Tuesday Glam Party #17

Hey Friends! So excited to have you back for another weeks Glam Party! Stay awhile and check out all the fun posts from last week especially the date challenge and the getting to know you/me questions. Great opportunities to link up!

Check out these great items from last weeks link up!

I would love to put these pillows on my bed or these would even make a great wedding gift!

Or what about these cute worm cupcakes? They remind me of a dessert my mom used to make when I was little in a flower pot with worms!

I am completely in love with this wild pink glazed desk and pretty sure I might need to do this to the desk in my office. I was going to do white, but now I am thinking pink.


I am curious to what you have been up to, so anything goes on this linky party!
It's your turn to shine so show me what you've got whether it be something hand-made, a recipe, a tutorial, a giveaway or even your etsy shop!
Can't wait to see what you have to share.

Do me one favor and link back to my page with either my button or text link.


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Tie Onesies

This post is dedicated to adorable little boys!
Also, I have to proudly say I've come along way since my first one.

This as my first tie onesie & I love it for sure. Please note the photography.

Per advise from Lindsay from Aisle to Aloha, I started shooting my stuff outside. I really love the chain link fence in the background of my photos.

And today I decided to try out something new for my outdoor photo shoot. So I left the chain link fence and used the bug lights. And I LOVE IT!

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Spring Tutu

I made this custom tutu for a co-worker of mine who is in need of a sweet gift for her granddaughter. She ended up wanting something pastel instead. I personally am in love with this tutu. It has me so excited for the spring weather!

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Picnic Date

Today is a beautiful day so we decided to do the Picnic Date challenged mentioned in my last Relationship Ramblings post. We had a lot of fun on our date! If you have not read the Relationship Ramblings post you might want to do so first and maybe even have your own date before reading the specifics of our date. Part of the date is not knowing about the rest of the date.

The first part of the date Cody had 3 minutes to choose where we would go grab a bite to eat and I had to choose where we would eat our food.

(Don't mind the crazy wind hair)

As we took off for our destination I had 5 guesses to pick where we were going. As soon as we reversed I guessed Pot Belly's, it's always where Cody takes us when he have a picnic date. Although once he knew he would be penalized for my guessing it he wanted to change locations, but didn't.

So he had to dance outside of Potbelly's for 30 seconds. Man does he have some dancin' skills!

We grabbed our food and then I took over the wheel to take us to our picnic site. Cody had 5 guesses and then I would be penalized. Lucky for me, I had just heard of this great place off the lake so I knew he wouldn't guess it. Unlucky for us, it cost $10 to get into the place. Stupid state parks. So we ventured to a neighborhood where the homes are off the lake trying to find this bench we once sat on. We failed. So we went to a park and sat under the trees by a pond.

We ate our lunch then enjoyed the beautiful weather by laying under the trees.

(My delightful meal)

In the date packet, there are several questions you answer about yourself and each other. One of my favorite questions to answer was about the most excellent thing that has happened between us in the last six months. We answer that we read the bible together before bed and that we are growing closer to one another.

We then enjoyed some time throwing the frisbee together until I decided to chunk it in the pond. Overall the date was a huge success minus my losing our frisbee. So long Mr. Frisbee!

Oh wait, how could I almost miss the most important part??? DESSERT! We had to both name each others favorite dessert places. For Cody this would be very easy as all I ever want is frozen yogurt. I know what Cody loves, but not where he enjoys going the most. I said Coldstone Creamery, but was very wrong. I almost said Chili's and I would have been right. But we never go there because well I won't eat it and he will eat frozen yogurt.

White chocolate and coconut mixed together with cookie dough, reese's piece and light blue gummie bears. Yes, I am annoying and pick out just the light blue gummie bears.

Great date and I hope you will join us in the love challenge by checking out the picnic date!

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Getting to know me, Getting to know all about me!

So here's more fun questions from 4,ooo questions for getting to know anyone and everyone by Barbara Ann Kipfe! Pretty sure I am living up my glory days through these wonderful questionnaires. After some interest in last weeks survey I've decided to give you an opportunity to link up to the survey with your own answers.

