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!

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.

Match photo a day catch up!

So the last week of march I got behind blogging all my pictures of the day. So here's a week's worth of March photo a day photos

An Animal.  Buddy!  

Breakfast

Key: Keys to Sue Bea my subaru

My Name: upside down in the sand I can't figure out how to rotate it

Trash: our  trashcan is covered in glitter 

Feet: Mine Lixy's and Firebaughs

Toy: My pink wii remote

Where you relax: the beach of course!

So here's my photos!  It was a good March for sure!

A corner of your house and funny

A corner of my house. I call it the cat corner it's where all the cats come around for a snack at night so I rarely get to see them.

Funny
This is Buddy the dog. He is funny. He likes to eat tomatoes from the garden and gum balls from trees. He is also a very jealous dog he does NOT like for me to visit my other neighbors dog TIp tip and pepper the toy poodles that live on the other side of my house. Buddy knows he's my favorite

Sunglasses

Today was perfect weather. I did some crafting outside. Here's part of my wreath and my sunglasses.

Car

Car

This is the inside of Sue Bea my subaru forrester.  I love her, I do, but she doesn't have a working clock.  Sometimes it works if I've been driving on a really bumpy road for a little while, but it always goes back off.  I've found it to be difficult to drive a car where the clock doesn't work.  I think it makes me want to know the time all the more, because it's not flashing in front of me.  I know that I could just look at my watch that I normally wear or even my cell for the time, but it's just not the same as looking at the clock that's supposed to be working.    I've decided that the next car I get it is mandatory that it has a functioning clock.

On another note, today was pancake day!  If you don't live in Concord and don't know what pancake day is I feel bad for you.  Your life is just not complete without it!  On the 3rd Thursday of March the Boy's and Girl's club has Pancake day.  I think it's my favorite day of the year, maybe second to my birthday.  This pancake day was special because I went twice!  I had a lovely breakfast with my mom this morning.  Then I took my BFFL, Christine, to pancake day for lunch and we ate pancakes with my BFF, Rachel.  Christine has heard me talk about pancake day for years because we were college roommates at UNCW and every pancake day it's all I talked about because I couldn't be there.  The pancakes at Pancake day are just so good.  I can't describe to you why they are so good, but they are very much the best pancakes I've ever eaten.    

Clouds

Today I waited too long to take my picture so all the clouds were gone.  I'll try again tomorrow but here's the cloudless sunset today

 But my tulips are looking quite good!  I just love having them!

Fork and a sign

I missed yesterday's post but here's a fork

A sign


























A sign of spring! These are in my yard and are totally beautiful! I'm really excited about these tulips because we have a few but they never bloom :(. A couples of weekends ago we found some tulips and the little daffodil on sale at Wal Mart and of course I had to have them. Hopefully they will do well in this part of the yard. At least they are pretty now.
Oh I also got my birchbox yesterday and it was packed with some awesome stuff (like usual) like this fancy glitter nail polish. I love love love how shiny it is.

Red

I have some red lipstick but I'm terrified of actually wearing it. But since today was red for the March photo a day I put it in :). I couldn't find any good lighting to take the picture, oh well.  If I do ever decide to make it out of the house with my red lips I won't be wearing teal eye shadow to go with it.

Something you wore and window

I got a little behind in the March photo a day.  I'm apparently no good at doing these kinds of things on a daily basis.  So here's two day's photos.
Something I wore (Wednesday)

Dirt.  I planted about 80 gladiolus so I had to dig a lot of holes! It was pretty hard but I think it will be well worth this summer when I have tons of gladiolus in the yard.  They are my favorite flowers ever!

Window (Today)
Today was windows down kind of weather.

While me and my dad were planting some more today (7 lily plants, 4 new azaleas bushes, 6 cabbage plants, and 9 califlower plants) I broke through some serious roots with my shovel and I was greatly impressed by it :)

A smile-a doggy smile

Today I had a lazy day with the best best friend anyone could ask for which made me smile. But the pictures is of Cooper the day we went to the park while I was house sitting. I think he looks to be smiling.

Your Neighborhood

Day 3 and I'm still posting a picture.  Yay me!  Hopefully I can actually continue and finish this photo a day.  Something big was going down in my neighborhood today.  I'm not sure what it was but there were quite a few cars.

Springtime trees

Lately everyday when I go to school I drive by these trees that are beautifully in bloom.  I just wanted to share a picture that I took of them one day.  I love these pink trees they always seem to brighten my day.