Ferris Wheel of Love

June 11th marked the 6th year anniversary of the day Nate asked me to marry him. Awwww, or barf…I get it.

I decided to get crafty for the occasion.  I haven’t done anything crafty for about a month now because we. are. never. home.

To understand my craft…you should probably know how Nate proposed.  (If you hate girly wedding stuff, scroll down to the pictures…)

Nate got me tickets to see the Lion King in Chicago for my 23rd birthday (which was in March…the Lion King wasn’t until June…I thought I was getting hosed.)  We decided to spend the week-end in Chicago and explore the town and end the trip on Sunday with the Lion King.

Little did I know that he had also packed a pretty diamond ring. 

Saturday night we headed to Navy Pier.  We hopped on the Ferris Wheel and he popped the question.  I was VERY surprised.  One because I had no idea he had a ring and two because he proposed in a very public place.  And I cried..like a girl…I hate when that happens…

I’m usually not a pack rat.  Actually, I usually end up throwing away things that I shouldn’t…but I did keep our tickets for this Ferris wheel ride.  I had them in a shadow box…but I was over the shadow box and wanted an update. 

I purchased this frame from Target…

I used a piece of scrapbook paper as a background and stuck on a black and white photo of the Ferris wheel along with the two tickets to create a frame of happy memories….

As you can see, it found it’s home on our dresser in our master bedroom.  It needs some friends.  I’m slowly starting to get a vision for this space…slowly.  I’m open to suggestions as well. I REALLY want to purchase this Ferris Wheel…

but I can’t get over the price tag…come on sale…

There you have it…a super easy and inexpensive piece of art that is full of memories.  This could easily be adapted for vacations, weddings, etc.

How’d your significant other propose? Not engaged?  What’s your dream proposal?  Or better yet…what’s the worst proposal story you’ve heard?

Linking up to: At the Picket Fence

Savannah- Part Dos

While I catch up on sleep after spending the week-end celebrating my best friend’s wedding, let’s continue the torture of looking at our vacation pictures.  I swear this is the last vacation post. (Read the first forms of punishment here and here!)

We spent our last day of vacation on a walking tour (self-guided) through Savannah.  We had to be out of our condo on Tybee Island by 11:00AM and didn’t have to catch our flight in Savannah until 5:00PM…which left us the perfect amount of time for sightseeing. 

We busted out this map and started walking…

We started near Columbia Square.  We toured the inside of the Davenport house…

The Davenport house was built in 1820 and was one of the first houses saved by the historic commission in Savannah. This house has some awesome wallpaper and the most amazing staircase.  Unfortunately, they didn’t allow us to take pictures.  Major bummer. Their website does have 1 picture of the staircase…

The 3 flights of stairs are self supported.  Every 13th baluster is made of steel to help support the structure.  Pretty impressive work, Mr. Davenport.

This was the only building we toured.  The rest of the time we just wandered around town looking at the beautiful architecture and details…

I told my dad that I liked that door.  He asked what color I would paint it…because it’s wood.  Does he know me?  He didn’t understand that this wood door was perfect and didn’t need to be painted.

I want a lion door knocker…

I loved the font of the house number.  And the red door, of course.

Impressive iron work…

Can I move in?

LOVE that light blue ceiling!

That ends our vacation!  I’m ready to go back!  Isn’t life always better when you’re on vacation?…especially on a Monday morning….

Stroll Down Memory Lane-2nd Floor

Let’s take another stroll down memory lane and check out where we were on our house building process 3 years ago…

3 Years Ago Last Week:

We had the start of a 2nd floor

Last week we left off with the start of the walkway to our master bedroom…

For those of you new to the blog, this is what the walkway currently looks like…

It was framed 3 years ago this week….

As you can tell in the above photo, our two story living room wall was installed.  Our builder built the wall and installed the windows on the ground.  He then lifted the wall with a crane and then secured it in place.  I really wish I could have watched this step…pesky job that pays for said house.

Our master bedroom was also framed…

As you can tell in the above picture, our master closet has a large window in it.  Slight design flaw.  The exterior of the house would not look balanced without it.  It takes up precious closet space and is, obviously, not great for privacy.  The closet is very bright though!  We also joked that we could watch the town fireworks from our closet window.  We tried last year…it would work if we cut down one of the neighbors trees…

And now for the exterior…

There you have it!  3 stories of framing complete!

Happy Week-end!  Any big plans?  My best friend is getting married…better work on the matron-of-honor speech….doh!