Mieka Phillips Dance Project [HQ]

Meg recently was part of a dance choreographed by Mieka Phillips which will be entered into a national contest. If the dance is chosen, they will have the opportunity to go to New York City and be choreographed by Travis Wall from So You Think You Can Dance. Click on the link below to see their dance. Good luck girls!

Mieka Phillips Dance Project [HQ]

Baseboards in the Dinning Room

The last time Richard was in the dinning room with tools and intentions of being a handyman was way back last November when he was setting up our Snow Village table.

If you look closely at the dinning room you might notice something amiss.  An up-close look at the baseboards, or lack of them, is what we have been dealing with since we put our new wood floors in.

Why we hadn't done it was a combination of not having or making the time and a bit of fear of taking on a big project that requires skills that frankly neither of us had any experience with.

Before

After

Well, with family coming in town for Meg's graduation we finally put aside everything, borrowed a miter saw and a few tips from a friend, and got to work. The corners proved to be the trickiest.

I have to say that it can be a little tense and stressful helping someone do something that he knows little about, but somehow as a team we managed to get it done without any casualties.

Thank goodness he bought extra baseboards since there were several mistakes, on both of our parts.  We had to just learn by trial and error and I had to occasionally bite my lip!

I need to paint them next but for now I am just happy to have baseboards again.  We hope to eventually replace all our baseboards downstairs with the same ones we did in the dinning room, taller and made of actual wood!

Of course, Richard is not in any hurry to start that!

Senior Collage

It has been and remains crazy at our house and I have had no time to do much of anything.  Meg had her Highstepper senior banquet last weekend and it was a touching and wonderful event.  Good news is I held it together, not sure when I will loose it but I'm sure when it happens it won't be pretty.   So, the weeks leading up to her banquet were all about getting a dress and making "THE COLLAGE."  Each Highstepper makes one to be displayed at the banquet.  It's a great idea and lovely keepsake but putting it together was quite time consuming.  Despite the time, patience, and money needed to create this collage it's a great keepsake and a fabulous snapshot as her years as a Highstepper. 

The frame we used was from Aaron Brothers.

The mat was custom made at Hobby Lobby, which included her name, year of graduation and a place for her senior Highstepper picture...uniform and all!

The most time consuming part of the project was choosing and scanning of what seemed like hundreds of pictures.  Then, using tiny scissors Meg and I cut out pictures and began the task of overlapping and securing the pictures around the outside mat.  It was tough, but Meg and I worked as a team and finally got it done...about 45 minutes before we were suppose to be at the banquet with it!  Here's the final product:

It took about 50 pictures to cover the outside mat.  We used double sided tape to attach the pictures, even the tiny ones.  It was a huge project but well worth it in the end.  It was displayed at the banquet and now is waiting to be hung somewhere special in our house.