The One With the Indoor Sauna

My favorite decorations so far!

We are finally almost completely unpacked! 

Moving is tough.

It's even harder when you're babysitting a 4 year old, trying to find a job, and doing odd jobs for your parents all at the same time.

 This morning we finally got internet!

Now if hubs will only finish unpacking we'll be done!!

Seriously, why is it that I was able to unpack all of my personal things plus all the kitchen, living room, dining room, etc. yet hubs still hasn't hung up his clothes?

I have learned since we've been married that while I like to unpack and get all organized hubs is perfectly happy living out of his suitcase.

Living Room

Clearly work still needs to be done. We don't have many of the decorations hung up yet and need some rugs and other things to make it home.

Kitchen

After only living with my parents, in dorms, or apartments, this condo has been an experience.

The owners are a really sweet couple, but they definitely have different tastes than us!

For example, we couldn't figure out how to turn the fan on in the living room, the only light there. When we asked them about it they told us that it was one that plugged into the wall but they cut the wire because they didn't want to use the fan! Umm, what?
Thank goodness they are super sweet and willing to pay for us to get it fixed. 

Dining Room

Our first day here I came home from running errands to a pretty warm house. 

Kyle had been out on the patio with our niece and had left the door open so I wasn't too concerned. Until it kept creeping up a degree at a time the rest of the night. 

By morning it was back to where we had it set so we weren't sure what has wrong. 

And then it began creeping up until we had our own indoor sauna. 

Thankfully they replaced the unit because they had fixed whatever the problem was a few times before.

DIY Swiffer Pads

Linking up with Melissa for The Pinterest Project

I'm loving this link-up! It makes me actually use my pinterest pins!

We moved into a new place and all but the bedrooms are tile! I love my swiffer, but knew that I would be spending a lot of time and money trying to keep this whole place cleaned. I merged together a few different ideas in order to make homemade dry and wet swiffer pads.

I had some micro fleece left over from making my DIY T-shirt blanket so I used that. You can also use micro fiber cloth.

 

1. Take a dry swiffer pad you already have and lay it on your fabric.

  

2. Cut around the pad to make a rectangle approximately the same size. Repeat! I made 12 because I knew I would be using them for both dry and wet.

  

3. Put on your swiffer using the standard holes. No need to sew if you use micro fleece/fiber!

 

 4. Sweep up those floors! Seriously, I needed this! My floors are a mess, I swear I had vacuummed the whole place the day before!

  

5. For the wet cloth, you can use any solution you already use to mop your floors. I use a mixture of 50% vinegar and 50% water. I mixed them up in a squirt bottle. You can then either spray directly onto a clean cloth or spray on your floor and mop over!

I also added a cute basket to my laundry room where I can place all of the dirty ones before they go in the wash. No dirt getting mixed in with the clothes!

High Five for Friday {5}

This has been a crazy week filled with lots of exciting happenings!

1. Kyle and I moved! Leaving Gainesville after 5 years there was pretty bitter sweet. On one hand, I had a wonderful experience in college and made a lot of great friendships. On the other hand, most of my friends had already left so it wasn't too hard to leave. We're both excited for the next chapter in our lives.

2. This little cutie was born the day we moved home! I'm so excited to live near family so that I can spend time with our newest cousin!

3. Our family has been such a wonderful blessing to us already and I'm so glad we live close. 

4. We've been babysitting our niece this week since she's doesn't have camp the two weeks before school starts. She's been loving building houses out of our moving boxes. 

5. My brother graduates from college today!!

Linking up with Lauren 

Just because this car is awesome!

Wedding Recap

I feel like I've been completely out of the loop for awhile now. These past few days have been crazy busy. Plus, we currently have no internet, so I'm using it while I can.

I have a ton more photos that I still need to upload from this beautiful wedding, but I have no idea where my camera cord is. So here are a bunch of iPhone pics!

After the rehearsal/dinner, we made all the bouquets and centerpieces. The flowers were so pretty and perfectly fit the bride's personality!

 The next day, we all got ready at the club where they were getting married together.

 

 The beautiful bride before we left to take pictures!

 It was so hot out!!! We were all sweating to death after the ceremony, but it was gorgeous!

DIY Bachelorette Party Decorations Tutorials

Awhile ago I posted pictures of the decorations I made for a friend's bachelorette party. Today I'll show you how I made all of these pinterest inspired decorations!

 

Linking up with Melissa for The Pinterest Project

 

My inspirations for the  projects. Click pictures to go to their site. 

My three finished projects (click the picture to read about the party!)

Project 1: Bunting banner!

