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

Menu Monday

Monday: hamburgers

Tuesday: Beef Tacos

Wednesday: leftovers

Thursday: Bacon Fried Rice

Friday: Leftovers

Saturday: Stuffed Artichokes

Sunday: Chicken Fried Rice

As always, if you are interested in recipes please comment and I will post the recipe

Boutique Announcement

I'm back!!! Yay, the baby shower is finally over. I loved doing all the fun things for it, but it's nice to be back to normal- whatever that is... I decided that the best way to get back into blogging is to make an announcement. I've decided that I am going to start offering Baby B Boutique parties and bow making classes. Please contact me if you are interested in hosting a party or learning how to make adorable bows.

Crazy busy summer days

Yes it has been forever since my last post. I know... I've just not had a desire to blog lately. I've been crazy busy since I came back from my parents. Keeping the house clean, entertaining kids- without going outside, watching nieces and a nephew for a weekend, our 6th wedding anniversary, getting ready for my sister-in-laws baby shower and my birthday. The baby shower has been taking the most of my free time because I volunteered to make quite a bit of it. So far I've made invites, bows, headbands and some other things that I won't talk about until after next Saturday since I don't want to risk my sister-in-law seeing or reading about anything before the shower. When things calm down a bit I'll post some of the pictures of our trip to my parents.

A Short Break

I just wanted to check in for a moment. I'm in CA right now visiting my family. We are having a blast and I will post pictures as soon as we get back. Hope you are having a wonderful summer!

Jessica

Yay! MY first giveaway!

I'm so excited right now. I was contacted by a local photographer wanting host a giveaway of one of my ties in exchange for the cutest pictures. Well, it's finally time for the giveaway and I'm so excited, its crazy! Check out the giveaway here. Hope you enjoy the pictures!

Catching Up

It feels like forever a lifetime has past since my last craft post. I’ve been having a blast catching up on some crafting I haven’t really been able to do in the past month or so. I’ve been burning my fingers with the hot glue gun, but loving the outcome, so I haven’t been too concerned about my fingers. I saw a post on U Create where flowers were made out of satin fabric and fell in LOVE. I have made a ton few of them and Miss Ellie and I have been wearing them all over.
I bought Miss Ellie a skirt for $1 at Walmart the other day and needed a shirt to match, but couldn’t find anything that worked. I remembered seeing a tutorial for a tuxedo shirt at U CREATE that I knew would work. I did a few things differently like a strip of ruffles made from an old t–shirt around the edges instead of lace and I love the way it turned out. I was pleasantly surprised that the old shirt matched the skirt perfectly. I also made a rosette headband for her using some of the old shirts I used and buttons.

I then attached them to some headband elastic and I LOVE how cute Miss Ellie looks in her outfit.

Last, but not least here's a picture of my two little cuties having fun in their kiddy pool the other week! Aren't they so cute?

Menu Monday

Monday: leftovers

Tuesday: Bacon Fried Rice

Wednesday: not sure- we have a funeral to attend so whatever is served afterwards

Thursday: leftovers

Friday: Bacon Wrapped filets, green beans and potatoes

Saturday: we're going to a birthday party!

Sunday: Turkey tacos

As always, if you want a recipe please comment and I'll post the recipe for you!

Menu Monday. Better Late than never.

Monday: Leftovers

Tuesday: BBQ Chicken sandwiches

Wednesday: Sweet and Sour chicken

Thursday: Bacon Fried Rice

Friday: leftovers

Saturday: leftovers

Sunday: Cafe Rio style Chicken Burritos

As always, if you want a recipe please comment and I'll post one for you.

Menu Monday

Monday: Penne pasta with ricotta spaghetti sauce

Tuesday: Spinach and Sausage pasta bake

Wednesday: leftovers

Thursday: leftovers

Friday: arugala and tomato pizza - IT's delish!

Saturday: leftovers

Sunday: Honestly not sure yet. Either Company Chicken or Roast Turkey breast or a pot roast. The options are endless, we'll see what sounds good or is the easiest to make on Sunday.

