Book page wreath

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 Hello All!

  I hope this email finds you well, as today was a very difficult day for me. TMZ broke the news that Jessica Biel, and Justin Timberlake tied the knot over the weekend.  After spilling my coffee over myself (not really..I don’t drink coffee) I had to wipe away the tears, and keep the sobs down as to not alert everyone at work.  Okay, none of that happened…but I am still bummed such a hot piece of ass is off the market. Aren’t you?

Awww Yeah Bookpage Wreath, Bookpage Wreath! (Said to the tune of Fogle in Superbad...Fake ID Fake ID!)

My sad, blank wall

  On another note completely, I spent this past weekend filling up a really blank spot in my room. I recently came across The nesting place, and it is totally now one of my favorite blogs. Her knack for making imperfect perfect is impeccable, and I have to say our styles are very similar when it comes to a beautiful home that looks, “lived in”. She posted her “Book Page Wreath” and my mouth dropped! It was so beautiful and I knew it would be the perfect project for this blank wall of mine.

  So I set out to make it happen. I went to the flea market and picked up 2 old paperback books for $1.00, and then I went on over to the hardware store to grab some of the foam pipe stuff you put over your pipes to keep em from freezing. Did you know that Hobby Lobby charges FIFTEEN DOLLARS for a large foam wreath form?! You wont catch me spending that much on something I’m just going to decorate, no siree.

Dont ya love this SUPER awesome picture of my supplies?

So in total you will need:

2 thick paperback books that you feel comfortable destroying. (Don’t use your favorite here…Twilight has a place on my bookcase, but no place on my wreath)

Foam pipe covers…(or wreath forms…if you want to spend that much)

Duct Tape

An insane amount of hot glue

And your hot glue gun

That’s it! And it creates this masterpiece!

First, take your pipe and form it into a circle size that you would like, then duct tape several layers around to hold it tight. Remember, once you glue your paper cones on, it will be about 6 inches larger than the circle you make.

Basically, I just rolled each book page into a cone, and squeezed a little dot of hot glue to seal it before gluing it onto my form. You just move around in the circle, overlapping the cones as you go, and then do another layer on top of that layer, and another layer on top of that layer, and so on.

Eventually, it will look right to you, and you’re done! I made a large wreath, a medium-large wreath, and an oval wreath so they made a nice little trio on my wall. The first one took me about an hour and a half, but once you get the hang of it, I did the last 2 in about 30 minutes each!

Be prepared for some serious hot glue burns though, that little monster spares no prisoners. Is that a saying? It sounds like one…

Anyways you’ll love your completed art work, and be eager to show it off to everyone you know! Each wreath came in at about 65 cents with the books and foam, (cause I already had the hot glue), and I’d call that an A+ craft!

My not sad, full wall!

Too bad I can’t get Justin Timberlake to rock his body to my place to ice these finger burns….

xo,
Kylie

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5 ways to drive your spouse bananas

99.9 percent of the time I’m an awesome girlfriend. (wink wink) so to balance out that .01 percent, I find it is very important to take some steps to annoy the crap out of Jake. As I assume you are all exceptionally beautiful, hardworking, talented, and perfect spouses as well, I’m here to make sure you know how to take the necessary steps to annoy the daylights out of who you call Mr. Its only fair.

 

For starters, you can put an embarrassing picture of him on your blog.

1)       During a big game, make sure to dust the entertainment center. He needs to know this house won’t clean itself, and what better way to do it than in overtime 3 points down? I especially like to make a scene when he acts annoyed and say things like, “wow, I worked all week, and now you’re complaining that I am CLEANING!? I am SO unappreciated around here!” and then continue on with my dusting. Works like a charm.

2)       Wait patiently for him to start a show, or movie without you. When he does, sit down next to him, and ask him a question about every.single.thing that happens. “Why is that guy so mad?”, “Well why did they kill him?” ,“I really don’t like this movie” , “she is way prettier than her, why did he do that again?, are they married? Wow they’d make a nice couple” Just for example..

3)       On his day off, do your makeup in bed. This works especially well if you wake up at 5 am like I do. I am happy to turn on the light, set my multiple makeup boxes right next to me, and go to town. Sometimes I’ll even give his nose a tickle with my blush brush while he sleeps. GOODMORNING HONEY!

4)       Make him go grocery shopping with you, and take your sweet-ass time. He hates grocery shopping, so if I’m feeling like a little button-pushing, I decide TODAY is the day I need to know every ingredient in every thing we buy. “This has too much sugar, this doesn’t have enough, I can’t pronounce this, honey this is heavy can you pick it up”. Don’t forget to paint your nails before too, we cant be pushing around a cart with a fresh mani.

5)       On your dinner night out, when he asks what you want for dinner say, “anything you want sweetheart, I don’t care” and when he suggests something make a disgusted face and say “no I don’t really feel like that”, and continue through all his suggestions. After he is 3 seconds from getting brains on your living room couch, go back to suggestion #1, and say “that sounds great, I’m starvin’ lets go!”

Oh, and always eat on HIS side of the bed. Toast is my favorite.

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Summers last hurrah!

I understand this picture totally sucks, but it was taken in a panic of eating lunch today and not having a pasta picture. Give a girl a break :)

 Green pasta salad. Sounds like something out of a Dr. Seuss book. Funny thing is, this salad really isn’t green at all,  I just put as much as I can that is green into it. Get it? Cause generally..green stuff is good for you. 

 After the last couple weeks and our NUMEROUS comfort food recipes, I figured I should show that I don’t rival Paula Deen with my cream cheese and butter usage, and show you some lighter favorites. Pasta salad being one of them. Yeah yeah its more of a summer lunchtime food, but I LOVE IT. And also I think that summer deserves one last hurrah. Ask anyone, they will tell you my pasta salad is freaking delicious…and I tend to agree with them.

You will need:

Some veggie pasta

Olives

Tomato

Some basil pesto

All the green veggies you like

(I used)

Broccoli

Green pepper

Cucumber

And Peas.

But feel free to add whatever you’d like

The dressing is sort of weird, but its SO SO good. You just have to trust me okay?

I use 1 tablespoon olive juice (I know…weird)

Some red wine vinegar

Olive oil

Salt

Pepper

Italian seasoning

2 tablespoons of basil pesto.

Work it together until it tastes right. If you haven’t noticed, I’m not much for measuring, because I believe in tasting as you go, cause everyone has a different pallet, and sometimes good tastes different to different people. You know? Okay good.

I put this salad in 5 little containers for my lunch at work this week, and its EXACTLY what I want after sitting at my desk all day. I hope you enjoy!

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