Crawfish Boil

Even though it is 90 degrees here in Virginia today, our Louisiana friends got together at Amy's for some crawfish! Actually she also had boudin, meat pies, Abita beer, hurricanes, alligator balls, pralines, Hubig's pies, and all kinds of other good fixins. We sure did pass a good time with Cajun music and fun. All that is missing is the big Mosquitos!!

Coffee Filter Wreath

My mantle was looking a little blah and since our living room gets little natural light, also a bit dark. I lightened up the room a lot with my new Benjamin Moore paint last summer, but knew the mirror needed something.

So, I got the idea to make a wreath and knew I had to try the coffee filter wreaths bloggers like The Nester and others have featured. It was pretty easy and was done even while watching tv one night. Total cost was only a few dollars for the 300 or so coffee filters since I already had a wreath (and I even left it wrapped in its plastic since I'm lazy and wanted less mess). I just used my low temperature glue gun, folded each filter in half, then half again to make a sort of cone shape. Then I went to town gluing away. I filled in empty spots and then gave it a quick haircut with scissors when I was done to even things out.

Although Darrell said it reminded him of the paper carnations from the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Metairie, Louisiana, I love it!