Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween from Maddie

She opted to be a shark, based on her ability to eat anything and everything (including her costume 5 minutes later).  I made her costume with 3 pieces of gray felt (4 for $1), some leftover chipboard from a package and gray bias tape ($2.79).
This is her first Halloween and I'm betting she only tries to eat every 2 of 3 kids that rings our doorbell.  She LOVES when people come over, even more than she loves eating paper and baseboards.

Happy Valentine's Day!

I was on PUP-ternity leave last week and it was awesome. So much bonding time with our little girl. She's growing up fast, and is so smart. She is house-broken already, we put bells on the door and she rings them when she needs to go out. She can 'come' and 'sit' and sometimes 'stay' if she's not too excited. We need to work on her focus level, she gets easily distracted by shiny things (shovels) or anything she can eat.

These were the Valentine's cards she sent out to her puppy pals (and her daddy).

Happy Valentine's Day from Me & Maddie!

Merry Christmas!

 

(our white & gold tree this year)

Have a fantastic holiday!

Oh, and my Christmas present to you is that calories don't count on the 24th OR the 25th :)

Christmas comes early at our house....

I'm not very patient. 
The boy and I have already opened our gifts to each other.
AND now I'm going to give you a peek at some of the gifts I got made for other people.
I like to do at least one handmade gift for the girls in the family, they appreciate it much more than boys.
My mom and my grandmother are getting monogrammed linen table runners.

I had to make one for myself too, you know, to make sure they came out okay and that I got the size right :)


My favorite gift to give is this one :

I designed a growth chart for my neice Kendall and had it printed on canvas through Uprinting.  I still need to get a ribbon to hang it, but I know my mom has some at home that I can use.  Her room has a pink and giraffe theme and I think this is going to look so awesome on her wall!  Plus now I'll get an answer when I call and ask "How big is she now?!"


What gift are you most excited to give?

Happy Turkey Day!

Last Minute Halloween Prep....

This will be our first Halloween in the new house. We were forewarned by our neighbors to buy lots of candy, since apparently our neighborhood is a trick-or-treating Mecca. People come from all the surrounding towns to hit our neighborhood due to the close proximity of houses and abundance of sidewalks. We have been slowly stocking up on candy, and while I still need to get some more, that is the least of my concerns. We have been in our house for 5 months now and there is one room that is still entirely empty, the future dining room. As luck would have it, this is the ONLY room that you can see from the front door. I freaked out that our neighbors were going to think we were crazy people with no furniture in their house handing candy out to their kids.

So I pulled together a make-shift dining room, using things we already had in other parts of the house. It works for now at least, although completely out of scale.

I put two large cracks in the plaster wall hanging frames. Awesome.

I also carved pumpkins Funkins. I was really not feeling the cleaning pumpkin guts thing, so I bought fake ones. I don’t think my mom was impressed. I’m not a scary face pumpkin kind of girl, so I just carved our address, (in size 666 font of course).

Happy Halloween!

Happy *Early* Holidays....

I had a few spare minutes over the weekend (and by spare I mean, time acquired by procrastinating the finish any of the other projects I had already started), and decided to whip up a few potential Christmas card designs.  I'm trying to be really proactive about getting our cards out early this year, since I never got around to sending out 'We've Moved' cards and I want people to know our new address (because getting snail mail is my favorite thing ever).

Design [A] : Bow

Design [B] : Ribbon

I may still make some tweaks to the colors, or completely change it up....only time will tell.
I think we'll probably end up with Option [B] since the boy thinks Option [A] is a little sexist, but then again he wont see or sign them before they go out, and would likely never know.....


Which is your favorite?

Happy Holidays Everyone!

We're heading up to Maine today to spend the holidays with our families -
Wishing everyone a very merry holiday and safe travels!

xoxo,
C

It's begining to look a lot like Christmas!!!

We had our first snow of the season last night, so I got to wake up to this:

And quickly decided to brush the snow off my car and venture out to do a little Christmas shopping.
I love Christmas.  I love shopping.  But I really, really, love.....wrapping presents.
Last week I won this cute little stocking via 'Oh Apostrophe' (Thanks Again!) and loved the unexpected blue and bright green as 'Christmas' colors.

So, I decided to incorporate those colors into our Christmas wrapping this year.
Our bright and cheery Christmas palette:

...and it's begining to look a lot like Christmas! Round one of presents have been wrapped, bowed, tagged and placed under our tree.

Our tree is a little scraggly, but she was homegrown, and free :)

Whenever I say I LOVE wrapping presents people always look at me like I'm crazy.  Are you one of those people?  or do you love a nicely wrapped package as much as I do?

kicking off the holiday season...

Hope everyone was able to celebrate with their families and friends during the holidays.
We headed up to Maine to have Thanksgiving with my new inlaws (and to get our x-mas tree!!).
I'm pretty excited to kick off the holiday season and decided it was time to put some lights up around here....

Have you put up your holiday decorations yet?