It's that time again!  Friday!  My favorite day of the week, of course!  Today is extra special because I'm on my way to Raleigh to see my little brother graduate from NC State.  I am such a proud sister.  He's pretty much a genius!  I'm also excited because I got 2 new dresses to wear to his graduations.  Yes I thought I need 2 dresses.  One graduation is in the morning (at 8:30AM really?!) and then a departmental graduation in the evening. I think that totally justifies having two dresses.  So now it's time for my High Five for Friday!
1.  I finally finished one of my many pinterest crafts!  A polka dotted tiered planters.  

2.  I got a new camera this week, because I wanted to have a small on I could fit in my purse.  I love my nikon, but sometimes it's a bit too big.  My new camera has all sorts of fun functions.  My favorite is already the one where it only picks up a certain color.  Yay yellow!

2.  I got a new camera this week, because I wanted to have a small on I could fit in my purse.  I love my nikon, but sometimes it's a bit too big.  My new camera has all sorts of fun functions.  My favorite is already the one where it only picks up a certain color.
3.  I got a new comforter for my bed at Target.  I had seen it several times and I couldn't resist it!  I need to go back and get the matching shams too.

4.  My new crafting project.  DIY screen printing.  I'm really excited about this.  

5.  I found some shoes I pinned on pinterest a few weeks ago on sale for 10 dollars.  How lucky did I get that they are my size!  I believe I was meant to have these shoes!  Okay maybe they aren't so practical, but they were only 10 dollars! 

Happy Friday to yall!  

New planter

I saw this on pinterest a few weeks ago and just love it!  Isn't this just the cutest,  Polka dotted tiered planter! She has a great tutorial on how to make it.  I started mine several weeks ago and decided today was the day to finish mine.  I went with carolina blue and white for my colors.  I totally love the way it came out.  Here are a few of my pictures.

 Before the polka dots.  Making sure I liked the way they lined up.

 Before the flowers.

 After the flowers.  I love it! The rest of the pictures I took just to play with my new camera.  It had a cool feature where I can pick the color it picks up.  I was having fun!

Finally my view from the stop if the stairs!

Wedding time!

So my bestest friend in the whole wide world, Rachel, is getting married.  And it's coming up so soon!  I'm so excited for her and Brad.  They are just the sweetest couple ever.  I love them!  Sunday some ladies from the church and myself had a bridal shower for Rachel and I wanted to share a few pictures from the day.  I'm also getting super excited because my bridesmaid dress came in this weekend too!  And Friday we're going down to Oak Island to celebrate Rachel!  More on that later, I'm sure. 
Jody had the cutest idea for some decorations at the shower.  She saw on Pinterest (of course!) a girl who for her boyfriend birthday put pictures of them on balloons.  So Jody did that with Rachel and Brad's engagement pictures!  So cute!

Jody also made like the best cupcakes ever!  I think she called them "old fashion" cupcakes.  They were amazing and had almond icing.  Yum!  Yum!

I got Brad to share some things he loves about the bride and I wrote those on a piece of canvas.  I was so excited about that because it was super secret :)  I made me happy to see Rachel read those.

The lovely Bride and her corsage.  I had a time trying to put it on, then my mom took over.

After the shower we took the balloons and took a few pictures.

High Five for Friday!

1. Got the invite to the best friends wedding! It's amazing! Rachel is the best! And Brad too!

2. Wednesday we had rain which was great! We really needed it. And it gave me the chance to use my cute umbrella and rainboots.

3. I do love a poof!

4. Me and my dad got the garden planted this week. We planted watermelon radishes, basil, arugula, peppers, and tomatoes so far.

5. New shoes! I love them.

Lovely Springtime

This spring I think I've gotten some really great shots of flowers.  My personal favorite are the ones I took in Asheville over Easter of red dogwood trees.  Before this year I didn't know there was such a thing as a red dogwood tree.  I thought there were just white ones and pink ones.  When we were driving to Asheville I kept noticing Dogwood trees that were so hot pink and I couldn't figure why the pink Dogwoods in Asheville were so much brighter and gorgeous than the ones at home.  Later my Mamaw Banks told me the really bright pink ones are red dogwood trees.  So here are a few of my favorites.  

Friday! Yay!

It's Friday again!  Yay, the best day of the week.  Here's my top five things from this week.
1.  I learned there are 3 kinds of Dogwood trees and by far the most beautiful ones are red Dogwoods.  I didn't know there was such a thing, but in Asheville they have Dogwoods that are like hot pink (my favorite of course!).  At first I couldn't figure out why the pink trees were so much brighter than the ones at home until my Mamaw Banks told me they are red.  Of course I had to take pictures of them.  Here are a few of my favs.  I took lots and lots.

2.  Easter in Asheville!  I got to see my cousins and share a wonderful meal with my family.  It's the first time since Christmas that we've all been together.  We dyed Easter eggs with Kola my 4 yr old cousin which was super fun!

3.  For my students in TASL I made cupcakes!  They were really cute Sunday night when I made them.  Then by Monday morning all the "handles" had broken.  They were still yummy though, rainbow chip is the best!  Hopefully the ones I made for today's TASL will stay together.

4.  Wedding fun with the bestest! This week Rachel had her last dress fitting and I had a very important part in that :) Learning to do the bustle (sp?) It's going to be soo hard, but I think I can handle it!  We also finished stuffing wedding invites!  Let me tell you they are the cutest most fun wedding invites I've seen!  They have a mad-lib, oh yes!

5.  It's baseball season!  I love the Braves.  Now that Chipper is back, we're going to do great and win the world series.

Top ten

This week I've been more active on pinterest, or maybe I've just seen tons of pins this week that I just absolutely loved!  So I have some great pins to pick from this week.  Check out my pinterest I'd love to have a new follower :) 

That being said here are my favorite things from this week.  

How cute!  Pinned, here

I need this!  Okay, maybe I don't need it, but I still really really want this.  My bestfriend, Rachel, will be happy I changed my need to want.  

Pinned, here

Love.  Everyone always could use more ways to love people.  Here are some great ways to do that.

March Madness.  Pinned, here

Sadly the Tarheels lost.  I still like this pin!

Chipper! Pinned, here

Chipper Jones is retiring after this season. He is my favorite baseball player ever!  I remember going to my first Braves game the summer before 4th grade and Chipper was playing.  He's been my fav ever since.  Go Braves!

Yummy! Pinned, here

I've made this twice!  It's so good!

Please don't run me over.  Pinned, here

Over the weekend me and my dad did a bike ride.  There wasn't too much traffic, but sometimes that's not the case and I just love this jersey.

Pinned, here

This is not the cutest room!

Hunger Game nails.  Pinned, here

Love this nails.  I wish I could do mine like this.

Perfect for planter for beside the front stairs.  Pinned, here

Love the pink!  Pinned, here

Clearly I'm in love with polka dots.