1. How do you stow your socks?

In a little bit of a ghetto sock drawer. We have some storage drawers in our closet that hold all of our undergarments and socks. The sock drawer is overflowing and 90% of them are mine! I kind of have a slight obsession with cute sock. Like I am currently wearing grey zebra print socks with pink toes & ankles!

2. What thought and feelings come to mind when you think of "play"?

I automatically think GAME NIGHT! I love playing games so for me playing is about playing games. We seriously have a closet full of games and I am always scoping out new games. Love them! Some of my favorites: Quelf, What's Yours Like, Apples to Apples & Loaded Questions

3. How does your family celebrate Christmas?

GAMES! Okay, so that's just one of my favorite parts of Christmas but it seemed fitting. Christmas is different now that I am married. This year we did Christmas Eve with his family and Christmas day with mine then the day after with the other side of his family and mine. It's a busy 3 days, but also good. We always go to a Christmas Eve service whether it be together or with family, last year we did both. Not sure what to expect of this next year since there are lots of changes taking place in our families.

4. What are your weekend rituals?

If we have morning plans on Saturday then we like to grab breakfast together at Chick-fil-a. Typically Saturdays are spent just enjoying time together because we don't see each other much during the week. On Sunday morning, we wake up early then serve at the 9am service in the little kids room. Then we attend the 11:15 service. We either grab a bite alone or we meet up with some friends. Most Sunday afternoons are spent at Starbucks, I read a book and Cody studies for his masters program. Wow, we are lame.

5. What wakes you up in the middle of the night?

Hardly anything. No really, it's bad how hard I sleep at night. Typically I wake up because I had a really bad dream about Cody or our relationship. Other than that I sleep like a baby.


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Relationship Ramblings

Being that we are young marrieds we'd love to enrich our marriage now and start developing a healthy marital relationship. I would much rather enrich it now than have to repair things later. I have seen so much heartache in the area of broken marital relationships.

I want to be challenged. I want something that really will help enrich our marriage and maybe something that isn't even spiritual. By all means, I do want spiritual enrichment but there are some things in marriage that are simply just a reminder that people are different and we need to learn how to live together. I have been seeking a challenge whether it be just as a wife or as a couple. A months ago I found just that but we never ended up doing it and I really want to still. So I am going to bring it up again and hopefully get the ball rolling!

If you check out this website then you will see dates for 2009 & 2010. The 2009 dates list a six month challenge which I would love to do, but I think we will start with this Picnic date first.

So I am challenging you to join me in doing the picnic date & then coming back here to link up a post and photos of the challenge.

So go, be challenged and then come back & link up!


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Glamorous Find: Blessed Creations

I am so happy today to introduce everyone to Becky Brooks from Blessed Creations!
Becky & I have known each other for a long time now. We recently rekindled after her sister-n-law started working with me. Small world, eh?

She has been blessed with a beautiful little girl & in an effort to enjoy the joys of being a stay-at-home mom she has started her own creations! I wanted to share all of her beautiful creations with you so that you can be sure to check her out & help her fulfill her dreams of continuing to be a stay-at-home mom.

I love this zebra cross onesie!

Or how about this great tie onesie with matching burp cloth?

And you can't forget an awesome coffee cup cozy! Of course I prefer the damask one! :)

Be sure to check out her store! I just love Becky & her stuff!

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Zebra Tutu Leggings

Finding that I love making these!! :) I have 10 or so that I can't wait to make.

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Abby

This is Abby, our boxer, she is one of our two pups. We got Abby just a couple months before we got married. Cody had a dog at the time, Snoopy, a beagle/basset mix. I was desperately wanting a dog, a boxer preferably. Snoopy needed a sibling to help calm him down a bit. A friend of ours knew we were looking for a dog so when she got an email at work that this little angel needed a home we went & got her.

This is our little angel that we have grown to absolutely love & adore. She's so full of personality! My favorite thing about her is that she likes to give hugs. Here's a few photos of our adorable girl...

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Tuesday Glam Party #16

Hope you have had a great week! Sorry that there were some issues with last weeks linky party but things should be back to normal now. And now for some of my favorites from last week!

A little bit in love with this onesie from Backless Shirt! Many memories of college sitting around watching the Best of Will Ferrell SNL skits.


What a fun idea to use a pillowcase to turn it into a bag! Check out the tutorial from Living My Life On Purpose.


