It’s all Rainbows and Butterflies

How on earth does one come up with a “Rainbow Owl” party theme? Well…if you can follow my train of thought then it went a little something like this. I threw the idea about going to a painting class to Nicole (the honorable pregnant woman), who said she’d love to paint an owl or some sort of nature picture for the baby room. Unfortunately, the painting classes scheduled for July on the days we had available didn’t include owls or nature! If you know me, you know I LOVE birds, so incorporating owls into the theme was not a problem. Also during that conversation I asked Nicole if they had a theme for their baby room. She said they had no particular theme and were just going “rainbow”. Ta-da! Sometimes my tangential thoughts take me fun places. There’s surprisingly a lot of fun rainbow ideas. The ones below are too cute, but they didn’t quite make the cut for this party. Click on the pictures if you’d like to see more. Hint: some of the pictures lead to fun tutorials

I so love the idea of having people bring books to a baby shower! Look how fun this is. I wish I would’ve seen it earlier.
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Ummm just for fun….”whooaaa it’s so intense. WHOOAAAHAHHAAA. OOO YEAHHHHHH” “Full on double rainbow across the sky. What does this mean? It’s so bright and vivid!”

Hahaha okay I’m done.

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Dog Days of Summer

Well, my acrylic stamps didn't happen to work out on the cookies, but I found a purpose for them. I was practicing dipping Oreos in white chocolate when I got the bright idea to stamp them. I tried a few different methods, but my husband had the winning idea. Take a look. My methods- leaving the stamps in the white chocolate while it dried, using a greased stamp (gross, don’t do it), and using a stamp on nearly hardened white chocolate The winning method (eh hem- Josh’s method), putting the stamp in the white chocolate then freezing the cookie That man is a genius! I think they turned out super cute. I can’t wait to use this for a party. I’m kind of a sucker for my dogs so I was actually thinking about hosting a dog’s day out. If not, then I’ll probably keep this in my back pocket for Optimus’ birthday. Like I said- I’m a sucker for my dogs.

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

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The Daniel Fast

When Josh and I moved back to Bellevue this summer we joined a new church, Zeal, which we really love. We've felt more challenged there to really engage, and twice a year the church as a whole focuses on 21 Days of Prayer. In January we fast during the 21 days, andre encouraged to give up something we feel hinders our focus (Instagram, sweets, etc.) We chose to do the Daniel Fast. The Daniel Fast is based on the following verses... “Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink." Daniel 1:12 In those days, I, Daniel, had been mourning for three entire weeks. I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks" Daniel 10: 2-3 So basically, we've been eating a vegan, gluten-free, no sugar or sweetener-added foods for the past 11 days. We don't have fried foods either as they're 'rich', but we do have whole grains. We drink 100% juice and wat...

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