Sunday, July 24, 2011

Project: read.

Raulon gave me the best Mother's Day present this year.  And he completely surprised me with it too!



This book set was compiled for LDS families as wholesome classics, and as you can tell they are all pretty awesome!  I love how they've made them look really old and vintage.  I'd seen this set in the Seagull Book ad and I was so stoked to see that two of my favorite books are in it (Pride and Prejudice and the Scarlet Pimpernel) but at the time it was pretty expensive and I didn't even think about telling Raulon I wanted it.  That's why I was so surprised when months later he'd bought it for me (on sale of course :P) for Mother's Day.  If you can't see the picture very well, the books are Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Emma, Jane Eyre, Little Women, The Secret Garden, and Anne of Green Gables.  I took a picture of one of the books so you can see how awesome they look.

Each one of them has there own different color and design. I had originally read five of them and three were new to me but I decided I wanted to read the whole set so I started out with the new ones first and will end with The Scarlet Pimpernel, my fav!

So far I have read The Secret Garden, Little Women, Jane Eyre, and Anne of Green Gables.  Right now I'm reading Pride and Prejudice which I honestly think is going to be the hardest one to read just because I've already read it so many times and seen the movies so many times that when I read it I kind of zone out... ha ha.  But it really is such a good book and one of my favorites!

What books are you reading right now?  What are your favorite books?

P.S. Did you notice that Jane Austen is the only one that has multiple books in this set?  THREE to be exact!  Way to go Jane Austen!

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

i love crafts!

Tonight I had the opportunity to go over to my friend Katie's house while our husbands were at work and hang out with her and her sister and make paper flower wreaths. 




I first learned how to make these cute little paper flowers from my friend Keisha and then Katie saw online how to make these awesome wreaths out of them.  They are not done yet because there are so many flowers to go on them but they are going to be super cute!  This is the picture from the website:

What do you think?  I'll take a picture of mine when I'm done.


Ever since school got out I've been feeling super crafty but haven't had the time to do much.  I'm hopefully going to start working less soon and will be able to craft (and blog!) to my hearts content!


Have you done any fun crafts lately?

Monday, June 27, 2011

slow down.

I've been thinking a lot about all the people we've said we are going to hang out with "soon"-with all desires and intentions to do so-and then we never do.  We get too busy and we hardly have time to hang out with even each other or something comes up-or most commonly...we're at work.


If we've done this to you (you know who you are) please accept our apologies and know that we really want to hang out with you because you are so awesome and we'll keep trying!  We have the best friends and family and are so blessed to have you all in our lives!