Oh Nuts

I honestly don't remember exactly when I came up with the idea for this project, but once it showed up it didn't want to leave. Part of how this project came to me is that I had purchased the wood at Michael's for something else that ended up not working with the piece. Since I had already removed the packaging I couldn't return it so I had to think of something else to use it for. The picture I took and used. Again I don't remember how I exactly thought of this but I went with it anyhow. But since we have multiple stencils with the alphabet in different fonts on them I grabbed them out of the draw that they are stored in and then picked the one that I liked the best. After I traced the words onto the wood I plugged in the wood burner that we have and went to work burning the letters. With the wood burner it didn't take that long to do the letters and I like the way that they turned out. Before I actually did the letters I used a heart stencil on the ba...

taken by me Since my mom's birthday and Labor day were the same day, she wanted to celebrate this past weekend. On Saturday we started the day off, since the kids didn't have soccer, by going to look at a house that is for sale in our area. It was a pretty decent house and on a nice quiet street. After walking around the house for an hour we went out to a nearby restaurant for lunch. I have been to the place where we went for lunch a few times before and they have good food. For church on Sunday my mom wanted to go to the Byzantine Liturgy, so we went. If you haven't ever been to the Byzantine Divine Liturgy, I highly recommend that you go to one. Taken by my mom After that the plan was to eat lunch in the car as we drove to a beach that a lot of our friends had gone too before and go swimming for a couple hours and then have dinner later. But by the time we left church and got there it was full. So we drove another twenty minutes to a different beach, but ...

--- 1 --- Since I haven't done a 7 Quick Takes Friday in a while I figured that I would do one this week. I haven't decided yet if I am going to be doing this every week again or doing this every other week so that I have something a little more interesting to blog about. --- 2 --- Because I didn't do the last day of the photo a day thing last month here is a picture that I took earlier this week that could work for that since the thing for the day was Something Beautiful and my sister is beautiful :) --- 3 --- My siblings and I have been doing Sibling Selfie Sunday, though we missed the last two weeks so on Tuesday after TJ's graduation we attempted to take a Sibling Selfie together. Here is a picture that my mother took of us trying to take the picture. --- 4 --- On Wednesday evening this week my friend E started a group that meets once a week on Wednesdays to discuss the Gospel reading for the upcoming Sunday. At first I thought that I wa...