I miss this...

...every once and a while.
OK, every day.
This is my probie helmet from when I was 16 years old.
I found it hanging at a Firehouse Subs. Can you believe that?
How did I know it was mine? Well...It still has the broken ratchet, the big dent where a good friend dropped a an officer's tool on my head in class, and a somewhat peeling, reflective #4 on it. Yup. Still there...that's mine.

Pig Hunter

Ever since we got this dog one of these KONG squeeky pigs...its all he wants to play with. He is now up to 4...and we have 3 more in the cabinet for "emergencies." Thanks to an Amazon.com multipack. Ugh.
He really does run our house.
Anyway, he has 4...and he stashes them all over the house. And at random times, sometimes 3am (no, I'm not kidding you!!) He has to go on a pig hunt. He might need one, he might need all 4. And he will stop at nothing until he has them.
This.Dog.Is.Insane!

Swaddle me.

Baby dog demands to be swaddled.

No, seriously.

I used to laugh at my friend Michelle, when she told me that she "had" to swaddle her dog, Charlie before he would go to sleep. I was like, yeah sure...until this big baby started demanding it. Ugh.

Action Packed Christmas

would you expect anything less? Action figures kinda rule our house...why wouldnt they be on the front door wreath and on the angel on the tree??
Both made by me, of course.

Post Christmas Funk

I haven't been blogging about my dog, or my Jax, or anything really here lately...my bad.

In honor of getting back in the swing of things, how about some pics of a happy event?

Here are some pictures of a wedding that Christopher and I went to in New Hampshire back in October. I kept meaning to post them, but I might be special...oh well.

Ugly sweater awards

Every year at our crew's ugly sweater party, we have awards for ugliest sweater, most creative sweater, etc.
Last year I did awards on gold charger plates that I got from Walmart and spent HOURS cutting and gluing each letter out on the cricut.
I knew that shit wasn't going to happen this year. I had wanted something simple and cute. I was going to spray paint old trophies or make something to look like trophies out of crap I found at the Salvation Army, but I never got the time...so this is what I came up with. Simple and cute.

Ugly sweaters...

Ugly sweater friends...

Wes and Tina:

Pregnant Fryes:

Danielle and Naughty Stewie:

Komars:

Me and Optimus Prime Mouse.
Oscar post wrestling with grown men for chicken bone. UGHHHH!!

We LOVE ugly sweaters!! There is always a good mix of thrift store/grandma borrowed sweaters and "homemade" ones. I don't have that detailed pics, but this year, Christopher and I just threw ours together with stuff we had at home. Wes found his at Walmart. Danielle, Gioia, and Komar's were from thrift stores. Stewie....Oh Stewie. I dont even know. I think he said amazon. I hope not, for the love of God, there are children on amazon!!

I can't really do a tutorial on ours, because I don't have the appropriate pics. But just a quick run-through...
-Mine is a $3.99 hanes sweatshirt from Wal-Mart. I've had it for at least 4 years. I just liked the color and it was cheap. I had cut the collar off of it when I bought it, so it was very 80's and Flashdance-ish. But I needed something, and decided to use it.
 -The large, red ric-rac was something that I had in my crap from the awesome ugly sweater that I made Christopher last year! I didn't even KNOW him! We had just exchanged a few emails and he said that he didn't have a sweater for the party, so that was my cue ;) I'm a dork, and if I can craft my way into flirting, I'm gonna!
-So I just hot glued it around the neckline. Then I cut out the reindeer with my cricut and laid it down as a stencil. I used black puff paint like this to trace him onto the sweatshirt and called it a day. It is in no way perfect looking up close, but it works. And it was REALLY comfortable, much better than a sweater!!

I have NO idea where I came up with the idea that Christopher needed to have a Transformers Christmas Sweater, but I did. I saw one on a website somewhere. Similar to this one but less lame. And I decided to try and make one. I had already purchased the hat for him for Christmas, so I guess I felt like it was a done deal.
-I got the Optimus Prime fabric on etsy for like $3 and cut him out in detail and hot glued him onto the front of a pretty inexpensive long sleeved waffle knit shirt from Wal-Mart. I think it was about $7. We did not get him a sweater or sweatshirt because he is always hot and didnt want him to sweat or be uncomfortable during the party.
-After Optimus was dry, I painted a Santa hat on him with the same puffy paint and let that dry overnight. Then I had some gold ric-rac and hot glued that onto the collar. Then I gave him his hat early ;)