Once again I am a bit behind on blogging about my Day Zero Project. I completed some Pinterest inspired crafts while I was in Indianapolis, which wraps up Complete 10 Pinterest Projects. Yes, I just used the past tense!! I am writing this update from good ol’ northwest Iowa as I left Indy exactly two weeks ago today. Hard to believe that it has been two weeks! Definitely missing some of my Indy peeps already. You know who you are 🙂
When I left Indy on June 30th, I spent a few days with one of my college roommates in Grand Mound, Iowa (shout out to Alyssa!) and helped her with some crafts for her wedding. Was a lot of fun and I can already tell her wedding is going to be b-e-a-u-tiful in October! From there I went to visit another former roommate (shout out to Molly!) in Iowa City. We did some shopping and I got the grand tour of her new house. Yay for being a homeowner!!
Then I spent a day kayaking with an old college buddy before heading to spend the fourth of July and surrounding days with my lovely grandma! My aunt and her two daughters from Minneapolis came down for the 4th as well so I got to spend some quality time with my youngest cousins. Never a dull moment with them around, so fun!
I made the rest of the trek to Northwest Iowa on the 6th, which was a super exciting day as my brother also returned stateside from his adventures from being an appropriate technology developer with the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic that day! To say my parents were excited to have us both return home,let alone on the same day, would be an understatement!
This last week has been filled with some fun projects around the farm (which I’ll be updating you on shortly, hopefully!) making up for lost time with my family, and trying to adjust to the fact that my time in Indy is done and that I wont be going back to my apartment there once my visit at home ends. Not quite sure it has hit me yet, but I’m sure it will on Wednesday though! That is my official move day!! I will be making the move to Minnesota and starting my new position at the College of Saint Benedict’s the following Monday!
Enough rambling though, here are the Pinterest inspired projects I worked on while still living in Indianapolis!
1. During the last few months of my time in Indy, my good friend Amy and I were on a streak of going to garage sales. Sometimes we got super stellar deals and sometimes we found nothing, either way we always had a lot of fun and always had experiences that made for great stories! These are corkboards that I bought at one of the garage sales we went to for only $0.75! I covered them with some scraps of fabric that I had laying around and they are going to make a great addition to my new office!
2. Okay, so this isn’t Pinterest inspired, just a random Bath and Body Works box that I had from a Christmas present. I covered it in some cute fabric and walah I have a little keepsake box! 🙂
3. This canvas idea actually came from Pinterest! Finally something that actually relates to what this blog post was suppose to be all about! haha!Spent a rainy afternoon punching out hearts. I punched a butt-ton (an actual amount!) out of scrap paper from my scrapbook and fixed them onto this canvas with raised foam stickies to give it some dimension. Turned out pretty good I think!
4. This last project that was Pinterest inspired I entered into the first annual UIndy cook-off! They are corn-on-the-cob cupcakes and took FIRST PLACE in the Most Original category! They were super fun to make and turned out really well. They are a plain vanilla cupcake with buttercream frosting topped with jelly beans and a yellow laffy taffy to resemble an ear of corn with butter! So fun 🙂
Mad props to you if you made it all the way to the end of this entry! Give yourself a pat on the back, you deserve it! 🙂 Even though I have completed the 10 projects to meet the requriements to check it off of my Day Zero project list (click the Day Zero tab above for a refresher of my complete list!) I will probably still continue to post updates on the crafts/projects I complete!
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Love that we’ll be new Minnesotans together, Kelsey K! I will have been here two weeks tomorrow – and its pretty awesome! Best wishes on your move and getting settled!
Jen!! I am super stoaked that both of our journeys have landed us in Minnesota! and might I add not terribly far away from one another!! Once I am all settled in and semi adjusted to the new position I will definitely have to come to the city for lunch or dinner or a bike ride or just to chat! 🙂 Hope you are enjoying your new place as well!!
I am loving it so far, though unpacking into two rooms is a bit of a challenge! I am excited for your journey, Kelsey! And will LOVE the company – maybe you need to plan an overnight so we can do all of the above 🙂
I think hearing your name called at the cook-out (that I sort of crashed as an alumni) and jumping up in a fit of mad clapping and excessive whooping was probably one of my proudest moments of this summer 🙂
Can’t believe you’re off to Mini-Soda.
Since I’m in Mass-Uh-Chew-Sits, we should communicate, by any means, in the very near future.
Miss you, Kels 🙂 Sending all my best your way 🙂
Anna!! 🙂 I loved having your support while you were crashing the faculty/staff cook-out!! We def need to skype soon and catch up so you can tell me all about your new place! Plus I’ll let ya know about being in DC to see if it works at all for you to sneak away and come see me!!! miss you lots! talk soon!!