Marc Jacob's Daisy

I was lucky enough to try out the Marc Jacob's Daisy perfume at a party with my friends. OH MY! We are all seriousely craving springtime and this party put us in the PERFECT mood for spring!

With a bold floral scent and beautiful grapefruit and vanilla undertones, this perfume is our favorite Marc Jacob's scent so far!

 Natalie loved the Eau so Fresh by Marc Jacob's Daisy. It was my favorite scent as well. Here she is showing off her Daisy Chain bracelet... we'll get to that, later!

 The appetizers included mini cheeseburger pies arranged in a Daisy array. I made them fresh right before so they were extra delicious!

 We played several games centered around the flowers. My friends Kriste and Lenore were the winners and each won a small bottle of perfume!  Here they are showing off the fantastic Daisy product! They thought the vanilla scents were perfect for a perfume with Daisy overtones and said the scent was very fresh and "freeing."

 OK, the story with the Daisy Chains. Marc Jacob's and Crowdtap sent me a kick with bracelet making supplies to make daisy chain bracelets. Before the party, I decided to make one as an example. Being a teacher, this is just something I do. Well, it's a good thing I did. The little metal circles for the end of the bracelet had holes in them, so they kept slipping off the finished bracelet. That caused all the little beads to fall off. My husband soldered them, but then the soldered metal broke the bracelet thread. It was a bit of a mess. The end result was me tying two broken bracelets together. Most of the lobster claw clasps didn't work as well- eeek! My sister made one with me, but that was all. It was too much work and MUCH frustration to make them at the party.

 Our spread was delicious! Everyone brought a daisy-themed appetizer or dessert and we had a great open bar! So much excitement! After the movie, we watched "The Perks of Being a Wallflower." It was a great time with lots of food, fun, games, and so many delicious perfumes!

Instead of the bracelets, I collected together some of my old candlesticks and bought birds houses from Michael's and we each created a stand for them!

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What we're up to.

John and I have been quite busy around the house. Sorry for not updating recently! It's been hectic trying to get everything fixed and all the "construction" stuff done! I've been working on making books for craft shows and working on our wedding album which is looking awesome and going to be huge!

John, on the other hand, has really been hard at work. He's nearly finished with the bathroom save the shower. We have the tile, we just need a certain shower head and a few other little things. Here's some pictures of his hard work so far:

 Our sink went batty! It leaked completely and was creating all sorts of mold underneath. I guess the past owners didn't clean it. Well, John replaced it and killed the mold and it now looks wonderful!

 Now it looks like this (excuse the mess, I just went and snapped a picture.) It has this insanely neat handle and faucet.

 I'm sure everyone forgot what the bathroom looked like, but that's ok, because it was yucky. We couldn't change the silly layout of it, but that's ok, we're making it look awesome despite that! Here's a toilet John put in. I took this some time ago, there is trim now.

And the sink and tub! It's really a lovely sink, a bit small, but nothing bigger would fit. It's also tall! The tub was there when we moved, but John added trim around it and we're planning on building a shelf to hang above it.

 And here's the shower. I don't really have much to say about it, it was HORRIBLY moldy, we had to rip out everything around it. There was a massive leak that was never fixed and it had to have been there for at least a few years. Yucky. Fortunately, we killed all the mold and ripped it out.

 John also installed a new gas dryer. Our electric one stopped working suddenly and when I went to investigate, it was STUFFED with lint in the tubes (and Victoria must have left the past owner some secrets, because they were in there, too! SUPER YUCKY!) And the dryer tube thing was burning because it wasn't meant for a dryer. Praise the Lord that our dryer stopped working for no reason, because there WAS a reason, a few of them. When John cleaned it out and got everything set, he plugged it back in and the whole dryer lit up in blue sparks. Super, super weird. Needless to say, we got rid of it immediately and used a gas dryer we had received as a wedding present. Praise the Lord for providing for THAT one.

 Our new door :) John didn't put the whole thing in, but he sure had to keep track of the person who did! He helped clean it up and what not and it looks absolutely lovely!

 Our new dishwasher :) The last one didn't wash at all and was rusting on the inside, so we got some rusty dishes. We got this new one and it's amazing, super quiet, and on works so well.

 This has to be John's proudest accomplishment so far. He mounted our TV on the wall and threaded all of the cords through the drywall. You can see our lamp on the left. It's sitting on a table with our Wii, computer plugged into the tv, and some other stuff. We are definitely liking it!

 John put this up awhile ago: our master bedroom ceiling fan. His NEXT job is going to be the blinds on the left. Our cat Penny pulled all of the blinds down, so we put some curtains and yes, a sheet over the window. The blinds should be in in a few days.







So that's some of John's amazing work! I've heard so many things about how Engineers can't even use a wrench and he's proving it all wrong. Our house is coming along so wonderfully and it's nice to think it's all ours and we can, for the most part, make it how we like it and create a home! As for me, I'd rather not post my work just yet. I'm pretty excited for everyone to see it when it's finished!