Materials needed: 

1. Card Stock

2. Template

3. Ribbon

4. Glue

5. Scissors/exacto knife

6. Hot Glue Gun

You can do this project with fabric as well, but I just wanted something simple. 

1. Decide what you want your banner to say. I made a triangle for each letter, plus three extra for each size. 

2. Trace template and cut out for each triangle. 

3. Write, paint, cut out letters etc. for the wording. I cut out letters from another color cardstock and glued on. 

4. Lay out triangles and measure ribbon to size. Make sure you leave room to hang it!

5. Score where the dotted edge is on the template and fold over. 

6. Place ribbon inside fold and run a thin line of glue on the bottom edge of flap. Try not to get any on the ribbon in case you need to move your letters! 

I also added bows right at the edge of my triangles so that they wouldn't move around.

This project is super easy, and can be used for anything. It was somewhat time consuming!

Project 2: Timeline

This is another super easy project. 

Materials needed:

1. Pictures

2. Ribbon/twine

3. Mini clothes pins (can be found at Michael's)

4. Divider

I did a timeline of the bride and groom's relationship, but as you can see from my inspiration it can be used for anything. 

1. Decide what your dividers will say. Mine had different memorable times in their relationship.

2. Choose your pictures and get them printed. 

3. Make your dividers. I used the same triangles I had used for the bunting banner and hand wrote on them. 

5. Hang up your twine! I couldn't beforehand and it was a pain to move after the fact!

6. Pin your dividers and pictures up!

Project 3: Tissue paper pom poms

These have become really popular recently. You can purchase kits with all the materials and just put them together your self, but you'd still be doing the same exact steps as if you'd made them yourself!

Materials needed:

 1. Tissue paper ~8 sheets per ball

2. Floral wire

3. Scissors

4. Ribbon

If you want them different sizes you'll need to figure out the proportions to cut the tissue paper first. 

1. Lay 8 sheets of paper on top of each other.

2. Fold up accordion style, about 1" sections. You can do this long or short ways. 

3. Wrap floral wire around the center. 

4. If hanging with ribbon tie the ribbon around the floral wire. It's much easier now than later!

5. Taking a sharp pair of scissor either round out your two small sides or make them pointed, which ever look you want. I did rounded. 

5. Flatten out the accordion so it looks like a fan. 

6. Carefully pull each sheet of paper up to the center, fluffing as you go till it looks like a ball. ( Be very gentle it rips very easily!)

7. Hang up and you're ready to go!!

Please feel free to contact me with any questions. I know it can be confusing since I don't have step by step directions!

High Five For Friday {4}

Linking up with Lauren at From My Grey Desk Blog!

1. I've been selling pretty much everything possible on Amazon as we've been packing. I can't believe how quickly the random stuff we have laying around goes! It might help that I sold ridiculous amounts of Kyle's old video games things!

 

2. We finally saw Dark Knight in theaters this week and loved it!

We may or may not have watch the other two this week as well...

3. I've been playing with different hair styles for this upcoming wedding week! I finally decided on this hairstyle from The Small Things Blog!

4. This pretty girl, my college roommate, is getting married TODAY! 

5. Our house is a disaster as we pack to move this weekend. Can't wait for it to be done!

This Year I'll...

23 In 23

Linking up with Erin at Living In Yellow

  Since my birthday was in April I better get a move on! 1. Graduate college- Masters of Education from UF May 4, 2012

2. Get a big girl job - Kindergarten Teacher September 20, 2012
Read About It Here!
Official First Day- September 27, 2012

3. Move into our own condo- Hello South Florida! July 30, 2012 Read about it here!
4. Decorate our home
5. Pay off at least one of our student loans
6. Start walking/jogging- Officially Started September 10, 2012 The Beginning
7. Go to HP world Season passes purchased! First visit January 1, 2013
8. Watch the sunrise on the beach
9. Take more pictures
10. Get a new camera for said pictures
11. Go on a mini vacation just Kyle and I Anniversary Trip. January 1-2, 2013
12. Throw a dinner party
13. Spend some girl time while my two best friends and I actually live in the same area
    14. Re-Read The Great Gatsby before the movie comes out
15. Grow my hair back out

16. Wear heels more than just fancy occasions
Lets be real, this isn't happening. I hate heels!

17. Buy a pair of tall boots! Hello new favorite shoes! December 2012

  18. Throw a birthday party- Kyle's 25th September 15, 2012 Read about it here
19. Keep up with my blog
20. Decorate for a holiday
21. Go to a new restaurant
22. Make a pinterest dessert -Homemade Reese Cups Tutorial Here
23. Make a wedding album