Made With Love!

Originally, my husband and I were not going to spend money on gifts for our one-year anniversary, and instead just spend money on doing something together. But I still wanted to get make him something, and I was inspired by Pinterest. 

I saw this tutorial for canvas wall art...

And tried my hand at it. I didn't like attempt number one:

The stickers that actually stuck the best didn't have cut outs for the insides of the letters (like "e" or "s") so they showed up funny and I didn't have the time or skill to hand cut them. Plus I thought the font was weird... On a side note this project was a lot harder than I thought. The stickers are hard to peel off without leaving pieces behind and it's hard to have enough letters without buying six sticker packages to get your whole phrase.

But attempt number two was a lot better, except one thing - not wanting to waste the first two of the four canvases I tried to "re-do" them. The grey-on-yellow one worked well...but I don't know if I like the yellow-on-blue one...

We even used them in our photo-shoot for anniversary photos!

And will hang them in our bedroom once we move to our new apartment!

I also was inspired by The Dating Divas blog to make a jar of dates - 10 dates for $2. Here's how my date jar turned out: 

(I'm not gonna detail the dates yet because they will be a surprise to Jason as he picks them one-by-one. Hopefully I can document and blog about the dates once we've done them!)

I also was just super impressed by my gift-wrap skills:

(Yes I did re-use tissue paper and ribbon from our wedding gifts!)

PS: We were blessed with a gift card for a restaurant and a place to stay, so we ended up having some "gift-money" as well!

{Several more anniversary posts will follow!}

It's Been Too Long..

Hello there dear blog, blogging world, and readers! It's been way too long. Let's just way a lot of things complicated my ability to blog, the main two being 1) no internet at the apartment 2) 60 hour work weeks = only about 38 hours at home (not including sleeping hours). Needless to say blogging took a back seat for a while. But I'm going to attempt to start up again!

My first blog is going to be in response to Teesha's challenge: to choose one (or more) of the items from our pinterest to actually DO by April 7. Now, I give kudos to Teesha, because her blog not only inspired me to do something from my pinterest, but it also inspired me to BLOG! Here's what I chose:

My goal was to do this little workout every day. Sunday I didn't because I ran 10.5 miles and was WIPED OUT! Monday and Tuesday I did! And then I noticed I was getting really sore, which is bad news because I'm running a half-marathon this Saturday (tomorrow) and it will not help if I'm sore. So Wednesday and the rest of the week I took a break. Yes, I know, taking a break from something I just started! All in all, I think I "accomplished" my goal, at least to the best of my ability considering the circumstances. And starting Monday (I'll give myself one day off from the half-marathon.) I am going to begin this daily workout again. It only takes 10 minutes or so. I might adjust it a little thought because I'm not a huge fan of having to count so high haha. But I will do a daily mini-workout!

Thanks Teesha for the motivation!