Date Night, Punkin Carvin, Painting

This past week(?) had been quite lovely. Baby J (lil' babe I sit for) was a delight, my Bone Practical was finished on Monday so I didn't have anything crazy to study for, and I got to go on not one but TWO dates with my Love.  Oh, and today I got to paint something for a wonderful girl who wanted to BUY a painting from me. A-mazing. At some point in time Zach picked up two quite great pumpkins from the Pumpkin Church and I carved the big one. I love carving the pumpkin and I also love baking the seeds! 

Monday night, our weekly date night, we went to The Floridian. I absolutely loved it. We took our time and ordered amazingly delicious food and it was wonderful. The other date night was going out to J.P. Henleys and ordering beer and sandwiches. Yum. I only have pictures from the Floridian. . .so enjoy.

This is the church where Zach works!

The Floridian is amazing inside.

In other news. Today I painted a picture for a lovely lady, Toni. She requested a painting of her dog. I had a lot of fun painting it, but I was a little nervous at first because I never paint realistic things (anything with a face that doesn't involve a line for a mouth and a little circle for the eye). Here's the outcome:

The pup, Ellie.

Step 1: Pencil drawing & outside paint.

Tah-Dah!

Bottom of a plate for paint.

 I actually like the end result a lot. I also liked using a cold plate to hold the paint. I shall use this trick again. Hope Toni likes it! Now time to go play games with friends. 

Miss you and love you all. 

Yesterday, lots of babies came into this world. . .

But I am mainly concerned about just one. Little Benjamin Carson came into the world last night around 10:30 and everyone is doing just fine. He is welcomed into this world by a wonderful family including his big brother, Elias who is almost 1! Here is a precious picture of the two on the day they were each born. 

 Gotta love babies! 

Miss you and love you all!

Bone Practical in T-1.5 hours

Hi there. I feel like I should be studying for this bone practical, but I more so feel like I should give my brain a break until it's time to spew out all the information. So I shall blog. 

Last weekend I spent the majority of the time working on invites for my friend, Deborah's baby shower! I spent most of the time on a completely different idea. I didn't like it in the end so I started all over again and finished this little guy in about an hour. This is what I ended up with:

 Me, Mattie, and Cally have started a new Thursday night tradition. And by "tradition" I mean that we have done this like 3 weeks in a row so seems like I can call it a tradition.  Every Thursday night Cally and I meet Mattie downtown after she gets off work at 9:30. We go to a bar for cheap drinks, walk around, maybe even order some food. It's always a good time.

Before Cally found us.

After Cally found us.

Yesterday I took a study break and decided I need to paint something. Of course this desire came on after gawking at Pinterest for an hour a little bit. I added an old painting and a new painting to the hall!

Love these two.

Newbie

In other news, we found our missing hermit crab! The other morning I found him scaling the back of our toaster oven! I heard a weird noise from the other room and I went to investigate. When I realized the noise was coming from the toaster oven I was slightly afraid I was going to find a half cooked hermit crab trying to escape his dilapidated shell. Ech. But he's just fine! I replaced the dirt in his terrarium--ya know--since his old roommate was found dead beneath the surface. He seems happy, but he is constantly trying to escape. 

Miss you and love you all!

Surprises are the best.

Yesterday, my dear friend Nicole received her package. She loved it! I know this because she recorded herself opening it! So fun! Now I get to show you what I included in the package! An owl bowl, Owl earrings, AND (my favorite) a cute magnet to put on her refrigerator! After painting the little welcome sign for my wreath I had another leftover piece of wood. So I just decided to paint it blue and put some birds on it with a cute quote. Add the magnets to the back and you have a wonderful little gift! Ta-Dah!

It's my favorite so here's another picture:

Plus, I had such a wonderful crafty time with Dani!

Now Zach and I are going to go out and get some tacos from a little place on St. George Street. We are trying not to spend money so we can add some to our savings, but we decided preparing tacos for 2 people is just as expensive as eating tacos from a restaurant. 

Here we go!

Miss you and love you!

Saturdays rock my world.

Today was a wonderful day. I wanted to blog about it and I know tomorrow I'm doing nothing but going to church and studying, so if it's going to happen it has to be right now. At 12:40 am. Awesome. This morning Zach and I woke up and decided to walk downtown to get breakfast. It was a wonderful day to take a walk. By wonderful I mean that it wasn't raining, it was still pretty hot. Don't worry, I took my camera along. 

Look at these pretties growing in front of our house!

West King has so much character. And it's growing!

Zach and I had dinner on this street the other night. Lovely.

Oh hey there, Bridge of Lions. How you doin?

So happy. About to eat some Schmagels.

 After our walk I printed out coupons and then headed off to Hobby Lobby and Michaels. I had been wanting to make a Fall wreath for a while and today was the day! I gathered my supplies and then headed home. The other day I had found an idea that I thought I could do (successfully) without spending too much money. Clearly mine is a bit different, but I did use their burlap idea! All in all the wreath cost me under $15. It would have been a lot less but I was out of glue sticks, which was the most expensive item on my list! Tah-dah! I actually am quite proud of it, but after looking at this picture I might move the bow up a bit. 

I still really like it. Dani-Pants came over and joined me while I was still working on it. She worked on something for her job while I continued to get gold glitter everywhere. I also worked on a gift for my lovely friend, Nicole. I clearly can't post a picture of it until she gets it in the mail. Dani and I also watched He's Just Not That Into You while we crafted, such a good movie. I also made a batch of delicious cookies tonight. Now it's time for bed so I can actually wake up and get to church in the morning. Goodnight!

Miss you and love you all!

I Have Wonderful Friends.

Yesterday I came home to a wonderful surprise; a package from my lovely friend, Nicole! It was a fantastic surprise because I love her and I love packages. She mailed me a really cute shirt, three movies, and a bracelet she made! It was so wonderful. I plan on mailing her back something really soon!

The cute shirt!

Look at that cute card!

 

And just for kicks I included a picture of cute Scooby. So cuddly. 

My friends are amazing. 

Miss you and love you all.

Guess What?!?!

The Pumpkins are here! Yesterday after work Zach and I headed over to the "Pumpkin Church" and unloaded about 5 million pumpkins off a giant semi. It was a lot of fun and super dirty. 

Pumpkins smell pretty horrible. Maybe not all the time, maybe just after they have been living in a semi for a couple days in the Florida heat. While we were passing the pumpkins we were discussing how wonderful pumpkin scented things smell and how ironic it is that pumpkins actually smell like moldy feet. 

I am super excited about Fall.

Miss you and love you.