September 30th, 2011
I’m hosting a 90 minute chat at Design House Digital TODAY starting at 4pm MST. So if you are around, come and chat with me in the Chat Room! I am going to be doing a giveaway in each half-hour of the chat. Not sure what yet… but it might be parts of my new digital halloween collection! Come and ask me questions about digital scrapbooking, crafting, designing, home renovations… whatever! If you’re a digi scrapper, there is a 25% off sale on all of the kits at DHD through tonight.
Speaking of digital scrapbooking… I made this cute layout for the 1 kit 4 ways feature at Design House Digital, and had to share it with you all as proof that I actually do digital scrapbook occasionally. Making a quick layout definitely makes me want to do more scrapbooking and put together an album or calendar for grandparents for Christmas. I’ll just add that to my giant list of things to do. It also makes me miss how little Ollie was at 8 weeks old.
(Credits: Flight Path by Audrey Neal; Modern Master Template No. 7 by Tiffany Tillman; Toolbox – Mists Vol. 5 by Gennifer Bursett)
September 29th, 2011
I came across a great blog a few weeks ago titled A Thousand Words and there were some really adorable projects including this awesome tutorial on creating royal icing shapes for cupcakes:
I cannot wait to try this out! Not that I need to be making cupcakes anytime soon. But check out the link for step-by-step instructions.
And then there is the super awesome Birthday Hamper that she made “on the cheap” for a good friend’s birthday gift. It turned out to be the cutest home-made gift ever known to man:
Anyway if you have some blog browsing time, I highly suggest A Thousand Words for a good read and some great inspiration!
September 27th, 2011
The wood countertops are ALMOST ready! Mr. Project was putting the first few coats of “waterlox” on his cherry slab countertops.
He says that he wants to put them upstairs tonight and assemble the two pieces together!
There are two sections because the wood only comes so long and these countertops are more than 14 FEET long.
This picture is a little on the light side, the first picture is closer to the color. And they should darken A LOT in the first week once they get exposed to the western sun coming in the kitchen. I hope they get dark soon though, because I love how aged cherry looks. Mr. Project refused to stain them (he’s a wood purist), so its all time and sun from here on out!
Here is the awesome and GIANT sink just waiting to be installed:
I can’t wait to show you pictures of it in the kitchen!
September 26th, 2011
So I’ve decided to do my organizational free downloads on Mondays. I know I need extra motivation on Mondays, and nothing motivates me like a shiny new list! If you haven’t guessed yet, I’m obsessed with to do lists. I think its because I cannot start working without a plan. Whenever I just jot down to-dos on a blank sheet of paper, I end up categorizing everything with some sort of visual hierarchy. So with this To Do list I made categories and a hierarchy. Hopefully you’ll find it inspiring and get a lot done today!!! Click on the image below to start PDF download.
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September 25th, 2011
Yay the house is finished being painted! It looks about a million times better than when we bought it. I do wish that the color looked a little more warm gray – it did on the swatch – but I still love it!
So now that the house looks all crisp and shiny, it makes the yard look that much more terrible (who knew the yard could look worse??). And we don’t really want to rip out the yard because we’re planning on ripping out all the concrete and re-designing the drive-way to wrap across the property. Until we do that, we’re not really doing anything else with the front other than trying to keep the brambles tamed. But eventually the driveway will wrap the width of the yard thus making it less steep of a drive. And we’ll get rid of the pine tree and all the rosemary and hedge-y bushes and put a lot of modern landscaping instead. So it will look really nice once it’s done.
The cherry countertops are not yet installed in the kitchen. I’m trying not to think about it too much, but it should happen this week, they are really close to being finished. The kitchen is one of those things that just feel like it will never be done and you just give-up hope until it’s actually finished.
In Ollie news…. Ollie can now move front, back, side to side, he’s completely mobile folks! He now has the core strength to go from sitting to laying without falling, which is great news! He has been teething and his little mouth is hurting him. So we had a slightly whiney Ollie this week paired with a low fever. poor guy. I can tell that there is something awakened in him… a need to explore EVERYTHING. Whereas before he was content to sit and play, now he wants to move and touch and taste and be everywhere. He sees everything and wants to experience it too. Its so much fun to see him really see the world, but at the same time, it’s a lot more work! I really need to get this product line finished so that I can go back to only working at night. Pretty soon he’s not going to be containable at all!!
I did much better at taking photos this week. I was even able to get a few on Monday morning before my parents left… so at least I got those few photos of their trip.
This week…
Ollie spent a lot of time with his grandma
and his Grandpa.
And they all had a lot of fun.
And I was so happy they all got to spend time together.
He started doing this cute thing where he gnaws on his lower lip.
I tried to get a few pics of him doing it because it was just too cute!
And we played with possible hairstyles 
But settled on his regular mo-poof.
And Ollie fell asleep snuggling his new favorite stuffed animal – Rodney the Rhino.
And speaking of photos, be sure to join the October photo challenge. I’m going to try and get a linky thing going. You can also have your blog linked via Our Wired Lives.
