My Favorite Lil' Chunker

Here are two little video clips of Burl for those of my friends and family who either are missing him dearly or have yet to meet him.

In this first one he's doing his little attention-getting-I'm-being-funny cough and farting noises he likes to make.

After the 3rd attempt, I finally got some video of the lil' booger rolling over.

Hope you enjoy!!

Another Thrifty Redo

I'm cookin' right along and got another little project for Halie's room completed this weekend. She had these great, shabby, white picture frames in her nursery when she was a baby. Of course, I didn't bother to take any before pictures of them so I had to go hunting for one that showed them.

Sorry about the blurriness, I tried cropping the picture so you could see them better. Anyways, they had red mattes and black and white pictures that Robert and I had taken. They were super cute, but alas, red no longer matches and she's no longer a baby, so I wanted to update the babyish pictures.

So one night while Robert was at school (the same night I painted her lamp) I got them out and painted (yes painted) the mattes pink. I figured, why go buy new ones when I could just paint them? I already had the paint mixed up for the lamp so I just used what was left and did these too. Then they sat next to my messy (creatively disorganized) scrapbooking armoire for about a week waiting on me to be struck with inspiration. I searched through my stash of paper, but had nothing that was calling out to me. I knew in my head what I wanted to do, but my paper stash wasn't cuttin' it. So, on my trip to Hobby Lobby to buy the trim for her lamp, I perused (walked up and down about 50 times) the scrapbook paper aisle until I found the combo I wanted.

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Then the paper sat on top of the frames (next to my creatively disorganized armoire) for another few days. Finally, this weekend I'd had enough of walking past them and decided to "git r dun!" So I dusted off my Cricut and set to work.

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This is what I came up with.

It doesn't show up well in the pictures, but the pink paper on the words is actually polka dotted paper. It looks kinda plain in the photos, but looks cuter in person.

Robert hung them up for me, but then I decided the top of the toy organizer looked too bare and needed some height.

So I stole the newly revamped lamp from her dresser and moved it over here. I think I like it there.

Now that means I have to restyle the top of the dresser. Sigh......one project at a time.

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Linking this up to Funky Junk's Saturday Nite Special.

Some Randomness as of Late

I haven't posted very many pictures of the kids lately so I figured I'd throw in some random ones from the past month or so.



Isn't this lil' guy just the squeeziest thing you've ever seen?!? His overalls were 3-6 month size and were too small for him. They went in the "pack away" pile after this. The lil' chunk is only 4 months old!







One morning Halie requested that we make doughnuts so we tried it out for the first time ever.

I scrounged up all kinds of things to use as toppings and we had fun making them. And they were quite yummy, too!

Can you tell?

Dressed up in his baseball outfit from Meemaw and Papaw, gettin' ready to go to Chuck E. Cheese for big sister to have some play time.

Don't those fat lil' cheeks just make you want to reach out and squeeze them right through your screen?!?


These are just some crazy "self-portraits" we did one wintery day of cabin fever induced boredness.

Dressed in their jammies and ready for bed. They were playing together, all covered up staying warm, and they were just so cute. Poor Halie's bangs are in her eyes now. They were getting too thick and I want to grow the majority of them out.

We have been having SO much snow! Last week we already had a few inches of snow, and then that got covered by a thick layer of ice, and now it's putting down inches upon inches of more snow on top of that!

Can't really tell what this is, can you? That's because I can't either just about. I was standing on our back step looking down. There should be a big drop down to the ground and then the area beyond that is the flower bed. Completely covered!

This snowman we built a couple of weeks ago? The whole bottom layer......now buried in snow. (She's also minus a head because Halie knocked it off)

Well, there you go. A little glimpse into our life recently.

A Fun Lamp Makeover

So most of you know that I'm in the process of redoing Halie's "big girl"room in Shabby Chic style and that I'm also revamping mine and the Hubster's room as well. We've had a pair of these lamps on either side of our bed for a few years and they're beautiful and I've really liked them. (Please excuse the water stain on the shade on this one. I forgot to take the "before" picture of the other lamp and had to settle for this less than perfect one after the fact.) But since the style of the room is changing they no longer matched my vision of what I want for the room. So I had them in the collection of yard sale stuff waiting for Spring.

But then I realized, wait a minute, the style is perfect for Halie's room, it just needs a little help. So I whipped out my white and red craft paint and mixed up some pink and went to work. Then I went to Hobby Lobby and found THE most perfect little trim to dress it up and give it that extra little touch of purdiness. I think I probably did it backwards, I should have picked out the trim first and matched the paint to the trim, but I was too excited to wait until I could get to the store. And in the end it all worked out perfectly anyways. Yay me! : )

So here she is.....

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Ain't that just the sweetest lil' Shabby Chic lamp you've ever seen?!? I have to say, I'm quite pleased with how it turned out.

While I was at Hobby Lobby, out of curiosity, I checked out the lamp aisle. I found something that was somewhat similar for..........$50!! This one only cost me the $7 for the trim. It could have been even cheaper than that, but I didn't have a 40% off coupon. (Waaaaaa!) But again, I was too excited to wait until I got one. Oh well.

On what was supposed to be a quick trip to Goodwill the other day to return some shoes, I came home with this......

...... and turned it into this.

I'm not sure I'm completely satisfied with the arrangement yet, and obviously I still need to fill that picture frame (I'm so terrible about that) but it's coming along nicely. Still on my "to do" list for her room is to redo the 80's style, honey oak and brass dresser.

So what do you think? And what about you, have you upcycled or restyled something fabulous lately? I'd love to hear about it.

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I'm new at this, but I'm going to attempt to link up to Donna's Saturday Nite Special over at Funky Junk Interiors. (LOVE that blog!)

Whew! Long Time, No See

So here I am, back to the land of blogging! Did you miss me? Life has been so crazy and busy lately, sorry there have been no new posts.

In December we left the life we've known and loved......




we packed up our house....

loaded up the moving truck......



...and moved to the chilly north....Ohio!

We've been busy unpacking and settling in to our new home....

celebrating Christmas...

(Isn't he the cutest thing ever?!?)


...and enjoying lots of play time in the snow!

Now that things are slowing down a bit, I hope to get back to regular entries!