The last few days have been a blur of getting the keys, cleaning all the cupboards, sleeping on the ground(airbeds suck!), priming and painting the cupboards(needs another coat yet), and moving everything in! Thankfully my wonderful mother in law put her amazing cleaning skills(seriously, you should see her house, I"m in awe...) to work and the upstairs is spotless for all our things:) And while I had to go to work, many people came to help and some even assembled furniture so all I had to do was crawl into bed when I got home....now that is service people!
Here are some pics of our kitchen transformation in progress as of last night. Dated stain and handles to new Labrador brown and eventually new hardware!
Remember those frames from a while back that were covered in christmas paper? Well, after picking up an embossing gun in the states for 10 bucks.....awesome deal!!!...., I finished up that project:) This little frame now sits on the shelf in the kitchen wishing everyone Holiday Cheer!
I'm not sure how you all were able to put together a vision of how you wanted your first nursery together....how to capture the feel you wanted to create, but mine fully relies on the piece of material I showed you last day. Not too girly, not too baby-ish, something fun, but not so bright that the baby would be overwhelmed by her room! Too much thought maybe? Haha, well, I saw this material and that was it....my inspiration was complete!
Here is a sample picture from the website:
Visions of our little girl's room are coming together slowly and we picked out very fun material in the states on our annual holiday shopping trip that my mom and I take. And since she is much more talented than I, I gave her a bunch of jobs and she got right to work putting pieces together for the bedroom! Here is a sneak peak of the feel of the room.
Take a look at her newest piece for the bedroom, the polka dot material being our inspiration!
Worst blogger ever.... :( Ya I know....I promised to show you projects, I showed you nothin'...BUT in my defense....we have been out EVERY night for the last two weeks or so....so when we had a moment this weekend of sitting, I just sat. And it was great! Since I'll be working two jobs, finishing a course and packing for the next few weeks...I figured I was allowed a minute right? No eh? No excuse...
Alright, well how about I show you all this house I've been talking about! December 16th we will officially (I think....given the unforeseen!) be moving into our own little place. Note it doesn't look like much but boy do we think its got potential! And ya, its still got a fabulous blue bathroom. So while we weren't here long enough for me to do anything to our current one...the new one will definitely need an overhaul at some point!
Anywho, enough chatting, time for pics....here is our brand new (old) house!
Whew....its been a whirlwind that just keeps on going! Where have the past couple of weeks gone?
Well, being an occasionally spontaneous couple, we decided to start house shopping a few weeks ago....so now unofficially still we have bought a house! Will share more details on that once its all signed and sealed but that is one reason my time went from blogging projects to open houses and house showings all the time. Did I mention closing date is Dec 16...haha, good times right?
Then my mom came to visit me for a week. My mom is fantastic...she made croquettes, cleaned the house, made supper for us, decked this baby out better than you would believe, crocheted and knitted away all week, found a dresser and painted it for DQ, is going to attempt making the christening gown in addition to curtains and other decorative sewing projects for the room, helped us with putting in an offer on the house, found a cradle for the baby for the beginning, repainted a shelf for the baby room. and shopped til she dropped in the states with me all weekend. It was fabulous:)
Now I'm searching cheap flights to bring her out again in January...so many new projects in the new place for her to work on! In the meantime, I will pull out my camera and show you a few of the projects she pulled together this week.
Be back soon! In the meantime, I gotta go digest that we are soon to be homeowners AND parents...whew
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I knew being on a busy corner there was a chance of minimal cute trick or treaters coming around....still I held out hope...maybe close to ten??
No, three....all at once....and that was it. Sigh... maybe next time we move.
But I still had fun throwing together this little headband for some fun for the night!
Can you guess who??
I'm not much of a baker...but around Christmas time I always find some bits of domestic-ness within to make the Christmas season a little more delicious. One of the favorites for myself and many others are the Peanut Butter Balls that I make every year...SO GOOD! So given that I don't know how I'll be feeling in a month...I got at finishing these off early and Saturday morning was spent mixing, balling, and dipping away. And after limiting myself to sampling only one!!!....120 of them are in the freezer waiting to be eaten, given away, and shared at parties...bring on Christmas!
