love is in the air and my sweater

 

Happy love day to everyone!  So sorry I've been neglecting the blog, lives been crazy.  This post is going to be a brief tutorial about this great felted heart! I found this on pinterest and needed to try it myself.  If you'd like to check on the original tutorial check out this great blog,honestlywtf

Our V Day dinner, because OLIVE you!

DIY HEART ELBOW PATCHES

• wool sweater
• wool roving
• heart cookie cutter
• felting needles
• foam for felting
• iron
• water

 

Use a wool sweater and eyeball about 1/2 inch under the elbow.  Place a piece of tape here. Place the cut foam into the sweater.

 Place the cookie cuter above the mark and get ready to fill with roving.

 Fill cutter evenly with roving.  Here's the fun part, start stabbing the roving into the foam with the needle.  Make sure you stab the need straight into the roving and foam (they are easy to break). Fair warning- this does take a while, you want it to flatten out and focus on the edges. The spritz with water and iron with wool setting. Enjoy lovers! XO

 Hanna rocking her diy elbows!

26 years...26 great things

1. woke up with smooches from M & S

2. started the day with a free caribou birthday drink

3. finished my chair diy

4. worked out with jay z and kanye

5. clean apartment- having visitors means a total cleaning spree

6. a sunny and warm day- 44 * in February

7. very sweet birthday calls/messages

8. visitors galore. hanna, luke, sketts, the donalds.

9. mike is on stella duty all day (what a sweet heart)

10. started a new book today Clockwork Prince

11. got a taylor swaft card in the mail ( yes, i said taylor swaft- that's what one of my girls     called me the other day. haha)

12. new black ride

13. won at the casino! yes, i said won

14. ate the worlds best hamburger (tipsy cow-madison)

15. breakfast with the girls

16. pumpkin spice creamer on sale and in the cart

17. another free birthday coffee from caribou

18.  couch moved out- room for new one!

19. less than a week till breaking dawn is in our blue ray player

20. thanks to hanni- new purse for all my garbage (literally)

21. a day of shopping with mom to look forward to

22. mail from ellie :)

23.  early bedtime tonight

24. superbowl sunday- but not so good without the packer backers

25. eyeball appointment this week

26. so many wonderful people in my life

replaced the yucky/falling apart rivets with vintage buttons from the antique mall

30 before 30

With my 26th birthday quickly approaching I started thinking about the year to come.  I decided to go back to my list of "30 before 30" to think about where I've been and where I'm going.  Mike and I decided to create these lists together and it was such an amazing experience.  To just sit and talk about what you hope for for your lives in the near future is so exciting.  Here's my current list, I'm sure it will be edited and re-edited a zillion times...but life's about changes. 

make your list. xo 

Liz’s 30 Before 30

1. Buy a new car (not brand new)

2. Have 2 babies (and then one more after)

3. Buy a house

4. Plant a garden- in the ground

5. Get a REAL job- it might not be teaching and that’s ok

6. Fall back in love with Yoga

7. Take Mike back to London

8. Take a road trip

9. Find/Go to a church I like

10. Blog

11. Visit Washington D.C.

12. Visit Charleston/Savannah

13. Learn how to cook meat…even though I don’t really want to

14. Learn Spanish with Mike

15. Hold a headstand for 30 seconds

16. Start a budget

17. Move somewhere we LOVE

18. Have Stella off leash

19. Love Mike to pieces

20. Have Friday date night

21. Learn how to golf

22. Read and read and read

23. Make a pot

24. Go whitewater rafting/canoeing

25. Find something active to do that Mike & I both enjoy

26. Meet friends where we live

27. Make amazing art

28. Spend lots of time with the people I love

29. Write more thank yous- just because

30. Go camping with Mike and Trumpet