Decoupage

This is my new favorite thing.  My soon to be amazing SIL, Melanie, told me about decoupaging awhile ago and I had never heard or seen of it.  Well, it's pretty cool.  Basically, you cut out pictures; you glue the pictures onto an object; and then cover the object and pictures with a few coats of glue/decoupage medium to protect it. Check out this website if you want to see how many projects you can really do and all you need is the glue, Mod Podge.

http://www.modpodgerocksblog.com/

We had a bunch of coasters laying around from when O's dad was redoing the tile in their house so I decided to test it out.  I just cut out my favorite pieces of scrapbook paper to fit the tile and started glueing away...

Melanie & Craig just moved into their new place so I made them a little housewarming present

 Plain tile

 Different scrapbook pages with a few layers of mod podge

Finished product!  I also added a protective water sealant on top of the coasters so cold drinks don't bleed through the paper.

Decoupage

Decoupaging is my new favorite thing!  This project is not wedding related but whatev.  Since O & I decided not to get eachother gifts for our 4 years of dating anniversary (1-pretty much all our $ goes to the wedding & 2-we're gonna have a new anniversary), I thought I'd make him something.  Sometimes I feel bad because our house is a little girly, not too bad, but it is definitely more me than him. 

I had this tray I got from Marshall's a while back for $4 in the bathroom with candles, etc on top and decided to make it a remote control holder for O (we always have 3 remotes on the coffee table scattered about & it drives me crazy) haha, so maybe this is for me, too :) 

The before:

 I cut out clippings of his favorite baseball player and used Mod Podge to glue them down and then added more coats to the top

 This was my first attempt at decoupaging, I think I need to get a roller of some sort to smooth out the wrinkles

 The after:

 So there you have it, we have a non-girly thing in our house...it's still cute though, huh? :)

He loved it!

Pineapple Classic 5K

This is the 1st year the Pineapple Classic 5K came to San Diego and Orrin & I joined Christine & Brian's team.  I'll jump at anything that raises money for Leukemia & Lymphoma.  It was SOO much fun!!!  Even though when we started at 7 am it was sprinkling and freeeezing, it warmed up shortly and we had a blast doing all of the obstacles.  Afterwards there was a luau, live music and a beer garden.  Good times for sure!  Here are some pics...

Enjoying the beer garden after the race

Of course, our biggest fan, Imagrace was there! :)