There are many different variations of this recipe but I keep it simple...
mix PB, icing sugar, butter, and vanilla
roll into balls
freeze for a half hour or so(then they don't get mushy as you dip them in hot chocolate
Melt the chocolate(semi-sweet choc chips for me) 2 cups with 1/3 cup of parawax
Dip away and put on wax sheet to dry
DONE!! Couple of hours later you are left with little bits of deliciousness...
What is your favorite Christmas treat??
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So let me tell you something...I love Christmas...like everything about it. I love shopping for Christmas, wrapping presents, Christmas baking, my new nativity seen which is BEAUTIFUL, decorating the house, cutting our own tree and decorating it each year.....EVERYTHING! Its a beautiful season and each year I try to start it early. By the time Thanksgiving passes, and since Halloween hasn't been very big since we don't have kids(yet) and live in an apartment with no trick or treaters, I am ready to Christmas-ify(?) everything in the house.
Well, this year I'll distract myself with baby-ing everything in the house first when my mom comes to visit in a few weeks. BUT when I saw Mandi over at Tidbits from the Tremaynes do this little craft I thought, I have crappy frames sitting around...looks like fun! So I tried some out....I don't have pictures for them yet and I want to finish off the edges but still... so Christmas-y...I love it! But seriously take a look at hers cuz she has THE cutest kids in hers....LOVE!
Here's the new christmas frames!
Yup, in the last two weeks we got another couple big things on our checklist done!
First, a friend told us that the city mini was on for a great deal of 110 dollars at a liquidation place in TO...they were wrong. BUT in fact the Baby Jogger City Micro WAS there for 100 dollars. So after some quick research to see the difference between the two, we decided it would work and we went for it...soooo
TADA!!!!
Do you have a yearly tradition of carving your pumpkins in the fall? We never did growing up but this year we hosted hubby's family for Thanksgiving dinner and asked them all to bring a pumpkin to start a new tradition of carving pumpkins together....and it was a lot of fun!
We stopped and picked up some carving tools which came with 12 different stencils to choose from, some scary and some funny. Then we all sat down and after emptying out the pumpkins and about an hour of fun, we were left with these!
The other night I was inspired by all the little sayings for autumn, fall or halloween so I went and found my yellow frame from the closet and threw together a little something for hosting Thanksgiving tomorrow:)
So easy, take a piece of cardstock, and arrange as you like with your saying on top of it...place in frame...voila!!! Fun right:) Added with some fall candle scents...my house feels very thanksgiving-y...
Thinking ahead to hosting Thanksgiving next weekend, I can't wait to decorate the centerpiece for the day! And since I have the Friday off before, I'll have time to brainstorm and throw something together...and clean thank goodness! We really need a spring cleaning weekend before this baby grows too much more!!
Anywho, ran across this lady at You, Me and the Kid, who did a beauty of a centerpiece! So cute, take a look!
That's it for me today, Have a great weekend!
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Baby DQ is growing beautifully and we got our second picture of the little one at 19.5 weeks along! Labeled it for ya too, for those who think its just looks like a bunch of blobs;)
Having bought this pendant lamp with this project in mind just before feeling exhausted for a month straight, many thanks to little DQ growing in me (DQ = my family's nickname for the little one aka Drama Queen...hope its a girl!), I finally got around to completing the project...only took about four months.
So having seen a bunch of petal lamps out there I loved the soft and romantic effect and wanted to try it out myself. I don't have the perfect spot for it yet but I love how it turned out. It would be perfect hanging over a cute little reading chair in a corner! But for now, it hangs over my window seat and I will love using it once a snowstorm hits and I sit there with the lights off watchign the blusteriness around me:) With HC in hand of course! DQ must like the idea since I'm feeling little movements as I type!
Here we are, the final result!
So I'm am just loving all the fall decorating ideas that there was no way I was narrowing it down to one...take a look at all the fun this week!
Mad in Crafts put this on her door!
