 

above also courtesy of KT. 

only thing missing is Bruiser's auburn jersey.. 

and last month, on a night out after way too long! 

LOVE YOU RYAN! It has been a great 3 years! Excited about the 4th +! 

Chicken Pot Pie

This may seem to be a nice post about chicken pot pie, but I have you fooled. There is a lesson to be learned in this story, possibly one you already know; but one I have learned the hard, tearful, stomach turning way. But we will get to that in a minute.. This happened quite a long time ago, in July actually. This is partly due to my being a slow post-er, but mostly because of the stomach turning part. Ok.. ok.. mostly because I am a slow post-er.

We never had chicken pot pie growing up. I guess I can't really claim that... I apparently have a bad childhood memory, my sister loves to recall things that I don't remember. So maybe we did, but basically I thought I didn’t like it.. Well someone brought a delicious one to us just after we had our little chicken.

And since then, I’ve been stuck on attempting to make a decent one. The times I have tried, they are very TASTY, but also very soupy. Anyway, so I have actually tried to document this each time I have tried, hoping it would be the time I get it right. So here are some pretty pictures of this particular time. 

Some chicken, about 1 cup. (Cooked of course.) I cooked mine in a little coconut oil on a skillet and then chopped it up nicely.

Followed by 1/2 cup of onion.. 

Broccoli, not your traditional veggie for chicken pot pie. Broccoli is one of my husband’s favs, so there it is. I imagine you can put whatever veggies you want into a chicken pot pie, my choices were carrots, peas, corn, and broccoli. Pick a few, leave out what you don’t want and add more of what you do. Basically I used about 2 cups of veggies.

Then I heated the butter and onions. 

I added the flour, 

Got the pie crust ready.. 

Took a picture of all the pretty vegetables together.

Added milk, cream of chicken soup.. and stirred. 

Then... dgbihfnsdhouhiahkjhjsf and this! That doesn't look like chicken pot pie. Sick feeling enter here:

I DROPPED MY CAMERA! And it is a NICE camera, one that I bought with money I had saved up from multiple birthdays/Christmases. So this is the lesson; expensive cameras have straps for a reason. Actually the strap is partly to blame. I went to grab the camera to snap another picture and the strap caught the edge of the counter! Bam, expensive camera somersaults and falls to the TILE floor. Nonetheless, I wasn't using the strap as it is intended. And it is there to prevent this type of event. 

This is what I get for trying to be like the Pioneer Woman. 

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