interior design musings giveaway

giveaway on interior design musings!!  

25 buckaroos to csn stores!  bah!  you could get something super fun!

V & Co fabulous giveaway....

at Simply Modern Mom!!!!!!!!!!!

Go check it out!

I am so excited about this giveaway.

I have been drooling over the things in Vanessa's shop, Uptown Jane!

shiny and cheap

Have you seen the wreath that Eddie Ross made last year out of ornaments?

Mine's not as pretty, but it was cheap!

If it falls it will break, but it won't shatter.

I bought plastic ornaments on clearance last year, and also some at the Dollar Tree.

Martha trees

hopped over here and found a super link for some more cute trees

{image via marthastewart.com}

"enemies" and friends

"Bad Guy" Jacob and "Super" Dallin

Speaking of dirt...

ornament 2009

I avoided pushed back making more important Christmas things on my list and made our Christmas ornaments for this year.

{fun and easy instructions}

Spraypaint Pillows!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One day, I will have a bigger garage (bigger than the small, packed, one car space that I have now) and I will say:

"Hey ladies!  I am going to do this SUPER cool project......

{image via: v and co tutorial: spraypaint pillows}

....so come on over and make them with me!"

and then we will laugh and paint and have so much fun hanging out in my garage!

okay?

okay.

growth chart

{growth chart}

woe is me....i have no cricut

so i bought the vinyl on etsy

KITCHEN UPDATE

a little antique white paint on the beadboard

a touch up or two or three

a couple things on the wall

THEN complete!

did you notice my COMPLETE color change?

i like to keep things exciting around here

i LOVE it

it's bright and calming

it makes me happy

really cool clouds

in the sky

in our back yard

makes me want to go back to my 5th grade science class

(Mrs. Steele?  Why are they wavey?)

Forget Ice Water

It seems as though Ellie fixed the water/ice dispenser to spit out what she really wants.

DIY show off giveaway

There is a super fun giveaway going on at The DIY Show Off.

Lots of prizes!

Head on over and sign up for the fun!

Leen the Graphics Queen Giveaway!

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yes, please!

These are beautiful and they are being given away at Leen the Graphics Queen!

The braches would look smashing above my bed and my kitchen is almost done being painted (yeah, yeah, still not done, life happens!) and it needs some new art!

Now, if you don't mind, I have an new Etsy shop to drool over look at.

caramel apples

butterfinger was the winner this year

yum!

and yum!

Prehistoric Trunk-or-treat 20009 bc

Archeologists in Winchester, Kentucky made a recent find during a rare, but important dig.  Below, you will find evidence that there was life on earth in the year 20009 bc.  Our findings:

Ooga booga ug ug ug.  Uuug buuug huug-a-lug!

OOOOOGGGGAAAA BOOOO!!!!

Uugaagaa bugaagaa ugla bugla!

Lug-a-bug a booog doo boog.

Gooba booba looba AAAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Gooba looba dooba gooba hhooooba!

Booobaalaa hoobagaoauuubahuahao!!!!!!!!!!

{groundbreaking evidence of the first ever vampiress}

{thanks for the costume idea steal Jordan}

dress for emmi

This pattern has become my go to.

I really hope my kids give Christmas presents to all girl cousins this year.  (hint, hint ;) ages 12 months (or younger) to 5 years)

Halloween Thrifting

Here are some (last minute) fun thrift store halloween decor ideas at Savers.

Our ward trunk-or-treat is this evening!

Our costumes?  Hint:  It will be dirty!

GLAMOROUS

Civil War

This last weekend, we headed over to the Civil War Fort site at Boonesboro for their reenactment. We were thinking that we would pull up and their would be a festival, with food and booths and tons of people. What really happened was this: We packed the kids in the stroller, only to take them out to get in the shuttle bus. We were shuttled a mile down the river road and dropped off at the beginning of a 1/2 mile up hill hike to the site.

The hike was beautiful, despite me wearing flip-flops and Paul maneuvering the stroller.

The cannons were so cool!

And so were the cool old soldiers.

They all lined up and got ready to shoot off the cannon.

Dallin was not too happy about that!

This guy is a carpetbagger. He was fun to talk to. He is wearing a beaver skin hat and told us about mad hatters and going crazy off of the glue that they used to make the hats with.

Ellie (Kristen) was able to make a rag doll, and has since ripped it apart! A picture of that would have been a pile of rags with stuffing spilling out of the head...I will spare you the inhumanity of it all.

Go Steelers

Last Sunday, Paul and I caught the last 1:27 of the Steelers/Bears game.

It was a nail biter ending and the Steelers lost.

Dallin's teacher is a huge Steelers fan, so on Monday, I instructed him to say, "Da Bears!" to her. He wouldn't, but Paul, who had taken him to school, told on me.

Tuesday, I threw his Tenessee Titans shirt on (his only football shirt) and sent him off to school. As I was waiting for the bus to come, I got a text message from his TA: Dallin looked so cute today, make sure you take a picture of him.

The bus finally came, and down the steps came Dallin, wearing a "different" shirt a la Mrs. B:

I could not stop laughing, which in turn, made Dallin mad.
Then, I made him stand still to take a picture, which made him even more mad!

He likes to get off the bus, crawl onto the couch, wrap up in his "big green blankie" and have chocolate milk and a snack. He would not have me upset his routine!