{2010: My Life in Photos}

January: She Said Yes!

My sister and Wyatt got engaged (note: her ring is super gorgeous, this was taken with my iphone, so the diamond looks usper hazy)

February: Love Is In The Air

Well, it's in the deocrations at least!

April: Going Wedding Dress Shopping

Every dress she tried on was stunning!


April: Schenanigans at Work
In order to get the full effect of CPAP - one my CPAP themselves

May: Caught on TV by the NBA

This prompted my weight loss challenge....see how full my face looks?! Yikes!

May: Working with Drew

Work is so much more fun when you work with one of your best friends.

June: Focusing on Heritage

My mom cross stitched this for my grandmother - now it's on display in my house.

July: Family Reunion

Headed to South Dakota to visit family and have a wonderful family reunion! these are all of my dad's brothers and sisters.

August: Shedding the Pounds

So far, 20lbs thinner! No more fat face!

September: Aloha!

In Maui for Whitney and Wyatt's wedding!

October: Autumn is here!!

Pretty fall wreath I made - tutorial is on the right side bar!

November: Thanksgiving at work

If you can't be with your family, your friends are the next best thing!

December: Merry Christmas!

Fortunate enough to have a friend work for me so I could spend Christmas with my family!

Hope you have a very Happy and Healthy 2011! See you next year!

{More Christmas Decor}

Buffet side table in the kitchen with Santas and ornaments hanging from the vintage window.

Living room: colors are red, celery green, light blue, pink, white and silver. So lovely.
Close up of the mantle.

The tree

moved the glittered "believe" into the kitchen buffet table and added the apothecary jar with glittered bulbs

{gobble gobble}

Holiday decorating has begun! Let's have a little peek, shall we?

My Christmas mantle: I'm loving the cool aqua, crisp white and the shimmery silvers and gold. So refreshing and tranquil!

"joy" ornament on my standing chalkboard, along with 2 "warty" glittered candles! Love this!

Glittered "believe".

My end table, loving the glittered holly garland, and the snowflake branches

There is just a tiny looksy into my winter wonderland. Iv'e got so much more to post! Working on the stree still, stay turned for something spectacular!

Happy Thanksgiving my sweet friends! Much love and blessings!

{Ideas and Inspirations}

Just a few things I'm currently loving right now...

Decoupaged pumpkins. This pumpkin is painted white and then decoupaged with leopard print tissue paper. Add some foliage to the top and you've got yourself a cute little autumn decoration. (I'd use artificial pumpkins for this!)


I'm loving anything with houses on it right now and aren't these house pillows precious? fun fabric, poly-fil, felt, buttons, etc. Looks pretty easy to me!

Love love love this. Paint and some pumpkins. Too cute! I'm going to try to re-create this!

Love this right now. I've been really learning a lot at BSF (my Bible study group) and trying to apply what I learn to my daily life.

{Just Some Random Stuff}

It's funny, I always have these great ideas swirling in my head. I see something and think "I need to write about this on my blog". Then, I get busy and forget. So, without further ado...


This is a perfect example of why texting and driving is a bad bad thing. 6 cars involved! Here is my fantastic partner, Jenn. Funny thing is, we actually saw the accident and stopped to help before someone called 911 and called it in.


More funny schenanigans from work. My co-worker brought a patient into the hospital. Apparently the patient was drunk and passed out in the street. The police told us to take him to the hospital to be checked out before they took him to Detox. Well, after the patient was placed in the waiting room (because there were sicker people waiting to be seen) our little friend decided to leave. My co-worker chased him down the street and kindly escored him back to the waiting room. Pure silliness!

Lastly, I went to Jessica's house yesterday. Let me tell you what a kind and good friend she is. I have the craziest work schedule. I wasn't going to be able to get my hair done for at least a week because our schedules are totally incompatible right now (except for every Monday when we go to Bible study together). Anyway, I got off work at 4:15 in the morning and she told me to come over when I got off work and she'd do my hair so I wouldn't have to wait another week. Isn't that the sweetest thing ever? I am so blessed to know her. She's such a good person, very selfless and lives a godly life. What do you think of my new 'do?

I'll admit, the curls are hard for me to re-create. I tried, but it just wasn't working for me. I got a lot of compliments on it though. Thank you Jessica!

{aloha}

Hawaii was absolutely beautiful. I took this picture on our last day. I went to the beach and sat and watched the sun come up. So peaceful, so relaxing.

My mom and myself at one of the scenic outlook spots. Pretty, huh?

