Tatertots & Jello

I am entering my first giveaway on one of my new favorite blogs, Tatertots & Jello. This blog is written by this awesome chic named Jen who explains all of her amazing DYI and craft techniques! Today the giveaway is a camera bag from Jo Totes. These bags are not only practical for all of your photo sessions but they are freaking adorable! I will probably carry around as a purse without my camera, when I need to. The reason I would love to have a Jo Tote bag is because, as you may know, I need some motivation to pick up my incredible spankin' brand new Canon Rebel T1i that my generous husband bought for me for Christmas last year. I think the solution would be a practical (and SUPER CUTE!) bag to carry it in so that I can start bringing it everywhere and learning how to use it by default! Right now it sits at my house, next to the zoom lens, and charger!

Now I would post a picture of the types of bags that Jo Totes offers but they are so awesome that you would want to enter the contest after seeing pictures and that would lower my chances, so you will just have to look it up and buy one yourself! What I will do though is link over to the giveaway as long as you promise to only look… :) 

http://tatertotsandjello.com/2011/10/giveaway-day-jo-totes-my-favorite-camera-bag.html


Happy Shopping, Blogging, & Halloween!

Newest Obsession...

PINTEREST. If you haven’t heard of it, I am sorry. If you have and you are not on it, shame on you! It’s the best thing since sliced bread! I seem to do more pinning than actually executing the ideas but that will come later! I actually had a friend last night (shout out to Heather!) who was telling me about all of the things she has made from it and I automatically thought of these 2 pins….

But then I remembered that I have made some things from ideas off of my boards. That is when my “Been There. Done That.” board was created. To post pictures of the things that I (and Steven!) have made! Unfortunately I am having a hard time uploading my own pins unless it comes from a website so I am going to have to keep updating this post with my pictures and then pulling the pictures from here! So here is a list of things that I have executed:

Works of Art

Steven and I just celebrated our 1 year anniversary! We both can't believe it. Time is flying by too fast! We sure did have a wonderful year together as a married couple and we just know it is going to get better as the years go on....even through the ups and downs. You find out who you are in the hard times, right?

Well we were going to make a trip back down to FL where we got married to celebrate but since we just bought a house and all, we decided to stay in town! We had a bum day... it was AWESOME! We got some breakfast, layed around all day, watched some football, took a nap, and decided that instead of getting each other some fancy-shamncy gift that we both don't need that we would make each other something! 

So on that note... I headed over to my newest obbession, Pinterest, and tweaked one of the ideas to match it for Steven and I! I forgot though that not only is Steven a perfectionist, he is one heck of an artist. So here are our works of art:

Mine: which took about 1 day, 2 colors of paint, and a sponge.

Stevens: which took about 10 days, hiking for beautiful colored leaves & spiraled twigs, picking mums out of our front yard, and gorilla glue!

Check out the awesomeness of the 3-D crown!

And this picture is to TRY and give justice to the depth of the canvas.

 Yup, this is true love people!

Roasty & Cozy!

Can’t wait to eat a perfect fall, rainy night meal (grilled cheese & tomato soup with crumbled ritz crackers), sit by the awesome roasty fireplace in our new cozy home, and wait for The Biggest Loser to grace me with its presence tonight at 8:00pm and then I will probably keep my eyes pried open to watch Parenthood after that because it's just SO good… all with my loving and amazing hubby that I sometimes wonder how I got so lucky to be with! AHHH… life is grand!


Speaking of our awesome roasty fireplace. Check it out… one of the many pics from our new and cozy home! (More to post when I have the energy to do so!)

** Painting (of the WHOLE ENTIRE HOUSE...even this fireplace) compliments of Cathy Castardi from Creative Touch of Color. For those of you who don't know... this is my mother-in-law and she is an incredible interior painter! She even does ALL of the painting herself...no outside help. Enough said!



yOu KnOw YoU'rE oLd WhEn...

1. You buy a sewing machine at a yard sale.

2. You don't get a Spring Break or Summer off work.

3. Instead of looking at Facebook updates, you look for new pins to repin on Pinterest.

4. You have to drink a BIG Red Bull in the middle of the day while playing put-put to keep up with all of the kiddos running around there.

5. Your apartment is filled with boxes because you are packing up to move into a house that YOU are purchasing.

6. On a Friday night, you order 2 tickets to a 9:40 movie, go out to dinner at 6:30, done by 7:30, then walk around Garden Ridge to kill time before the movie so you don't go home and fall asleep.

7. On Saturday night you are at your own home, with your HUSBAND and 2 dogs, watching some pigskin (and blogging of course!)!

Yea I may be old but I sure do love my life; Wouldn't want to be anywhere else right now!