DIY-Waterbottles

Wow! Since my waterbottles were such a big hit and alot of the girls had questions on how I did them I figured I would make a post on a how-to-do personalized waterbottles. So here goes step by step directions.

Step 1.

Personlize the water bottle file to whatever colors/background/names/date you want.

Step 2.

Since I didn't have powerpoint on my home computer I e-mailed my file as a jpeg to my home computer and opened it up and printed it from microsoft word. Here's a screen shot on how I sized it to print correctly.

Right click to bring up this screen.

Click on Size.

Step 3.

Print out on FULL sheet labels. This way you can cut them to whatever size you want. I got my full labels from OfficeMax. I'm sure you can get them from any office supply store...I tried Target and Wal-Mart and couldn't find them there. Here's a pic of the ones I used.

Step 4. Print the labels out on the paper.

Step 5: Peel the label off of the water bottle. Cut your labels off and peel the backing to adhere them to the bottles.

These are my finished product. Hope this helps someone!

Update...

Okay, well I never posted a pic of my Valentines Day present.

<~~~~~~~~~~Here it is! It was such a surprise, I even tripped when he pulled them out of his car! lol This makes my 2nd ever dozen roses from him in 5 1/2 years. They're so beautiful and they are still alive! :)

We have officially booked ALL of our vendors. Now it's just paying for everything and making sure I have all my DIY projects done. Work is making me pretty busy and I'm working every Saturday minus Spring Break until April 4th. Edgar makes his confirmation the Saturday night before Easter at the midnight mass. He's also getting his schedule switched soon, which allows him to be off on the weekends! and he will be off at around the same time as me. Although, if I keep up staying after for tutoring then he will be getting off BEFORE me even! I'm excited, because then we can do soo much more stuff. We promised each other the first weekend he's off we are going to the beach. He hasn't been off in 2 years (February 28th) and so it's going to be our little celebration! We also found out this week some of his family will be coming to Texas for a while week when they come for the wedding! I'm super excited about that because we weren't expecting them to just hang out and we thought it was going to be rush rush rush. Now, we're deciding where we want to take them and what all we want to do. There's so much to do and so little time.

Today I had a little mini wedding day. After work I waited at home for my SIL to come over so we could go shopping for some things I needed. We went to Hobby Lobby to return some wrist straps that I had bout for wrist corsages. I decided we weren't going to do those and make pin on corsages for the women. MUCH Easier, and less time consuming. We went over to Office Max to buy some full paper labels so I could work on my personalized waterbottles. Here is what they look like. After Office Max we went to Wal-Mart and picked up some little square vases for a little idea I had to make my centerpieces better. I really needed 28 but they only had 9, I figured I would keep going back until I got the rest. I think my SIL is going to look to the Wal-Mart closer to her and see if she can find more. I still have a BIG list of To-Do's. Slowly but surely I will get everything done. My plan is to have everything done by June 11th. Will it be reasonable....who knows?!?!? I guess time will tell. Here are some more pics of the water bottles.

Valentines Day

Wahoo! It's Valentine's day & Edgar's 23rd B-day!!! What better way to celebrate than to both be WORKING! :) Yea, it sucks but what can we do? I have yet to get him anything, because we said we would be low-key this year because of the wedding. Valentine's Day isn't really big in our relationship anyway, because of his B-day, so no V-day present and yes on the B-day present. I think he's leaning towards wanting another hat. I realized he is addicted to hats like I am purses/shoes/clothes/wedding stuff! HAHA
With the 5 month mark 3 days ago, my life has been hit with OMG I can't believe all this I still have to do. Also, there's so many new things popping into my life all at once. I never would have imagined I would be this busy and still need to do soooooooo many wedding things. I once thought I was ahead in the game, then time just started flying by and now I feel like I'm behind! I'm sure it's just me that thinks this-because I am pretty sure I'm not behind.....but I always like to be 2 steps ahead of everything. I am behind in a sense that I haven't picked my DJ or Photographer. BUT, I know who I want for my photographer and if she's still available when I'm ready to book her, then she was meant to shoot my wedding! lol I'm taking a HUGE risk though.
My Sister-In-Law was on her way to work on Wednesday and she got rear ended. She refused medical attention but then when she got to work her back and neck started to hurt so she went in to get checked out. They told her she was fine but SURPRISE YOUR PREGNANT! lol So, that was a major schock. They got married in Nov. '07 and have been trying since, so we knew it could happen.....but it wasn't expected.
After work this is what I hope to accomplish.

• Go Meet Edgar for our Valentines/Birthday Lunch.
• Pay some bills
• Go to shoe carnival for their $5 shoes!
• Get Edgar a b-day cake for when he gets home.
• Look at fabric for the table runners.
• Get my ribbon for my invitations.

Hopefully I accomplish everything, but right now I have to go and deliver snacks!

OUCH!!

Well, my sinus infection is back! It's been a crazy couple of days. The kids just seem so loud to me. I was out yesterday because I wanted to sleep all day instead of work. Today I have a cough and my throat is tooooo scratchy. It doesn't matter how much water I'm drinking....it doesn't help! Augh, oh well.
I met with my Godmother on Sunday. I thought I had everything figured out. Turns out, I was sooo behind! :) It was a good thing we met because she asked every question possible. Monday, I left work for an hour to meet with the priest with Edgar and turns out he said "you never made an appointment" and we had to just leave! I was sooo upset because he wasn't doing anything, and he had called Edgar to make an appointment on Friday for that Monday morning. This is about the 5th time there has been a miscommunication (all on his part) and we've only met with him like 3 times! Augh, oh well. I will reschedule for the week of Spring Break. He says we have "plenty of time!" Although, I'm not sure I should hold him to that.
We finished our Marriage Classes that the Church required on Tuesday. We got our little certificate that I need to make a copy of and send it to the Church. I also have been filling out how we want our ceremony. I had a copy of that made so I would know for the programs and stuff. We also are waiting for another certificate to come in the Mail that we will take to get our Marriage license (for FREE!) which will save us the $60+ it costs now.
Edgar's Dad has already had us over to their house to yell at us and have a breakdown caused by money stress. We got griped out about not paying off the hall, and how the economy is bad(which we understand) and the people that were going to probably give us a lot of money....probably aren't going to be able too. I'm sorry, but if the wedding is going to suck-it will be Laura & Edgar's fault....not Edgar's Dad's. Anyway, Edgar was upset over it all and I just tried to let him know that we have a plan and everything will get paid the way we need it to be when we can get around to it.
My next few steps for the wedding are:

1. Contact the DJ that comes with our venue and see if we want to use him and upgrade our package.
2. Get more fabric and make the table runners.
3. Find out about going in Friday evening and decorating then, instead of trying to scrounge people that aren't in the wedding to make sure everything is together Saturday morning.
4. Keep working on the Bouts and Wrist Corsages.
5. Work on getting together my program and the wording and layout of it all.

WHEW! I better get going.