I really like this book pages wreath by Loving Life! Looks cute and would be adorable on my front porch or somewhere in my home. Also would make a great gift for a wedding.



I am curious to what you have been up to, so anything goes on this linky party!
It's your turn to shine so show me what you've got whether it be something hand-made, a recipe, a tutorial, a giveaway or even your etsy shop!
Can't wait to see what you have to share.

Do me one favor and link back to my page with either my button or text link.

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Blogger Must Haves

I decided to start posting some blogger must haves. I have learned SOOOOO much in the last couple months so I am going to share some of my knowledge. For some of you this will be old news and for some you this will be new info. But I promise you will probably find one of these posts to be very beneficial.

So tonight in a twitter conversation @CrapIveMade mentioned her love for picnik. And while I am a lover of picnik myself, I have to share with you another AMAZING free online photo editor.

So I would like to introduce you to FotoFlexer. I discovered this through shabbyblogs where I got my header. She uses this online photo editor to teach you how to put an image in her free headers. I tried putting in image in the header using photoshop but I grew frustrated. And it's so super easy in fotoflexer!!

So that header you see of mine was easily put together using fotoflexer. I simply uploaded the header then opened it up in layers and added a photo. The adorable photo of my niece. I sized it down to fit in the frame & then put it in the background by pushing back.


Once the photo was added I selected the decorate tab and added text. You will likely want to be sure to select the transparent option when adding text so there is no background color.

For a full tutorial, check out shabby blogs video!

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Getting to know me, Getting to know all about me!

So when Cody & I were dating we, being the nerds that we are, went through this book I had called 4,ooo questions for getting to know anyone and everyone by Barbara Ann Kipfer. I seriously love this book and love answering the questions.

I admit that in high school I was the queen of those questionnaire forwards. I was constantly sending those to friends and filling them out. I even did them when it was "cool" on myspace. Please tell me I am not alone in this. So since I love these so much and I think they are fun to read about others, I am going to post some questions from this book occasionally and answer them.

This particular book has topics too and they are: childhood & school, family & friends, fun & sport, habits, love & sex, outlook, politics, spirituality, and work. And in no particular order I chose the following 5 to answer today...

1.What do you think about nursing a baby in public?

Can I just say that I love the person who invented nursing covers? I remember in high school catching a lady sitting on a bench in the mall with her boob just out in the open. It was like a train wreck, eek. Granted her son was far too old to be breastfeeding too. But I love the nursing cover and if you don't mind nursing in public than it's your prerogative. I personally don't think I'll be nursing in public though even with a nursing cover.

2. What do you see from your bedroom window?

My backyard & it's not very pretty. My goal this spring is to make it much prettier by placing a mini garden directly under the window and getting healthy grass. Hopeful to get a privacy fence soon too!

3. What needs to change for you to have greater contentment?

I need to trust in God's perfect will for my life.

4. Would you clean the outside windows of a skyscraper?

Umm, I don't think so. I don't really see that to be much fun at all. I hate cleaning windows and I hate being high up.

5. When do you think cellular phones are bothersome and obnoxious?

When you are hanging out with friends and they are enthralled by their phones. When you are with someone and they take a call and don't get off the phone. I understand if you answer and ask to call back, but if you are hanging out with me then hang out with me. I always tell people...be where you are at.

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Hiya Luv Winner!!

I'm excited to announce the Hiya Luv winner!


Congratulations!!

Contact me at gigglesglitzandglam{at}dot{com} to claim your prize!

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Relationship Ramblings

I'm going to go a little PG-13 on this post and talk about SEX!

I will just touch a little base with you on this post, but you should know this might be a frequent topic for me. I've always dreamed about doing pre-marital counseling, marriage counseling & sex therapy. So this topic for me is great.

Today I wanna talk about being sexy in the bedroom. I am talking about losing the sweat pants for bedtime. I am the worst at this. Cody always talks about the bin of lingerie, the sexy night gowns or just the tees I could wear. But I tend to put on the sweat pants & the tshirt. I'm the worst at being sexy for bedtime because I'd rather be comfy & warm! So maybe occasionally I could lose the sweats and trade them in for something a little sexier.

