A Pinterest kind of Birthday Gift

I love love love birthdays and I love love love giving unique, special and one of a kind gifts. Thanks to my pinterest habit and all of the creative people I follow, this LOVE keeps growing. I find myself trying to give extra gifts to people just because, that's not really a bad thing!

My brother and future Sister in law's birthdays are a day apart.... they

live in another town so I had to send them something for their special days. On pinterest I found this wonderful idea to fill a large box with balloons and place money in the balloons. Rather than giving them money, I filled each balloon with a lottery ticket (bad habit-- but my family loves them)!

We bought the biggest box we could at Wal-Mart... taped their cards to the inside...

Filled 10 balloons with lotto tickets, this was a 2 person job for sure!

The box held 10 balloons perfectly, this was fun!

This was the perfect gift for a 29 and 30 year old!

They loved it and I loved giving it!

Follow my "Gift" board on pinterest for lots of fun ideas!!!

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24 Weeks

Halloween came and went... here are a few pictures from our little gathering at home with my friend Courtney. I loved having trick or treaters. This was our first year to be able to pass out candy. We had a great time!

This week, we are 24 weeks along! Mr. Luke is active, but I can tell when he is asleep (at least I think so). I am growing rapidly these days. All of a sudden my belly popped! I am now wearing maternity jeans and have been for a couple of weeks. I did buy some tops this week, they are much better! All of my other tops were becoming too short!

This week was also the first time I was asked about being pregnant in public... It was from the man doing my pedicure, a little odd, but he asked my due date! So funny to me that it was a man because I always thought it would be some cute mom in Target with advice for me. ha ha!!

So here it is... the bump at 24 weeks!

p.s. This weekend I baked one recipe from pinterest. I am sure you have seen them... smores crescent rolls! They were delicious! I highly recommend you try them out asap!!

Doily Table Runner

Wayyyyy back in July I did a simple project for a birthday gift.... My

friend Sarah posted this picture on her pinterest and I loved it so I was on a mission to A.) buy this table runner or B.) Make it myself if I could find enough doilies.

image via pinterest.com

Pretty cute, huh?? I sure thought so.

I headed out to one of my local/ favorite antique malls an

d in one of the booths was a huge basket of doilies. Each one for $1... a buck... a single... uno dollar! So, I stocked up and grabbed as many different patterns and sizes as I possibly could!

We laid out all of the doilies and tries to create a good pattern for a table runner. Here is the final product. We ( My Sewing helper, Kathy) hand stitched the doilies to each other on the corners. It was quite the fragile thing, so I tried my best to be gentle.

The picture is so dark, but trust me...

the table runner turned out to be one cute little project!

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OMG-- I have been so addicted to Pinterest all summer long!

If you are on Pinterest, find me! I would love to see your boards and pins!

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This website has been such a lifesaver-- really! I used to save images on my computer and then struggle to remember where I found them. I love that it links you directly to the source.

Dear Pinterest, I love you!