Little Ballerina

My favorite little girl had her first ballet performance last weekend.  She is five.  It was the cutest thing in the world. 

I was once up on that stage with my own little ballerina performances, so her show was very special for me.  I was probably the only person in the audience who was not actually realted to any of the dancers.  The show was three hours long.  I was sitting in the back and saw so many people on their phones, even the parents of the ballerina in question were texting each other.  It was a marathon.  I now have more appreciation from my own parents who sat through these performances every year for many, many years.  My dad used to bring a book, now I know why. 

In order to celebrate this event I made cards.  One for the star, and one for her brother, because I didn't want him to feel left out.

"Picked just for you!"

"My little star!"

The older brother got this card:

This was supposed to be him and his little sister, not sure if he got that (I am challenged by boy cards).

 

I love these two little kids with all my heart.  It was an honor to be able to be there for this little milestone. 

Mother's Day!

It just occurred to me today that I have missed my chance to send my mom a Mother's Day card this year (Mom, if you are reading this I'm so, so, so, sorry!).  My mom lives in Australia, and I live in NY (USA) so I have to do this stuff a good ten days early if I want to get it there on time.  As of right now, I have less than three days. (In my defense, I am working on my thesis still, as you know from my inconsistent blogging patterns this month). 

Instead I found this great site, actually they found me.  Real Simple has a e-card site where you can make your own card, write your own message, and even upload a picture.  It is super easy and super quick.  And FREE! Yay, love that. 

You can customize the cards in many ways.  I even used one of the quotes they offered too!

For Mother's day they have patterns, and florals.

You can add your own message, quote or whatnot, but don't worry because they give you tons more space at the end for something personal.  You can change the font and color on the right.

You can even add your own envelope and seal.  I love that.

There you have a great E-card, and you don't have to search through all the millions of cheesy ones on the web.  (No, Mom, this is not the one I made for you, you will have to wait for Mother's Day for that one :))

Oh, I almost forgot, the best part is that you don't have to remember when to send it, because you can schedule it for any day you want. 

In case you didn't catch it the first time, to make your own E-card go HERE!!!

My Pink Fix

I love pink.  When Jeff and I were deciding on our wedding colors, pink was my first choice, but in the end we only used a little pink for two reasons.  One, all my bridesmaids hated pink.  They would have worn pink if I asked them, but I did not want to make them miserable.  And two, I wanted Jeff to feel he had a part in the planning of the wedding, and he felt a little uncomfortable with a really pink wedding.  In the end, we made brown and white our colors with a light pink accent.  It was perfect.  I digress... my point is...I like pink.

I can't decorate my house pink for one of the same reasons I did not make pink the main color in my wedding.  I think Jeff would be a tad uncomfortable with a pink house, room, or whatever (although I like Beth's pink closet idea).  All that aside, I still love the color pink, and have managed to infuse it into some of the things I do, colors I wear, and objects I own. 

Without further ado, here is a little pink fix for anyone who might need it.

My pink dress.  This is a fabulous dress on its own, but the fact that it is also a rose pink just makes it that much better. (Sorry about the color, my camera is not the best, it is actually more pink and less purple than this)

A friend gave me this little pink memo pad and I love it.  It is much like my wedding invitations and it just makes me happy.  I'm actually thinking of using these colors for my desk.  Who says I can't at least have a pink desk?  I like this idea more and more.

On Sunday night I sat down and really got my pink fix.  I took out all my girl-y pink Valentine's stuff and made some cards for my female friends.  I decided this year that I would not send any cards to the couples who usually get my Valentine's cards, but only to the girls.  So I made some cards just for them.

**Spoiler alert....some of these cards will be given to my girl friends so don't scroll down if you want to be suprised*****

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I can't think of Valentine's Day without thinking of pink, but some of my women are more the blue type of girl, so I did some blue ones too.  What do you think?

Lastly, I came to the end of a magnetic memo pad and couldn't bring myself to waste the magnet, so I made some quick pink magnets with some old wedding table decorations.  For the tutorial on the glass marbles go here (I submitted this tutorial long before I started this blog; it is a pretty cool little craft)

I made hundreds of these little "message marbles" as I called them.  Lots of people got to take their favorite saying home.

Let me leave you with this.  It is a little postcard I found yeas ago.  It lives on my dresser mirror and it is very true to who I am (Again the card is more pink, damn those point-and-shoot cameras).

Besides my bridesmaids who hate pink, or at least hate to wear it, any of you need a pink fix once in a while?  What are the pink fixes in your home?