DIY Dry Erase Calendar

I’ve been super crafty lately, thanks to Shanelle and I being exceptionally bored – we started making all sorts of fun items and I’m gonna be talking about them here for y’all (I even remembered to take some pictures!)

First up is my calendar.

I’ve talked about my DIY dry erase calendar several times and decided to update it today, here is the older one I had made.

(Screenshot from Instagram)

Now I made this by getting paint chips from Home Depot (which were free) and cutting them to fit the size of my photo frame here. I purchased a 12X12 frame from Hobby Lobby and glued the paint chips to fit and “voila” a new erasable calendar!

I have used my calendar quite often and decided to get a new background for it and new paper, so I went back to Hobby Lobby and purchased all sorts of scrapbook paper (which were half off of the price so some were .25 and some were .35, you can’t beat that!) and placed it in my frame.

I also printed off a blank calendar and a note page (thanks to SASinteriors for these – I will also link these for download, as I altered the note page to fit horizontally instead of vertically.)

Blank calendar & Note Page

I taped them on top of the scrapbook paper,

And now I have a new awesome calendar for use!

Although I heavily rely on my iPhone for my calendar it is nice to have the option here for the hardcopy. You never know when technology will fail you, and it’s incredibly adorable.

Christmas 2011

It’s Christmas!

For many this is a day to spend with family, counting blessings, eating good food, presents and just generally an awesome day for all.

I love me some Jesus so I like celebrating His birthday. And giving thanks to Him, it’s all pretty awesome and wonderful that I am so blessed to be able to do that. Christmas in the Wilmes casa is usually a madhouse, so I try to distance myself from the crazy and just enjoy the day. But you know what I’m most excited about? It’s not the food, the fellowship or anything like that (although that is a pretty awesome part).

Doctor. Who. Christmas. Special.

It’s the best part of the year for me.

The last three Christmases (is that spelled right?) have been infinitely better for me because of the Doctor.

But I find myself sitting here on Christmas, the family all in their separate corners. Dad, Corey, Neal and Brian are watching TV; Stephanie and Mom are waiting at the airport to catch their flight to Italy for New Years and Dustin is playing on the Internet – I’m waiting to watch the special and enjoy my evening at the movies with Dustin and Brian. This is a good day overall.

I couldn’t ask for more. :)

Merry Christmas!

 

Here’s to 2012!

I’m announcing my new year’s plans a little early this year. Mostly because I cannot contain my excitement regarding them and wanna get started as soon as possible, what can I say? I’ve never been one to show a lot of patience.  I actually wrote a list out (archaic style, with a pen and paper!) It’s completely achievable but I’m known for quitting and I am determined to change that about myself.

Here’s the list.

I’m personally most excited about #5. He will be the best defense weapon in existence!

P.S. Add one more, #10: GRADUATE IN DECEMBER.

So Internet, I’m gonna need your help. Be my accountability buddy? What do you say?

Eek!

I’m so excited to get my decals in from the kellokult on etsy! I’m a huge fan of the retro Apple logo, and have covered my computer and iPhone in them.

I’m loving my decals, if you’re looking for anything to cover your computer, phone or tablet – KelloKult is amazing!

Tentatively Blogging…

So it’s been a long long long time since I’ve blogged about my life. For a while I had moved everything over to a personal website but I found myself in a rut. Nothing I wanted to say was coming out properly so I stopped. I worked on my Photography business for a long time and found myself so focused on that, that I didn’t document my life and the things that go on around me. Well I’m back…at least for now. I want to write again, write everyday and try to bring back the laughter I find in life. Find a niche and run with it. Especially with me only having one year of my Bachelor left, I want to be able to continue this once college is done. I’m excited to be back!

A filler post…

So I have been working on close to four new posts but I always seem to run into a block when it comes to finishing them. So today is a filler post!!!

Sorry.

Here’s an awesome picture.*image courtesy of Tim Buckley – www.cad-comic.com

My take…

So right now the entire blogsphere is alight with people weighing in their opinions of the unveiling of Apple’s “iPad” (and yes I did make my share of jokes regarding the name…who hasn’t?) and I suppose I will say a little bit regarding this new gadget…

It has flaws, its closed sourced, its got room to grow but also – its well designed, thought out and an amazing leap in technology. Will I be investing in one? Does the sun not rise in the east? But then again, so will lots of other Apple freaks. Will it kill my need for my mac? HELL NO. My baby can do some many more things than the iPad but still its gonna be nice to have when I need it, and no, it will not “kill” netbooks but its definitely something to live up to.

What? You expected more? Of course, I have more opinions, but who wants to read the same crap from 67 different sites?

Not here today. Well until I get bored and decided to babble more about it.

Baby Binky Spohr!

A blog that I am extremely engaged with, one that has stirred my heart in many ways is “The Spohrs Are Multiplying.” I started reading this about a year ago, these people are so wonderful and have been through so much pain, especially when they lost their daughter, Madeline. Look to the right of this blog to see her story, or look up to the page I devoted to her but I don’t wanna repeat it on here, because its sad. A couple of weeks after Madeline died, Heather and Mike discovered that they were pregnant with again, this time around has been a wonderful pregnancy and they have been terrified that something would go wrong, but luckily it has been smooth for them, these last couple of weeks we (the interwebs) have been waiting anxiously for Binky to arrive (she isn’t due till Valentine’s Day) but it seems that Binky has taken things into her own hands and is coming right now! I am so beyond excited because this family deserves a break, they deserve their happy moment, here’s to little Binky Spohr!!!

Welcome to the world, little amazing girl.

Sham-a-lama-ding-dong

I have a problem. A serious little issue that plagues me…I am a freak when it comes to having my iTunes in order, by that I mean I cannot function unless I have every artist named, every title found and every album art in it’s proper place within my library. I’m not the only person out there that has this issue, don’t look down on me for it…maybe we should start a group “iTunes Perfectionist Anonymous,” we could spend our meetings discussing what software widgets needed to find all song titles and how our addictions have ruined our lives or some crap like that.

So during my quest I came upon a wonderful application called “Tunatic” which has enabled me somewhat in my quest for song perfection.

If you’re like me then you should give it a look-see, its totally bomb.

Oh and have you figured out the movie where my blog title came from?

Here’s a hint: Delta House.

A New Year…

Well this has been a great start to the new year, not to say that it hasn’t been good so far, I just mean I have been horrible about remembering to update my blog…the trip was amazing and I had a great time…but still there are so many changes occurring right this instant that my head is filled with confusing, happiness, anger, fear and calm all at the same time.

Needless to say, my head is a party right now.

Let’s see what this year brings, shall we?