summer is over

Sorry for being MIA lately. Nothing too exciting has happened, and I have just tried enjoying the last few weeks of summer. Sadly today is it. Not only am I sad about summer being over, I'm starting to freak out a bit. I am having some special ed kids in my class, a first for me. I know I will love it, but I'm nervous since I've never done it before! I was talking with one of the TAs I will be working with telling her I have no idea what my role is and hers, etc. I guess I'll find out tomorrow! I met my kids on Friday and they are all so cute! For those of you that are also teachers, have a great first day tomorrow. I'm off to make goop for my kids. Enjoy your last day of summer everyone!

patrick & kelly's wedding

Patrick, my best friend's brother, got married this weekend! He and Kelly got married in this really pretty old convent in San Antonio which is now an arts school. (I think.) When I got there I saw Mrs. Brown and we started talking and the first thing she said to me was, "You know this used to be a convent. So watch out." Oh Mrs. Brown.  The wedding was really pretty with lots of cute touches. The best part? Getting to spend the night with some of my best friends.

The favors were homemade peach jam that Kelly had made. I thought the favor table was really cute. 

Hellbound Twins. Long story short, we lied to nuns so we could take a picture with them. I guess that's why Mrs. Brown told me to be careful standing in an old convent.

 The first dance. Her dress was so pretty!

 Myself with part of my second family, the Brown's.

Love these guys! 

There was no alcohol at the reception except for a glass of champagne for some toasts. Once the dancing got started I noticed the champagne room. Well not really. It was where the servers were coming in and out of, but I called it the champagne room because I saw a gigantic pitcher of champagne that wasn't used. So I decided to take matters into my own hands (after much discussion) and Mrs. O'Brien and I went in there and refilled several champagne glasses. What was really funny was after we left that room people saw what we had done and started doing the same. I'm sure the servers were really annoyed with a huge group of people in this tiny room trying to get more champagne. Towards the end of the night, since they kept scooping up our empty champagne glasses, the only thing that was left was a giant water glass. Of course we still kept it classy.

Congrats Patrick and Kelly!

bucee's

I have never been to a Bucee's before, and it is redonk! We went when we were on our river trip to get food and other random things that we were going to need for the day. I couldn't even handle what happened when we went in.

This is a wall of just different kinds of chocolate covered pretzels. That's it! Just pretzels!

An entire wall of just candy! I mean, what the hell?! I feel like this picture really doesn't show how insanely long this wall really was. 

Their beef jerky is supposed to be pretty good. They must really love it for how expensive it is. There better be an entire cow worth of jerky in there for me to buy it. FYI, it isn't even that good. (I bought a smaller bag to try.)

I forgot my hat so I bought this awesome half hot pink, half camo hat.

Need some wine glasses? I bet you really want Bucee's wine glasses! You could buy anything with that beaver on it. 

We were in there way too long, and spent way too much money on way too much crap. But I can now say I have gone to Bucee's!

Y'all come back now!

upcycled frames

I moved classrooms this year and am in a gigantic brown, dull, and sad looking room. So I have been trying to add color and fun prints to liven things up. I also wanted to put up some framed pictures, but didn't want to use the plain black frames I had. So I decided to use those frames and make them look pretty and new.

With the first frame I decided to use the spray paint I bought for a totally failed craft. I used masking tape to make stripes. After that I took it outside and started spray painting.

I let it totally dry overnight and took the tape off. Total fail.

I didn't want to just give up yet, so I decided to take it back out and spray paint the entire thing. If it came out terribly, at least I tried since I wasn't going to use it the way it was.

I love that the first coat of paint bubbled and showed the stripes. A total accident, but I think it looks pretty cool!

The second frame I decided I would do something I had done before, but with fabric instead. A long time ago a friend taught me how to cover boring bracelets with strips of fun scrapbooking paper and Mod Podge. I did something similar with frames for my sisters bridal shower, and then again with ornaments last Christmas. (Annoyingly enough as I look back through my blog I didn't blog about any of these. Too bad because those Christmas ornaments were pretty awesome!)

Anyways. Here are all the supplies you will need for the fabric (or paper) covered frame.

I measured about how long the strips should be and cut up a bunch of strips. You want it to go around all of the parts you would see. If you are using paper, cut the strips a little bit thinner because they aren't as pliable as fabric.

Once you're ready you will start by putting some of the Mod Poge over the first part you will cover, including the back, cover with fabric, and then go over it again with more Mod Poge.

You continue this, overlapping the fabric as you go. When you get to the corner, the best way I found to cover it was to do a lot of overlapping instead of cutting the fabric to perfectly go around the corner. (That's the trickiest part of the whole process.) Once you're all done either lay it down on whatever you used as a floor cover, or hang it where it can dry easily.

I don't mind that the black frame is showing through the fabric, but it could have been avoided if I had known that would happen. If you use a light colored fabric like I did and DON"T want the frame to show through you could paint the frame white, go back and do a second layer of fabric, or just deal with it. If you use paper, this won't happen because the paper is thicker, even if it's white or light colored paper.

Now I just need to find a place to put my new frames!