Sunday, June 27, 2010

Altered Picture Frame

I was really excited about this project it was really fun to make and so easy. I used our last name but you could certainly use a baby name or give it as a wedding gift or shower gift. I used a 10x20 frame but you could certainly use a different size. I will show you another one that I am making that is 8x10.
Go ahead and take the frame apart and throw away all the layers
Now pick a background paper. This paper I found at Michaels and of course its 12x12 so you have to put two pieces together I just used a little tape on the back. Don't worry about matching it perfectly you will cover it with your letters
I added a picture. I cut it down and then matted it to make it 4x6
Add the picture to your background. You could do anything here a quote or a date or any sentiment you choose
Cut the background for the letters. I made mine 4x5 since my last name is short I could make them a little bigger.
I cut my letters out using the cricut but you can cut your letters however you want.
Then attach them to your background blocks. I used my zig but you could use any sort of adhesive.
The measuring and centering is the hardest part. I was still a little off but Its close enough for me. Of course DH "the engineer" will probably notice once he looks a little closer.
TADA!!! All done. Now to find a place to put it. This was super easy and super cheap. Its a cute way to add a personal touch to a room or a gift. Can't wait to show you the other things I have been working on.

Thanks,
Mrs. Dyer

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Craft Room!!!!!

Before we ever even bought the house I was dreaming of my craft room. I was so excited to have to get one. Since our house was built and not previously lived in, I got to come here almost every weekend and dream about what my craft room was going to look like. So once we bought the house that was project numero UNO!!!! Except the wedding was 3 weeks away so crafting was on hold. So the first weekend post honeymoon was spent working on this room. I will admit I am not the best painter and DH is an ENGINEER so hes a bit of a perfection (but also HATES to paint) so it was a challenge. The color is dragonfruit from Home Depot don't really remember the collection.
All of my Cricut Supplies and my Big Shot items and a few odd things
My Cricut cutting area and also my photo printer
Cricut cutting side of the room

The Room
Paper Storage (Not really fond of this but it works for now)
Storage for Stamps, Paper Pads, Stamp Pads and most all of my scrapbooking supplies
My Desk (Really need a better chair it hurts my back)

Sorry the pictures aren't that great battery was dead on my good camera and I really wanted this post up tonight. Cant wait to share with you all my many projects made in this craft room. First items to be made are things for the walls. Definitely going to put some vinyl on the walls.

Thank you,
Mrs. Dyer

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Starting a Blog

I am very excited to start this blog. I am hoping that I will be able to keep up with it and share with everyone my new life and the trials and tribulations of being a wife. I am so excited about my new life and I have the most amazing husband ever.

So here goes the story up til this point. We met 8 years ago through some friends the summer after our freshman year of high school. Pretty much from the day we met we were inseparable. Since we were only 14 there were so many days that summer spent just talking on the telephone. I really think that helped grow our relationship we had to actually talk to each other. We would spend hours on the phone from the moment we got up til the wee hours of the morning. We spent the next year together and then I had a change of heart and decided to pursue other people for a little while (that did not go so well). Eventually by the beginning of our senior year we were back together we spent the next year doing everything high school seniors do pictures, football games, prom and graduation. By the summer of after our senior year we knew we would not be going to the same college. I was attending Coastal Carolina University in Myrtle Beach, SC and he the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC. We knew this would be hard but vowed to try and make it work, but by October it was just too hard so we spent the next two years trying to figure out how to navigate the world of being best friends. That was EXTREMELY hard but we made it work some how. By September 2007 we were back together and better than ever, the only problem was I was back living in Charleston by this point and he still in Columbia but we made the long distance relationship work. On December 31, 2008 Nathan proposed and of course I said yes. Photobucket Then the wedding planning began. That was a terrific process. In June 2009 I made the move to Columbia and we moved into our first apartment together. That was a fun experience that brought us very close together. In December 2009 we got our first puppy Riley Grace Dyer the love of our lives. Photobucket In April 2010 we purchased our first home together. Our house is in Elgin, SC which is about 20 minutes NE of Downtown Columbia. Its 4 bedrooms 2 1/2 baths with a great fenced in back yard for the puppy who is now 65 pounds. PhotobucketOn May 15, 2010 we said our vows and became husband and wife Photobucket Photobucket Photobucket Now we have been married for 38 days and are starting to settle into married life and that is where my blog begins telling you all about us and being married. I hope to post all sorts of things from the projects in the house to craft projects I make (I totally love to craft), to fun adventures we have as a married couple.

Thanks,
Mrs. Dyer