Capturing Daylight

There ya have it! Billy and I have finally figured out a name for us...Capturing Daylight. We got the name from Future of Forestry's song, Capture Your Daylight, and we love their music and liked the name. It kind of means, 'seize the day', so to speak. We can't wait to start playing gigs and playing for more weddings! look us up...become our fan! www.facebook.com/capturingdaylight

Sakana, Yumberi, & Next, and maybe a craft

Question: How do some weeks go by so fast and some weeks just crawl on by? There must be some kind of way to slow things down and enjoy the days...

This past week went so fast I don't even remember half of it. From clinicals, to tests, to projects, seeing my husband, to even trying to keep food in the fridge, it has been quite the rollercoaster this week, and I don't see an end any time soon. Good thing God knows there's an end and that He gives me strength to do all of it.

Last night, Billy took me on a date! It was fantastic: Sakana Sushi and Grill, dessert at Yumberi Yogurt, and afterwards more time at Next Coffee. It was such a great night just having time together where I'm not doing school too. The sushi was great, frozen yogurt even better, and conversation even greater! Billy and I have been discussing what names we would call ourselves for our music business that we're starting. We have played for a lot of weddings and other gigs since we've been together, and we are deciding to make it more official and advertise our music services. First of all, we need a name to call ourselves. :) Not just 'Billy and Arianna', but something else that would be unique. We have some ideas, but nothing has finalized yet...the discussion continues. :)

Here's a craft that I'm going to be doing sometime in the next week, it's another fall craft, go figure right? :) This goes out to Amanda at The Hand Me Down House...this was her idea!

So to celebrate the autumn season, I decided to make a Fall Wreath to hang on the front door.

I used some decorating raffia, a wreath form and my glue gun.

I got this raffia at Michael's for around $4.00 with my 40% off coupon, and I managed to find the straw wreath form at Dollar Tree for $1.

First I took thee or four strands of each color raffia and glued one end of the bunch to the wreath.

Then I wrapped them around the wreath tightly. I glued the end of the stands to the wreath and then started another bunch of raffia, overlapping the end of the previous bunch so no ends would be sticking out.

I continued doing this until the whole wreath was covered with raffia.

At the end there were a lot of loose ends and pieces sticking out. I trimmed as many as I could with scissors, and then the ones that I couldn't trim short enough, I glued down (I tried to do most of my gluing on the back of my wreath where it wouldn't be seen).

Now that my wreath was done, I decided to make raffia flowers. First I took the purple colored raffia and grabbed five to six strands.

I wrapped it around a cardboard form (or you could use your hand) so that it is uniform and even, like this:

Then I wrapped another piece of raffia around the middle and tied it in the back to secure it like a bow.

Then I made another "bow", exactly like the one shown above and glued them on my wreath in an "X" to make a flower.

Finally, I hung it on the door and admired it. :)

What do you think?? I wish there was less pink and purple in there, but I still like it -- it still says, fall, right? :)