How can you have a wallaby and not write a blog post about it?

You can’t.

So here is my parent’s wallaby playing in the snow

His name is Rudy. Get it? Roo-dy.. like kangaroo? Hehehehe

This was my cute little v-day spread from Jules (and Gordon apparently! hehehe)

Not everything is totally visible in the picture, so here is what I got; Hershy’s kisses on an adorable pink heart shaped plate, hot cinnamon hearts, lots of cute undies from La Senza AND the Charlie Brown Valentine’s special. Now you may think it’s silly that I’m so excited about a Charlie Brown DVD, but it’s very dear to my heart! Jules and I call each other “my sweet babboo” which is what Charlie Brown’s sister calls Linus (who she totally loves!) .. it has since been shortened to “babboo” and then eventually just “bub” lol!!

I had to work nights on V-day, so this is the picture I received in my inbox at work that night hehe!!

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you.

1. Family is everything to me
2. I have a lot of respect for every living thing (I feel like a murderer when I kill bugs!)
3. I absolutely love any kind of arts and crafts
4. I have a lot of faith in fate
5. I am a total Twilight series fanatic! (And I don’t care if you make fun of me!)
6. I really wish I could be a vegetarian; I have so much respect for those who are
7. I never really wanted a dog and now I can’t picture my life without them
8. I have always been a cat person, I love my kitties!!!
9. I will never have another small animal (my bunny has a tumor and it’s just too sad) and I feel bad keeping her in a cage, they should be FREEEEEEEE!
10. I love, love, LOVE etsy.com
11. I cannot function without my Diet Coke
12. I really prefer small gatherings with good friends instead of huge parties
13. I have three brothers (Kyle, Joel and Max) and one sister (Taylor) and I love them all!
14. I would much rather go to Europe on a vacation than to someplace tropical
15. I really enjoy having a cigarette in the evening, even though I know it’s an absolutely terrible habit!

16. I have absolutely no rhythm and cannot dance to save my life, unless I have had a few drinks and then I become Jennifer Beals in Flashdance hahaha
17. I am in love with my life right now *knock on wood*
18. I’m kind of superstitious (see above lol)
19. I have never been on a plane!
20. Recycling is awesome- especially when applied to art and fashion (craft+activism=craftivism, google it!)
21. Jules and I have been together for 5 years and 3 months. This boggles my mind because she’s just so darn cute lol.
22. I say “lol” waaaay to much
23. I have really amazing friends who make me laugh (to the point that I cannot breathe) on a daily basis, and I am incredibly thankful for this.
24. I dream really crazy, vivid dreams that often come true
25. I love watching 90’s sitcom reruns (thank you tvtropolis! That’s channel 54 on Rogers cable fyi!)

My mom gave us these frames last Christmas How cute are they?!

Julie made an awesome taco bake using this recipe from allrecipes.com. This was the first one that we made, but we have since made a few changes. We use marble cheese and instead of using the diced tomatoes and chillies, we mix refried beans with chillies in with the ground beef mix. We also use green olives instead of black olives (if we use them at all).  We also put sour cream on the side instead of mixing it in with the beef.  Yum yum! Give it a try!

Check out this James Dean picture that Jules and I found at a local thrift store (St. Vincent De Paul in Westboro- if you’re in Ottawa, check it out!)

It’s actually pretty big, about 16×20 and wood mounted.  And it was only $2.00!! 

We were really excited because it fits right in with our Marilyn Monroe wood mounted pictures

Maybe this is silly, but I have this plastic cup that I absolutely love!

This is MY designated cup and everyone knows not to use it. I drink everything out of this special cup EXCEPT for milk (that must be in a GLASS glass lol.) 

I just love everything about this cup. It holds exactly the right amount of drink, it’s a nice shape (round, slightly tapered) and has a super cute design on it. All in all I love my cup

Here is a fun little project I did a few months ago.

I took a reversable bucket hat (that I had in my closet for many years!) and made it into a skirt for Gracie!

 I separated the two sides and made them into the floral layer and solid pink layer shown. I frayed the edges on the solid pink layer and added a cute polka dot band around the waist (made from a super cute shoelace!) It’s fastened with Velcro I also used a shoelace from the same package to cover one of her old collars to match with the skirt!

The skirt is  slipping down a little in this picture, I altered it a bit afterwards so that it was a little tighter for her

I was looking for something to do and stumbled on this salt dough recipe on craftbits.com. Soooo simple! And the creative possibilities are endless! I made some basic shapes, picked up some unfinished wood shadow boxes from the dollar store and then pained everything with with acrylic paint.  Annndddd Voila!!

The salt dough shapes after coming out of the oven:

Unpainted shadow box from the Dollarama! ONE DOLLA ONLY! lol!

In the middle of the painting process:

Finished Products:

Gordon

Gracie

Gordon and Gracie with the sweetest Boston poem I found on the Woof board!

Gracie and Gordon again

The finished products on the wall in our hallway!

(The water pictures will be replaced as they don’t really match lol!!)

Manhattan likes to help me do crafts lol!!