The Adams Family

This past weekend we headed down to Charleston & stayed with my old roommate Megan & her boyfriend Cameron (& sweet pup Brady) for my friend Jenny's wedding to Dan. It was such a sweet wedding & had so many personalized touches from friends donating their time & talents to bake cupcakes, sew table linens & the ring pillow & making her hairpiece. I was incredibly honored to be a honorary bridesmaid & even though we got a little rain it was still a beautiful day. Here is to a long & happy life for the new Adams family!


The weekend started at Husk on Friday for the Bridal Luncheon.

It was followed up that evening with the rehearsal dinner at High Cotton with the BEST Maid of Honor speech I have ever seen, don't worry I videoed it & even put it on here. We also went out to Brick for some late night fun after the dinner.

MOH Speech:

Then it was time for the big day! They got married at the First Baptist Church in Downtown Charleston followed by a reception at Founder's Hall.

A big group of us went back to Megan & Cameron's after the wedding where a little beer pong was played & they all were sweet enough to help Tim ring in his 29th birthday. He decided to faceplant into the cake for reasons unknown although it was a highlight of the night.

Finally I'll leave you all with Jenny's "Wiggin' Out" themed bachelorette party. Unfortunately I had another wedding in NC that weekend and couldn't be there in person but did want to make sure I had a presence so I shipped myself down to Myrtle Beach for the weekend.

Recipe Box Shower Gift

So one of my oldest friends, Lauren, is getting married in about 2 months and the rest of the bridesmaids & I are throwing her a recipe shower at the end of the month. We're each getting a gift for her and since I'm doing the invitations (we're sending out recipe cards for people to fill out & bring to the shower) it was only fitting that I would get her a recipe box too. I think I'm pretty safe on posting this as I'm about 95% sure she doesn't read this blog. I've been searching for the past month and haven't found ANYTHING that I really like for her so I finally bought one that I was a fan of the shape but not as much of the look, which I can fix.

Its bamboo & kind of blah looking but when you flip up the lid it has a nice little ridge where you can put the card you are referencing while you cook.

I gave it a light sanding and went over with one coat of copper craft paint, it was the kind of paint that comes in the $0.50 tube at Hobby Lobby.

You could still see the wood grain so after it dried I added another coat of copper giving me the look I was going for.

I placed some stickers saying "LHK's Recipes" on the front to protect it from picking up the next color I planned to layer on top and lightly coated them with the copper color hoping to help prevent bleed of the paint.

I went over the top of everything with a very light sage green color. (the straight pins are placed in to keep the top from sticking to the rest of the box)

After that coat dried for a bit I added another coat to it so only light streaks of the copper were showing through and while it was still wet I started pulling off the letter stickers. (apologies for the terrible picture!)

After pulling off all of the stickers I found that I had a little bleed under the stickers so I let it finish drying.

Once everything dried up I touched up the parts where the green had bled into the copper. Here is the final piece, hope she likes it!