What fresh paint can do!

I love design and how a little paint can change a piece of furniture and entire space. I have had this cabinet since middle school, it has followed me through all my college apartments and is now in our family home. It has been everything from a closet, pantry, entertainment center and office, which it is now. It was in much need of a face lift, so one day during nap time I threw a coat of paint on it! It completely change the whole rooms look. I'm now on the lookout for some good knobs for it!

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Shabby Chic Wedding

My brother in law carved our initials into this tree
which outlined the reception area.

This week marks my husbands and I 1st anniversary. I am from the south and wanted a country, shabby chic wedding, and that's just what we had. The wedding took place in my parents back yard under oaks and pines. It was beautiful and completely DIY. The only thing we had brought in were tables and chairs. We cooked all the food, made the ALL decorations, I'm talking poring 50 pounds of candle wax to make candles) and my sister made the cake.We had BBQ chicken, tenderloin, corn on the cob, potato salad, cole slaw, and baked beens. It was truly a old timey southern wedding!

My handsome hubby and me!

My parents live across a train track so at sundown we 

snuck away to take some photos on the track.

This sign greeted guest as they arrived. We had horse shoes and ladder ball and the reception, and yes there was fishing in the pond in front of the house, which was a big hit!

I had a wonderful photographer, I just told her to capture every moment and every decoration she could because I knew I wasn't going to remember it and wanted good pictures to look back and see what happen!

 The whole wedding was focused around mason jars and insulators for decoration, they are so simple but so beautiful. And, since we are from the south we had PLENTY of them around. 

This is a before photo but you can really see all the different things hanging in the tree.  The large candle jar
now hangs on my back porch.

About 100 jars and insulators filled with flowers and candles hung from the trees. It was very enchanting at night when the whole area was lite up with candle light.

The table center pieces were all jars and candles. There was a jug filled with flowers, a mason jar with our engagement photo tied to it, and a candle. They were all sitting on antique dollies from my grandmothers and aunts.

    

We made ALL of the candles, and to be smart we added citronella to all of them to keep the bugs away.
The down side is not all of the candles burned up and now we have citronella candles for years....

The cloths line was between two trees. You can not see them but one tree had framed photos of my grandparents wedding, and the other had my husbands grandparents. Then we started from the outside of the line with our baby photos and the timeline got older until we meet in the middle. 

My sister MADE THIS CAKE. Not only is it beautiful, but it tasted amazing too! 

We also had pies! home made!

The sweets table had a hand made sign that said " Sweet Love" out of scrapbook paper, super easy!

Hand made signs were tied to all of the candy jars and bags were provided,  for everyone to take some home. This is one thing that was all gone by the end of the night!

My grandmothers broach(my dads side) was attached to my bouquet. I also had my moms mothers attached to my veil. It was a way to have a part of them with me on my very special day. 

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3 words: Crock Pot Lasagna!

I have seen variations of this around the "web" (pinterest!) this is mine, semi home made. It was so easy and I think the best lasagna I ever made. I am not a very good measuring cook, I'm more of a eyeball and a pinch more kind of girl.
I used:
1 jar Prego
chopped 1/2 onion & 2 fresh cloves garlic
1/2 cup water
1 cup of mozzarella (or if your me, any cheese you have in your fridge) I was out of mozzarella, but had mexican blend, my husband never noticed.

8 oz Ricotta cheese

1 egg

lasagna noodles- regular kind

You could always add meat to the sauce, I just happen to make mine meat free tonight.

First mixed the prego, onion, garlic, and water. Then mix together cheeses and egg. 

The water adds some moister and helps the noodles cook and the lasagna not to get dry since the prego is thick. 

I sprayed my crock pot with none stick cooking spray, then put a layer or sauce, then noodles, broken to fit the pot. I did two layers, about 4 noodles each layer but whatever works. Then I layered the cheese and started back over with the sauce, noodles, cheese, then top it off with sauce.

I put it in the crock pot for 4 hours on low. I believe if you were going to work in the morning you could put it all together the night before and store in the fridge. In the morning put it on warm, not low, and let it cook all day and it should be done when you get home. I haven't tried this, but as fast as it cooked on low, I can imagine warm would be fine. 

It was delicious, and defiantly something to add to my crock pot cooking! 

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Lamp

I had this large mason jar that I filled with blocks and used as decoration in Hudson's nursery. I needed a lamp for his room and got the bright idea to make one! So I got my husband to drill a whole in the bottom(this took weeks because he would start then stop, although time all together was probably 45 minutes) it was tedious but he is wonderful and did it for me. I bought a lamp kit from home depot for really cheap and ran it through the jar and put it together next I filled it with blocks that I had bought in the target $1 section around Christmas, and finally the lamp shade! The lamp shade was the hardest part, I ordered a blue one online that was too big and didn't look right, I found this super cute burlap at target for $9! Altogether it was about $50! That's not counting the blue lampshade I ordered online that is stuffed in a closet somewhere that will prob never be used....

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