A Valentines Day Photo Booth and Some Mustaches

What a fabulous Valentines Day we're having over here!

We just finished up having a party with all our friends.

I must have taken 200 pictures.

Valentines Day is very photographable, don't you think?

But of all the pictures, the photo booth pictures are my favorite.

Yep, we had a photo booth!!

Take a look.

It was a last minute idea.
Aaron came in from his studio around midnight, last night.
He had a stack of papers in his hands.
"Happy Valentines Day," he said.
I unfolded the papers to discover the biggest, brightest and best valentine ever!

He had just finished assembling it in his studio.
He designed it all, colors and font, and then put together each piece of paper like a giant puzzle.
How stinking creative is he?
I cried.
Of course.


Then the light bulb.
We had to have a photo booth at our Valentines party because now we had the perfect backdrop.
And we had to have mustaches.
Because just look at how awesome these mustaches are.

So my darling husband quickly cut out these mustaches for me.
Which one's your favorite?
As a Valentine present for my friends, I took photo booth pictures of them and their kiddos.
I'll print them up and hand them out.
A post Valentines Day valentine, but a good one nonetheless.
And then the kids got to stage their own photos.
There are some great ones.
But this one might be my favorite.

William and his best girl friend, Natalie.

My heart is melting.

Oh what fun we had today.

So many more pictures to show you, but now I must go sweep up many, many sprinkles from my floor and prepare a fancy dinner for my man.

We will be waited on by 3, very excited, waiters tonight.

It's gonna be fun, and interesting, I'm sure.

Oh, and do you like my new header?

Be sure to go here to see our prom pictures.

Also, I am writing for a new blog.

It's called Beautifully Rooted and I'd be honored if you'd stop by and take a look around.

I'm posting about parenting in the Nurture section.

You can see my first post here.

Let me know how you like it.

Happiest of Valentines to you, friends!

Wishing you a day of hearts and sunshine.

Love from,

Greta

From Drab to Fab: the 20 Minute Art Project

This weekend was great.

We were home.

We cleaned the garage.

And now it is no longer declared a national disaster area.

The kids can go inside to get their bikes and I don't fear for their lives.

Aaron started working on the decomposed granite patio/play area in our backyard.

I baked.

Cupcakes and this.

I (almost) caught up on laundry.

I went out to breakfast with a friend.

Aaron and I went on a date.

Vintage clothes shopping and dinner.

We had a friend over for dinner.

I weeded the flower beds.

We watched a movie. (i know we're hopelessly behind the rest of the world, but if you haven't seen this,  you should.  i found it fascinating.  if you have, what did you think?  i want to talk about it with someone)

Yes, the kids were sick.

Yes, the kids were, at times, quite cranky.

Yes, we had another night of many people being awake and coughing and crying.

And yes, it sounds like it was crazy busy.

We did a lot.

But, we were home and that felt good.

I even found time to do a 20 minute, drab to fab art project.

This is the pantry in our kitchen.

It's where I have our growing collection of photo booth strips on display.

Problem is, there was nothing much happening with those strips.

Drab.

I've been mulling over some ides.
Problem was, they all involved cutting of wood, painting of wood, building with wood, $ and time.
They were bigger projects than were really feasible right now.
I needed quick.
So, I came up with another plan.
I cut one piece of paper from my big roll of brown, builder's paper.

And made some art.

Fab.

This project cost me no $.
It took about 20 minutes.
It was fun.
And now my photo booth strips have a home worthy of their coolness.

Around the edges of the paper, I used magic markers to create the frame.
I used a ruler to make the edges kind of straight.
I wanted it to be a little bit crooked--a little bit imperfect.

Then I cut some narrow strips from the same paper and stamped the year on the strip.
For some I used the whole number, 2010, and for others I used just the last two numbers, 11.
I put the year next to each strip because it is fun to see the year next to the strip.

In the bottom corner of paper, I stamped our name, and the words "I love you".
And, of course, I put a bird on it.

The whole thing is held up with little magnets.
Remember, my cabinets are the original metal ones.
They're handy, let me tell you.


I'm happy with the way my art project turned out.
I was especially happy when Aaron saw it and said, "hey that's a cool piece of art."
I always consider him the artist of the family, so when I get an art shout out, it makes me feel pretty darn good.


The other side of the cabinet looks very empty now.
I plan on filling it up with a poster or 2.

Next weekend I'll be going to this, and picking a poster from this guy.

The hardest thing will be deciding which one, or two, I like best.

Which are your faves?

I like the bacon, eggs, coffee, and the bird to name a few.

Hey, it's Halloween today!

We have some last minute costume work to do.

Hope your Halloween is full of fun.

Love from,

Greta

Bleh

BLEH.

That is about how I feel right now.

I can't seem to get caught up on anything.

And blogging is getting lower on the list of priorities.

At times I can manage to post 2 blogs a night.

At others, this week for example, I can hardly manage one.

Hence the lack of posts here.

I've been posting over at Lilly and the Bros.

I'm just having a hard time catching up after all the being gone.

The housework, the laundry, (Help Me Rhonda! the laundry) the school work, the runny noses, the coughing kids, the sleepless night I had last night.

I feel bleh.

But, I just saw this.

There was a photo booth at my brother's wedding.
You know how I feel about photo booths.
LOVE.
Their rad photographer was snapping away and she got so many fun shots.
They are brightening my day, let me tell you.
To see more great ones of the fam, go to Lilly and the Brothers.
To see the full set, go to Colleen's blog.  
She's the rad photographer--you'll want to browse her blog a bit while you're there.
And thanks, Colleen, for making my bleh day a lot more of a yay! day.
Love from,
Greta


PS. Can I do our wedding all over again so I can have cool things like a photo booth there?  Seriously.  I have so many great, new ideas.  It would be fun.  I'm not kidding.