A little bit of everything

Wow, can you believe that it’s been 4 months since I last posted? Time sure does fly when you’re raising kids, helping your hubby finish school and running a business having fun! My husband has finally finished his 75 clinic hours to get his massage license, so things are calming down here a little bit. I have been keeping up crafting, so I thought I’d show you what I’ve been up to. I’ve been working on finally finishing Miss Ellie’s room. I still need to get some things done, like make curtains to put over her closet. I had the changing table in there and since it got broken, I took it out and replaced it with her dresser, so in order to easily get into the closet, the doors had to go. I found a cheap inexpensive white curtain rod at Ikea and put it up in preparation of the curtains getting done. I actually have 2 yards of brown and pink polka dot fabric that I got at Hobby Lobby a while ago, but it’s a little short and I’m undecided on my choice of coordinating fabric to lengthen it. I also found a little side table at goodwill for $8.00 that I painted to be completely white and store some of Ellie’s toys. The most difficult part of completing her room has got to be the fan redo. I have hated it since we moved in. The gold color was just awful and dated looking.

(After the fan blades and light covers were removed)

As I was blog hopping, I stumbled upon this post and thought hey I can do that! Unfortunately I don’t have a craft store near me and I didn’t want to spend a lot of money, so it’s been on hold until recently. While I was on a shopping trip to Wal-mart I wandered into the spray paint isle only to find out that it works on metal (duh right, I should read the labels more often) . I took down that fan, with some help from the hubby and slowly painted all of the metal white. I was going to paint the fan blades too, but when I removed them I found that they can be flipped over and have a dark brown finish. I was so excited to have save some time and I love the contrast that it gives.

Here are some pictures of what’s been going on around our house that aren’t crafting related...

Miss Ellie playing the piano with her cousin

Little Man swimming over Memorial Day Weekend

Miss Ellie asleep under her bed

Happy Valentine's Day!

Have you heard about Laura Winslow Photography? No, well she is an wonderful photographer in my area and is currently doing an amazing giveaway. The are 61 shops involved in the giveaway, which is amazing. Just visit her blog for more information and remember that the giveaway ends tonight at midnight AZ time!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

Valentine's Deal

This week Monday 2/14 through Tuesday 2/15, I will be offering 40% off all store items (excluding Tutu's). Enter in LOVEDAY when checking out and you will be refunded 40% of your order. Just click HERE to go to the website. Have a wonderful Valentine's Day!

Vinyl giveaway

Just wanted to do a shout out to my aunt's blog and website. She sells vinyl and is amazing at creating custom projects. Right now she is doing a giveaway on her blog since she is having her grand opening. Go here to visit her blog and here to visit her website. Right now she is offering free shipping on ALL orders. She also has a darling Halloween project, you can see it on her facebook fan page.

dot com

We have officially moved to babybboutique.com. I'm so excited. Now to get back to work.

Where did I go?

Where does all the time go? Lately I've been extremely busy. I've been working on orders, had a boutique event, am in the process of planning another, tending to 2 rambunctious kids, and everything else that comes with running a household. I've also been busy working on the website, you see I'm in the process of moving to a dot com. That's right, I purchased a dot com and hope to soon be up and running! Well that's all the time I have right now. Until next time!

Is it Wednesday already?

Wow, I this week has totally blown right by me. I made up my weekly menu on Sunday and then forgot to post it. Oops, better luck next time.

Monday: BBQ with Family

Tuesday: Pulled Pork sandwiches and fruit/veggies

Wednesday: Chicken Fried Rice

Thursday: leftovers

Friday: Chicken and Broccoli sandwich bake

Saturday: Pizza and salad

Sunday: Stuffed Pepper Stoup

As always, want a recipe- post a comment and I'll post the recipe!

In other news my son started preschool the other week and has learned to trace his name and can associate which letters are in his name in order to type them on the computer. I'm typing this to let you know because he wants to type his name right now and I wanted to explain why. Here we go:

wyatt