Fun times Two

I got to hang with the twins one night.

They are at the BEST stage!  

Seriously, tho.  Left over pizza and simple crafts, grinch movie

and Alexa songs and my house was so fun!  

I remember those days that little things were exciting.

We made pipe cleaner ornaments.  They twisted the pipe cleaners themselves to make the ornaments!

And dollar store balls filled with all their chosen treasures!

The train under the tree, I think from year to year we could skip it

but the boys silently set it up each year and kids still love it!

I loved having a girl, we had to look at her picture and make sure she looked good in it, bahahaha

Loved my night with these big kindergartners! 

Walker Down the Aisle Flowers

I was honored to do wedding flowers for my nephew Cole and sweet new niece Taylor's wedding.

Taylor was such a sweet and easy going bride - she had colors and a few pictures - otherwise free reign. I have learned A LOT doing these 3 weddings - I'm pretty grateful for the opportunity.

We went to buy flowers last spring and found all we needed!  

Since then we've been working on the details!

Taylor's finished bouquet - with a special silver charm with her grandmothers pictures.

Sweet details.

Hoop decorations - we started with 5 but 3 looked better on stage,

we used the other two on church entrance doors.

Bridesmaids, mothers and sisters and boutonnieres 

Where it all began

Headed to the church with flowers in tow!

Original idea sent to Taylor - it grew and got WAY better from here.

A very special thank you to my mom's friend Deb - who surely is my friend now too!

1st run on corsages

The Arvins did an amazing job on the reception - it was simply gorgeous.

The groom waiting on his bride.

Prom Flowers _Take 2

I was also able to make my niece Jaelyn's prom flowers!

My favorite part of making these was when they both came

over to help make the flowers. We spent a long while

talking and gluing - time well spent!

They look so nice!

My pics uploaded backwards, but I still love these pics.

It was a challenge to find just what we needed to match both dresses!

On this one, once I found those silvery blue gems it all fell into place!

And then, I found this fun pic of Jaelyn and her friends at their prom

and GASP - she had ditched my flowers!  {wink}

Prom Flowers Take 1

I was honored to make prom flowers for our nephew Dryce and his prom date.

She had a beautiful gold/white dress and didn't care what color of flowers.

And I was told she liked the flowers, so that's a win!

Don't they look nice?

I found this sequin flower and thought it would look great with gold!

What a fun hobby.

Simple Church Easter Decor

Coming up with simple (affordable) decorations

for church Easter decor is quite a challenge!

I ran across this image on a google search

and an idea was brewing!

But, we needed 40 or so and that was overwhelming!

And then having the Sunday school kids help make them

seemed perfect.  I began dyeing toothpicks with food coloring

and ordered the small grapevine wreaths.

We did a neat lesson on the crown of thorns during Sunday school

and Dryce helped me corral the kids while making the wreaths.

They enjoyed making the wreaths and then could in turn tell their families

about them during breakfast.

40 crown of thorns!

And we ended with some leftover toothpicks that turned into silly plate projects.

We used purple napkins as they seemed better for our round tables

and some candles left from a wedding!

Simple  Church Easter Decor

Jewelry ReLoved!

We've been planning this awesome craft using my mom's old jewelry!

These boxes are a treasure for me for certain.

But, wouldn't they be more of a treasure if they could be enjoyed!

My mom was uber organized, and she loved her jewelry - this is how she divided her stuff, by color.

I loved looking thru her drawers in high school to see if she had something that would complete my outfit. She had a wall of necklaces but didn't care for bracelets.  I definitely got her love for jewelry and so did Blake!

And my dad's box.  This circa 80s stuff makes me giggle

 and brings back amazing memories of who my dad was.

So I began seeing vintage re purposed jewelry on Pinterest and got googled eyed!

I wanted to share this with everyone.

Here was a rough draft a few weeks ago. But after, I was finished with it I decided to go a different direction!

And I loved this one I LOVED. 

And I started working on that by pulling pieces out of the treasure boxes.

And then I found my mom's signature watch and knew I had to use the band for arms.

Here is my complete creation.

I found the necklace in mom's box and the key in dad's box.

The bottom pocket watch is likely Grandpa Walkers, the middle watch was dad's and the top was mom's.

Saturday afternoon worked for everyone else to come and make their creations.

Chris was able to also bring her mom's jewelry for she and Blake and Morgan to use.

So this was not a tidy process. Tee hee.

Those 80s tho!

Blake chose a Q for Miss Quinn's room! And used a mix of mom's jewelry, her Grandma's jewelry and some buttons.

Morgan chose to make this beauty!  

Christine made a jewel tone wreath and the background was an old velvet blazer

of my mom's!

Morgan also made this super neat flag. The army buttons were my Grandpa Summers

and the bullet was in dad's box.  The pearls are mostly her Grandma's.  

And I loved the project but treasured the quality time the most!