Phew. Another birthday party down in the books…this makes party number twelve between the two kiddos. I LOVE planning their little parties ~ this year for Elliott we decided to do a small sleepover to celebrate turning SEVEN. She decided on a mermaid theme and I was immediately on board! Give this mama a theme [...]
I’m always a little behind when it comes to {trendy crafts}. I love looking at what everyone’s doing and learning what craftiness is all the rage, but I immediately think that it’s too hard and will take too much time, blah, blah, blah. Yarn wrapped frames, letters, bottles, wreaths, you name it are all over [...]
The circus came to town this past Saturday {Holden’s actual birthday} and it was nothing short of chaos ~ beautiful chaos. We packed almost 60 {59 to be exact} clowns, big & little, into our circus tent and I think everyone had a grand time. The day started off with Jay taking Holden to get [...]
I’m working on a little gallery wall in our great room…it’s coming together slowly but surely. This weekend I finished up a canvas commemorating the cities that we’ve lived in as a family which will eventually become part of the wall. This was a relatively easy and inexpensive little project. I am mad at myself, [...]
Leapin’ Lizards! Where did January go? February is here and we get one extra day this year…yay! It may still be the shortest month of the year, but it’s already proving to be a busy one with the Superbowl {go Pats!}, after school enrichment classes, a visit from Gramma, Valentine’s Day, the 100th day of [...]
I hated taking down the stockings from the fireplace after Christmas. While I was out scouring the sales on holiday goodness, I thought about finding some red {or pink. or white.} stockings and transforming them into Valentine’s Day stockings. I picked up a sparkly “E” ornament at Kohl’s and an equally, if not more sparkly, [...]
Need a last minute gift and want to personalize it a bit? Hot glue a few rosettes to a store bought cosmetic bag, clutch, cloth wine bottle gift bag or even a plain stocking…again, I learned how to roll rosettes from this tutorial and found it very easy. I recently picked up a remnant of [...]
Oh my. It’s been 5 days since I’ve posted! Every day I plan on sitting down and doing so, but it just hasn’t happened. My days have been filled with the following… driving around to four stores looking for gingerbread syrup for some martinis…then it dawned on me that I could have just walked into [...]
Need a quick, easy and cheap way to decorate for Thanksgiving and/or Christmas? I spotted this on Pinterest and knew immediately that this {craft} was made for me. Literally FIVE minutes and you’re done. 1. Grab some pinecones {Holden and I found these at our local car wash!} 2. Pick up some ribbon {I got this [...]
Last Friday night my birthday festivities continued with a few neighbor/friend ladies at Color Me Mine . My friend Hollie made the arrangements and brought wine, appetizers and cupcakes to nibble on while we were painting. So fun! These {paint a ceramic} places have been around for awhile now and I must admit I was never really too [...]
