change

Cha-cha-cha-change will do you good!

Let's hope so!

So, I have this running list of things to do inside the house that I was going to work on, before the lovely spring weather arrived....well it hasn't even gotten cold here except for a few days. So I've been working on in between being sick, trips to the zoo, attempting to help my parents move (hard to do with the wee one), hanging out with friends and family and getting ready to start school.

Here's my list.........

1. make Emerson a beanbag chair-done

2. go to Ikea for the first time ever in my 27 years of life!!!!-done and awesome!

3. Organize toys for living room-done, thank you ikea

4. Organize my office/craft area-coming along

5. Go through our clothes and donate-done

6. Redo Em's closet-done

7. lighting for dining area-got it, just needs to be hung

8. clean out and organize spare bedroom/office-done

9. finish dresser-almost

10. details in our room and spare bedroom

11. laundry room-looking for wall cabinets to paint for storage

12. make a raised bed for a garden

13. redo deck

My husband shutters at the mention of the "list" because he knows once these things are done, I'll just think of more :) Although I think he felt great after de-cluttering the office this weekend!

I'll try and remember to take some pictures of all the finished things. I find our house is hard to photograph but it takes practice, right?

Here's the beanbag chair I made by hand for Emerson and guess what? It hasn't fallen apart yet! I'm so impressed with myself! When I set out to learn to sew I thought it would be an epic fail......who knew?

Here's the link if you want to check it out!
http://www.dana-made-it.com/2010/01/rollie-pollie-is-here.html
(it's a washable slipcover, ideal for little ones)

Please pardon our backyard it's in major need of an overhaul, but it's great for exploring :/

Em has a good ol' time walking around with his wagon, picking up sticks and rocks, blowing bubbles and posing for the camera :)

Greg has a really nice camera, I say it's his because he's had it since before we were married, anyway I really want to know all the ins and outs of.....so I can take awesome pictures of this little guy!

migration

The past few weeks have been a little bit of a struggle. Because of several circumstances all out of her control, my best friend had to move back to her hometown of Fondulac, WI. As hard as all this was for me, I can't even begin to imagine what she's going through. 

Here are some pictures of the boys playing at the park on a beautiful day in February!

We'll miss you, but now we have a few really good reasons to visit WI!

would you be mine?

Here are a few outtakes from our Valentine card photo shoot!

It's hard to explain to a toddler how to hold up a faux moustache!

But very entertaining :)

radiator redo

So we have these realllllly bad radiators, easy thing would be to pull them all out and sell them! But they work and actually provide us with heat (well, they would if it was cold, it's January and 60 degrees here!! Crazytown!!!) 

So.....they stay! but I couldn't get them clean to save my life (they've been around probably almost 100 years, because that's how long our home has been around) so they've seen alot, but these bad boys are UGLY!

What do you do when you can't get something clean or make it pretty? 

Cover it up!!!!

So, that's what I did...........

Fashioned some slipcovers for our radiators.

I used canvas drop cloths, you can find at the hardware store in the painting section 

This was quite a process and honestly I couldn't even explain what I really did, just made it up as I went along?

.........tadah!

This is the one I made for Emerson's  room, much better  :)

The are by no means perfect, but it works and we can still have heat! (if we need it?)

my little helper

Our whole has a been sick for a few weeks, not all at once, we seem to be taking turns. Anyway, our home was feeling a little neglected, and so was my to-do (before the weather gets warm) list. On that to-do list is get Em's room right? I don't know what the problem was exactly, it just wasn't right, so we spent a little time in there working out the kinks. 

Anyway, more pics and info on that soon. 

The point of this post is to show you my little helper!

Emerson is really good at laundry, he's the basket supervisor, inspects everything that goes in :)

Thanks for all your help, Buddy!

he can do it!

My little boy is growing up and fast! I can't even hardly believe how much he knows and how independent he is! It's amazing, he's amazing :)

Whenever possible I've been trying to let him feed himself, he has been for along time, easy stuff like fruit and toast and waffles and that sort of thing, but he really needs practice with a fork and spoon :)

So anyway the past few weeks when he's had oatmeal or yogurt, I've just let him have at it and he's doing great! Most of the time he needed a bath after, but he had fun and is practicing something he's going to have to master one day, I don't know may people who can get away eating, with ONLY their hands after 5, or so?

He did any especially good job tonight with his mac and cheese, and I'm trying really hard to get in there with the camera to make sure I get pictures of all this good stuff!!!!

Crafty weekend :)

I followed this heart garland tutorial I repinned on Pinterest :) (Warning! It's definitely not in English, but a picture is worth a thousand words, right? and sometimes easier for to follow) Anyway super easy little project and super cheap, you can probably make it work with things you have at home already! The only thing I needed to spring for was a few sheets of .29 cent felt!