Farm Chicks 2011

Well it has been a full 2 weeks indeed!  We were in Denver the week before Farm Chicks celebrating my best friend's wedding.  We got home and packed up for Farm Chicks.  And yesterday we officially became homeowners.  So I have so many awesome things to blog about.  Life has been so full!

 My favorite little family photo- even though it's a bit blurry.

Here are some photos of our booth.  I will post a few more on flickr.  Sadly I didn't get as many as last year.  This year was good and different.  I was a little disappointed in myself in not having very many good big pieces.  I decided to embrace the fact that we moved over the summer and had a baby, and were out of town the week before.  Of course it was very fun.  I was more relaxed during set up than last year.

Still Here

So I'm still here.  Just thought I'd do a little update on this blog because I've been absent for too long!  I'm busy busy slaving away getting ready for the Farm Chicks show!  I can't procrastinate quite as bad as usual because my best friend is getting married in Denver the weekend before.  (This leaves me with 7 more days-eek)  I'm trying to be cool accepting the fact that not everything I have in my mind will come to fruition.

I had a little helper bee out at the shop (don't worry she was in a separate room- paint fumes aren't good for babies!)

My house is a disaster.  I was busy making some paper packs this evening.  Last night I stayed up much too late so tonight I'm heading to bed early.  I'm eating way too much fast food junk food-bleh!

Earth day came and went, I had a bunch of post ideas for that week.  I think those ideas will just happen later.  I'm hoping to do some posting while I'm in Denver for 6 days next week.

Thought I'd make a little random list of things I love:

Orange
Red
Being Late
Fall
Turquoise
Raspberry
Typewriters
Bottle Caps
Coffee
Anthropologie
Felt
Gerber Daisies
Simple Living
Yurts
Good Food
Alpacas
Italy
Fires
Forts
Cozy Recessed Beds
Quotes
Garage Sales
Mixed Media Paint Techniques
Canoeing
Morocco
Anna Maria Horner
Tracy Porter
Old Buttons

How's that for the most random post ever?

Little Luna

Jeff and Jessica came before Christmas.  They are very great friends of ours from high school.  They took these beautiful photos of Luna.  And of course Jessica made that beautiful headband.  Here is her tutorial if you want to make one yourself.  I know, I'm so blessed to have such sweet and talented friends!  I can't even tell you how generous Jessica has been.  She crafted so many cute little things for my little girl.  Tomorrow I'm going to share the photos they took of my family when I visited them in Minnesota.

Today

Today:

::I'm looking forward to a baby shower on Saturday.
::Excited for the Funky Junk Sale.  The girls throwing it are so sweet and there are awesome finds for great deals. Are you going to be there?  More details here
::Glad that friends are coming over for dinner tonight
::Can't wait to ski for free on Friday (49 has free lift tickets all week!)
::Looking forward to a party on Sunday
::Finally decided to purchase a Silhouette machine
::Glad I decided to sell my fancy phone to pay for said machine
::Thankful my little girl finally fell asleep

I had to buy that little pj- and do a coordinating photoshoot of course!

::New episode of Parenthood to watch
::Looking forward to our bible study tomorrow with my friends.  We're reading this great book
::Happy that I have yummy leftovers for lunch
::I was able to convince my mom and sis to come to my friends wedding in Denver
::I'm going to plan a getaway for next weekend.
::We finally have heard some actual news about this house we've been wanting to buy (after 5 months of waiting)
::I ran out of photo space on blogger- oops- maybe I need to buy more space

::Am waiting for the best thermos ever to arrive.  Sam and I both got one.

Lucy's Shower

While we're on the subject of showers, here are some gorgeous photos of the whole shower for little Lucy- scheduled to appear very soon!  Chelle is the sweetest, most shining person you will meet.  We had so much fun scheming for this shower.  The photos are from Andi check out her post to see some more pretty photos.

I made the hoops with her name.

We had a table set up to decorate a onesie for Lucy.  Chantel arranged all the pretty flowers.

Courtney made the cute banner.  Andi made the heart pastries.  I made the cookies.  Here is the recipe.

Courtney also made these cute Lucy Cake jars.

Amy designed the invitation.  We had a fun evening putting them together and dreaming up the shower. We got the inspiration for this shower from Randi

Lucy, we can't wait for you to come.

Luna's Handcrafted Shower

Next up are the showers that I had.  You may have already seen these on Jessica's blog, but I wanted to document them here as well.  Luna has been loved on big time.  This shower was oh so special.  These friends have become so dear.  I'm so blessed to hang out with such creative spirits.  The food was so so good!  This asian pasta salad, beautiful pomegranate salad, and flourless chocolate cake were so so yummy!

Photos by Jessica

I can't believe how tiny she was!  She's getting so big!

 Of course the blurry photo below I took- I had to grab my camera quickly and capture this.  They are so sweet with Luna and just adore her!