Weekends: Georgia, trunk or treat and Straz Live

Most of my weekends are usually busy, but this week was the most unique. Thursday night, my parents asked my sister and I if I we could take the day off to drive with them to Georgia. They were picking something up from a friend, but they thought it could be a nice quick family trip. I took the opportunity to take the day off and ride with them. I only get a few chances to ride in a car, and I had a few projects to work on!

Crocheting in the car!

A photo posted by Sara Silva (@silvercchile) on Oct 30, 2015 at 6:58am PDT

Saturday night we had a trunk or treat at our church, and we decide to decorate the car as back to the future. Lorenzo made the back panels out of cardboard, and he used a food processor as the "Mr. Fusion" home energy reactor.  I was dressed as doc, my boyfriend was Einstein, and my sister was Marty. It's funny to see who knew what we were dressed as. Most of the kids didn't know. We took this picture of our epic costumes, this time with my boyfriend as doc and I was Einstein. I told him he could pull it off, even with the beard. My boyfriend also did a little photo editing.

Sunday afternoon we enjoyed a hot day in the sun for Straz in the park. I wish the concert were longer though. A lot of people missed the show, but it was still packed.

At #strazlive in the park

A photo posted by Lorenzo Cantera (@lcgram) on Nov 1, 2015 at 12:50pm PST

Plans for the weekend

Are you excited for the weekend as I am? Although I don't get paid for memorial day, I get a whole day off to do whatever I want...which might mean sleeping in. But I do plan to do a few things.

I'm usually busy on Saturday, but tomorrow I have absolutely NOTHING planned! How exciting! Funny how we used to made sure we had weekends booked, and now that I'm older I enjoy some break time at home. I plan on doing some Yoga Meltdown and start on a bunch of crafts. Oh, and I need to get more supplies for my garden (so I can make a post on that next week).

Sunday is Fun-day Hair Day! Can't wait to see what my friend Melissa will do to my hair!

I know everyone in Florida will be at the beach, and I will go eventually. But I have so many other things to look forward to, especially on this weekend. You know, a lot of life changing things have happened on memorial day weekends in my life:

• Memorial day 2003 - bought my first guitar. It's our 10-year anniversary!
• Memorial day 2004 - going to the first of many retreats as a youth leader that changed my life.
• Memorial day 2005 - bought a bass guitar!
• May 2006 (close to Memorial day) - First real job at Starbucks (stayed there for 2 1/2 years).
• Memorial day 2008 - I was is a boat accident that changed my life. It made me think of everything in my life and made me appreciate what I have.
• Memorial day 2009 - my first flat tire, on the Howard-Franklin
• Memorial day 2012 - Started my first garden!
• Memorial day 2013 - New hair do!

I had to look at my old blog to "check", but life changing things did happen on Memorial Day!

Enough with my nonsense, and I hope we do spend a little time to remember why we have this holiday.

Puzzle Frames for Mother's Day

What a long and wonderful weekend! I had the pleasure of playing music all weekend and seeing my nephew. He spent the weekend at my parent's house.

For mother's day I wanted to make my mom something special and simple. I went to the dollar tree for inspiration and came back with this idea of a puzzle picture frame.

   

I bought plastic frames and a puzzle from the dollar tree. I also bought paint, but when I saw this puzzle of colorful gum drops, I decided not to paint them.

I glued the puzzles to the frame with a simple glue stick. I was thinking of hot gluing the pieces, but I didn't have the glue gun handy. I'm happy that the glue stick held the puzzle pieces.

I bought two frames to make one for my mother and one for my nephew's grandmother, who adopted him after his mother passed away a couple of years ago.

Thank you for reading! What did you do for mother's day?

Sara

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