trader joes top 10

Congratulations to my mom on the recent addition of a Trader Joes grocery store within reasonable driving distance of their home!  If you don't have a Trader Joes, I'm very very sorry.  If you do, I hope this list is helpful!

In no particular order here are a few of my favorite items...

#1

Women's Once Daily Multivitamin

#2

Whole Grain Dijon Mustard

#3

Light String Cheese 

(if your budget allows, go for the organic version)

#4

Kettle Brewed Green & White Tea with Mint

#5

Greek Style Nonfat Yogurt Honey

#6

Kitchen Anti-Bacterial Hand Soap Lemon

#7

Brittish Muffins Whole Wheat

#8

Ends & Pieces

#9

Fat Free Spicy Black Bean Dip

#10

Spicy Soy & Flaxseed Tortilla Chips

firecracker cans

Well happy 4th to everyone!  All the sudden its summer in San Diego and my white legs are making their yearly appearance.  By the end of the summer I will finally see some color on them, but its a long process I dread every year.

We've been rather busy at the roundy household with gardening projects, decorating, starting more crafts than I can finish, out of town company and special events at work.  All of those have a story and I plan to blog about them the coming week. But for now I was able to finish one project; the 4th of July firecracker cans.  Aren't they cute?

Simple directions:
1. Wash your cans
2. With the use of hot glue wrap the can with your choice of paper.  I added the ribbon trim to disguise my uneven cutting job.  side note: I experimented with a rotary cutter and that darn thing was sharp, lets just say a couple of the lines went off track!
3. Hot glue your desired ribbon inside the open end of the can.
3. Hammer 2 holes in the top of the can to thread string through.

Thank you to Random Thoughts of a Supermom and Crafty Welder Chick for the inspiration!

wedding inspiration boards

Look at all this work I did pre-pinterest!  I was cleaning out the files on my computer and found all of these wedding inspiration boards I used as a guide for decisions.  Funny thing is it took me hours to search for all of this inspiration.  Brides really do have an advantage now with the ever growing pinterest at their disposal.

I apologize for my bad blogger form, I'm not able to site where all of these came from.  Hopefully you can forgive me, it won't happen again!

wine cork board

What can I say,  we like wine!

This is actually my second attempt at this wine cork board.  For the first round I used white foam core for the backing and didn't really plan out the placement of my corks... major fail!  For the second round I used black foam core for the backing and tested the placement of the corks before glueing.

Ok so super simple directions:

1. Cut your selected corks in half (I'm not going to lie, this part is labor intensive!)

2. Hot glue foam core backing to your selected frame. 

3. Lay corks in your desired pattern starting from the center outward.  

4. Hot glue halved corks to the foam core backing.

One other suggestion: Use 3M Command Strips to hang the frame, otherwise every time you push/remove thumb tacks the frame will move.  Eventually annoying you enough to stop using the cork board for its intended purpose.