#21 Bike Ride

Yup that's right went for a bike ride yesterday!  Discovered that probably all the bikes we have need to be services but rode through a 2 mile ride anyhow.  The chain proceeded to pop off my bike right after we got back to the house so that was good.  Hoping to get more riding in before the summer is up so I better get these serviced.  We also made it back just before the torrential downpour - huzzah!

Book 17 - The Friday Night Knitting Club

I just finished the Friday Night Knitting Club while waiting at the airport the other day.  Let me start out by saying - I really should stop taking people's book suggestions.  This book was anything but my type of book aside from the fact the characters were crafting.   I'm not really into fiction especially when it's written like a soap opera.  I thought many of the characters in the book where whiners especially the little girl.  I think every soap opera plot possible was wrapped into this one, cancer, cheating men, interracial relationships, runaways, unwed mothers, death - blah!  Not my thing but oh well I crossed another book off the list of 52.  I hear they are making this into a movie which I can only assume will be a hallmark or lifetime movie - yay for Saturday morning sap!  Anyhow if you like fiction that is like a soap opera by all means read this one, if not skip it and re-read Detroit a Biography.
 

March 2013 - Best of Life Video - Better Togethe

Here's the March 2013 video.  I am way late at making these.  But I'm still loving them.  The song is Better Together by Jack Johnson.  If the video below does work you can watch it on youtube here.

Lets Get Married - Homemade Burlap Roses

 I am not entirely sure why I thought making flowers for our wedding would be easy or would be a good idea.  But I did it anyway - I ended up having to make almost 50 of these burlap roses and they took way too long.   I love how they turned out anyway, and even though  they were used for like 1 hour each day it probably wasn't my best decision, but they were pretty and they will last forever so everyone can save them.  Oh and did I mention they use about $6 worth of burlap, $6 worth of ribbon and $6 for the cones, leaves and baby's breath $6 so for $24 I had all the wedding flowers.  So they saved us money.  
The flowers are made by cutting petals, coating them in glue, and rolling and forming them into roses one by one,  They are sewn together so they would hold, and I inserted a floral wires that is the stem and I already had the wire in my craft stash.  Some 48 flowers later I had enough flowers.  I finished them off by arranging them in a floral cone added ribbon and a few leaves.  The boutineers were very simple one rose a leaf, and a little baby's breath - they were pinned on with a straight pin very simple.  (Just a few more wedding posts.)

127/365

Another week done. This week was a whole lot of blur until the weekend. Monday - airport, Tuesday - Bricks in subway, Wednesday - gym, Thursday - Times Square, Friday - corner of building, Saturday - late night steak and shake dinner, Sunday - vintage baseball opener.

Book 16 - Game of Thrones

I’m moving right along with the books. Between finding time on flights and trains I have been bored with New York – so reading has been on the agenda. And since a friend of mine gave me the Game of Thrones on DVD I thought I should read the books first and it keeps coming up in my library queue. So I recently finished book 1 – called Game of Thrones by RR Martin.

As for the review let me just say for the record that there are like 15 main characters in this book, which makes it hard to follow what is happening in the book. There’s also this weaved plot line that makes all 15 characters intertwined but ever so slightly so you really have to pay attention. But with that said the book doesn’t lack descriptive characters and adventure with a twist of deceit and love. It’s a very long book so it might take a long time to get thru of course now I feel as though I should read the next few and finally watch the show my friend gave me.

My New Toy Thx Husband

As a surprise recently the Dust purchased me a iPhone5. I had been waiting to get this using my old iPhone for the last 3 and 1/2 years. Well along with my new phone came the new camera which has the panorama option is such fun. So take a look at a three dimensional view of some of my week here in NYC.

Project Life Weeks 10, 11, 12, & 13

Working on catching these up. I seem to be drawn to using a whole lot of pink in these pages of I just have a mad stash of pink readily available. Nothing super fan y in these layouts. I hand cut the title for week 13 and I kind of like that weeks sparseness.

Let's Get Married - The Ceremony

Back to wedding posts (only a handful more of these I promise). With our wedding ceremony we wanted things to be pretty traditional kind of like the church - we wanted it nice simple, quick but not too quick, traditional vows, prayers and order and no unity ceremonies or communion. I wanted my brother to walk my down the aisle.  Lo did a nice reading from Genesis 2 for us, and it fell right in with what Pastor Aaron added himself.  As for the music - The bridal party walked into some In Sync song picked by Kathleen, and Dustin for Final Countdown, proceeded by me and JJ to instrumental Billy Jean (yes that's right - it was hard to decide so I went with my favorite song). The whole thing went very smoothly (Thanks Kim and Jill and JJ for keeping the baby happy) although just prior to Dustin entering the chapel he asked Schreve to smack him and naturally Schreve busted his lip - poor Schreve felt horrible but I think it makes a great story.  It was perfect and I also love that you can see my sparkly shoes during it!

(Photos provided by my boss, michele and logan - thanks guys!)

Goodbye Friends

The real deal's (meg and Dan) have packed their bags and moved I DC. But before they left I made them a few gifts to remember us by. One a Pinterest project the other just for fun. Sadly I did not get a good photo I their finish Indiana canvas adorned with a button heart, only this in progress one.
But I did snap two photos of the Mini Friends pack I made them. Mini friends being friends on sticks in miniature that come with sayings your friends frequently say. I love the Mini Friends they were too fun I may have to make some another time where I actually take the photos for the project.
Both gifts were well received and hopefully we will see our friends again soon.