Sunshine and Food Trucks

David and I had not been to Tasty Truck Tuesday in months (probably since before the last Daylight Savings). To celebrate DST (and to enjoy yummy food before our upcoming fruit/veggie cleanse), we finally ventured out again. It was the first time that we tried Asian Persuasion. The firecracker shrimp tasted fresh and delicious on the few pieces that did not get sauced. The sauce made it almost too sweet to eat. The Korean burrito was A-mazing, so delightful. Add some Thai tea, a seat on the edge of the crosswalk on Adams, and a fun band and you have a perfect Tuesday evening!

 

Happy Daylight Savings!

I had been looking forward to Daylight Savings for a few weeks now- just so that when I come home from work, I can possibly have still have some sunshine. My mom, aunt, nana, and I went to Roger's Garden in yesterday afternoon. It was beautiful there (and warm enough to wear shorts!). So, a few pictures of Spring and all its lovliness...

 

 

I have a ton of content backed up. My goal is start actually writing on here once a week- I have so many fun parties to post!

 

Have a beautiful week...



love and stars- a bridal shower, part 1

 

My friend from high school is getting married next month and a friend and I threw a shower for her over the weekend (I know! shock! It's been less than 6 months and I'm already blogging about it!). Anyway, I always think of blue and silver and stars when I think of my friend, so that seemed like natural inspiration.

 

The invite was quite fun. We had a few people tell us that they were going to keep it. We used vellum envelopes, printed on the computer as if it was a postcard and filled with star confetti. The idea came from here.

 

 

 

 a sign for the bride to be's chair

pretty bride!

 
 

the centerpieces were stars cut from felt, spray painted silver and sprinkled with silver glitter.We filled large Mexican glasses with white rice and small candle votives wrapped in blue paper with long white star stickers. My friend and her dad punched all of the star confetti and was sprinkled across the tables with plastic diamonds.

 
 

 

 
 
 

star centerpieces

 

 



I got all of these champagne glasses at Ikea at an after Christmas one day sale- 6 glasses for 99 cents! I spray painted small wooden stars blue and wrote every one's names with a silver Sharpie and added a mini rhinestone to each. My friend's dad was wonderfully helpful and drilled all of the holes for me. We tied them onto the stems and had cute little name tags.



 

the bride's got a diamond ring attached to it

 

 

sign of the bride and groom's names: I wrote their names in tiny stars and we tied tinsel between each letter to add a little flash. This was my inspiration. I love how it turned out.

 

The mantel was lined with wooden frames sprayed painted silver with a star related love quote on each and few drawn on blue stars.

 

 

 

 

 


We did two activities- one where the guests wrote an acrostic poem with the bride and groom's names and one where the guests wrote date ideas on a popsicle stick. We're all not game people, so these were good activities that people could choose to do but did not have to participate in.



 


the bride and the party planners





friends since 9th grade (or earlier).

 


and one close up of the dress that I made for the party. I'll do a post about it in a few weeks.

 
 

Halloween: Robot

 

 

 

Halloween is my favorite, favorite, favorite holiday. I've always wanted to make a costume for J, but it just never happened. Finally I got lucky. He wanted a robot, an idea that we were both incredibly excited for... so much possibility of creativity in a robot. Though I love the look of the classic cardboard box robot costume, I wanted him to actually be able to move. I
 decided on taping 3 piece of craft foam together lengthwise so that it add body to the costume but the foam is flexible, so he could move around. I cut it a bit shorter so that he could sit down with it on and I added straps made out of foam so he could slip the whole thing over his head like a shirt. I also cut half circles from under the armpits so that the whole thing could go higher up on his chest. From there, we just let our imaginations run. This costume took days of work, but it was pretty cheap to create ($20ish). Large sheets of foam are less than a dollar at Michaels. One can of spray paint got everything silver. He wore a grey long sleeved shirt that he already owned. I already had the silver face paint and bought a can of silver hair spray. I already had all of the puffy paint colors and the brad for the energy gauge. His silver shoulder pads and silver pants and the silver flap on his back were all taken from his knight costume from the year before. All of the lights came from the dollar store, except the battery pack string of lights, which I got for maybe $3 at Michaels.



silver face paint and silver hair spray



Lights that you can press from the front are the best because they are the easiest to turn on. The little string of lights and the orange light both had switches in the back so I had to cut a whole in the back of the costume and you had to slide your hand up to turn it off. I put another piece of felt on the inside of the costume to cover up the batter pack and wires so that he wouldn't pull them out by accident when putting it on. I taped all of the wires down in the back as well to keep them from sliding out of the little holes. Clearly, the bolts fell off easily. I should have used stronger glue than a glue gun to get them to stick better. Nothing else fell off. The black marker on the battery gauge moved, which J loved, because when he got tired, he could move it to red. When he was full of energy, it was on green.



to make the raised letters, I puffy painted "JACKOBOT 6000" 3 times to make the letters really high, waiting between each coat for it to dry. Then I spray painted the whole thing silver to make it look like raised metal letters. The serial number is his birthday and the '6' in '6000' was his age at the time.



the back- this was a very fun feature. The flap was also left over from his knight costume from last year. "In the event of an EMERGENCY LIFT FLAP"





I got this doorbell from the dollar store. It let out a very loud doorbell ring when you hit the red button. J would go into automatic shut down mode if someone pressed it- he would slowly bend over at the hips with his arms drooping. It was excellent. I am hoping to someday get a video of it and but it on here.



doing the robot. he LOVED the silver pants- also left over from last year's costume.





glowing from all of his lights.



and glowing in the dark- it is a pretty safe costume for walking the streets!

with his family

 

 

the robot costume creators!

 

and our going out dancing costumes- I was a butterfly with Dollar Store wings, a dress that I added tulle and ribbon to, & lots of glitter makeup and David was Twitter.