Kristen and I have been busy little bees working on a top secret project that we couldn’t spill the beans until today!! We were working on a concept that would reinvent the wedding industry for Elizabeth Anne Designs Weddings and The Sweetest Occasion, we had a very limited budget and spent many hours talking on the phone until the wee hours hashing out our idea. We’ve both seen our fair share of weddings so we knew we made a great team and thankfully Arrowhead Golf Club let us use their space for the photoshoot which is a lovely and wonderful place for your wedding!

We decided to do a lot of lacey, vintage-esque details and during the shoot were so excited and couldn’t wait until this day came and we could blog it! We made a LOT of the items ourselves. I was personally in charge of the guest book concept and I think I pinched a nerve in my thumb cutting out flowers for hours on end! We used frames as a main concept in our design and wanted fabric to play a fun part too. Our little details were that our menu was chosen as previous meals our fake couple had and the tables were significant to the couple, so table 2 stood for the 2 adorable pets they had together and so on, it was fun making up our fake couple We really took it to the next level though!

I love everything about this stuff and when we lit the candles and put it in a more romantic mood I wanted this as my own wedding again!! I love the lace details all over the place (and if you have leftover lace from your mom or grandma’s dresses, you can use that as your something old! How amazing would that be?!). And since that guestbook is just sitting in my house so I may be bribed to give it away! You thought I was just a wedding photographer didn’t you?

Here’s a small tease and get over to EAD (details and overall; DIY instructions) to comment and leave us lots of love!

Kara
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I know we just celebrated her birthday but some say this day is even MORE important because it’s when she got her forever home I remember when we first got her, she was no smaller than a football, couldn’t clear the couch to jump on it, wouldn’t go outside without us and didn’t dare venture too far into the yard. She slept in a crate, woke up in the middle of the night, and tried to carry one of David’s size 14 shoes around (I was impressed she could even lift it).

Now, she’s 40ish pounds, happy, content, loved more than she knows. Even though she has severe separation anxiety (but she’s getting better and hopefully off her meds this year sometime) she’s happy. She gets to cuddle, sleep on beds, play fetch (or just run and get it and run around not bringing it back), she loves walks and playing with other dogs even though she wimps out sometimes. She’s fed well (we feed her Wellness) and gets a few treats here and there. She just wants to be around us and a pillow to lay her head on (yep, she uses it like a human, it’s ridiculous). I love everything about her, even her neurotic things. I love how she rolls onto her back when she’s sleeping or when David comes home so she can get a belly rub. I love the way her little paws lay when she’s sound asleep. I love her giant ears and when they flop in the wind. I love how she slinks off the couch with her back legs still on it. I love how she rings the bells to go outside. I love watching her play by herself and toss balls up in the air and watch them fall all confused. I love that she traps and hunts flies in the house. I love how she thinks she can catch a bird when it lands in our yard (I fear the day when she brings back a surprise!). I love how she now tells us when it’s time for bed by running back to our bedroom and waiting to be let in to her bed. I love how much she wants to be petted sometimes and will pace back and forth under our hands or around our legs (we’re pretty sure she’s a cat too). I love the looks she gives us, she seems to have so much personality. I love how excited she is to be fed and how she runs down the hallway (it’s way cute). I love her so much and I’m so thankful she came into our lives just over a year ago (her gotcha-day was last Saturday the 8th).

So without further ado, my puppy

Kara (David and the Isabelley)
kara@karaschultz.com

I have a healthy love for Mexican food and not just the Americanized versions, I like the hole in the wall restaurants that are delicious! So today I shall share my super secret guacamole recipe.

Here’s what you need:
2 ripe avocado’s (they’ll be a little squishy when you squeeze them…think a little softer than a nerf ball)
1 lime
cilantro
red onion
garlic
1 tomato

First, cut those avocado’s!

mash those suckers and don’t get rid of the pits!

cut the tomato and about 1/4 of the red onion, I like my tomatoes bigger and my onion finer.

chop up the garlic and add it in!

you only need a bit of cilantro, just a few pieces will do, a little cilantro will go a long way!

add that in and then squeeze the lime juice in and mix!

Put the pits back in, it’ll keep it from turning brown really fast, I’ve had it last several hours without turning brown!

Serve up with salty tortilla chips! If I need a bit more salt I add a small dash of lawry’s seasoning salt. MMM time to go eat the rest!

Kara

Wow!  My nephew Tate is already 7 months old!  And after seeing these pictures, 7 months is a FUN age.  Laying, giggling, trying to talk and crawl and just plan fun!  All Tate wanted to do was bounce but I snuck in some pictures, I would also like to say that every time I picked him up, he threw up on me and himself.

When Tate’s in a room, he finds the fan and stares at it, so I figured this had to be taken.

hands are delicious

Wedding season is just right around the corner too!

Kara
kara@karaschultz.com