Feelin' Valentine's - y

Lena's Valentine's clothes.

Landon's Valentine's clothes.
After I decorated this shirt for Landon, Aaron told me that it looked a little girly for his son. But, Aaron wasn't here when I got Landon dressed for the day, so I put it on him anyway. I should have listened. I thought it was such a cute valentine's shirt, but then a lady at the store called him a "she". What?! It's one thing when people aren't sure the gender of a baby, but my son is 2 1/2! The next time this shirt is worn it will be when Lena is 2 1/2. It's too bad, because I really did think it was cute.

Another Quick Project

One day I was in JoAnn's and I walked past this wooden 'princess' word for a dollar or two and just couldn't help it. (JoAnn's is a dangerous place for me) Today I spruced it up with a little paint, mod podge, scrapbook paper and ribbon that I had around.

fancy shmancy

Perfect for my little princess' room.

Anybody know where I can get a cute, inexpensive lamp shade for her room?

Fun Project

This was a really fun and easy project. I LOVE it. I think they turned out so cute. And what a perfect toy for a little tot. I am going to put them in with a gift I am giving to one of my friends that recently had a baby. The idea came from http://makeitandloveit.blogspot.com/. It was her April 15th & 16th posts. I would highly recommend it if you are looking for a quick, cute project.

A new dress for the Princess

This was one of those, "I have such a great idea in my head, but how do I actually make it?" dresses. I pretty much just made it up. However, that did lead to a variety of complications. At one point I was just going to give up and make her a dress from a pattern. But I told my ingenious mom about it and she told me how I could fix it. She is amazing! So here it is - Lena's dress for my brother's wedding in March.

Lena loves it!

Well, mostly she loves pulling it up, playing with it and putting it in her mouth.

We love FREE

We have been very lucky and only ever bought a very few pieces of furniture. We are not very picky and we are pretty patient, so when an opportunity for free furniture comes up we love it. We have been looking for a desk since we moved in (actually I wanted one before that), but we just weren't willing to pay much. So, when Aaron's dad said that his office was moving locations, getting rid of furniture, and were we interested- oh yeah! We got a desk, office chair and bookcase. Sweet! They are old and used, but hey - free is free! They are great pieces and work really well in our house. Here is a pic of the desk - it is really big (which I love).

But since we have it in our bedroom I wanted to paint it. What do you think? I also want to re-cover the chair, but have no idea how to do that or how difficult it would be, so we will see.

And I have also been wanting a big bookcase since we moved here. However, I thought that was going to be a while, so I hadn't been actively searching for one. So when this fell into our hands I was so happy!

I also pulled out the flowers from our wedding. They were just chillin' in boxes in a cupboard. And I revamped some of them to make the arrangement on top of the bookcase. I'm still not sure if I love the arrangement. I want one up there, I'm just not sure if I am happy with how it turned out. What do you think?

Thanks again, Twitchells for helping us get this furniture. We love them!

Lena's Christmas Dress

This took a lot of work, but I love it! I used one of my mom's patterns that she used to make a dress for me when I was little. My dress was a bigger size and blue, so cute! But I thought it would make a great first Christmas dress in green. My mom even kept my dress for me so in a couple of years Lena can wear my dress.

This dress has a lot of lace and ribbon and ruffles, so feminine and sweet! And I found the cutest little snowflake buttons.

And it looks beautiful on my beautiful daughter (if I do say so myself).

Her very first Christmas dress.

Mom, aren't you proud of me?! :)

Stockings

Yay! I finished one of the things I was intending to do before Christmas! haha I am really glad that I got our stockings made and hung. After all, we have a fireplace to hang them above this year!