Just imagine the difference something so simple could make in your sex life. Or maybe you are good and put on your sexy at night or maybe your sex life is just that awesome. Two thumbs up if so!

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Glamorous Find: Jacabean Designs

So excited to bring you another Glamorous Find this week. Welcome Jackie from Jacabean Designs! She's sharing with us an excellent tutorial today!

Hi everyone! I'm Jackie of Jacabean Designs, and I'm so excited to be a guest here today :) A little about me...I'm a full-time graphic designer. I love to read, scrap, craft, bake, and have a serious addiction to sweets...especially chocolate! I'm married to a wonderful guy who puts up with my crafting messes, and even gives me a craft challenge from time to time. My favorite color is yellow. I love digital scrapbooking, and also design digital scrapbook kits at Brownie Scraps. Want more on digital scrapbooking? Stop by my blog and say Hi: jacabean.blogspot.com.

Today, I'll be sharing a felt flower tutorial with you!

For Christmas, I decided to make a bunch of flower pins for all the women/girls in my family. I scoured the internet, and found a bunch of fabulous tutorials...you can find my list of those HERE. I wanted a large variety, and started experimenting with my Sizzix Flower Layers #4 die, which I got Black Friday, and had yet to really use. These little beauties are something I made up as I went. I'll share how I did it, complete with pictures...after I make you look at the flowers of course :)
That last one with the lace is the one I wore in my hair on Christmas Eve. It happened to match my shirt perfectly!

To make these, start with your flower shape. Mine happens to be a four petal flower from my Sizzix Originals Flower Layers #4 die, but if you don't have this die, no worries! Any flower shape will do. Any if you cut them yourself, and the petals get a little wonky? I bet that would add even more dimension and fun to your flower. Ok, so we start with the flower shape:
Add a drop of hot glue (or your glue of choice) toward the bottom of the petal.
Pinch and hold until glue cools/sets.
Do this for all 4 petals (or however many petals you have). When they are all set, gather the petals up so that you get a point in the center of the flower, on the bottom side (not the side you glued).
Snip the corner...And now the flower will lay flat.
You can see that the back edges meet, instead of the extra fabric getting all clumped up in the middle. The little pleats just created help give the flower a little depth.

Now you're ready to stack! You can stack up these flowers in as many layers as you like.

For the cream flower shown first: I stacked 2 layers that both used this technique, then added a button to the center.

For the brown flower: The top petal is actually glued between petals instead of in the middle of each petal, just for something different. That flower actually has 4 layers. The 2 middle layers us the technique I just showed, and the bottom later is just a flat flower.

For the last flower: This one is really the same as the first cream one, but I added some lace to the back to make it a little bigger, and I do love my lace :)

Oh, and I created all my flowers with pin backs. To me, pins are most versatile, since you can stick them anywhere. You can even pin them to a stretchy headband, or to a clip to wear in your hair. Now have fun, and get crazy! Add whatever you have on-hand, and see what you can create. Pin It

Obsession

I love shoes.

I have 3 shoe racks in my closet and that doesn't even include the tennis shoes & boots that don't manage to fit on a shoe rack.

I'm seriously addicted.

Every time I go into Target I have to go through the shoes even if I was just there yesterday. I mean they might have put my favorite shoes on clearance finally or maybe they got a new shipment in.

I tend to buy the same shoes in different colors. That's right I have 3 pairs of Steve Madden boots: black, brown & navy. Not to mention I desperately want the gray ones.


I seriously love my TOMS! I have black, gray, black glitter, red mesh, burlap & gold stripe. I visit their website at least once a month to eye the next pair I will hopefully own. I have a crush on these two pairs...



Did I mention I don't even wear heals? My hubby is only a couple inches taller than me so I have given up my heals. I kind of think this might have fueled my obsession a little because now if I find a good pair of flats that I love they are a MUST have.

My favorite summer shoes? My sseko sandals. These are great for me because I have one sole and lots of straps. Black, brown, red, navy blue & yellow print, blue & white striped (shown).

P.S. If you want some of these sandals please use Christian Life Ministries in the field "How did you hear about us?". We get a percentage of all sales for our orphanage in Kampala, Uganda. Or you can even directly order through me and we get 50% of the proceeds directly for our ministry! These sandals are AMAZING!

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