Follow your Heart mini album part 3....

Ok this is the last few pages of this album....

I'm so sorry that I couldn't get those pictures to turn for me. I've rotated them in every program I have on my computer and they still want stay put even with me saving the changes. I'm sure that it's operator error...I just don't know what to do about it.

I haven't been in the craft room much lately cause we had new flooring put down throughout the house except in the bedrooms and we are planning on putting all new carpet in those soon. So I've been busy busy trying to keep things cleaned as best as I can. The construction is finally done and it's all cleaned back up and it seems like all I want to do now is sleep. It was weird waking up this morning with the house so quiet. But let me tell you it was one of those good weird feelings.

Hopefully next week I'll be able to get back into the swing of things and get back to working in the craft room. Have a great weekend everyone!

Follow your Heart mini album part 2....

Part 2 of the Follow your Heart mini album....

Once again sorry about the pictures being turned sideways....I can't seem to fix that problem...

Stick around the last of the pages are coming up.....

Follow your Heart mini album part 1...

Hi everyone! Hope that you are all geared up for a nice weekend. It want be long before the kids go back to school and summer will be over with. It seems like this summer has just flown by for me. But anyway, here is the mini album that I promised I would show you that I made for my soon to be new niece. I gave it to her at the bridal shower last weekend. Normally when I show you all these z fold mini albums I don't show every page...but with this one I'm going to so sit back and I hope you enjoy my next 3 posts....

I'm sorry about these other pictures being turned sideways. I've done everything that I know to do to make them turn the right way but can't make them stay that way....hopefully no one will get a crick in their necks looking at the pictures.

Stick around cause there's more to come....

Bridal Shower Part 4....

Well how can I forget the groom??? Luckily he stopped by for something to eat and I was able to get a picture of him. Isn't he handsome?

Here is the bride opening the gift that I got her. It wasn't in a box and I couldn't find a bag large enough for it to fit in so I had to get creative with my wrapping. I looked on her registry and found that she was wanting these white towels so a light bulb went off for me and I thought that I'd use the towels as wrapping paper and so that's exactly what I did. Then I used some kitchen utensils as my bow accents and used pink and black tulle to tie it all up. Love her heart she was unwrapping that thing forever it seemed. Sorry Sarah!

I thought this was a neat way to decorate a gift and thought I'd share it with you as well.

This is all 4 of my husbands sisters. They are all a hoot and fun to be around! I thought the sunset was so pretty last night.

Ok and last but not least I just had to share this with everyone. I thought this was the neatest little idea for a gift. I'm not sure who did this but it was cool! They took a hula hoop and just wrapped dish towels and such to it using some ribbon. The girl told me that normally you use a wreath frame to make one but she decided to try the hula hoop. How cute is that?

Well I hope you all enjoyed getting to see what I was up to last night. I made Sarah a little mini album and gave that to her last night as well and will share that with you a little later on today or Monday. Hope that everyone is having a wonderful weekend!

Bridal Shower Part 3....

Hello again! Here is the host of the party. My sister in law Rita. She did such a great job pulling all of the decorations together and was a wonderful host.

This is my great niece. She was the PERFECT little helper with the decorations.

Here is another one of my sister in laws. Yes we have a big family and I love them to pieces.

For some reason these next two pictures came out really small. (Sorry about that.) But this is me playing games. As always I stink at playing them but had so much fun in doing so.

I wanted to share this picture cause it shows what was done with another one of the "life preservers" that I made. In the picture is my great niece and sister in law.

Bridal Shower Part 2....

Hey ya'll! Welcome back! So here is the beautiful bride to be! She's the sweetest thing ever and I'm so glad that she's going to be part of our family.

The lady in the brown blouse is mother of the groom and one of my sister in laws. And the other 2 ladies are family as well. One of my beautiful nieces, who is also my hairdresser and her sweet little mother.

The lady to the right is mother of the bride and the other lady is another sister in law of mine. I'm so blessed to have such a great family! In this picture you can see the confetti that was on the table and it's really a better view of what the centerpieces looked like.

This is family as well. Rita, another one of my sister in laws and the host of the party came up with the cutest idea to serve our dessert in little colorful buckets as you can see it being served in this picture. It was so yummy too!

This is another family member who is enjoying her dessert.

I'm not done yet with the pictures....I still have more to come so remember to stick around.

Bridal Shower Part 1.....

Hi all! Just as promised I'm going to share the pictures with you of the beach bridal shower. My sister in law did a great job pulling everything together. I was only in charge of the center pieces on this one. I think that everything turned out to look so cute and it was all done on a tight budget which was even better. The first picture is the display as you enter the deck.

I think that this picture is a good one. With the shrubs acting as a canopy for the entrance way. Its so quaint and welcoming I think.

This picture was taken before the guest arrived of course. I wanted you all to see what everything looked like beforehand.

Here is what those "life preservers" that I made looked like once everything was set up on the tables. Later my great niece added some sea life confetti to the tables. We were afraid that it would blow away had we added it too soon.

This is the veil that I added sea shells too for the bride of course to wear during the party. I think it turned out cute.

Since I can only add 5 pictures at a time on each post it will take me several posts to get the pictures in so stick around.....

Beachy Bridal shower centerpieces....

We are expecting a new member of the family and so I was asked to make the centerpieces for the bridal shower. There were several ideas that went through my head but since it's suppose to be a fun beachy type bridal shower this is what I've come up with. Its really a very inexpensive way to decorate your tables and so simple to do. I used a 16" round styrofoam wreath form, some 1 1/2" ribbon and boating rope from Walmart. Then I used my Cricut to cut out the letters.
This isn't all that will be on the tables...I plan on buying some of the tall clear glass vases and putting in the center of each "life preserver" and adding a large candle and some seashells with sand in the bottom of the vases. Once I round all those things up I'll try to see if I can make up a table to show you what it's going to look like...if not then you'll have to wait til I take pics at the actual shower and show you all how it all came together. But until then...I hope that everyone is having a Great week and I'll see ya soon!