I have been wanting to create a new headboard for our bed ever since I finished my king sized rag quilt. It has been a long time coming, but we finally created one! (I say "we" because Matt was largely involved. My projects often involve him. What an awesome man.) I love how it turned out and I can't wait to hang it in our room!! Would you like how I came up with this piece? Stayed tuned! First off, I did lots and lots of scouting on Pinterest for inspiration. Out of everything Continue Reading
Where The Wild Things Are
Did you grow up loving the book "Where The Wild Things Are"? I did not. I didn't get it. To me , it was just a lot of pictures of monsters. Now that I am a mom, I adore the book! I love the imagination and can relate as I see my boys create places and pretend daily! I tell my boys "I'll eat you up-I love you so" all the time now. It's a daily quote used around here. In honor of this book and our love for it, I thought I'd paint another famous line. "Let the Wild Rumpus Start!" is Continue Reading
An AMAZING gift!
I showed you all what I MADE for my mom and mother-in-law for Mother's Day, but I have not shown you what my AMAZING husband made me. Brace yourself for this amazing-ness. :) I saw a pin of a large mirror in a gorgeous wood frame on Pinterst forever ago, and I fell in love with it. Since we have been married, we have just had a big plain mirror leaning up against my dresser in our room. It was definitely NOT baby proof, but since is was the only body length mirror we had, we just kind Continue Reading
My Creative Spot (part 2)
As promised, here is what is currently clipped to my memo board. The two charts are a behavioral system we picked up from Caleb's teachers at school. They use it in the classroom. When our kids are obedient on the first request, do something unusually nice/thoughtful, are encouraging, or have good "quiet times" we give them a sticker. (Waking up with dry pullups/underwear is also a current sticker get-er) Once their chart is full of stickers they get to pick something out of my prize Continue Reading
I love Pinterest! It's been a bitter-sweet relationship between Pinterest and me. It began with a curious sense of exploration and hit a bump in the road when I discovered one of MY creations was out there so publicly. Haha I can laugh about it now, but at the time I really kind of felt betrayed. Two years ago when I was prepping my daughter's bedroom I made a hair bow holder for her many hair bows out of some left over chicken wire that we had used the previous summer to make a compost Continue Reading