Guess who we met in the airport? Yes, that's Rob Schneider ("You can do it! All night long!"). He was so nice and was in Maui doing a comedy show at a hotel down the road. So cool.

My dad was so jealous that we met him. Hmm, maybe if he had gone to get the luggage instead of sending the girls to do it, then he could have met him too. Am I right?

{How to Make a Fall Wreath}

I've been scoping out all the pretty fall wreaths out there in blogger land. Let me tell you, I've been SO impressed! So I decided that since my front door was barren, it needed some warming up with a fall wreath.

Enter, the cast of characters....a grapevine wreath (these come in a variety of sizes), silk flowers in your favorite colors.

Tools: Pliers with a wire cutting blade and scissors. However, I used my trauma shears from work because they're super sharm and can cut through almost anything!

You'll also need a hot glue gun and a few glue sticks.

Cut the flowers and leaves from the stems and place them on the wreath in your desired form.

Glue the flowers down once you've got them arranged the way you like.

Grab your favorite wreath hanger and voila! A pretty fall wreath for your door!

I'm linking this post up at Metamorphosis Monday! Hop over and check out the other inspiring projects!

{mending a broken heart}

This blog is full of happy things. Home decor, crafts, cooking, gardening, etc. Every now and then, though, the world isn't such a happy place and my heart is heavy.

I was dating a wonderful man. Our relationship ended. My heart is sad.

I'm focusing on rebuilding. Rebuilding my heart, my head and my faith.

If you're the praying type, please say a prayer for me. I'm hoping my heart heals soon so I can continue on my journey through life.

God has a bigger plan for me and I'm looking forward to seeing what's ahead for me.

Thanks for listening, friends.

{What I'm Wearing}

I see so many bloggers who post their cute outfits! So, I decided to joing the ranks...

Today:
Shirt: Daisy fuentes for Kohls
Jeans: Levi's

Yesterday:
Shirt: Style & Co from Macy's
Pants: Levi's jean capris]
Bracelet: Pearls and Swarovski crystals from The Market At Quail

{just some summer fun}

My sister and her finace, Wyatt are having their wedding reception catered by a local BBQ restaurant. Tonight we got to go with them for a tasting and decide on what meats and sides they want to have catered at their reception. I decided to have a little fun on the saddle outside...my weight loss total is lingering around 14lbs right now.


The boys at work decided to have a little fun with some leftover fireworks. As you can see, it was a smoky mess, even their fire alarm started going off.

This is one of my supervisors, Tony. Here, a fellow medic threw a smoke bomb, which caught the rug on fire. Does it surprise you that it's always the boys playing with fireworks?

On a girlie note, I got these fancy Bed Head makeup brushes. i wasn't sure how to store them. So I got a hurricane, filled it with split peas and stuck the brushes in. I think it looks really pretty, and who doesn't like pretty?

{New 'do}

What can I say? I'm a creature of habit! My BFF Jessica does my hair every 4 weeks and I always leave her salon feeling like a million bucks. I've had the same 'do for as long as I can remember, jaw length blonde (except in the winter, jaw length auburn with blonde highlites) Here it is today!

And here she is! The woman herself, Jessica! Funny thing, we met back in 2008 when I started working at the ambulance service. He husband is a medic also and they had just moved here from Ohio. One day at lunch, I was reading a Country Living magazine and he said, "you have to be friends with my wife. She doesn't have any friends here!" I thought what a weird guy. 4 weeks later at our academy graduation, I met her and we have been best buds ever since. She's my creaive muse when it comes to home deocrating. We have very similar decorating tastes and she's going to help me decorate my kitchen and dining room. Can't wait for that!

Today we made a pit stop by State Beauty Supply so I could pick up a few things......and $164 later, we left. *gulp* I can't believe I spent that much! On the other hand, I got gobs and gobs of shampoo, conditioner, hair gel, nail polish, makeup brushes, makeup, nail files, a new hair brush and other hair products. I went a little nuts, however, this should easily last me 6 months and it's all good quality products!

{A Few Little Pretties}

I got a new camera this week so I thought it'd be a good opportunity to test it out and take a few pictures around the house.

Love this little tree. I've been playing with the features on the camera, this is the macro. Pretty good if you ask me.


Got some new placemats today. Am I the only person who goes nuts over placemats? Probably so, but none the less, I love 'em. I got the wooden spools at the antique store and they look perfect on the table.

Summer in the living room

Suggestions on what to do with the table that the TV is on?!?! White perhaps?