31 Days to Clean....Reboot!

I have talked about the ebook, 31 Days to Clean by Sarah Mae before. With good intentions, I bought the book and read most of it but never really did any cleaning... Have you ever done that?? I am sure you have! Well, Sarah Mae is going to have her book published and is asking for help to revamp her book by having lovely ladies go through the challenges with her to help make it better.  Check out her post by clicking on the button.

I have decided to join up and to help keep me accountable, I am going to post on here my progress! The good news is that we don't start until Monday so we have a few days to get supplies and/or motivation!! You can follow along and link up on Sarah Mae's blog as well! Here's to a clean house!! Also you can get the pdf book for half off with code "reboot" here!

Big Mac Cake

Eric completed his first wedding cake this weekend for my sister. It was gorgeous!! The best part were the flavors. One tier was lemon with lemon curd filling, then chocolate with mocha filling, and finally vanilla bean with raspberry filling. The cake was covered in homemade marshmallow fondant (much better than store bought!!). It is hard to tell but there is airbrushed flourishes in pearl on the middle tier.

Sadly, the grooms cake stole the show. My brother-in-law's cake was a Big Mac. He and his family owns multiple McDonald's so this cake was perfect. He was very surprised! It came complete with a large drink and fries (made from sugar cookies). 

 We even talked him into taking a bite out of it!!

We are so excited to welcome our new brother-in-law to the family! Congratulations!!

A little Christmas crafting...

I finally broke down and created a Pinterest account! It has been a love/hate relationship. I love the ideas and the organization. I hate the tech problems and the inherent desire to create something else...

As a family, since this is little bugs first Christmas, we decided she would get one present from us along with stocking stuffers. We would open these together Christmas morning. I never really had any family traditions so I wanted to be sure Jorja grew up with some. We have already made some salt dough ornaments with her hand print and footprint!

Since we didn't have any stockings before, I decided I wanted to make some and I was inspired by this lovely photo on Pinterest (imagine that).

Source: cottageinstincts.blogspot.com via Melissa on Pinterest

The sad part is that there wasn't a tutorial :(
After searching around, I found this tutorial from Cluck, Cluck, Sew. She did a great job explaining how to do a cuff on the stockings. I also used this site for a template since I didn't have any stockings that I could just trace.
Well, here is what I created!

I used "Life is Good" font. I printed our initials out (mirrored). Then traced them onto some wonder under and ironed that onto the fabric then cut out the letters and ironed them on. Such an easy way to monogram!!

We are looking for a small Christmas tree to put up this year since Jorja is crawling and pulling up everywhere.

On other great news!! We decided that we will be adding on to our house in the spring. We'll add on a master bed and bath and another bedroom. That will give us 3 bedroom/2 bath! YAY! Plus we are going to take out a wall to create a big living/dining room. I can't wait. I have been collecting tons of inspiration on Pinterest. This will all be documented, of course, and it tie into our before and after posts that you can find here.