East Coast Here I Come

I leave this coming Monday for a week long trip to the east coast. I'll be in Philadelphia for a few days before heading to New York for a wedding. I've been looking forward to this trip for awhile now. I can't wait to head back to the east coast and visit all the restaurants that I love. Cheesesteaks - yum! Frrrrozen hot chocolate at Serendipity - double yum!



Good food plus no sales tax on clothes. What more can a girl ask for?

Thank you card

As promised, here is a picture of a thank you card I made recently. I made it for my Uncle, so it's a little plain. He doesn't like anything too overly decorated so I made it with him in mind. Simple and plain.

I'm a crafting machine - not really, but it was fun to say

My sister got married recently. I was very involved in helping her plan the wedding. We did some of the stuff ourselves. We made the table numbers, rehearsal dinner invites, menu cards, and favor tags. I also threw her bridal shower and I made the decorations and shower invites. We got a lot of our inspiration from other brides that were getting married. I read bridal magazines and frequented sites such as theknot.com and weddingbee. Boy, did those sites give me inspiration. People had such great ideas and everything looked so pretty. I thought, I can make stuff like that. It made me want to start making my own, well everything! I bought all these tools such as rubber stamps and ink, card stock, punches, etc. I really want to buy a gocco, but they are so expensive. Some day I'll buy one. I figure, I'll start off slow with rubber stamps and stuff. Once I get better at paper crafts I'll buy a gocco. Its fun making your own things. I've spent so much money buy supplies that my sister said that she never wants to see me give anyone a store bought card again. While it is expensive, the cost per card is so cheap.
Plus, people are impressed when they find out you made them yourself.

I'm not nearly as good at this as other people. I'll post some pictures of things I make every now and then. Right now I only have 2 cards that I've made that I can share with you. I don't have my camera with me so you'll have to wait (not that there is anyone reading this right now, but there maybe some day).

San Diego Super Chargers?!?

Being from San Diego, I'm a Chargers fan. The boy, however, is a Raider's fan (boo!). This makes for some fun friendly arguing when our two teams play each other. I tease him about being part of the Raider Nation. He tells me that the Chargers always choke. I tell him that if we get married and have kids some day that I'm going to dress our kids in little Charger jerseys. How cute will that be! He hates the thought of that and says no child of his will wear any such jersey. I'm sure I'll be the one dressing the kids most of the time, so unless he changes them after I put the Charger jersey on them, my kids will be sporting Chargers gear.

This football season has been a disappointment to say the least. This last game was especially disappointing. The first quarter had some promise, but it was all down hill from there. It was like turnover city up in there. Rivers has been throwing way too many interceptions this year. I don't know what it is. He needs better protection or something.

I had a pretty chill weekend. Saturday the boy and I went shopping. He bought a suit for a wedding we're going to next month. Then I took my new dress to the cleaners. It was a little big in the waist and the straps were too long. I also had the hem taken up a little bit. I'm quite short and the length was just too long. We went home after that and studied and watched tv all night. Exciting, I know. Sunday we watched football all day and did more studying. Not the most fun-filled weekend, but we got a lot done.