• Happy One Year Anniversary to the Houghs!

    Leah – My dependable, reliable friend.  How different life is from when we were 20 and our biggest concern was what concert we would be attending on the weekend!  Life is different, you’re married and celebrating one whole year of marriage, yet our friendship and my love for you remains the same.  I still talk waayy too much (and usually…

  • Pirate Cookie Bucket

    So I baked some cookies for the firemen who showed up at my place to turn off the building alarm last week, read story {here} and also made a Pirate Cookie Bucket. The station is completely decorated in Pirate gear – I know this from the first time I dropped off cookies with Brittany and we received a tour and even…

  • A Black and White Wedding Card Birdcage - perfect for holding your cards from wedding guests.

    The Evolution of a Birdcage: From Ordinary to Extraordinary!

    First things first: fix the uneven/unfinished whack-a-do color! I had so much fun spray painting a flat coat of black paint with my nephews on the Fourth of July. Shame on me for not capturing that moment on film! –Auntie Elise received just as much spray paint as the birdcage did…but it was all good. Next: a semi gloss black…

  • Trying something new…

    I was the child who never managed to successfully make an origami crane in school.  Why would I think I might be able to make over a dozen origami flowers in less than four days???? – because I am a crafting machine!!! Mock-up Flower # 1 Let’s see if I can enlist the help of my “train friends” over the next two…

  • Birdcage Part I

    Hi.  I’m the wedding greeter, and welcome to the wedding!  -I am practicing for Shauna’s wedding next weekend.  One of my “greeter duties” is to assemble a card-holding-receptacle; a task Brittany (my co-greeter) decided should be a “beautiful vintage birdcage!”  That would be easy – that is if we lived anywhere besides the surface of the sun Moreno Valley.  The…