Olympics 2010!

This past weekend, Scott and I took a trip up to Vancouver, BC for the Winter Olympics!  We joined some friends of ours in Vancouver for exploring and fun.  We spent Saturday exploring downtown and waiting in A LOT of lines.

This is part of the Olympic Village - notice the flags of each country on the building they are staying in. 

 

 We waited in so many lines it's ridiculous.  This was us waiting in line for the Sky Train to go into downtown.

On Sunday, we all went to a Women's curling match!  There were 4 games going at once, one of which was US vs. Canada (they kicked our butts!).

 

 Later that day, we headed downtown to see the Olympic Torch.  Again, we had to wait in line for about an hour...but it was fun to see it up close.

We felt so lucky to be a partake in the Olympic events.  We'll likely never get to go to the Olympics again, so this was a once in a life time experience! :)

Valentine Crafts!

I've never been a HUGE fan of Valentine's Day...especially before I met Scott. :)  I'm definitely not into the commercialism of the holiday - I'm not interested in roses or chocolates in heart shaped boxes (I'm definitely into chocolate, just not in a heart shaped box).  This year I've started following A LOT of craft blogs and was so inspired to decorate for the holiday.  Here are two projects I've squeezed in between house projects and wedding planning...

LOVE Sign

For the L, I used some fabric I already had and bought some spray adhesive.  One thing I learned about spray adhesive is that it is VERY hard to get off your fingers and it doesn't dry right away, so your fingers can stay tacky for a long time.

I painted the O pink and then used a hot glue gun to glue on pink and red buttons.
I used my new Cricut (thank you Costco for having an AMAZING sale!) to cut out hearts and used the spray adhesive to glue them on to the V.  The spray adhesive didn't work to stick them around the corners...they've been falling off.  So I need to get some Mod Podge to stick the pieces back on.
For the E, I painted it pink then used some spray adhesive to stick pink glitter to the letter.

Candy Heart Frame

 

In looking at many different blogs, I saw a lot of people using candy hearts for crafting.  So I bought a cheap wood frame at JoAnns, painted it pink and used a hot glue gun to stick the candies to the frame.  I bought a large bag of candy hearts and had a hard time finding enough "good" ones to use...clearly there is no quality control before the candies are bagged, many didn't even have any writing on them.