Vanessa’s Etsy Headband Featured in Curb Magazine

Posted on December 7, 2010 by vanessawyler

Students of UW-Madison, create a student produced magazine each semester. In October, one of the students contacted me to feature one of my etsy creations, the blue headband, in a spread about etsy creators from Wisconsin. So I shipped off my headband to be featured. The magazine is complete and I was so excited to see it on the spread. Take a look! Thank you, Julia and Cailley, for letting me be part. The magazine looks awesome! You can view the online/blog form at www.curbonline.com, otherwise you can view the magazine-styled one here.

Be sure to check out my etsy shop, www.vanessawyler.etsy.com. I have some example of things I can create. I can do other colors than you see, so contact me if you have something you want me to make!

Married for Half a Year

Posted on December 5, 2010 by vanessawyler

Today is the day, we have officially been married for 6 whole months, a half of a year. It is crazy to think time has flown by this fast! We love every second of being married. We are also super excited for Vanessa’s sister Becky and Josh to tie the knot in just a couple weeks. Vanessa gets to be a bridesmaid and Drew gets to be a groomsmen this time around. Watch out for pictures from that event! But here is a quick trip down memory lane (this memory lane isn’t that long) from our wedding day, six short months ago!

First Snow for 2010!

Posted on December 4, 2010 by vanessawyler

Looks like we should probably scrap the pumpkins now that it is officially snowing. I think they are cold too. PS What do you do with old pumpkins? We are starting to decorate for Christmas, here are a few sneak peeks! And we are officially listening to Christmas music, whether Drew likes it or not (He secretly does!) We will post some of our favorite Christmas tunes soon too!

What Christmas tradition does your family do?

Christmas Cookies

Posted on December 3, 2010 by vanessawyler

As our first Christmas together, we are trying to create our own traditions that we can someday do with our kids. To start of the Christmas season, we decorated cookies for our stay-at-home date night. Luckily, being the graphic designer, Vanessa is, we got letter cookie cutters for a wedding present. Each year we are going to try to do the same spelling out which year it is.

Thanksgiving 2010

Posted on November 26, 2010 by vanessawyler

I love my family, they are the greatest, so it usually makes Thanksgiving that much more fun. We did an early thanksgiving with Drew’s family and then on the real thanksgiving celebrated with my family. Here are some photos from the day.

Fall-Themed Date

Posted on October 23, 2010 by vanessawyler

Lately with Drew and I’s schedules, we’ve been able to do date night on every Friday. Friday is currently my favorite day of the week now. But yesterday we went on a Fall-Themed Date. We went to Basses Farm in Germantown/Colgate area. We went through their cornmaze and then picked some pumpkins. PS Drew was super into the cornmaze, he navigated the whole way and I just followed.

Catching Up

Posted on October 8, 2010 by vanessawyler

So remember that long time ago, before I was married. It seems like forever ago, but we needed dressers. My aunt found some from Goodwill for us, and loved the construction of them, just not their appearance. Here they are.

So my dad sanded them and refinished them beautifully. Then I went to Hobby Lobby to pick out neat handles. So here they are!
My cat had to get in on his photo opp. Also, don’t you just hate these white walls. It drives me nuts everyday. If I could I’d paint a huge wall with that chalkboard paint, I so would. Don’t think apartment people would appreciate it though.

Also, here are some other shots of some DIYs that I did when it was a lot warmer out and haven’t gotten around to posting. And notice we finally got some of our wedding photos in frames!

I turned our red frames from our wedding into yellow ones!

once red, now yellow!

our lovely fireplace, that still needs working on.

was orange terra-cotta, now green

green decor photo frame pot aloe plant cactus

now holds my aloe plant, which i bought thinking it was a cactus

wedding photos... perfect for the kitchen!

once dark green, now brown

Vanessa’s Etsy Shop

Posted on September 8, 2010 by vanessawyler

It’s official. And it’s open. I got my etsy shop up and running and filled with a few items. However, lots more will be coming soon!! So click on the image to the right and it will take you straight to my shop! Happy shopping 🙂

Here are a few items you can find there…

I have some more ideas for belts, hair clips, shoe clips and more… so check back soon!

Summer Day with the Cousins

Posted on August 21, 2010 by vanessawyler

I decided it would be fun to give my aunt a break with the two older kids and take them swimming at our pool. And since I got a new camera, I thought I’d try it out. However, I didn’t trust myself bringing it to a place with a lot of water, so here is our day, minus the pool part. PS These kids are crazy, but I love them!