DIY serving platters.

katie and I had a fun day yesterday. i picked her up at noon to go to orem to try on my wedding dress (eep!!). we got there and they didnt HAVE my wedding dress. even though they'd called me the day before reminding me of my fitting the next day. now i'm not quite sure what that says about their business, but it made me very upset. why call me to remind me of my fitting if my dress wont even be there the next day for me to FIT into??

anyway. good thing we were in orem because i

posted these rings on craig's list and someone in orem wanted to buy one. so we met up with him and he bought it for $60 dollars!!

*I have two more. if you are interested, they are mens size 11 carbon fiber rings. they are really cool and really good looking. i'm trying to sell them on ksl and craig's list for $100, but i'll sell them to my blog readers (ha..) for $55. spread the word, eh??

after i made money, we went back up to salt lake to a bead store. katie is super crafty and loves making supercute binki chains for babies and she had to get supplies there.

after that, we went to the D.I.

her friends at church told her about this fun project that we decided to do.

we were mostly going to just get the supplies so that we could go to the activity and do the project with all the other girls, but we wanted immediate gratification so we bought the supplies and glue and put them together last night...

this is what i bought at the D.I.

-a really cute vase.

-2 picture frames.

-a small cup/vase

looking thing.

-two small plates.

-two large plates.

-a china set. includes big plate, small plate, and small bowl for four settings. its so nice and it had all the pieces! so excited for our new apartment/house!

all of this.....for only...

$16.50.

katie got TONS of stuff as well, and only spent $12.50!!

we were so excited and we both left the d.i. with SO many bags in our hands!!

thats a first!!

after the D.I. we had to run home and save sam from the children, haha.

then we left again and went straight to ikea (our favorite place to shop.)

katie returned over $100 worth of merchandise (the lady was really happy about it)

and then we ate dinner.

dinner and dessert with a drink to share for both of us at ikea was $4, ps.

we walked around ikea and looked for glasses to use for our project. they did have a lot of options, but nothing like what we were looking for.

katie ended up buying a three dollar pillow case for her one dollar pillow and a candy bar for us to share, then we spedsped to HobbyLobby to look for glue for the project, and ribbon for katie's binki chain she's making.

well, we got there 3 minutes before it closed and it didnt have glue.

so we ran to home depot where we found some! just what we needed.

after home depot, we went to the dollar store.

we found a cup for me to use on my project!!

then we went home to rest.

whoops, spoke too soon.

we were going to make brownies, and i needed to make brownies for sunday dinner today, so we had to get back in the car and head to ream's for brownies and chocolate chips.

we also tried getting a red box movie but didn't since none of our codes worked.

(pay $1?...seriously?)

this time we really did make it home. boy was audrey happy to get out of her carseat for the first time in 3 hours!!

katie has recently been raving about having bean brownies. instead of using eggs, water, and vegetable oil, you get a can of beans and take all the water out, put them in a blender until they're creamy and add them to the brownie batter. so she made those while i made my platter.

well 1.5 hours later, we finally took the brownies out. they really did need to be in there that long...wellll almost that long. sam decided to get the CHEAPEST brownies he could find and we could tell when we tried them.

they.

were.

awful.

it was sad because katie wanted me to try the bean brownies, she's had them before and she said you can't even tell a difference!

*also, if you use beans instead of eggs, water, and vegetable oil, the brownies cost LESS weight watchers points. !!

after the brownies, katie put her platter together!

it was altogether a successful and FULL day and night!

our platters turned out really cute! they were really cheap

(we probably used more money on gas running all around then on the supplies themselves)

this is a side view. the bottom cup is upside down, and the middle cup is right side up.

(parfait dishes work better and look cuter, we found)

i am making two for jon and i. i did my NOT as cute plates first in case i messed up.

katie's plates are supercute and both from the D.I.

they are different brands from different plate sets. and they look AWESOME together!

here is the top view.

try it out! it was really easy, and they turned out cute.

Epoxy glue is what we used, BTW.

enjoy!

break down of the cost-

big plate-.75 cents at d.i.

little plate- .75 cents at d.i.

bottom cup-1.00 at d.i.

middle cup-1.00 at dollar tree

epoxy glue-5.00 dollars at home depot

(you can probably put 2.5 platters with one thing of glue,

we put both of ours together and had some glue left over)