hand painted dotted glasses & pitcher

about a week ago, my cousin cacey and i did a fun, quick, and SUPER easy craft.  have you all seen those painted glasses around town? i bought some for my friend's birthday at anthropologie, and i had been wanting some of my own.  knowing me, i would have just bought them, but cacey had the idea of painting them ourselves...which is so much better!

so we started off with choosing our paint options and getting some cheap glasses.  we would have preferred dollar store glasses, but we couldn't find a dollar store where i live, so we settled for a $10 box of 4 glasses from HEB.  the paint cost about $1.30 per bottle.  the paint needs to be enamel because you have to bake the glasses afterwards, and the enamel holds up to the oven. 

anyway, so here are the glasses and paint that we used. 

for the actual dots, all we did was start with the color you most wanted your glasses to be.  my kitchen and alot of my decor is red, so i started with red as my base color.  cacey used a pretty sage green. then you just grab some q-tips and start dotting.  i got really frustrated at first that my dots weren't perfect and kept wiping them off....but eventually i got over it and just went with it.  i did all of my red dots for all 4 glasses before i moved on to the next color.

by the time i had finished the 4th glass with the first color, the 1st glass was ready to go again with color number 2.  it worked out pretty well! after the first color, i just went through the rest of my colors and added layer after layer.  i tried to add less dots each time as well. 

once we had finished with the dots, cacey had the awesome idea of flipping the glasses and painting the bases!  that way, people would know which glass was theirs.  so cute! 

after the bottoms were painted and had dried a bit, we turned on the oven to 375 and let the glasses bake for about 15 minutes to set the paint.  after that, we were good to go!  i definitely recommend hand-washing these, as they are probably delicate.  but so fun to make!

a couple of days later, i found this glass pitcher from a different set that i hadn't really been using, and decided to go ahead and dot it too!  i painted the bottom of the pitcher a different color from all the glasses.  and now i have a complete set!

this was a great summer craft night and i can't wait to serve some white wine mojitos in my new dotted glasses! 

anniversary...1 year married, 6 years dating

well, this is a little late.  two months late, to be exact.  but hey, things have been happening around here, ok??

oliver and i celebrated our one year marriage anniversary a couple of weeks after our anniversary date. we got married on may 12, 2012 but we waited until memorial day weekend to celebrate.  i had just gotten back from nigeria the weekend before, and the weekend of our anniversary our cousin calyn graduated from TCU...so it made sense to push it back.  (also mothers day! happy mothers day moms!) 

so anyway, we waited until memorial day to celebrate.  i wanted to do something extravagant, but in the sense of saving money, we decided to try to recreate all of our past anniversaries into one weekend.  we both had off on memorial day monday, so we each also took off on the friday before.  

for our previous anniversaries, we have:

-made homemade pizza and did an at home beer tasting (year #1)

-ate fondue (year # 2, i think?)

-toured wineries and got engaged (year #3) 

-concert (#4? not sure) 

-ate amazing steak at killen's (year #5) 

so for our weekend, we tried to do a little of each of those.  on thursday night, we went to the mucky duck to see one of our favorites, bob schnieder, play. oliver surprised me with right-on-top-of-the-stage tickets, and we enjoyed some dinner while bob played.  we bought the CD of the show after..and bob is talking to us in literally almost every song. SUCH a great night!

i wore one of my honeymoon dresses

beer flight at the duck!

see those feet at the bottom left? that's how close we were

on friday morning, we woke up and headed down south to moody gardens galveston.  oliver had gotten a groupon for the MG, so we decided that it would be a great time to take advantage of it.  we walked through the halls, looked at all kinds of creatures, and went into the rainforest pyramid. we also watched a shark 3D movie, in which the kid behind me kicked my chair THE. ENTIRE. TIME.  there were like 6 different school tours there.  figures.

all in all, we had a great time. i think i enjoyed the rainforest pyramid the best. after we toured and had a little lunch, we went to the golf course at moody and played a round of golf.  we are both acutally pretty bad (he is better than me) but it was fun just being goofy and not taking ourselves too seriously.  and there were TONS of bunnies!

 

on saturday, we went to tour karbach brewery in houston. it was so fun! that was our first time to karbach (but not our last) and we just had a blast hanging out, people watching, and drinking rodeo clowns.  that night we made some dinner at home and played super mario.

 for the rest of the weekend, we made fondue and tried various wines (at home) played another round or two of golf, and played super mario. on the last day, we went to see iron man 3 with our good friends kyle and rachael and then ate at emma's mexican food.


all in all, a great anniversary weekend! i love you bubba!