Hello Friends!
My life has gotten a little more grown up lately... New forever love of my life, new house, new job and officially a honeymooner Mrs.! Everything is a shiny adventure and untrodden territory. Follow along as I navigate the world of being a grown up!
So, Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants turned 30 last Friday, and to celebrate I made a cake! Jane helped decorate and my co-workers lent their lovely singing voices to create a little video. We entered the video into a contest against all Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants. Other hotels had their pastry chefs create a masterpiece, so we may not win by skill, but we should sure win for creativity and effort!
The fondant was made from a short cut recipe here:
What's Cooking America Not only was it "easy" but it tastes yummy, too!
Special thanks to
Abbi for filming and directing the cake decorating! I wouldn't have even tackled this without your consult and help. If we win, you're coming to the party to celebrate!
Here is our video:
I'll let you know if we win!!
When I first saw this article on
Design *Sponge, I couldn't wait to give it a try! It was really easy and I'm really happy with how it turned out. The wreath is the holiday welcoming symbol and what fun it was to make my own this year!
The instructions call for use of paper bags, but I didn't have enough, so I just used brown masking paper. Additionally, I happened to already have gold spray paint on hand, so instead of silver, I went with that. Hooray for being a gold digger (literally) for Halloween last year! Also, my leaves are a bit larger than the original, but I think it looks great both ways.
Check out some other versions...
Meet Me in Philadelphia,
First Home Makeover (with feathers!).
Design Scouting and go figure,
Martha (although, hers was a fall wreath)!!
So Shutterfly.com (where I have made some really cool collages I have hanging in my house) is giving away 50 free Holiday Cards as a thank you for me sharing some of my favorite Shutterfly products with you.
Pretty cool, huh?
First off, it's no surprise that I love the photo collages. I have taken photos from two really amazing vacations - San Francisco and Seattle and created photo collages with the pictures:
I have also given a photo calendar as a gift in the past! With Shuttefly, you can easily and quickly create a memorable gift for special people in your life. I can't tell you how exciting it is to unwrap a photo calendar and look through all of the pictures!
I am still trying to decide on a Christmas card, but I am thinking that I will go with something like:
or
or
I really like the last one and there are so many reasons that I have truly loved this year!
Josh and I settling in to the groove of cohabitation. We've both raised our eyebrows at the other a handful of times. You think you know someone... and then you live with them. In all honesty though, I love our home and I love that I share it with Josh.
We had a really nice housewarming party two weeks ago with friends and family. Throughout the evening I counted over 50 people who stopped by! Granted that includes kids, but it was such a great turnout. It meant a lot to us to share our new home with our friends and family. I'm sorry that I didn't get more pictures through out the night. If anyone has any, I would love to get them from you!
We setup up our own version of a photo booth and Jamie supplied the props. We let people do their own thing, and boy did they!
We have the best friends and family you could ever ask for!
Stumbled across this captivating talk given by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat. Pray. Love.
It is long, but very much so worth watching if you have even a stitch of creativity within your soul...
Olé!
