The contest rules allow for 1 vote per day per email address---I happen to have 5 email addresses.....I'm just saying. :) The first round goes from today through April 3, so we'll let you know if she makes the cut!
Monday, March 30, 2009
Vote For Lily!
Well, we finally entered Lily in a baby contest--the prize of a year worth of free diapers and $1000 gift card to Buy Buy Baby was a nice incentive to enter. After much debate, Adam and I decided to enter her Team Edward picture--since every parent is going to enter a cute picture of their kid, we decided we needed a gimic--therefore we're hoping to benefit from the immense popularity of Twilight. If you want to vote for her, follow this link and click on the Lily D. thumbnail to pull up her picture. http://www.963wdvd.com/Article.asp?id=1245267
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
My Fossil knock-off
One of my favorite pasttimes is online window shopping--I look all I want, but seldom do I buy. I suppose it's a sickness, really, but I just can't help myself. If I have one weakness, however, it's for jewelry. Fossil is one of my favorite places to look for cool and unique jewelry, and about a month or so ago I found a necklace that I absolutely loved. 
I wasn't even remotely tempted to try to find a place I could sneak it into our budget, though, as it cost a whopping $130. (!) As it was mostly comprised of strand beads, I thought I could attempt to do my own take on it. I first went to a little bead shop down the road from us and causually inquired about jewelry-making classes. I didn't want to pay the $40+ for the instruction and supplies, however (plus I'm not really into the kind of jewelry they make in those things), so I figured I'd just wing it. First I did a little reconnaissance by visiting the Fossil store in our mall so I could see the necklace in person, then I began to collect my materials. I had quickly scratched off the bead store as the source for my supplies as each strand of beads was around $100!! Lucky for me, Michaels has an extensive collection of strand beads, and I had access to a bunch of 40% off coupons. :) After about a week or so of daily trips to Michaels due to the coupon stipulation of 1 coupon per customer per day (and a succession of returns and exchanges), I had all of my stuff. After much trial and error on the technical side of things, and making constant changes to the artistic side of things, it was done. Is it as nice as the Fossil necklace? Certainly not--the materials are cheaper, the crafstmanship a whole lot shoddier, and I'd trade it in a heartbeat for the real thing, but it was kind of fun to make, and a heck of a lot cheaper. It's definitely not an everyday necklace, but I think it's a fun statement piece (and yes, it's kind of heavy).
I wasn't even remotely tempted to try to find a place I could sneak it into our budget, though, as it cost a whopping $130. (!) As it was mostly comprised of strand beads, I thought I could attempt to do my own take on it. I first went to a little bead shop down the road from us and causually inquired about jewelry-making classes. I didn't want to pay the $40+ for the instruction and supplies, however (plus I'm not really into the kind of jewelry they make in those things), so I figured I'd just wing it. First I did a little reconnaissance by visiting the Fossil store in our mall so I could see the necklace in person, then I began to collect my materials. I had quickly scratched off the bead store as the source for my supplies as each strand of beads was around $100!! Lucky for me, Michaels has an extensive collection of strand beads, and I had access to a bunch of 40% off coupons. :) After about a week or so of daily trips to Michaels due to the coupon stipulation of 1 coupon per customer per day (and a succession of returns and exchanges), I had all of my stuff. After much trial and error on the technical side of things, and making constant changes to the artistic side of things, it was done. Is it as nice as the Fossil necklace? Certainly not--the materials are cheaper, the crafstmanship a whole lot shoddier, and I'd trade it in a heartbeat for the real thing, but it was kind of fun to make, and a heck of a lot cheaper. It's definitely not an everyday necklace, but I think it's a fun statement piece (and yes, it's kind of heavy).
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Our DIY Project
Okay, maybe assembling some nightstands from IKEA isn't the most challenging do-it-yourself project, but it's about as complicated a project as it's going to get at our house for now. After a long day of running a errands on Saturday, Adam and I went to work putting together the night stands we had purchased. They were very much needed because up until this point I had been using a couple of plastic storage bins stacked on each other as a make-shift nightstand, and poor Adam went from using an overturned diaper box to nothing. 
Thankfully IKEA has nice, easy-to-follow directions, for the most part. It didn't take too long to assemble them, and it made me feel pretty handy.
Thankfully IKEA has nice, easy-to-follow directions, for the most part. It didn't take too long to assemble them, and it made me feel pretty handy.Me, hard at work.
Adam, hard at work.
The finished project.
As for Lily--she tried her hand at helping (translation: hindering), and gave us (translation: me) a fright when we couldn't find a screw and thought she might have swallowed it. Luckily we later found where she had stashed it in the living room where she had been playing. 
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