Bridal Fest 2011

Come to the Bridal fest at the spokane Convention Center this weekend the 8th and 9th.  Ill be there with bells on!!

http://www.bridalfest.com/

A New Year a New You

Happy New Year!!

A new year brings about the opportunity to better yourself!  We all have things we wish we were better at and now is the time.  We can all look back and say 2011 is the year I started being the best me I can be.  That could mean so many things to so many people, and lets face it resolutions don't work.  So instead of a resolution I am making a declaration " my intent for the year 2011 is to better myself"  These are the ways I am going to make me a better Self, Mom, Wife, Daughter, Sister, Employee and Co-Worker:

Remember 99% of the things I stress about don't happen

Have a positive attitude towards life

Make time for Make-up

Pay more attention to Grace's bed time routine

Make time for our Marriage

Books are better than TV

Blog more often

Call my friends not Just FB or text. 

Send more cards

Pay attention to my body

Learn something new every day (and attempt to remember it)


Let me know what your aspirations are for the New Year!

"Souper" Bowl parties coming up!!

With Christmas and the new year over its time to start thinking ahead to the up coming 2011!  Super Bowl is on the agenda and what could be better than a "Soup-er" Bowl!!!   That's right, this year we will be having a party that is not only focused around football but also around great soul food, SOUP.  The play on words will lend a great hand to your cuisine.  Chili's, Jambalaya, Stew, Chowder, almost anything you can put in a pot can be a soup!! 
"A Super Bowl party is not the time to fuss too much with decorations – food, drinks, and of course the game will take precedent for this occasion. However it’s still a theme party and what’s a theme party without themed decorations! Just keep it simple and make it fun (Julie Mulligan) http://blog.1800flowers.com/vhosts/blog/julie/

Check out these great pictures from last years super bowl by Julie Mulligan! Check her Web page out.  She does GREAT arrangements!




These fun little arrangements are so inexpensive and you can put them all around the house, on the buffet, even in the bathroom. The container is an actual can or bottle koozie that I found. I lined the koozie with the bottom half of a disposable water bottle. You can even give one to each guest at the end of the party as a parting gift!





Can you believe that this mug of beer is actually an innovative fresh flower arrangement? You can find this Beer Mug of Blooms at 1-800-FLOWERS.COM. It would be a great, unexpected gift to send to a friend that you are unable to be with on Super Bowl Sunday. Let them know that you are together in spirit!

For a dessert that is as much fun to look at as it is to eat, make a football cake using a football cake pan. To display the cake, I used a Clementine crate. The ends of the crate reminded me of goal posts. I reshaped the scanned image of the Super Bowl XLIV napkins and scaled it to fit the sides of the crate. You can fill the crate with wheat grass or green paper shreds to mimic the football field.