Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to one really great Dad!

Favorite things{mason jars}

They're just so versatile, love 'em. From cold yummy drinks to eclectic vases. Really the uses for them seem endless.

So long 3rd grade...hello summer!

I still can not believe I will have a child in 4th grade! Crazy.

We celebrated by going to dinner and checking out a local drive-in where we watched Indiana Jones. It was a great way to start off the summer!





My new favorite place to be{Pinterest}

I've been spending a lot of time over here lately. I'm enjoying having all the inspirational ideas, photos and just plain neat things all in one place and all organized just the way I like it. My only complaint is so many ideas and too little time. But I have manged to complete a few of the crafty ideas and have even tried some new recipes this week.

Here's one project I completed over the weekend where the inspiration come from one of my pins.

I think they came out pretty cute and I already had everything so it was free. I think these would be so cute in some brighter colors too, like yellow or turquoise.

If you're interested in making some here's what you'll need....clean jars w/ labels removed, I think mine where salsa jars, rubber bands and spray paint. That's it. Just put the rubber bands in whatever pattern you like, you can overlap them then just spay paint right over them. Give paint a minute or two to dry and remove rubber bands. So easy and you've got some new candle holders or even a vase.

Phoot Shoot with my two favorite models

You've got mail

What a creative, fun way to deliver "mail" to the kids. Why didn't I think of this sooner? My daughter and son loves getting mail. In fact they play mail man and deliver little notes to me and each other all the time and usually just slip it under the door. This would be a fun way to give each other special little notes, letters and presents to each other. I think I've seen these little mailboxes at Target. Can't wait to get one.

image via On-hand Modern

Photobooth Thank You cards

So after having a very successful birthday for my daughter my next project was the thank you cards. Trying to stick with the photobooth theme I came up with these.

I made 4 word bubbles out of poster board, bought 2 at the Dollar Tree, then used a permanent marker and wrote out one word for each bubble. This of course could say anything you like. I first thought to write "Thank you for coming" but not everyone who was invited came but very generously gave a gift so I wanted something that included that as well. Then took 4 pics of Bella holding the bubbles and put the pictures into the photo booth strip program at Bighugelabs.com. I've used this awesome web site before but didn't realize they had this until just a few weeks ago. I was beyond excited. It was just so perfect for what I was wanting to do.

Here are a few more photo booth strips I made for all the guest who participated in the photo booth. I mailed these along with the thank you strip.