Trick or Treat

We aren't going to be home for this Halloween, many more to come this way as well.  I have never lived in an area where I actually got trick or treaters until we bought our house in January.  We now live 3 tenths of a mile from our town square and I expect to get several.  Since we will be away, I made this box to put on our porch.  I worked off the old saying of smell my feet.
Our box says,
"Trick or Treat"
"Smell Our Feet"
"Take 1 Sweet Treat To Eat"

I do think the kiddios will actually take just 1 piece of candy, but I do hope they will like us leaving treats for them.  

Dessert Reception for a Queen and King

When Matthew and I got married we decided to go an untraditional route with the food. First, we didn't serve anything other than sweets. It was simply WONDERFUL!!!! Here are few pictures of what we had and why we picked them!

Instead of cutting a cake we cut a Chocolate Pie! YUMMY!!! I don't like cake so we had pie instead for the bride's cake.

Mini pies for the guest since there we didn't have a cake. They were a huge hit.

Ice cream bar sprinkles. We had an ice cream bar, we both love ice cream and we provided lots of toppings. I would look each time I went to the grocery I would search to see if they had any thing new for ice cream.

Candy was the BEST and most FUN part of the reception. We started purchasing candy a few months prior to the wedding and stored in my freezer and did not realize how much we had until we put it all on display. It was so fun to share our favorite candies and the neat ones we found along the way.

Wedding on a penny

When Matthew and I got married I got creative and made lots of things for our wedding to cut cost.

I made our wedding programs, center pieces for the tables, crayons for the children's table,.....

My husband played a pivotable role in the making of our wedding programs, he measured each piece and cut them for me. I typed up all the information for each sheet and copied them on a pretty nice piece of paper. Tied them together with ribbon in our colors.

I made the cute crayons from old crayons by melting them down in an old pan over low heat.

Shaping them was the best part. I used plastic candy molds, to make the ones with sticks I used sucker molds and sucker sticks. To make sure the sticks held I poured a little more melted crayon over the stick when it had cooled to the touch. These were so easy and cute.

Lined the paper with newspaper paper from the print shop in town and let the kids have a ball.

Pictured above are the center pieces made for the tables and also placed at various other places through out the reception venue.

I made the flowers from napkins, dinner and cocktail napkins. The hardest part was taking the napkins apart from each other. (I didn't use tissue paper because the napkins were cheaper and held up better) I cut a mold from an old cereal box. Simple again, 9 inch by 6 inch square and then cutting it jagged on the ends. I used 8 napkins per flower. I simply folded them according style and tied them in the center with a piece of floral wire. Fanned out the flower and placed them in the vases.

Each flower took about 5 minutes.

Mr and Mrs Davenport

My husband and I have been married for a year and half now and I am still working on making our house a home for us to enjoy.

My favorite creation is the canvas hanging over our bed. It was so simple to make and since I made it on a canvas I can move it to a new location anytime I want with little effort.

All I did was pick out a canvas, paint, and order the vinyl. I painted the canvas 2 times and made sure to leave it looking a little streaky so it didn't look to polished. When the vinyl arrives I was careful to place it in the perfect spot, rub it on and hang it up on the wall.

This was much cheaper than buying it completed at a store.

Pinterest Ideas

So I got my sister to send me an invite to Pinterest and now I am hooked.

So many ideas started running through my mind on how I could turn our home into a better house that is more efficient

I want to turn our super cute middle room into a playroom for our daughter Lola and a small space for a desk. The middle room was painted for the little boy that lived in the house before us with a cute farm scene so it is the perfect room for a playroom.

Thought ran through my mind of how to have an area for toys but keep them neat and put away but fashionable for the house. I came across some ideas for bookshelves having storage boxes on them. Then I tried to figure out how to make storage boxes out of diaper boxes, (WE HAVE A LOT OF DIAPER BOXES LATELY, PERFECT)

Since I have free diaper boxes to use (not counting the cost of diapers since they would be trash anyway), I thought what else could I use that I already have to keep the cost down. My mind wondered to a bookshelf I salvaged from the trash, PERFECT!! So now I am left with the cost of material to cover my boxes and cute embellishments

So I headed to Hobby Lobby today and bought ribbon for the boxes.

I can't wait to get started and start sharing pics along the way. :)