ecofont!

How awesome is this?  A font with invisible holes so you can save ink when printing!!  Get a free holy font here.  Another great Apartment Therapy find!

Weddings: A Gift for the Bride II

This project was a bit disappointing but it's done.  When I tried to use the sewing machine to sew the lace onto the cloth, the machine ate right through the lace so I switched to hand sewing and spent several sick days carefully hand whip stitching all four sides of lace onto the white square followed by hand embroidering the wedding date.

The backside where you can see the whip stitching and the embroidery back

Then I threw it in the wash - a complete necessity since I had been sick while working on it and to my horror, when it came out of the wash, I discovered the black lace had stained the white fabric!!!  Those splotchy spots on the white square are not shadows from the picture but dyed splotches from the lace and despite trying several different cleaning methods, no luck.  Glad this isn't their only gift!  I'm going to give it to my friend anyways since handkerchiefs aren't meant for staying clean but I'm sad I spent so much time and effort on making tiny little stitches only to have the final product turn out so lack-luster!  Oh well, on to better projects!

Mule Camp 2012

So I've been down and out this week with a bad random cold.  I guess I got a chill last weekend when we headed up to Gainesville for Mule Camp 2012.  My husband is from Gainesville, a town about an hour north of Atlanta, and we regularly go there to visit old friends.  When Zach started saying we should go up for Mule Camp, I had no idea what he was talking about, it's basically a town fair with a carnival attached.  We went up last weekend to check it out.

We parked at my brother-in-law's house and walked to the city square and on the way we got to walk down Green Street.  I've always loved driving down this street so it was great to get to walk down it and take a better look.  Green Street is one of those old main streets you find in the south lined with old Southern mansions that have been converted into office buildings and are all painted white for some reason.  You'll find the same thing in Athens, GA, but those mansions have been turned into frat houses rather than businesses.  I took some shots of some of my favorites.

This one below is probably my favorite because of the porch

Here's a detail of the molding

Detail of the Corinthian column

And this isn't a house but I liked the stained glass in this church at the end of Green Street.

When we got to Mule Camp, we met up with some friends first at the Monkey Barrel, the local bar and had a couple of beers before we ventured into the world of fried food.

 

This is our friend Devon's dog who we got to meet outside the bar.  Adorable!!

Our fried food adventure began with a classic corn dog (each)...

 
followed by some shared ribbon fries...

then we all decided to try a fried oreo which were pretty yummy...

 Elvis was helping out at the funnel cake stand...

So I had to buy a funnel cake from Elvis.  That was it for me but other continued valiantly on.

This final photo is my favorite, my brother-in-law taking on a turkey leg.  We washed it all down with more beer.... hmm... perhaps not my most vitamin filled day ever but a lot of fun!

Invasion!

Above is a rare picture of me and both our babies, Bear and Petunia (we're usually hard to pin down in one spot).  My last post was about a rescue we picked up so she's staying with us too and as of last night, the flea situation is out of control!!!  We've used a cream flea medicine before but it just doesn't do the job so last week we finally broke down and spent $180 to get them each a 6 month supply of the heartworm & flea pill trifexis but we're waiting on shipment and something went wrong with the prescription so that's another delay and now we've brought in a mystery dog and suddenly everyone is scratching so badly that my head is ready to explode!!  This morning I got up and did some research and decided to try spraying everyone and everything with watered down vinegar and to salt the rugs.  I've heard you can't mix flea treatments if you put your pets on pill form flea treatment so I'm hesitant to try anything that's not a natural remedy without consulting our vet first.  Cross your fingers for me and hopefully the scratching party will ease up till we can get this fancy medicine to work.  Anyone used vinegar as a flea killer before?  Salt?  Success or disappointment?

Wedding Gift

After realizing that I will not be able to buy my friends an expensive wedding gift.  I came up with an idea to embroider a portrait of them for their gift.  The hardest part of this is reducing their images to solid outline without any talent at drawing.  After playing around with a picture of them in Gimp (Photoshop for poor people), here's what I was able to come up with.  I took the image above and started outlining it with a magic marker and here's what my drawing non-skills were able to produce (flipped for embroidering convenience)

From here I did some more editing to try and make the portrait a bit more flattering.  I've already started sewing since I'll need this finished by Oct 27!  More pics soon!

A home for me?

Sometimes people make me very sad.  This little girl was abandoned by her owners and she waited for them to come back for a week alone in their front yard.  My husband and I took her in yesterday since she finally let us get near her.  She's super sweet but doesn't seem to like our dogs so she's looking for a good home and we're looking for a no-kill shelter.  If anyone in the Atlanta area would like a sweet little dog to love them forever, please call 404.721.5048!

Into the woods!

Tuesday marked two wonderful years of being married for me and my hubby.  To celebrate, we took a long weekend and got to stay a friend’s family cabin in Ellijay, GA.  It was super relaxing and getting back to work has been difficult.

Here’s the view from the back porch of the cabin.  It’s built on a steep slope and completely surrounded by trees.  I belive that’s the Coosawattee River is down at the bottom.

Here’s my favorite spot at the cabin.  It was so relaxing to just lay here and it was big enough for two!

I’ve never seen so many deer in the wild!  They came right up to the cabin.

Here’s a nice shot Zach got before our dogs decided to chase them away.

The pups loved playing in the woods.  Petunia (the black one) was too fast for a good shot but my golden Bear is always photogenic.