noodle dance

The Fourth is my FAVORITE holiday.  This year, unfortunately, I won't be in my hometown to enjoy the festivities.  I decided to add a little American flair to my back porch so that I can celebrate the colors all month long!  This project cost me a total of $2 and took me 30 minutes total to make!  

Funny story, I was picking up the noodles from our local dollar store and this sweet lady asked me what I was doing with them.  I explained this project to her- three minutes later, I was sitting on the floor of the store with seven or eight women around me as I showed them how to do it!  Funny things happen when you're crafting!

This one is for all my new dollar store friends!  Three easy-peasy steps to make the Patriotic Summer Garland:

cut your noodles into 1-inch sections.  a kitchen knife will do great!

string all your pieces together with a needle and some fishing line

hang it up! 

The best part about this?  WEATHER.  PROOF.  I hung this up and we had a gigantic storm blow through that night and those suckers stayed in place!  Neither wind nor, rain....

Happy Fourth!

father's day

Father's day is a week from today!  Unfortunately, I won't be able to spend the day with my awesome Daddy, but I figured this craft was a fun and somewhat manly addition to our lakehouse (a convenient time for a present)!

My daddy loves the lake.  Like seriously?  He's a stud.  What 50-ish year old can do this?:

dude's got skillzzz

Anyways, we have a great house up in Hartwell, Georgia, and I figured this craft that everyone has been making lately would be a shabby-chic addition to the living room and a decent present for The Boss!  It did take a really long time, but it only cost me $2!!  Booyah!

tape your state down on the wood to make nailing the holes easier!

not bad for my first time!

Happy Father's Day, Jeffe!

lilly lovin'

Like I said, I'm digging cooler painting lately. Does it take 800 years? Yes. But it's totally worth it.

I made this one for my Mama for Mother's Day and gave it to her last weekend!

We love Lilly Pulitzer... like, we flew to Pennsylvania to spend a boat load of money during a Sample Sale.  It was easily the most fun I have ever had with my sweet Mama!  I decided to loosely base her cooler off of this print:

you can't quite tell, but they're fish...

paint pens were my bffs for this one

she uses it all the time and I'm so glad!

marg time!

Like I have said, Banks graduates on Saturday!  In honor of his big day, I made some margarita cupcakes.  Yeah, that's right.  Lime, tequila and sugar all baked into one little package.  I baked regular cupcakes and mini cupcakes for his grad party- a big band party at the Marietta square with the whole town!  How convenient!

I used Brown-Eyed Baker's recipe and they turned out perfectly!  Also, the frosting turned out so beautiful, my best friends at Wilton helped me out!

yummo!  lime zest and frosting!

this is one of the minis :)

My confession? I hate cupcakes.  I really have never liked cake!  That just means you'll have to come and take all of these cupcakes off of my hands!  Any takers? 

moss frame

My front door has looked a little nekkid lately so I decided to make this moss frame rather than slap a boring circle wreath up there. I had the frame and the burlap, so for a $5 bag-o-moss and some hot glue, I made this!

definitely different from all the beer signs and christmas lights that
adorn the other houses in the neighborhood!

cooler craze

I have been on a cooler painting kick lately- I have several trips to the lake and the beach coming up so why not?! My brother Banks graduates from high school next weekend! That's crazy! I remember when he used to look like this:

love this kid

Anyways, cooler painting is super cheap and extra personal, once you actually purchase your cooler!  I already had all the acrylic paint and brushes but I decided to purchase some paint pens and that made a WORLD of difference.  Please please invest in some if you decide to do this!  Also, have a lot of Clorox wipes on hand- if you mess up, the acrylic paint comes off with one wipe.

I painted one for Banks to get him started on his freshman year at Auburn- Congrats, Banks!

the cooler was originally red and Wally World was
out of navy blue paint so I had to mix my own, then
paint the whole cooler!

the first layer of my tiger eyes... it was quite
a process!

ta-da!  I'm pretty pleased with the way it turned out!

...and the other side

There is a pretty snazzy Vineyard Vines logo on the back but I didn't take a picture of it. 

I had to stick this on the inside of the cooler to remind him who's boss!

cutey cute koozies

It is sweet sweet summertime which means that when I'm not at class or at work, I'm pool-ing, crafting and baking!

This fall, I will be a recruitment counselor which means I cannot wear anything with my sorority letters on it.  Harder than it sounds, I promise!  I made these cute koozies so I can take them to the pool and be an incognito sorority chick!

The koozies were on sale for $.66 each at Michael's and I already had the grosgrain ribbon and puffy paint- seriously the easiest project ever.  I'm going to make them for all the upcoming high school grads!  Anything is cuter with a monogram!

sigma rho chi recruitment counselor!

ta-da! complete with diet dew!

too precious!