New Years Eve!!

After traveling all week, we landed back at home on Friday evening December 28.  We were both off work until January 2, which meant we had four glorious days at home with hardly anything scheduled!

I got busy with some craft projects - the biggest of which was making some aprons for our friends Mark & Anne.  Mark is a huge Superman fan and he was also in love with Wonder Woman growing up.  So, when I saw a picture on Pinterest of these aprons, I knew I had to make them.  I worked off the pictures and hoped for the best!

       

Here's the final product!  The little one in the middle is actually a small cape velcro'd to a onesie - Mark & Anne are expecting their first child, a boy, and so I made a little cape for the baby to match their Superhero aprons.

The best part about Mark's Superman apron is that he can turn it over and wear it as a cape!  And it matches the baby's cape - so they can be superheros together!  (And I think I'll have to make a bigger one for the baby as he grows).

I got the aprons/capes done just in time, as Mark & Anne were coming over to our place to ring in the New Year.

We all sat and talked and snacked.

They were so excited when we gave them their presents and they loved them!!  I hate that Mark's apron is a tiny bit small......

.......but it was a perfect cape size and he was pumped that it had dual-purpose!

Then they opened the baby cape and were even more excited!

It was so much fun to make them and even more fun to give them!!!

Midnight rolled around and my cute engineer-husband made sure we all had the same exact amount of sparkling grape juice.

Happy 2013!!!!

Hope this year brings you love, joy & peace!

The 30 - Topic #8

30 Things That I Dream of Doing if I Didn't Work at an Architectural Firm

1. Professional Scrapbooking 2. Drive cross-country in an RV selling handmade items to pay my way 3. Open a Bed and Breakfast 4. Become a Missionary 5. Work with Alisha at her bakery 6. Travel Agent 7. Full Time Camp Director 8. Become a Habitat for Humanity RV-Care-a-Vanner 9. Work for Passion 10. Work at IKEA 11. Marry a Christian artist and go on concert tours with him 12. Professional Photographer 13. Renovate and flip houses 14. Travel and write freelance articles for travel magazines 15. Event Planning 16. Volunteer all my time to worthy causes 17. Be a Flight Attendant 18. Work on a Cruise Line 19. Usher at Fenway Park 20. Professional Organizing 21. Open a Nursery (the plant kind) 22. Work for Google 23. Go back to school 24. Be a Roadie for a band (this corresponds with #11) 25. Buy a secluded cabin in Colorado and write a book 26. Be a Hospitality Director at a five-star hotel 27. Make and sell clothes 28. Taste Tester for any restaurant that would want my opinion 29. Personal; Shopper (this depends on who and what I am shopping for though) 30. Marry a rich man - and I can do all of the above!

Tiny Hobby House

Okay, this goes into my "dream house file!!"

Click here to see this tiny little hobby house that looks like it would spark creativity every time you step into it.

I would love to have a little house like this that is for nothing else except crafting, sewing, scrapbooking, quilting and creating!! I LOVE it!!! (Maybe this would also satisfy the desire I have for a tiny house that I mentioned in a previous post?) I especially love the different "non-traditional" things she uses for storage such as the wooden doll house to store her fabrics - so cute!!