If you want the recipe to any of these recipes please leave a comment and I'll post the recipe in a post for you!

Jewelry Organizer

So I was inspired by all the many different types of Jewelry organizers out there, but wasn't seeing quite what I wanted so I went to work. This is what I came up with. I already had the wood laying around from another project, so all I needed was the hardware and the metal. I went to Lowe's where I found the hardware and the metal grand total was about $5.00. I painted and sanded the wood before applying the hardware.

I then measured the roof flashing and cut it to size. Now my flashing was a tiny bit warped after cutting, so I took it to the garage and hammered out the kinks.

I then cut out some cute fabric about an inch bigger than the metal and glued it using E600.

After it dried I glued it to the wood.

While it was curing I glued magnets to the back of my tins and let them settle. I have to say that I love it. It holds my necklaces so they won't get tangled like before and my earrings and bracelets are separated so that's another good thing. I may decide to use something else to hold my earrings and bracelets, but for now these dollar target tins will do.

I hope you like this as much as I do.

Laura Winslow giveaway

One of my favorite local photographer's is currently doing a giveaway and I'm very excited about it. Yes I have entered. I love the prizes. There are so many things that are being given away that I want, it's insane! Check it out.

New products-Bibs!

So the last month or so I've been getting ready to do a boutique in Gilbert. Unfortunately I had to cancel, but not before designing a new product. Baby Bibs. I wanted something different from the typical "rounded" shape. This is what I came up with. I also didn't want to deal with snaps or velcro so I decided to use suspender clips attached to ribbon. I love the way these look! I've given and sold several already and they've been well received.

Thank goodness a NEW week!

Whew, I'm glad that last week is over. My week was crazy. Last Sunday, Baby B was fussy and I thought "oh, it's those 4 new teeth that she's gotten this week." I put her to bed and thought nothing of it, Monday she seemed fine and that was wonderful until she woke up from her afternoon nap with her ear drooping and pushing out. I hurried to drop the kids that I watch at home and take my husband to school so that I could get to Urgent Care for B. We waited for the doctor who came in and looked and immediately told me that I needed to take B to the ER. I proceeded to brake down in tears. I was way to overwhelmed at that point and hearing the doctor say I needed to take B to the hospital and probably get a CAT scan was too much. I called my in-laws and asked if they could come and help, but at first they were stuck with car problems, so I called my dad's best friend who lives down the street from the urgent care and he came to my rescue. He let me drop off little man at his house and then drove us to the hospital since I was upset and needed to calm down in order to be there for B. Also, my sweet in-laws brought my hubby as quick as possible to the hospital. After hours of waiting, B received a CAT scan. At 11:30 p.m. we were admitted into the hospital. B had Mastoiditis- in other words a nasty ear infection that went to the bone. Now no judging me people- I had no clue that she had an ear infection- she wasn't pulling her ears and Sunday she let me prod her ears to check- nothing. I really thought that she had teething issues. I felt like the world's worst mom at that moment. After getting settled B finally got to sleep, unfortunately I couldn't- I was feeling sick. To make a LONG story short, we stayed until Thursday afternoon. We stayed a little longer due to B vomiting all Wednesday afternoon and night. I have to say Cardon's Children's center is amazing. The nurses are so helpful, the washer and dryer was very helpful, and I loved the wagons, toys and music time that B was able to enjoy. It was also nice to be able to watch some movies like Wild Child that I knew my hubby would never go for. I unfortunately had to cancel my participation in the shop chic boutique. I hated to say I couldn't do it, but my baby is WAY more important. I'm glad I did too because Friday night little man is walking in the hall and passes me at the computer saying "mommy, I think I sick" only to vomit all over the hallway floor. After settling him, I proceeded to the store to stock up on gatorade and some Oscillococcinum. I swear by that stuff. So after all this craziness I am GRATEFUL, for my kids getting better, my bed, etc. I hope to have the new products that I was going to feature at the boutique up on etsy and my website, up for purchase this week and next. I also hope to feature some of the projects I did up to see and maybe a tutorial, but we'll see. I don't want to overload myself, I'm still trying to catch up.