Homemade Sunshine

So, I have been feeling really crafty so I made a craft blog! It's called Homemade Sunshine. It's kind of fun, you should check it out!! (click on the word "homemade sunshine" for the link)

Giveaway worth over $300

If you LOVE crafting as much as I do, you will not want to miss this! It is a giveaway for the Silhouette Craft Cutting Machine. It is AMAZING! Go to this site to enter to win! Good luck!!

Sweet Finds

You know that awesome feeling when you get a really awesome deal on something or find something cute for really super cheap, well I had the opportunity to have this kind of experience yesterday!

SO I have not been shopping in FOREVER, mostly because money is tight right now (such is the life of a newly wed couple) and good shopping is a half hour away from Rexburg in Idaho Falls.

Anyways, I finally got out of Rexburg and ventured out to I.F. with my good friend Kari. We ended up leaving at around 8 a.m. and then got to the D.I. at around 9, but they weren't open until 10! So then we went to this other 2nd hand store and found some sweet stuff for our houses!!! It is amazing what you can find at places like that. Anyway, I don't have pics of the stuff but you will just have to take my word for it, it rocks! 

Here is a list of some of the stuff I got (just in case you were wondering) :

Jacket for Dom ($3.50, not second hand but BRAND NEW from Old Navy, right now all of the mens clearance is an additional 50% off, amazing.)

3 pillar candle holder (9.00, regularly $20-25 i'm sure)

Curtain rod ($1.50, even at ross they were still like $18)

White Vase ($1.00)

4 Pillar candles, 2 round and two square ($2 each, all brand spankin new! and they smell really good, vanilla)

Picture Frame ($0.75)

2 Shirts for me (Brand new from Old Navy also, $5.00 each)

Glass mini-hurricane candle holder ($1.00)

And a couple other things I cant remember at the moment. 

Needless to say I had a BLAST (Kari, you are amazing!)

P.s. in case you were wondering, we DID do something for lovers day, but I have been too busy to put pictures up but don't you worry, they will come!

Custom Design By Britnae Sanelli

I spent all day today toying around with this photo shop program I have and ended up making some pretty cute stuff. Although I have yet to make a successful blog layout that actually fits my page right, I did manage to make a couple of postcard designs so that we can finally send out our thank you cards (or in this case, postcards) from our wedding about 5 months ago (pathetic that we haven't done them yet? Yes, I would say so).

I have so much fun making these little things, this kind of stuff is dangerously addictive for me so I think I am going to have to start using as a reward for getting real work done!

Shoot, if I would have known that I was capable of doing this sort of thing, I would have made my own wedding invitations! Anyways, here are what the postcards look like!

Front

Back side. On the left is where we write our personalized thank you note, on the right is where the address goes :)

Post card front #2 (actually the first one I made)

Back side of post card #2

HUGE thank to Shabby Princess for providing all of the cute papers, ribbon, staples, etc!

Digital scrapbooking

So lately I have been branching out a little in my creativity and started using digital scrapbooking materials to make fun stuff like my the header at the top of my page (compliments of thecutestblogontheblock.com). I found this web site that lets you download free kits that are SO cute.

Here is the website http://www.shabbyprincess.com/downloads.asp

You do need photoshop to make things with them though. I didn't have photoshop so I downloaded a free one called paint.net (http://www.download.com/Paint-NET/3000-2192_4-10338146.html). It is basically the same thing as photoshop minus the hundreds of dollars you would have been spending. Don't you just love free stuff?!

Here is a picture of one of the kits I downloaded, I havent done anything with it yet, but it's super cute.