NYE (a little late) and MLK craft day

So I'm a little behind but thought I'd post some pictures from our crazy New Years Eve in Atlanta. Our good friends Terrie and Chris came in from Athens and my sorority sister Bree and her husband Matt met us at the Hyatt downtown. We had the best night and even ended up on stage with Naughty by Nature after midnight. I'm definitely glad we did the whole party scene downtown at least once and hope we can do that again one day.

This weekend Trey and I headed to Athens for a wedding of a college friend of mine. The reception was at Athens Country Club and we had such a great time hanging out with our friends Valerie and Noah the whole night. Neither of us knew anybody else so we were inseparable the entire night. Val went to law school with me and we had been trying to get together with her and her husband for the longest time. It's kinda crazy that it took us going to Athens to finally have our double date. We live 1 mile away from each other! But as it is with all good friends - no matter how much time passes it's like no time passed at all when you see them.

And today since I had the day off I took some time to get some things knocked off my to do list. I started my day at Michaels to pick up some supplies and here's what I made...

Gotta say, I'm loving all my do it yourself projects. You can save so much and they're fun to do.

My inspiration
The one I made (out of an old cinnamon broom I bought last fall from the grocery store). I started by making the shape of the heart out of the cinnamon broom then attached flowers and sparkly wire I bought from Michaels.
and voila! Valentine's Day Wreath...


Next project... spring wreath. I bought this for $9.00 from Michaels and got all the flowers on sale.
I used wire cutters to cut up some old peony flowers I had and hydrangea and pink flowers I bought (in total about $8.00 because I already had the peonies). Then I attached them all with hot glue.




and here's the final product!