Sweet A$$ Photo Mosaic

What do you get for the friend in your life having a milestone birthday...that doesn't need or want anything...except for maybe an evening at the casino all by himself?  For that person that is a riot to be around and has orchestrated some of your life's most memorably awesome moments because of his sarcasm and wit?  The answer was obvious to me: Give him something that the rest of us, his friends, want for ourselves.  A giant photo mosaic of him, made of of tiny pictures of him from some of OUR favorite memories of him. Obviously.

With the help of Mr. Schatze, I gathered up some of our favorite pictures of our friend.  Let's call him Jeff.  Like Jeff's photobomb face:

Jeff racing (and beating) another friend in a Germany stair race:

Jeff demanding a time documentation in Amsterdam:

I followed the tutorial from this site that did a sweet photo mosaic of a mother and her kids, then ordered the print from Walgreens who had it ready in an hour. It is kind of amazing to just have a collage of tiny Jeff moments.  I will treasure it forever.

We patterned all the tiny pictures on our favorite documented church photo from a friend's wedding and framed it in an affordable Ikea frame.  Look at how happy he is to receive a big framed photo of himself for his 30th birthday!  He is happy because he thinks that it is a joke and he can fill the frame with a different picture.  His wife has it on the wall, which makes all the rest of us happy.  The world is a better place with Jeff and his sweet-a$$ mosaic face.

Crafty Color Chaos

I have been going ballz out crafting these past few days to prep for a baby shower this Saturday.  The decorations and fun revolve around the fabric below.  I am pretty much obsessed with the pink/green color palette these days.

Which means that I am also lusting over these wedding components from The Perfect Palette,

and this Pucci handbag at Luxist,

and of course this entire tablescape from Tobi's blog,

and these note cards that might just end up in my stocking from Santa.  You hear me Santa!?

Also, it needs to be wrapped up like this.  That is all.  ♥ you Santa!

I ♥ Japan

Ladies and gentlemen, for your Tuesday viewing pleasure:  Bach's Jesu, The Joy of Man's Desiring.  Brought to you by a Japanese advertising agency, a giant xylophone and thousands of beautiful cheering trees.

Thanks for sharing Dudecraft!