I'm addicted to pinterest. With a new (to me) house, I have a lot of decorating and projects I want to do. One of the biggest challenges in the house is storage. There is no pantry, very few closets, and no linen closet.
So when I saw a pin on pinterest where you can store towels on a wine rack that hung on the wall I was intrigued.
The first challenge was locating the wine rack. I found it at wayfair.com. Here is the link to the wine/towel rack. Right now the price is listed at $30.99, but I bought the rack at $19.80. So I would watch the price, $31 is a little pricey to me. I had never used or even heard of Wayfair before this purchase, but there were no problems with the purchase.
As a warning. This rack did not come with any hardware. We had screws laying around so we used those.
I plan on having navy and tan towels in the bathroom, I just need to buy some tan towels. I also plan on painting the walls, although I'm not sure what color to paint the walls.
Anyway, its just a small step to decorating, but it was fairly easy. First project down, 1,000 to go.
Everyone knows I recently got engaged. I knew who I wanted to be my bridesmaids since before I was even engaged. One time, I almost slipped and asked my Maid of Honor to be my Maid of Honor before I was even engaged! But I wanted to do it right, so I made sure to hold my tongue.
However, as soon as I got engaged I went over to Michaels to mimic a pin I saw on Pinterest. Below is the inspiration and the final product.
The boxes included:
Memories Picture Frame - For a picture of us at my wedding
A scented candle in my wedding colors - Purple and Green. :)
Chocolate - Because what girl doesn't like chocolate
A Bridesmaid tank top - Unfortunately, I couldn't find one for my maid of honor, so she also has a bridesmaid tank also. I wish I could have found one that matched and said Maid of Honor, but ... I didn't have enough patience to wait for it to arrive if I ordered it online. haha.
A cocktail - I went to Target and bought a Champagne cocktail bottle. It was either that, or a mini bottle of Champagne, and I chose the Champagne cocktail since I feel like Champagne can be hit or miss. One of my bridesmaids is only 17, so I gave her sparkling juice instead.
Honestly, the most difficult thing was finding the box to put everything in. Michaels and Target did not have any appropriate boxes. Either they couldn't fit the frame or they were T-Shirt boxes. My mom had some boxes laying around and so I used those. They were a bit large, but that just meant that I could display everything so nothing was covered up.
Unfortunately, because the boxes were so gigantic, the stamps looked really tiny. I wrote "Will you be my" on the front in stamps so that when my friends opened the box they would read "bridesmaid" on the tank top. :)
I think my bridesmaid liked the boxes. But like I said... nice boxes were really hard to find.
A few weeks ago someone stole my phone. Unfortunately, the person who stole my phone didn't return it so I had to get a new phone. So I decided to research lost phone apps.
Android Lost is AMAZING. Its still in Beta so it may have bugs, but so far I have tested out a bunch of features and they have worked.
Some of the amazing features -
Alarm
Will ignore silent mode. Turns up the volume, sound a siren and sets the volume back to normal level. It also makes the screen flash so you can see it in a loud or dark environment.
Select seconds for alarm:
I can't tell you how many times I misplace my phone. Then I have C or Navy call my phone and my phone is on silent. Problem solved with this app!
Overlay message
Puts a red overlay message on top of the keyguard or lockscreen. Useful in case a friendly guy finds the phone and starts using it in order to find out who owns it. Will use a tiny bit of power during unlock since it runs as a service. Send an empty string to disable the overlay
message.
This is pretty self-explanatory. There is also a way to send a text if you don't lock your screen.
SIM card owner
When the app detects that an unknown SIM card has been inserted it will send a warning to the SMS notification number and start a polling service. That way you can still use both the SMS commands and web controls even if the google account on the phone has been blocked and google cannot send push messages.
Lock phone
If you are already using another type of lock on your phone there will be no point in using this feature.
Click the button and the phone will lock the screen with the 4 digit pincode. You must first have accepted the admin rights on the phone (cannot be initiated remote). If you leaves the pincode empty the phone will be unlocked.
Erase SD Card
This will erase your SD card. No further warning will be given.
Wipe phone
Dont use this feature unless you REALLY mean it. It will wipe your phone. You must first have accepted the admin rights on the phone (cannot be initiated remote).
I wish I knew about this app before I got my phone stolen. I ended up changing all my passwords because I was terrified. Granted I would have had to have admin rights on my phone before I wiped it and put a lock on it, but I can guarantee I will be using these features if my phone ever gets lost/stolen.
Text to speech
Click the button and the phone will speak your message out loud. It will use the default installed TTS language.
I think this is a really neat feature. :) I would want to enter "Find me please!!" hahaha.
Hangup phone
Will hangup the phone. Not part of the official API so it may not work on all phones.
Call List
Here you can fetch your call list. It will send the last 20 items to the server.
Sound Recording
Will record a sound file from the microphone for the selected amount of time. You must have a sound player that supports 3gpp files - for instance the VLC player. If recording is longer than two minutes it will NOT be sent to the server. You will have to fetch it from the phone
yourself.
Front Camera
Click the button and the phone will take a picture with the front camera and send it to your mail. Requires android 2.3. If you have an older version of android it will default to the rear camera.
Still not perfect. Yes I know that there is a quick popup and yes the mail attachment is not
yet perfect.
Rear Camera
Click the button and the phone will take a picture with the rear camera and send it to your mail. The phone will take the picture in the lowest possible quality which is 640x480 and around 100k on my phone.
All of these are really neat too! You can find out if you have had any missed calls or if the person who found your phone has dialed India or some crazy expensive phone call. I also like the camera information so you can try to figure out where you left your phone.
However the best feature is -
GPS
Click the button and the phone will send the location to your email account. If gps fix is not found in 60 seconds or gps is disabled, network location will be sent. If both GPS and network are disabled the last known location will be sent.
You can see exactly where your phone is located!!! I tried it out and I got the EXACT location where I am right now. Kinda crazy, but SOO cool!
