Welcome to Centerpiece Wednesday!

I am so happy to announce that our "surrogate" son is leaving on his mission today! We are so proud of him! He has lived with us for a couple of months now as he has been preparing to leave on his mission to MONGOLIA!! We have been so busy helping with preparations, hosting farewell parties and entertaining guests and family that I am late with Centerpiece Wednesday! My life is full and packed everyday with so much that unfortunately blogging ends up on the back burner all too often lately but I feel so blessed!

Here are some highlights from last weeks Centerpiece Wednesday!

Repurposed vintage chair planter- Duct Tape and Denim

Raffia Wrapped Eggs- Karen up on the Hill

A Workroom Makeover- A Stroll Thru Life

 I love this happy yellow rag wreath Vintage Paint and More

Lets Party!

Fashion Friday- Floral Blouse

I love how the back of the jacket also has some fun detailing and gives the illusion that I have a waist!

For another look wearing the same blouse and pants I switched out the linen jacket for my go to Jean jacket. You could also wear a sweater with this and or change the pants for a white linen skirt or maybe a gold skirt. I love to mix and match and create multiple outfits out of just a few pieces don't you?

BEARS ON THE BEACH PUDDING CUPS

The other day I was putting together a cub scout idea for the boys to pass off one of their cooking achievements and saw something similar to this on the internet and knew the boys would love making these! 

We have all heard of Dirt cups..this is just a new twist on that idea. The ingredients are pictured below

Vanilla pudding (add blue food coloring to it)

Nilla Wafers

Cool Whip

Air Heads extreme striped candy

Chocolate Teddy Grahams

Life savers or mints

Follow directions for pudding on the box except add in blue food coloring. One cub scout got a little crazy with the food coloring and dropped a ton of drops into the dried pudding mix...it made it kind of runny LOL

Once the pudding is mixed put in the fridge to thicken up a bit 

Spoon pudding into small clear cups to represent the ocean water and then dollop the cool whip on top and spread around smoothly to represent the waves crashing

Then I gave each boy a ziplock bag of Nilla wafers to crush (they loved that part) sprinkle the crushed cookies onto the waves to make the sandy beach, Roll out the beach towel by cutting the air head candy in half to fit into the cups

Place one "super tan" bear on the "towel: and a couple of others standing around on the beach, add a cute beach umbrella 

I am a contributor now on the Lou Lou Girls!!

(my tutorial for making paper umbrellas is on the

Lou Lou Girls blog today!)

 and for the finishing touch add a "round life preserver" in the form of a  lifesaver mint or I used regular red and white mints

Welcome to Fashion Friday!

I have had such a desire to wear some spring clothes with a nautical look.

I bought this fun red and white skirt from a darling boutique by my house called The Nest a year or so ago and I just love the flow and feel of it! I paired it with my light blue button down blouse and a "kind of" periwinkle blue linen jacket for fun!

You might remember this blue blouse from this outfit and I wore these blue flats with this outfit.

Hope you are enjoying your Friday... I am slaving away at my daughters house working on home improvement projects! I have so many tutorials, before and afters to share but I just can't seem to find time to write all about them... I hope to slow down a bit next week and write up a bunch of them including my sisters Family Room Reveal, my basement reveal and projects galore from my daughters house!

Karin