While I was on spring break I had some very special visitors! Brandy and Kayleigh came up to the big city for the day! I was so excited!! It happened to be the day after my birthday as well, so that made it all extra special for me. :)
We spent most of the day just hanging out at the apt and chatting, which is what we do best! We did walk over to Michigan Ave to have lunch at the Cheesecake Factory and then over to Watertower to check out the American Girl Store. So fun!
Kayleigh experienced a lot of first things on this day...
- First trip out of state
- Longest car ride so far
- First time to Chicago
- First time on an escalator
- First time throwing food all over her mama's face during lunchtime... yeah I laughed pretty hard at that one! :)
Just days before she was ready to start walking by herself.
Two of my favorite people!
You guys are invited back anytime! What a fun day!!
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To tag along with my last post.. Pinterest has gotten me again. I found a version of this sign on there, which actually came from Michael's Craft Store. Their example used black and white, but our living room is has more brown and deep red... so I went with that.
I started by going to JoAnn's to get the supplies I needed because I don't have a Michael's or Hobby Lobby nearby (enter sad face). They didn't have everything I needed, but I was able to get all of the scrapbook paper I needed there. We went back home a few days after that, so I went to Michael's and got the wooden plaques (4 inches), paint, and hot glue gun. Unfortunately, they did not have letters small enough to fit on the plaques. So, now to craft store #3... I went to a Hobby Lobby out in the burbs up here and I was able to find small enough letters.
So this is it...
I did about 3 coats of paint (mainly b/c I bought way too much). I played around with the paper to get them in an order that I liked the most. I painted each of the letters the same color as the plaques.
Before gluing everything down.
I hot glued all of the plaques to thick ribbon and slipped it through a D-ring.
Final product. I got the wall hanger thingamajig at Hobby Lobby as well.
But, sadly... now I am back in school. My crafts have been put on hold. :(
The first week back was a little rough.. just getting back in the swing of things and of course waking up at 5:20 again each day is not easy for me. When I think about how I've been getting up at this time for so long now.. I'm amazed! I use to complain about 7:30 classes at Purdue... and I could go in my PJ's if I wanted to then... boy how the times do change!
Have a great weekend everyone!!
We kicked off my first week of spring break (as well as my birthday week) with brunch at Table 52. It is a southern restaurant owned by Art Smith (often seen on Food Network, Top Chef, etc) right down the street from us. It was awesome! I had crab cake eggs benedict and Alex had chicken and waffles. Both were very yummy, then we also got their hummingbird cake, which is like a vanilla spiced cake. Very tasty! 
