Guitar Makeover

 

So, for many of you that know us, you know that we have become pretty avid yard-salers in the past several months and have been venturing out just about every Saturday morning before the crack of dawn ;)  Ok, not quite, but we do get up pretty early on Saturday mornings, the one day during the week, we could potentially have to sleep in!  We have, however, found some pretty awesome deals and neat/intersting things, so the early wake up part becomes totally worth it (even if it does take a little coffee bribe for my hubby).  I do love to yard-sale.

 

Several weeks ago we ran into a guy getting rid of a mini Harmony guitar.  Asking price?  A whopping $3!  Well, I didn't hesitate- I knew my nieces birthday was coming up and decided to 'fancify' it a little ;) 

 

I wasn't planning on doing a blog centered around this guitar, so I didn't get a 'before' pic of it, but just imagine a rather boring looking plain yellow/brown guitar.  However, after a little ribbon here, a little sticker action there, this was the finished product:

 

I was also playing around with my new Canon Rebel and was trying to take some pretty shots of the finished product- here are a few:

 

Good shot of the awesome leopard print ribbon adorning the outer edges of the guitar!

 

 

 

 

And here's the birthday girl with her new 'cute' guitar!  I hope she actually plays with it!  And little did we all know, my dad decided to get her the exact same thing (you can see it on the table with the other gifts), lol  So, now she actually has two guitars- so she can have one for her and one for a friend whenever they want to have a jam session :)

 

Uncle Kaleb (my husband) gave her a pick here so she can learn to pick the strings :)

 

 

Then, ofcourse, as soon as the birthday girl has moved on to other new wonders recently unwrapped, who swoops in to pick up the two new mini guitars? None other than my guitar playing husband and Uncle! lol (they were tuning them for her)

 

 

And finally, just one more shot of my beautiful, now 7 year old, niece!  Happy Birthday sweetie!  Uncle Kaleb and Aunt K-K love you so much!!

 

 

Happy blogging and happy crafting,

 

Katie :)

Going to Africa

Weekends are never long enough- I've always said that my week is just a countdown to the weekend. I so look forward to them- even more since getting married. I love spending time with my husband and getting to do things together and not having to do everything alone. We'll celebrate our two year anniversary this Novemeber (even if we're not going to be together- thank you Coast Guard :))

However, that being said, I'll be heading to Uganda, Africa in October (and hopefully be back in time to see him off to boot camp). I've been on other mission trips (Amazon, Brazil, Haiti) but never a medical mission trip. Between college, grad school and the start of two different jobs since graduating the timing has just never worked out. I'm going with a group called Four Corners Ministries and will be doing several things while there, including helping with medical clinics, vision clinics, stove building and water purification installation. I'm so incredibly excited and can't wait to go and see what God's got up His sleeve for everyone while we're there (Ugandan and American alike).

I held a fundraiser bake sale yesterday at our church, First City Church, and had an amazing turnout and raised about $1,200! Yeah, wow, huh?!  I was maybe hoping for about half of that, so that was definitely a God thing. I am so blessed to have such a supportive and giving church and am stoked to have raised that much!  Unfortunately, that's not even half of what I need to raise, as the trip is about $4,000 for the whole thing, but it certainly did put a dent in it!  This trip is very different from the ones I've been on in the past because I don't know any of the people I'm going with, have never met any of them and am raising all of my own money.

Anyways, that's all for now,

Katie :)

Lovin' Life

So, I figure this is about as good a time as any to finally join the blogging world.  I absolutely
love reading others blogs, so figured I'd give it a shot. I've actually wanted to for a long time but it's hard adding on more things to do when you already work full time and drive all over creation getting to and from work. With all of the upcoming changes we're going to be venturing into I thought this would be a good way to keep anyone who's interested updated :)

As many of you may already know, Kaleb (my awesome husband, in case you don't know us) is planning on joining the Coast Guard in a couple of months and will be gone to boot camp for several weeks (including Thanksgiving, our two year anniversary, Christmas, my birthday, and most likely New Years :(. But, I know I just need to get used to that since that certainly won't be changing anytime soon as long as we're with the military :).

He's very excited (understatement) and is looking forward to serving our country and hopefully checking out some neat places along the way! The nice thing about being a PA is that I should hopefully be able to find a job pretty easily almost anywhere we go. I currently work for a dermatology group and have gotten spoiled here because I definitely don't want to go into any other specialty now that I know how awesome derm is!

Anyways, that's at least a good start, so I'll try and be faithful about keeping everyone updated this way and hopefully post some pics along the way (especially since I just got an awesome new camera!). 

Happy blogging,
Katie :)