Rachel Noelle

In April, the girls from work and I threw a baby shower for our friend, Jamie. Well, she finally had her baby girl, Rachel, on June 25! She is adorable!

Meet Rachel Noelle:

My gift to Jamie was a cake. This cake was made similarly to the other on my blog, but with baby girl scrapbooking paper instead of bridal paper. I filled these boxes with baby products and a few items from the registry. I don't have final pictures (of the cake packaged) but it was cute! I matched the paper/stickers with the room's color scheme. Here are pictures of the boxes in Rachel's room (and a glimpse of her room also):

Oh, also... we just got our pool filled today :) Maybe this weekend I will enjoy some frozen drinks in the pool as I lay in the beautiful water! Have a great rest of the week!

Shower Cakes

My sister, Lisa, found the idea of making Shower Cakes. Of course, she decided to try the idea and it worked wonderfully! The cakes she makes are beautiful! I've made a few in the past couple years and I've been quite impressed with them.... Yesterday, a friend of mine had a bridal shower. My mom and I went back and forth on what to get her because her registry was completely purchased! We decided a while back that we'd make the cake so now we just had to figure out what to put in it! I remembered that I had this "story" from a few years ago which you buy household cleaning products and work them into the story (ie: Now you will Pledge your love; He may not exactly be Mr. Clean...) There are thirteen items in all (Zest, All, Bounce, and Shout are some of the others) It was perfect!

Here are some pictures of the cake (her colors are sage/ivory) and everything wrapped:


Everyone at the shower loved it!! **Email for the story**

Have a bright and sunny day :)

Cornhole Boards

Kevin and I enjoy being crafty together (most of the time...). Well, when we started dating, his family taught me how to play Cornhole (for description and rules, click here). We thought, 'we could make this game!' ...so we did! We made a set for ourselves, his parents, and most recently, a set for Jenny and Greg. We create everything ourselves: custom bag colors (if Joann's has that color of duck cloth), custom painting (freehand, might I add...), etc. We buy everything and make it all! Here are some pictures of the ones we made for Jenny & Greg...

Maybe someday, I will get around to posting pictures of ours and his parents!

...Waiting for Friday when it's 92* and sunny :) Have a happy day!

The Wedding

The bride and groom (Jenny and Greg):



The finished favors:

Happy Engagement!

My boyfriend, well fiance, and I have decided to continue our lives together! A few months ago, Jenny asked Kevin if he'd be interested in proposing during the reception. He went back and forth trying to decide whether he would or not. Well, Thursday night, he decided to go for it!

During the bouquet/garter toss, Jenny and Greg fooled the crowd and turned to give Kevin the garter and myself the bouquet. Hating that part of any wedding reception, I was a little hesitant to accept. I went with it because it was Jenny's day, not mine. Little did I know, Kevin took the microphone and proposed! It was so romantic! And SURPRISING!! (Good job, babe!)

Here are some pictures of my new ring (and my new fiance)! :)






Hope you enjoyed! I know I am :)

Butterfly Cookies

Kevin's sister (Jenny) is getting married on Friday! A while back, she asked me if I could make her favors. I said, "Of course!"... Well, last week we baked and iced 162 5" butterfly cookies. Yesterday, I sat down (at 9:30a) to begin painting 162 5" butterfly cookies. By 9:30p, I had painted 97 cookies...

Back to work Tuesday morning... I started again today at 9:30a and finished by 2:30p. We have 97 bagged and are letting the others dry. Final count: 147!

I hope you enjoyed the pictures! Hope for sun and warm temps on Friday!