Beautiful Food, Travel & Design
Physicians talk a lot about moderation. This recipe has moderate amounts of sugar, fat, and alcohol – which makes it the perfect dessert, right? These banana bourbon cupcakes are definitely worth the splurge. Plus, you get bonus healthy points for the bananas, which must count for something…
I made these cupcakes to celebrate the birthday of one of my fellow residents so that basically makes them doctor recommended! Ermmm…yeah…… Read More »
I cannot get enough Greek yogurt. It’s my go-to breakfast, a snack on the run, and a late night treat when I get home from the hospital. Even when the fridge is close to empty, I always have a stash of yogurt cups in a variety of flavors. I love that Greek yogurt fills you up with healthy protein and is so satisfying! I try to fit it in to as many recipes as I can. You can see more of my Greek Yogurt Recipes here…. Read More »
Here’s another quick and easy DIY I did for our wedding. I used vintage drawer pulls for place card holders. I found these beautiful vintage drawer pulls while I was traveling in India. I walked into this small, dusty antique shop in Delhi and there they were. It was like fate!
The right kind of drawer pull for this DIY has a washer and a bolt that go through the entire knob. Just loosen the bolt and slip the place card in, then tighten it back up! That’s it!
Our guests loved the place cards and many ending up taking them home for a memory. We got a used armoire on Craigslist and I “upcycled” it with some of the drawer pulls that people didn’t take home!
You can find vintage drawer knobs on Etsy. Another great place to look is Anthropologie. Their drawer pulls are usually pretty expensive, around $10 each, but they go on sale and you can usually get them for $3-4 if you are patient.
This isn’t the final place setting, just one that I set up at home, but you get the idea:
To make the place cards themselves, I used an embossing gun, embossing powder and the same stamp that I used for several other wedding DIY’s. You can see more here and here.
Buying one rubber stamp and using it on all of the paper products at our wedding was an inexpensive way to create consistency throughout the wedding design. My very talented mother-in-law did the lettering for the guests’ names.
Thanks to our friend Steve for the photos!
See more of our wedding photos & DIYs:
DIY Hanging Twine Balls
First Look Wedding Photos, Part I
First Look Wedding Photos, Part II
Wedding Dance Party Photos
Wedding Details – Dessert Table & Table Decorations
Wedding Updo – How to Chalk Your Hair
Wedding Ceremony Pictures
Wedding Getting Ready Pictures
Vintage Drawer Pulls as Placecard Holders DIY
DIY Wedding Photobooth Setup with Printable
DIY Gilded Upcycled Plastic Cups
DIY Glitter Upcycled Silverware
DIY Honey Jar Wedding Favors
Rustic Wedding Cake Frosting Technique
Stuffed S’mores Cupcakes Recipe
DIY Glitter Swizzle Sticks
DIY Embossed Envelopes
Engagement Photos, Part I
Engagement Photos, Part II
…and I’m back with another embossed DIY!
If you’ve been here long, you’ll know two things about me. 1) I love making my own greeting cards/thank you notes and 2) I emboss everything I can get my hands on. This includes, but is not limited too – my wedding save-the-dates, wedding invitations, wedding placecards, wedding menus, wedding dessert table labels and wedding envelopes. We don’t have our wedding photos back for me to share yet, but I did share the DIY embossed envelopes a while back. These easy embossed greeting cards match the envelopes in that DIY and were what I used for our thank you notes.
Like most of the greeting cards I have created, these embossed greeting cards probably don’t need instructions, but below are the important points.
Cardstock
Heat gun, like this
Rubber stamp
Embossing ink, like this
Embossing powder, like these
1. Press rubber stamp onto embossing ink pad
2. Press rubber stamp onto your envelope
3. Sprinkle liberally with embossing powder
4. Tap off excess powder
5. Heat the stamped image until the powder changes to a shiny liquid and rises
6. Let cool
I also used a new “Just a little note” stamp to create a few extra cards to use for those spontaneous occasions that pop up!
In each thank you card, I included a few photobooth photos of the guest or guests:
You can see more of our wedding photobooth photos and read about the setup here!
I’m sure you’ve heard by now that Google Reader is shutting down July 1st (Monday). I’m not normally much of a procrastinator, but Google does feed organization so well that I put off switching readers until the last minute.
I ended up switching all my feeds over to Feedly this week, which was a quick and painless process.
I read a lot of blogs and I love using a reader because I can go through lots of articles in a quick and efficient manner. Although Google Reader will be sorely missed, there are lots of great options if you are looking to try a reader for the first time or switch to something new.
Here are some options:
Feedly (click the ‘Add Content’ in the top left hand corner, then type in asideofsweet.com). Also, you can import your Google Reader feeds with just one click.
Bloglovin’
Subscribing via RSS feed – using any browser except Chrome, just click the link to my RSS feed and subscribe via the reader of your choice.
Email – Type your email address in the “Want Email Updates?” box on the left side of my blog. Every time I publish something new, you’ll get an email with the post in your inbox.
You can also stay updated on what’s new on Running Blonde through many social media sites. You can follow me on:
Did you make the transition away from Google Reader? What reader did you end up using?
Have you heard people say that running is bad for your knees? My final post of four common running myths busted is now up on the Brooks Running Blog! Today I’m talking about the common misconception that running is bad for your knees.
I’m also sharing another favorite running recipe. This one is for Energy Bites. These little bites are protein-packed and delicious. Perfect for a snack on the go or to replace your protein stores after a run!
Read all about it on the Brooks Blog! You can see my other myth busting posts here, here, and here.