I've been wanting to design mugs as Christmas gifts for a couple years now. I finally got around to it and love the results, I can't wait to gift these! To start this project I gathered white mugs of all shapes and sizes, then I spent a small fortune on Porcelaine 150 pens. After spending a ton of time transferring designs onto the mug with graphite paper I was ready to use ...
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Milwaukee Ronald McDonald House
My work volunteering as a Ronald McDonald House Charity Ambassador has only just begun. This past week my husband and I visited the Ronald McDonald House of Eastern Wisconsin in Milwaukee. The Eastern Wisconsin chapter is undergoing a huge expansion, going from 38 rooms to 70! Even under construction it's a gorgeous site to see and the staff is working seamlessly through the ...
Gift Guide for the I.T. Guy
Are you ready for the fourth day of my geeky Holiday gift guides? Today's gift guide is all about your I.T. guy, whether they're gadget obsessed or html is their second language you'll find something for your I.T. guy here! These gift guides do include affiliate links that go straight to Amazon for convenient shopping! A good wireless keyboard is definitely essential, ...
Gift Guide for your Jedi Knight
It's officially day two of of an entire week of gift guides for your geeky guy. Today is all about Star Wars. This gift guide does include affiliate links that go straight to Amazon for easy shopping for you!Star Wars can be tricky to shop for these days if you don't do your homework. Most Star Wars items found in stores are from the newer animated series, and your geeky guy ...
Gift Guide for your Hobbit
Today I'm kicking off an entire week of gift guides for your geeky guy. I've gotten such great feedback from past gift guides for your geeky guy, that I figured I'd dedicate an entire week to them this year. Follow these gift guides and you will definitely be able to get away with a much longer "Honey-do" list. These gift guides do include affiliate links that go straight to ...
Ronald McDonald House Charities
In the beginning of this month I headed to Chicago as a Ronald McDonald House Charity ambassador. It was an amazing couple days filled with such great people, including fellow RMHC ambassadors and wonderful bloggers: Meagan from Sunshine and Sippy Cups, Kathy from Sparkles and a Stove, Tracy from Ascending Butterfly, and Melanie from Melanie in the Middle. I was ...
Date Night {a gift for him}
My husband and I happen to have our birthdays fall three days apart. This year we decided not to exchange presents. Of course a few days before my birthday I figured out that he bought me gifts (and he had been giving me little gifts through out the week, like a new vase, a bottle of wine from our favorite winery, etc.) So I had to come up with something awesome and ...
Playing at the Park!
My Summers in High School were consumed with my first job. I worked at our local park running a couple children's rides and boat rentals. I had a lot of memorable times at that job; like the time I was clinging on to a dock for a good hour while holding on to a bumper boat motor, or my first kiss in the train tunnel (I’m embarrassed just writing that!) I spent more hours than I ...
Partying in Chicago (That time everyone thought AJ was Chris Pratt)
Even though I was attending my very first blogging conference two weeks ago in Chicago, I was swamped with private events. The first event I attended in Chicago was The Baby Ladies Baby Shower. The event was working closely with the Saving Babies Through Screening Foundation, a great foundation that I first found out about when I was pregnant with Aliceana and read Cora's ...
Super Hero Character Print
Remember my famous couple's print? It's my most popular pin over on Pinterest, so I decided I needed to make a better tutorial for it, and what better way than to make some more fun prints? These prints would be the cutest for any child's bedroom. There's something magical about seeing your name among your favorite super heroes. In this case, I made these prints for ...
Chicago Bucket List – What to see the first time you’re in the Windy City
In one week, AJ and I will be in Chicago for BlogHer (well, I'm going to BlogHer, he's just coming along for the adventure)! For most of the trip I'm going to be at the conference or private parties, but I do have gaps in my schedule for some quality tourist time. So with a lot of research, we created an official "bucket list!" This is the list of things we absolutely, ...