Category Archives: MY LIFE

Showers, Popcorn, and Lots o’ Cupcakes

May 18, 2011

Filed Under : DIY - EAT - INTERIORS - MY LIFE

Last weekend, my best friends, Jaymee and Sarah, and I hosted a baby shower for our darling prego lover, Heather.  We decided on a carnival themed shower because a.) we love desserts and candy; b.) we love stripey straws; and c.) we love flag bunting.

The party turned out just perfect thanks to Jaymee’s amazing decor and signage (which, by the way, Jaymee has a new blog and it’s the cutest EVER and and anddd she does the most AMAZING graphic design i.e. blog headers, invitations, logos, ANYTHING IN THE WORLD so hit her up if you need some design done!).  I mean, look how adorable those signs are!!

Sarah and I were in charge of all food and boy oh boy did we whip up lots o’ food.  We made a fruit salad, green salad, my favorite Mediterranean orzo salad, a million pretty cupcakes, fresh homemade strawberry lemonade, and watermelon mint lemonade (those lemonade recipes will be posted soon as Sarah and I created quite a delicious concoction!!).  We also had trays of pasta ordered.  Everything was yummy.  And the best part was that preggy Heather loved it all and that’s what matters!!

PLUS, all of my best friends flew out from all over the good ol’ USA and I swear to you, we always have the BEST time when we’re all together.  Miss them already.

Our lemonade station complete with mason jars and stripe straws we got from Shop Sweet Lulu, as I posted here:

I made the cupcake flag toppers using this tutorial.  How sweet are they:

The candy station full of sweet treets:

Heather’s Ready to POP popcorn station (again, Jaymee’s signage is just too cute!):

Jaymee made this flag bunting, she is SO CRAFTY!!!!:

Jaymee’s momma is a balloon-making extraordinaire:

Some of my favorites, (from L to R) Jaymee, Sarah, Angie, Liz:

Me, Angie, Heather, Ann-Marie, Jaymee, Christina, Liz, and Sarah (I love them):

Me with belly:

P.S. not pictured are the most adorable striped pinwheels that Jaymee made.  I took 3 photos of them, all of which are blurry.  I need to learn how to use a camera oouuffff.

Internetless

May 9, 2011

Filed Under : MY LIFE

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Janelle and the boy are finally moved into the new apartment. I can’t wait to share all the fun projects that I have coming up!

But, in the midst of all this moving, we’ve found ourselves internetless and TVless. We aren’t able to sign up for cable for another week and let me tell you, it feels like we’re living in the middle ages. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO WATCH GLEE? Or online shop?? Or stalk people’s facebooks???

Actually I don’t mind it too much, it’s kind of nice being technology free for a few days! In the meantime, I’m going to do all of my blogging and google reading by phone (ok so I’m not 100% technology free, whoops).

Also, wanted to share this mid-calf length skirt that I’m newly obsessed with. It has printed feathers on it. There’s nothing better than printed feathers, friends. That’s all. Hope you had a fantastic weekend and spoiled your mothers on Mother’s Day!

Random Recap

April 24, 2011

Filed Under : MY LIFE - STYLE

Hope everyone had a fantastic weekend!  Mine was quite busy but lots o’ fun.  I apartment hunted for 8 hours on Saturday and had family time on Sunday.  Weekends go by too fast!!  Here are 3 random activities that occurred:

I baked Vanilla Scones (I’ll share the recipe soon!):

vanilla scones

I got a package from Shop Sweet Lulu with goodies for an upcoming partay:

shop sweet lulu

I received presents from mumsies in the form of Anthropologie bowls (Anthro presents are the best):

anthropologie bowls

And on an unrelated note, I could live in these J. Crew outfits everyday for the rest of my life:

j. crew lookbook

j. crew lookbook

[Images 5 to 7 via J. Crew]

Color Blocked

March 12, 2011

Filed Under : MY LIFE - STYLE


[j.crew silk blouse, zara skirt, madewell wedges, rayban sunglasses, michael kors watch]

To answer your question: YES, this is the first time my legs have seen the sunlight since last summer.  Those babies are white!  To answer your 2nd question: YES, I’m wearing wedges on a hiking trail.

On Friday, Kyle and I both had the day off from work so we decided to go on a few adventures.  Said adventures include but are not limited to: driving into the boondocks and coming across a giant movie set, complete with fake building facades; eating delicious Mexican food as per usual; and finding a beautiful hiking trail while wearing the trifecta of non-hiking gear, i.e. silk, skirt, wedges.

But look!  I’m attempting to color block and that’s what matters.  Green shirt + bright blue skirt.  Do I get any Spring/Summer 2011 points?  I probably should’ve thrown another bright color into the mix, like orange or red, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.  I’ve got the whole spring season to practice that!